Annal:1966 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1966. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1966 Nebula winner
- 1967 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 16.16
When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that knowledge and the ability to write are of paramount importance. So he doesn’t hesitate for a moment to cooperate in a radical experiment designed to increase his intelligence, the key—he hopes—to being valued as a human being and to being loved.
Daniel Keyes’s powerful and highly original story of a young man whose quest for intelligence and knowledge parallels that of…
- 1966 Nebula winner
- 1967 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 16.16
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.
- 1967 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1966 Nebula nominee
- 1966 Hugo-Novel nominee*
- Score: 16.17
Robert A. Heinlein won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people—a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic—who become the rebel movement’s leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution’s ultimate success.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.
