Annal:1985 World Fantasy Award for Novel
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Results of the World Fantasy Award in the year 1985. 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.
- 1985 WFA–Novel winner
- Score: 10.35
The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain’s last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley’s entire long life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is numinous and perilous beyond all expectation.
For the Wood, larger inside than out, is a labyrinth full of myths come to life, “mythagos” that can change you forever. A labyrinth where love and beauty haunt your dreams…and may drive you insane.
Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was
- 1986 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 1985 WFA–Novel winner
- Score: 20.36
When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox found master Li Kao. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure, and together they discover adventure and legend, and the power of belief….
- 1985 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.35
“Face the facts! This town is run by seven megalomaniac wizards!”
When Howard Sykes comes home to find a giant thug—the Goon—in the kitchen, life turns upside down. Archer, one of seven siblings who control everything in their town from electricity to the police, has sent the Goon to collect the two thousand words Howard’s father owes him. Suddenly, the Sykes family is caught in the middle of the wizards’ battle for power—and only Howard can save them!
- 1985 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.35
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America—and into another realm.
One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother’s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin….
