| Winner: | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm [Harper & Row, 1976] |
| Runners-up: | |
| Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman [St. Martin's Press, 1976] | |
| Children of Dune by Frank Herbert [Analog Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr 1976; Berkley Putnam, 1976] | |
| Man Plus by Frederik Pohl [F&SF Apr,May,Jun 1976; Random House, 1976] | |
| Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg [Analog Aug,Sep,Oct 1976; Bobbs-Merrill, 1976] |
| Winners(tie): | "By Any Other Name" by Spider Robinson [Analog Nov 1976] |
| "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr. [Aurora: Beyond Equality (Fawcett), 1976] | |
| Runners-up: | |
| "The Samurai and the Willows" by Michael Bishop [F&SF Feb 1976] | |
| "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" by Richard Cowper [F&SF Mar 1976] |
| Winner: | "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov [Stellar 2 ed. by Judy-Lynn del Rey (Ballantine), 1976] |
| Runners-up: | |
| "The Diary of the Rose" by Ursula K. Le Guin [Future Power, 1976] | |
| "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" by John Varley [Galaxy Jul 1976] | |
| "The Phantom of Kansas" by John Varley [Galaxy Feb 1976] |
| Winner: | "Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman [Analog Jul 1976] |
| Runners-up: | |
| "A Crowd of Shadows" by C. L. Grant [F&SF Jun 1976] | |
| "I See You" by Damon Knight [F&SF Nov 1976] | |
| "Custom Fitting" by James White [Stellar 2 ed. by Judy-Lynn del Rey (Ballantine), 1976] |
| Winner: | No Award |
| Runners-up: | |
| Carrie (1976) [Redbank/UA] Directed by Brian De Palma; Screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen; based on the novel by Stephen King | |
| Logan's Run (1976) [MGM] Directed by Michael Anderson; Screenplay by David Zelag Goodman; based on the novel by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson | |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) [British Lion] Directed by Nicolas Roeg; Screenplay by Paul Mayersberg; based on the novel by Walter Tevis | |
| Futureworld (1976) [AIP] Directed by Richard T. Heffron; Written by George Schenk and Mayo Simon |
| Winner: | Ben Bova |
| Runners-up: | |
| James P. Baen | |
| Terry Carr | |
| Edward L. Ferman | |
| Ted White |
| Winner: | Rick Sternbach |
| Runners-up: | |
| George Barr | |
| Vincent Di Fate | |
| Stephen Fabian |
| Winner: | Science Fiction Review ed. by Richard E. Geis |
| Runners-up: | |
| Outworlds ed. by Bill Bowers | |
| Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown | |
| Mythologies ed. by Don D'Ammassa | |
| The Spanish Inquisition ed. by Suzanne Tompkins and Jerry Kaufman |
| Winners(tie): | Richard E. Geis |
| Susan Wood | |
| Runners-up: | |
| Don D'Ammassa | |
| Susan Wood Glicksohn | |
| Don C. Thompson |
| Winner: | Phil Foglio |
| Runners-up: | |
| Grant Canfield | |
| Tim Kirk | |
| William Rotsler | |
| James Shull |
| George Lucas - Star Wars (bringing back a sense of wonder) |
| Winner: | C. J. Cherryh |
| Runners-up: | |
| Jack L. Chalker | |
| M. A. Foster | |
| Carter Scholz | |
| Withdrawn - Ineligible: | |
| Tanith Lee | |
| John Varley | |
| Joan D. Vinge | |
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