Annal:1989 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
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Results of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- Fantasy books
- Fantasy authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 1989 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- Score: 10.39
Unicorns roam the uplands of Libby Quarrels’ mountain ranch. When Libby takes the AIDS-afflicted Bo Gavin out of exile in Atlanta to live with her in Colorado, she sees no connection between his disease and the fantastic secret she guards. But it so happens the unicorns suffer from an ugly, implacable plague of their own, and the parallel world that touches the high country has unleashed magic sinister as well as marvelous. While Libby’s Indian ranch hand Sam is stalked by his wife’s headless ghost, his estranged daughter has visions that propel her toward the…
- 1989 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1989 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.39
Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Twenty-nine of the coins are already in the possession of the unpleasant Pennyman. The last coin is all that stands between the world and doom, and it now belongs to ordinary Andrew Vanbergen, owner of an inn where dark magic and bizarre heroism are about to intertwine.
Red Prophet: Book 2 of Tales of Alvin Maker
- 1989 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1989 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1988 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.39
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.
