Annal:1978 Nebula Award for Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1978. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1979 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1978 Nebula winner
- Score: 20.29
McIntyre’s tender and compassionate adventure story—a Hugo and Nebula Award-winner and a New York Times bestseller. In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the sick and injured with her companion, the alien dreamsnake. But she is being pursued….
- 1979 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1978 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.29
One summer day in the 1920s, Haverstock’s Traveling Curiosus and Wondershow rides into a small Midwestern town. Haverstock’s show is a presentation of mysterious wonders: feats of magic, strange creatures, and frightening powers. Three teenage girls attend the opening performance that evening which, for each, promises love and threatens death. The three girls are drawn to the show and its performers-a lusty centaur, Angel the magical albino boy, the rowdy stage hands-but frightened by the enigmatic owner, Haverstock. The girls at first try to dismiss these…
- 1978 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.28
Who is Kalki, and why is he planning to destroy the world—and everything in it? And if Kalki is a mystical legend, then why does his ultimate world include only a select few chosen to breed a new human race?
- 1978 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.28
Hundreds of years in the future, Earthmen have moved out into the galaxy of inhabited worlds, but only through the gift of advanced technology from alien interstellar traders. Earthmen do not dominate among inhabited worlds, as many races are older and wiser—in fact, space travelers from Earth are second-class citizens or worse on most of the planets they visit.
Joseph Farber, an artist, is part of the uncomfortable and decadent Earth colony among the alien Cian on the planet Weinunnach. As with many earthling spacefarers, Farber suffers a decline in spirits…
