Site: Woodfield Hyatt Regency Hotel
City: Schaumburg, Illinois
Theme: The Many Faces of Fantasy
Guests of Honor: Katherine Kurtz, Joe R. Lansdale, Ellen Asher
Artist Guest of Honor: Ron Walotsky
Toastmaster: Brian Lumley
Chairs: Nancy Ford, Tina L. Jens, Phyllis Weinberg
Winners & Nominees
| First Name | Last Name | Year | Category | Title | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene | Wolfe | 1996 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Christopher | Priest | 1996 | Novel | "The Prestige" | Winner |
| James P. | Blaylock | 1996 | Novel | "All the Bells on Earth" | Nominee |
| Vikram | Chandra | 1996 | Novel | "Red Earth and Pouring Rain" | Nominee |
| Nina Kiriki | Hoffman | 1996 | Novel | "The Silent Strength of Stones" | Nominee |
| Graham | Joyce | 1996 | Novel | "Requiem" | Nominee |
| Tim | Powers | 1996 | Novel | "Expiration Date" | Nominee |
| Michael | Swanwick | 1996 | Novella | "Radio Waves" | Winner |
| Nina Kiriki | Hoffman | 1996 | Novella | "Home, Christmas" | Nominee |
| Ursula K. | Le Guin | 1996 | Novella | "Ether OR" | Nominee |
| Jonathan | Lethem | 1996 | Novella | "The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" | Nominee |
| Tim | Powers | 1996 | Novella | "Where They Are Hid" | Nominee |
| Michael Marshall | Smith | 1996 | Novella | "More Tomorrow" | Nominee |
| Gwyneth | Jones | 1996 | Short Fiction | "The Grass Princess" | Winner |
| Kit | Reed | 1996 | Short Fiction | "The Singing Marine" | Nominee |
| Petrina | Smith | 1996 | Short Fiction | "Angel Thing" | Nominee |
| S.P. | Somtow | 1996 | Short Fiction | "Dragon's Fin Soup" | Nominee |
| Robert Charles | Wilson | 1996 | Short Fiction | "The Perseids" | Nominee |
| Douglas E. | Winter | 1996 | Short Fiction | "Loop" | Nominee |
| A. Susan | Williams | 1996 | Anthology | "The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women" | Winner |
| Richard Glyn | Jones | 1996 | Anthology | "The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women" | Winner |
| Nancy A. | Collins | 1996 | Anthology | "Dark Love" | Nominee |
| Edward E. | Kramer | 1996 | Anthology | "Dark Love" | Nominee |
| Martin H. | Greenberg | 1996 | Anthology | "Dark Love" | Nominee |
| Stephen | Jones | 1996 | Anthology | "Dark Terrors" | Nominee |
| David | Sutton | 1996 | Anthology | "Dark Terrors" | Nominee |
| Lucy | Sussex | 1996 | Anthology | "She's Fantastical" | Nominee |
| Judith Raphael | Buckrich | 1996 | Anthology | "She's Fantastical" | Nominee |
| Steve Rasnic | Tem | 1996 | Anthology | "High Fantastic" | Nominee |
| Gwyneth | Jones | 1996 | Collection | "Seven Tales and a Fable" | Winner |
| Brian | Aldiss | 1996 | Collection | "The Secret of this Book (aka Common Clay)" | Nominee |
| Jonathan | Carroll | 1996 | Collection | "The Panic Hand" | Nominee |
| Hugh B. | Cave | 1996 | Collection | "Death Stalks the Night" | Nominee |
| Charles | de Lint | 1996 | Collection | "The Ivory and the Horn" | Nominee |
| Gahan | Wilson | 1996 | Artist | Winner | |
| Tom | Canty | 1996 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Alan M. | Clark | 1996 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Bob | Eggleton | 1996 | Artist | Nominee | |
| J.K. | Potter | 1996 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Richard | Evans | 1996 | Special - Pro | contributions to the genre | Winner |
| Stephen | Jones | 1996 | Special - Pro | editing and anthologies | Nominee |
| Kristine Kathryn | Rusch | 1996 | Special - Pro | editing "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" | Nominee |
| Gordon | Van Gelder | 1996 | Special - Pro | editing | Nominee |
| Paul | Williams | 1996 | Special - Pro | editing "Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon and his work with the Literary Estate of Theodore Sturgeon" | Nominee |
| Marc | Michaud | 1996 | Special - Non-Pro | Necronomicon Press | Winner |
| Fedogan & Bremer | 1996 | Special - Non-Pro | book publishing | Nominee | |
| Robert K.J. | Killheffer | 1996 | Special - Non-Pro | "Century" | Nominee |
| Meg | Hamel | 1996 | Special - Non-Pro | "Century" | Nominee |
| Jenna A. | Felice | 1996 | Special - Non-Pro | "Century" | Nominee |
| Steve | Pasechnick | 1996 | Special - Non-Pro | Edgewood Press | Nominee |
| Robert | Weinberg | 1996 | Special - Non-Pro | contributions to the genre | Nominee |