Annal:1987 Hugo Award for Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Hugo Award in the year 1987. 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.
Black Genesis: Volume 2 of Mission Earth
- 1987 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.37
Earth is the target of an alien invasion.
However, the planet is being destroyed at a rate that will make it uninhabitable by the time the Volatarians are scheduled to arrive. Fleet officer Jettero Heller is sent on Mission Earth to arrest the pollution, not knowing that his mission threatens a plot to overthrow the 110-planet empire. Narrated by Soltan Gris, the alien killer sent to secretly sabotage the mission and to kill Heller at the appropriate moment, this is the saga of a doomed planet—Earth.
Now, in Black Genesis, Heller and Gris…
- 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…
- 1987 Prometheus winner
- 1987 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 16.37
In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or “bobbles,” in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it’s obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It’s up to 21st century…
