Annal:1976 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1976. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1976 Nebula winner
- 1977 Campbell 2nd
- 1977 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 24.26
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster—a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind’s only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man’s capacity for suffering.
- 1977 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1976 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.27
The stunning novel of a man surrounded by machines that flash instantaneous pictures of everything happening…a man surfeited with drugs that allow him to be eyewitness to the living past and pleasured by sensual women who vie for his favors…a man named Shadrach who find slittle rest in his miracle-infested world. A supershocker about what happens when telemetric sensors no longer suffice, when the great Khan, ruler of the Earth, needs more…when he needs to survive through the body of a virile, healthy, very special man—through Shadrach Mordecai.
- 1976 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.26
She will never be one of them. When the immortality treatments failed, she knew her destiny would not be as glorious and carefree as the immortals. The immortals rebuilt the Earth after the great floods, but she is not one of them, and she doesn’t seem fit to live anywhere amongst them. When she finds refuge aboard the ship Ilium and begins ocean floor navigation, an adventure immortals would envy, she discovers a secret place. But she knows if she can unlock the power that the immortals lost on an island buried far beneath the land, the world and the immortals’ future will never be the same again.
- 1976 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.26
In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany’s 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with our own Earth. High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations at a level that, 20 years after it was written, still make it a coruscating portrait of “the happily reasonable man,” Bron Helstrom—an immigrant to the embattled world of Triton, whose troubles become more and more complex, till there is nothing left for him to do but become a woman. Against a background of high adventure, this minuet of a novel dances from the farthest limits of the solar system to Earth’s own Outer Mongolia. Alternately funny and moving, it is a wide-ranging tale in which character after character turns out not to be what he—or she—seems.
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
- 1977 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1977 Campbell 3rd
- 1976 Nebula nominee
- Score: 22.27
Before becoming one of today’s most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test.
Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and “hard” SF, and won SF’s Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then.
