Annal:1987 Prometheus Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Prometheus Award in the year 1987. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 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…
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 Campbell 1st
- 1987 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 16.37
A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author’s reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis—there are no males—and tells of the conflicts that erupt when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world, and send in an army.
- 1987 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.37
All the world stood in awe of the might of the Sino-Aztecs’ Crystal Empire. All but Sedrich Sedrichsohn. Charged with bringing to the Emperor his future bride, the beautiful and far-seeing Ayesha, Sedrich was an outcast, his life in ruins. Now he has a last chance at happiness—and revenge. “A science fiction epic filled with verve, dash, and inventive characters”. —Chattanooga Times.
