Annal:1981 Nebula Award for Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1981. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Claw of the Conciliator: Volume 2 of The Book of the New Sun
- 1981 Nebula winner
- 1982 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1982 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1982 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 28.31
The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny.
- 1982 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 1982 WFA–Novel winner
- 1982 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1981 Nebula nominee
- Score: 32.32
Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable—an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world not far away, Smoky fathers a family and tries to learn what tale he has found himself in—and how it is to end.
- 1983 Prometheus finalist
- 1982 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1982 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1981 Nebula nominee
- Score: 24.33
When a one-way time tunnel to Earth’s distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But none could have guessed what awaited them. Not even in a million years….
- 1982 Campbell 1st
- 1981 NBCC–Fiction finalist
- 1981 Nebula nominee
- Score: 22.32
A brilliant, unique, and completely realized work of fiction, “Riddley Walker”—first published in 1980—is set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), where humanity has regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, represented by a language created especially by Hoban for the book.
- 1981 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.31
Dr. Edward Lewis Weyland is an anthropologist, a professor and student of man. His interest in this field is, however, more than academic, for he is a vampire, not a spirit creature but a perfectly evolved predator: strong, swift, cunning, and aloof. However, when Weyland stalks a woman who proves a more adept hunter than himself, he winds up critically wounded and humbled, and obliged to make a journey toward the greatest threat he’s faced yet: empathy for the very creatures he must feed on to survive.
