Annal:1989 Prometheus Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Prometheus Award in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1989 Prometheus winner
- Score: 10.39
What if Hitler had not lost the Second World War?
After developing his own atom bomb, Hitler conquered most of Europe and Russia but reached a stalemate with America. In the ensuing cold war, Germany suffers renewed inflation and is stifled by an overstratified bureaucracy while America prospers but devolves into a fractured country of rugged individualists. This warped mirror image of our world is seen through the eyes of New York editor Alan Whittmore and through two of his publications.
Thirty years after the war’s end, Hilda Goebbels, the daughter…
- 1988 Nebula winner
- 1989 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1989 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 22.38
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.
