47th World Science Fiction Convention

Attendance was 6,837, out of 7,795 paid memberships.

• Andre Norton (pro)
• Ian & Betty Ballantine (pro)
• The Stranger Club (fan)

The Stranger Club is the first known science fiction club in the Boston area, and the organizers of Boskone I, New England's first science fiction convention, in 1941. Seven surviving members of the latter group attended, including Harry Stubbs (Hal Clement).

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The 1989 Hugo Award base honored the 50th anniversary of both the 1939 New York World's Fair and the first Worldcon. The Fair's iconic Trylon and Perisphere were represented with the Hugo Award rocket taking the place of the {{convert|610|ft|m|sp=us}} tall Trylon spire.

• Best Novel: Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
• Best Novella: "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis
• Best Novelette: "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
• Best Short Story: "Kirinyaga" by Mike Resnick
• Best Non-Fiction Book: The Motion of Light in Water by Samuel R. Delany
• Best Dramatic Presentation: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Best Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois
• Best Professional Artist: Michael Whelan
• Best Semiprozine: Locus, edited by Charles N. Brown
• Best Fanzine: File 770, edited by Mike Glyer
• Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
• Best Fan Artist:
• Brad Foster and
• Diana Gallagher Wu (tie)

• Special Award: SF-Lovers Digest for pioneering the use of computer bulletin boards in fandom
• Special Award: Alex Schomburg for lifetime achievement in science fiction art
• John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Michaela Roessner

• Hugo Award
• Science fiction
• Speculative fiction
• World Science Fiction Society
• Worldcon

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{{cite web

| work=The Hugo Awards

| title=1989 Hugo Awards

| publisher=World Science Fiction Society

| url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1989-hugo-awards/

| access-date=2011-03-05

| url-status=dead

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612033831/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1989-hugo-awards/

| archive-date=2010-06-12

}}

{{cite news

| first=Mike

| last=Glyer

| author-link=Mike Glyer

| work=File 770

| title=How Tall Is The Hugo?

| url=http://file770.com/?p=378

| date=2008-08-01

| access-date=2012-08-28

}}

{{cite news

| first=Andrew L.

| last=Yarrow

| work=The New York Times

| title=Sci-Fi Fans Meet to Ponder Genre's Present

| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/04/arts/sci-fi-fans-meet-to-ponder-genre-s-present.html

| date=1989-09-04

| access-date=2010-03-30

}}

}}

• [http://www.noreascon.org/ Noreascon website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100110085511/http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/TheLongList.html NESFA.org: The Long List]
• [http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/LongListNotes.html#1989 NESFA.org: 1989 convention notes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209104936/http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/LongListNotes.html#1989 |date=2007-02-09 }}

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{{succession box

| before=46th World Science Fiction Convention
Nolacon II in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States (1988)

| title=List of Worldcons

| years=47th World Science Fiction Convention
Noreascon 3 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (1989)

| after=48th World Science Fiction Convention
ConFiction in The Hague, Netherlands (1990)

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