Annal:1990 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
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Results of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in the year 1990. 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.
- 1990 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 1990 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.4
On a rainswept night alive with lightning and thunder, a doctor staggers, drunken, through the streets, and slips a wedding ring on the finger of a bewitching statue…
On the morning after his wedding, Dr. Michael Crawford awakens to a bed soaked by carnage… and the impossibly savaged body of his bride. Already marked with guilt for the accidental deaths of his previous wife and his younger brother, Crawford flees England to escape the hangman’s noose. His only hope lies with England’s greatest, and most notorious, poets - Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John…
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 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 6.4
Since the day her father’s fishing boat returned without him, Peri and her mother have mourned his loss. Her mother sinks into a deep depression and spends her days gazing out at the sea. Unable to control her anger and sadness any longer, Peri uses the small magic she knows to hex the sea. And suddenly into her drab life come the King’s sons—changelings with strange ties to the underwater kingdom—a young magician, and, finally, love.
- 1991 Clarke shortlist
- 1990 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 12.41
A fantasy novel about a city long ago destroyed by a virulent disease. The forces of General Fourstar, a vicious man of ambition who sets himself up as the leader of civiliztion, occupy the city. The citizens, aided by the spirits of the city fight a war in order to destroy the outsider’s army.
- 1990 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 6.4
In the world of Fool on the Hill dogs and cats can talk, a subculture of sprites lives in the shadows and underfoot (if you’re the sensitive type, or drunk enough, you might see them cavorting across the lawn), and the Bohemians, a group of Harley- and horseback-riding students dedicated to all things unconventional, hold all-night revels for the glory of their cause.
Then there is Stephen Titus George, the novel’s youthful hero, who somehow finds himself the main player in a story that began well over a century ago. George is a mild-mannered flier of…
