Annal:1983 John W. Campbell Award
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Results of the John W. Campbell Award in the year 1983. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- John W. Campbell Award
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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…
- 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,…
