International Awards:
1974 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
1976 Hugo Award for Best Novella (for a portion of TELEMPATH)
1977 Hugo Award for Best Novella (w. Jeanne Robinson, for "Stardance")
1977 Nebula Award for Best Novella (w. Jeanne for "Stardance")
1977 Pat Terry Memorial Award for Humorous Writing (from the Sydney, Australia, Science Fiction Foundation)
1977: American Library Association names CALLAHAN'S CROSSTIME SALOON a Best Book for Young Adults
1983 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (for "Melancholy Elephants")
(Note: The Hugo and Nebula are science fiction's top international honours. The Science Fiction Achievement Awards, popularly called "Hugos," are (with the Campbell Award) given annually by worldwide popular vote—making them virtually unique among arts awards. The Nebulas, roughly analogous to Oscars, are awarded annually by vote of working professional sf writers, members of Science Fiction Writers of America.)
National & Regional Awards:
1973-84 Frequent winner of AnLab, the /Analog/ magazine readers poll award
1976 Locus Award for Best Critic (voted by the readers of /Locus/, the newspaper of science fiction)
1977 Locus for Best Novella (w. Jeanne, for "Stardance")
1977 E.E. Smith Memorial Award ("Skylark") for Speculative Fiction (from the New England Science Fiction Association)
1981 "Stardance" (ad. by Ken Methold) voted Best Australian Radio Drama of 1981
1983 Short Term Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
1983 Project Grant, Nova Scotia Dept. of Culture, Recreation & Fitness
1984 Senior Arts Grant B, Canada Council for the Arts
1986 Project Grant, N.S. Dept. of Culture, Recreation & Fitness
1986 Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
1989 Senior Arts Grant A, Canada Council for the Arts
1991 Project Grant, B. C. Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Recreation & Culture
1992 Short Term Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2006 Writer-in-Residence for 8 months at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver, B.C., supported by the Artists and Community Collaboration Fund of the Canada Council for the Arts
