Annal:1989 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1990 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1990 Prometheus finalist
- 1989 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.4
Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.
A milestone in modern science fiction, a New York Times Notable Book on its first publication in 1989, this is one of a great writer’s finest works.
Prentice Alvin: Book 3 of Tales of Alvin Maker
- 1990 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1990 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1989 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.4
The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.
- 1990 Campbell 3rd
- 1989 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.4
George Eberhart is dead. Or was. The newsnet he works for has illegally revived him. But he finds himself examining the sensationalist stories he has been reporting on—for evidence that there are Aliens among us.
Lucky Eberhart, George’s wife, loses her job for her role in reviving him, and finds that there are worse things on Earth than she had dreamed of in her philosophies.
The Reverend Jimmy-Don Gilray believes that the Day of Judgment will arrive on the stroke of midnight, December 31, 1999. But all bets are off if the Aliens are already…
Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future
- 1990 Clarke shortlist
- 1989 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.4
Duncan Rojas, a researcher, is hired by the mysterious Bukoba Mandaka to find pair of elephant tusks that have been missing for more than three thousand years and moved from planet to planet.
Sister Light, Sister Dark: Book 2 of Chronicles of Great Alta
- 1989 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.39
“Lovers of fantasy will appreciate this title,” raved Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly called it a “fine novel.” It is the story of Jenna. Raised on a mountainside, she learned the arts of the warrior, and from the mountain women the magic of the ancient lore. But the greatest magic of all was her ability to call forth her dark sister from the depths of the mirror of the land of light and shadow.
Skada was the dark one, able to exist only when the moonlight cast a shadow or lamplight flickered in a darkened room.
This is the story of…
