From AwardAnnals
Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1988. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Falling Free
Lois McMaster Bujold
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what’s wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could you just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies—now all he had to do was teach them to be free.
Drowning Towers
George Turner
Francis Conway is Swill—one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into watery tombs. And now the young boy must find a way to escape the approaching tide of disaster.
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel
Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date…
The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson’s unique world—lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace
without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled…or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes…or so they think.
Great Sky River
Gregory Benford
The third novel in the award-winning author’s classic Galactic Center series is available once again. “A challenging, pacesetting work of hard science fiction that should not be missed.”
—Los Angeles Times.
Red Prophet: Book 2 of Tales of Alvin Maker
Orson Scott Card
Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.
