# Premi Rhysling

Els Premis Rhysling són un premi anual atorgat al millor poema de ciència-ficció, fantasia o terror de l'any. A diferència de la majoria dels premis literaris, que porten el nom del creador del premi, el tema del premi, o un membre destacat del camp, els Rhyslings porten el nom d'un personatge en una història de ciència-ficció: el poeta cec Rhysling, a la història curta de Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth. El premi es lliura en dues categories: "Millor poema llarg", per a obres de 50 o més línies, i "Millor poema curt", per a obres de 49 o menys línies.
Els nominats als premis Rhysling de cada any són elegits pels membres de la Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). Cada membre pot nomenar un treball per a cadascuna de les categories. Les obres designades es compilen després en una antologia anomenada The Rhysling Anthology, i els membres de l'Associació voten sobre els guanyadors finals. Des del 2005, els premis s'han presentat al juliol en una cerimònia a Readercon. Mentre que la categoria "Millor poema curt" permet introduir poemes molt curts, l'SFPA també té el premi Dwarf Stars, que és per a poemes d'una a deu línies.
El 2005, l'SFPA va publicar una antologia dels poemes guanyadors, The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase.

## Guanyadors als millors poemes llargs

* 1978: Gene Wolfe, The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps
* 1979: Michael Bishop, For the Lady of a Physicist
* 1980: Andrew Joron, The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes
* 1981: Thomas M. Disch, On Science Fiction
* 1982: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Well of Baln
* 1983: Adam Cornford, Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide
* 1984: Joe Haldeman, Saul's Death: Two Sestinas
* 1985: Siv Cedering, A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
* 1986: Andrew Joron, Shipwrecked on Destiny Five
* 1987: W. Gregory Stewart, Daedalus
* 1988: Lucius Shepard, White Trains
* 1989 (tie): Bruce Boston, In the Darkened Hours ; John M. Ford, Winter Solstice, Camelot Station
* 1990: Patrick McKinnon, dear spacemen
* 1991: David Memmott, The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire
* 1992: W. Gregory Stewart, the button and what you know
* 1993: William J. Daciuk, To Be from Earth
* 1994: W. Gregory Stewart and Robert Frazier, Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale
* 1995: David Lunde, Pilot, Pilot
* 1996: Margaret B. Simon, Variants of the Obsolete
* 1997: Terry A. Garey, Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes
* 1998: Laurel Winter, why goldfish shouldn't use power tools
* 1999: Bruce Boston, Confessions of a Body Thief
* 2000: Geoffrey A. Landis, Christmas (after we all get time machines)
* 2001: Joe Haldeman, January Fires
* 2002: Lawrence Schimel, How to Make a Human
* 2003 (tie): Charles Saplak and Mike Allen, Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy ; Sonya Taaffe, Matlacihuatl's Gift
* 2004: Theodora Goss, Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks
* 2005: Tim Pratt, Soul Searching
* 2006: Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel, The Tin Men
* 2007: Mike Allen, The Journey to Kailash
* 2008: Catherynne M. Valente, The Seven Devils of Central California
* 2009: Geoffrey A. Landis, Search
* 2010: Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson, In the Astronaut Asylum
* 2011: C. S. E. Cooney, The Sea King's Second Bride
* 2012: Megan Arkenberg, The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages
* 2013: Andrew Robert Sutton, Into Flight
* 2014: Mary Soon Lee, Interregnum
* 2015: F.J. Bergmann, 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien
* 2016: (tie) Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, It Begins With A Haunting; Ann K. Schwader, Keziah
* 2017: Theodora Goss, Rose Child

## Guanyadors als millors poemes curts

* 1978 (tie): Duane Ackerson, The Starman ; Andrew Joron, Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night ; Sonya Dorman, Corruption of Metals
* 1979 (tie): Duane Ackerson, Fatalities ; Steve Eng, Storybooks and Treasure Maps
* 1980 (tie): Robert Frazier, Encased in the Amber of Eternity ; Peter Payack, The Migration of Darkness
* 1981: Ken Duffin, Meeting Place
* 1982: Raymond DiZazzo, On the Speed of Sight
* 1983: Alan P. Lightman, In Computers
* 1984: Helen Ehrlich, Two Sonnets
* 1985: Bruce Boston, For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets
* 1986: Susan Palwick, The Neighbor's Wife
* 1987 (tie): Jonathan V. Post, Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope ; John Calvin Rezmerski, A Dream of Heredity
* 1988 (tie): Bruce Boston, The Nightmare Collector ; Suzette Haden Elgin, Rocky Road to Hoe
* 1989: Robert Frazier, Salinity
* 1990: G. Sutton Breiding, Epitaph for Dreams
* 1991: Joe Haldeman, Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh
* 1992: David Lunde, Song of the Martian Cricket
* 1993: Jane Yolen, Will
* 1994 (tie): Bruce Boston, Spacer's Compass ; Jeff VanderMeer, Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over
* 1995: Dan Raphael, Skin of Glass
* 1996: Bruce Boston, Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation
* 1997: W. Gregory Stewart, Day Omega
* 1998: John Grey, Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother
* 1999: Laurel Winter, egg horror poem
* 2000: Rebecca Marjesdatter, Grimoire
* 2001: Bruce Boston, My Wife Returns as She Would Have It
* 2002: William John Watkins, We Die as Angels
* 2003: Ruth Berman, Potherb Gardening
* 2004: Roger Dutcher, Just Distance
* 2005: Greg Beatty, No Ruined Lunar City
* 2006: Mike Allen, The Strip Search
* 2007: Rich Ristow, The Graven Idol's Godheart
* 2008: F.J. Bergmann, Eating Light
* 2009: Amal El-Mohtar, Song for an Ancient City
* 2010: Ann K. Schwader, To Theia
* 2011: Amal El-Mohtar, Peach-Creamed Honey
* 2012: Shira Lipkin, The Library, After
* 2013: Terry A. Garey, The Cat Star
* 2014: Amal El-Mohtar, Turning the Leaves
* 2015: Marge Simon, Shutdown
* 2016: Ruth Berman, Time Travel Vocabulary Problems
* 2017: Marge Simon, George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts

## Referències

* 1 2 David Langford, "Rhysling Award." Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition (online). Ed. John Clute, David Langford, and Peter Nicholls. 2013. Accessed 19 febrer 2013
* ↑ The Science Fiction Poetry Association: Dwarf Stars
* ↑ Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen. The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase. Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Prime Books, 2005, p. 170 pp.. ISBN 0-8095-1162-2. «This collection presents more than twenty-five years of the best poetry in the field of speculative literature.»
* ↑ Elizabeth Barrette, Review: The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, edited by Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen, Strange Horizons, 8 febrer 2006 (consultat el 16 Sept. 2016)
* 1 2 Silver, Steven H «Rhysling Award». SF Site, 03-09-2013 [Consulta: 5 setembre 2013]. Arxivat 25 de desembre 2018 a Wayback Machine.
* ↑ «News».

## Enllaços externs

* Official list of Rhysling Award winners
* SFPA Rhysling Anthology