1997 Analog Award


Best Novella
1	Starsong	Timothy Zahn
2	Loose Ends	Paul Levinson
3	Billy's Bunter	Walter F. Cuirle
4	The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring	Wolf Read

Best Novelette
1	Trial by Ordeal	Grey Rollins
2	Ask Arlen	Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
3	Easter Egg Hunt: A Christmas Story	Jeffery D. Kooistra
4	Gideon	Michael F. Flynn
4	Variations in Dreampaint	Marc Stiegler

Best Short Story
1	Already in Heaven	Brian Plante
2	On the Application of Quantum Probability Tunneling to Improve Manufacturability of Printed Circuit Board Designs: A Case Study	Rick Cook and Peter L. Manly
2	Waiting for the Riddlers	Charles Sheffield
4	Last Exit Before the Final Frontier	Jeffery D. Kooistra
4	The Big One	James Van Pelt

Best Fact Article
1	Cosmological Darwinism	Richard D. Meisner
2	Paradigm Shifty Things	Jeffery D. Kooistra
3	Just How "Average" is the Solar System?	Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
4	Biology at the Extremes	Mark S. Lesney
5	Cold Fusion: The "Miracle" is No Mistake	Dr. Eugene F. Mallove

Best Cover
1	Cover (Analog Jan 1997) Hubble Space Telescope photo	J. Hester and P. Scowen
2	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1997	Bob Eggleton
3	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1997	George H. Krauter
4	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 1997	John Berkey
5	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 1997 (variant of The Voices of Heaven)	Ron Walotsky