Annal:1982 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1982 Nebula winner
- 1983 Campbell 2nd
- Score: 18.32
Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent palaeontologists. As a result, Joshua is invited to join a most unusual time travel project and is transported millions of years into the past of his dreams. In early Pleistocene Africa, living among the prehuman species Homo habilis, experiencing the same hardships and the same intense pleasures,…
Foundation's Edge: Book 4 of the Foundation Novels
- 1983 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1982 Nebula nominee
- Score: 16.33
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon’s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth…and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or…
- 1983 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1983 Prometheus finalist
- 1982 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.33
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as “Boss.” Operating from and over a near-future Earth, where chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on assignment at Boss’s seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America’s disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.
Not since Valentine Michael Smith, hero of the bestselling Stranger in a Strange Land, has Robert Heinlein created a more captivating…
Helliconia Spring: Book 1 of the Helliconia Trilogy
- 1983 Campbell 1st
- 1982 Nebula nominee
- Score: 16.33
A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations-long winter.
Helliconia is emerging from its centuries-long winter. The tribes of the equatorial continent emerge from their hiding places and are again able to dispute possession of the planet with the ferocious phagors. In Oldorando, love, trade and coinage are being redisovered,
This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy—a monumental saga that goes beyond…
The Sword of the Lictor: Volume 3 of The Book of the New Sun
- 1983 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1983 WFA–Novel nominee
- 1982 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.33
The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe’s remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
- 1982 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.32
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress—and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ.
