Awards & Nominations
Michael A. Burstein

"Summer wouldn't be the same if you weren't up for a Hugo."
-- Jim Marino, English Department, Stanford University

  • Winner, 1997 John Campbell Award for Best New Writer
  • Winner, 1996 Science Fiction Weekly Reader Appreciation Award for Best New Writer
  • Winner of the Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Short Story of 1995 ("TeleAbsence")
  • Winner of the Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Novella of 2005 ("Sanctuary")
  • Winner of the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Short Story of 1995 ("TeleAbsence")
  • Nominated ten times for the Hugo Award, for "TeleAbsence", "Broken Symmetry," "Cosmic Corkscrew", "Kaddish for the Last Survivor", "Spaceships", "Paying It Forward," "Decisions," "Time Ablaze," "Seventy-Five Years" and "TelePresence." (no wins)
  • Nominated for four Nebula awards, for "Reality Check," "Kaddish for the Last Survivor," "Sanctuary," and "I Remember the Future."
  • Nominated for one Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, for "Reality Check."