Annal:1986 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1986. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Speaker For The Dead: Book 2 of the Ender Quartet
- 1987 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1986 Nebula winner
- 1987 Campbell 3rd
- Score: 26.37
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens’ ways are strange and frightening…again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery…and the truth.
- 1987 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1986 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.37
Turner, high-corporate commando, is abruptly reactivated by the Hosaka Corporation for a mission even more dangerous than the one he’s still recovering from. Maas-Neotek’s chief of R&D is defecting, and Turner must get him out, intact, along with the biochip he’s perfected. With voodoo on the Net, he thinks he’s only trying to get out alive. But he hasn’t met the angel…
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
- 1987 Clarke winner
- 1986 LATimes–Fiction winner
- 1985 Governor General's winner
- 1987 Prometheus finalist
- 1986 Booker shortlist
- 1986 Nebula nominee
- Score: 48.37
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.
- 1986 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.36
Four people in contemporary Chicago are caught up in a search for the lost treasure of Benjamin Free.
“Free Live Free,” said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free’s old house, a house scheduled for demolition to make way for a highway.
Free drops mysterious hints of his exile from his homeland, and of the lost key to his return. And so when the demolition occurs and Free disappears, the…
This Is the Way the World Ends
- 1987 Campbell 2nd
- 1986 Nebula nominee
- Score: 14.37
George Paxton was an ordinary man until something extraordinary happened—nuclear holocaust. Now George Paxton is about to discover what happens after the end of the world.
“Astute, highly engaging, and finally moving”.—Los Angeles Times.
