Annal:1980 National Book Award for Science Fiction
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1980. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- National Book Award for Science Fiction
- Science Fiction books
- Science Fiction authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
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- National Book Award
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- 1980 NBA–SciFi winner
- Score: 10.3
Walter Wangerin’s profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the animals could speak, when Chauntecleer the Rooster ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom. What the animals did not know was that they were the Keepers of Wyrm, monster of evil long imprisoned beneath the earth … and Wyrm, sub terra, was breaking free.
- 1980 NBA–SciFi winner
- 1980 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1979 Nebula nominee
- Score: 22.3
There were too many people and too few resources on Earth. The old alliances had crumbled, and three global alignments now coexisted uneasily. Then, in a nearby star system, the Earthlike planet Jem was discovered. Its untapped resources might bring a renaissance to Earth—or bring on the final apocalypse.
