Annal:1990 Arthur C. Clarke Award
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Results of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Science Fiction books
- Science Fiction authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 1990 Campbell 1st
- 1990 Clarke winner
- Score: 20.4
London has flooded. Britain is tropical. And people photosynthesize.
In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddyfields, the people photosynthesize. The Consensus, a vast DNA unit, controls the country. Children are raised in Child Gardens and educated by virus. Viruses control their behaviour; nonconformism is treated by the Consensus. Information, culture, law and politics are now biological functions.
This is the story of Lucy, the immortal tumor, Joseph the Postman, whose mind is an information storehouse for others, and Milena, an incredible musician who has a secret, lost even to herself. She is resistant to viruses. It makes her alienated in an enclosing world. It will make her one of the most extraordinary women of her age. The secret is lost in memory. It is hidden somewhere—in the Child Garden.
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.
- 1990 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.4
It all began 30 years ago on Mars, with a greenperson, but by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every concievable abnormality from Adam Black’s Wonderful Travelling Chataqua to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar.
- 1990 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.4
The universe of Neverness is intriguingly complex. filled with extraordinary beings. There are the Alaloi, who have chosen to return to the Neanderthal state…the Order of Pilots which reworks the laws of time and physics to catapult its members through dense regions of ‘thickspace’…the Solid State Entity, a vast brain made up of moon-sized biocomputers…and the leldra, a legendary race of aliens that seeded the galaxy aeons ago with its DNA and so began the evolutionary cycle.
Against this rich backdrop unfolds the story of young, headstrong Mallory Ringess, a novitiate of the Order of Pilots. Against all odds he has penetrated the Solid State Entity - and made a stunning discovery. A discovery that could unlock the secret of immortality hidden among the Alaloi…
