Annal:1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award
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Results of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in the year 1987. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Science Fiction books
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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.
- 1987 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.37
Perhaps it wasn’t from our time, perhaps it wasn’t even from our universe, but perhaps the arrival of the 300 km long stone was the answer to humanity’s desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war.
Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused by the ravages of war, but the government and scientists are unable to decide how to use this knowledge.
Deeper still within the stone is the Way. For some the…
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
- 1987 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.37
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece about the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and a story that foresaw the World Wide Web. Originally published in 1984, its central issues—technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism—have only become more pressing with the passage of time.
The novel’s topic is information itself. What are the repercussions of the discovery, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other’s perfect erotic object out to “point…
- 1985 Campbell 2nd
- 1987 Clarke shortlist
- 1984 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 20.35
Life the second time around is short, strange and terrifying to the awakened. One “zombie”, victim of a bizarre scientific obsession, breaks away, leaving a trail of muder and miracle as he flees the Project and the horror his “life” hasbecome.
- 1987 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.37
In 3229 A.D., human civilization is scattered among the planets, moons, and asteroids of the solar system. Billions of lives depend on the technology derived from the breakthroughs of the greatest physicist of the age, Arthur Holywelkin. But in the last years of his life, Holywelkin devoted himself to building a strange, beautiful, and complex musical instrument that he called The Orchestra.
Johannes Wright has earned the honor of becoming the Ninth Master of Holywelkin’s Orchestra. Follow him on his Grand Tour of the Solar System, as he journeys down the…
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