Annal:1982 World Fantasy Award for Novel
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Results of the World Fantasy Award in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- World Fantasy Award for Novel
- Fantasy books
- Fantasy authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 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.
- 1981 LATimes–Fiction winner
- 1982 WFA–Novel nominee
- 1981 Booker shortlist
- Score: 22.31
By turns a dream of electrifying eroticism recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud, and a horrifying yet calmly unsensational narrative of the Holocaust, this PEN Silver Pen winner is now recognized as a modern classic that reconciles the nightmarish with the transcendent.
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.
