Annal:1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award
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Results of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in the year 1991. 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.
- 1991 Clarke winner
- 1992 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 16.41
A fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship’s computer.
- 1991 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.41
It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the “heart of the world,” where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence. This energizes a compelling quest for survival, and prompts the powerful White Crow to order an uprising against this chaotic strike that threatens them all.
Among those who respond to her are the defiant Prince Lucas of Candover, a student at the University of Crime, and no mans’s slave; and Zari, the young Katayan woman who is destined to…
- 1991 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.41
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances’ foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action.
The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.
The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman’s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a…
- 1991 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.41
Misha’s Red Spider White Web is, quite simply, everything cyberpunk should have been but wasn’t, everything contemporary techno-dystopias should be but aren’t. Instead of middle-class white men struggling with their love-hate relationships with dangerous but beautiful cybertoys, Misha offers society’s most disenfranchised victims struggling for survival against the technotypic juggernaut. Instead od syberpunk’s typical anti-heroic mysogynist-nerd, she gives us a feral female artist struggling something meaningful and lasting in a world established to…
- 1990 Campbell 2nd
- 1991 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 14.4
The cylinder was the world and within it lived the Horizontal dwellers—factory drudges and the wealthy, priviledged few. Seeking to escape the Horizontal, Ny Axxter, a free-lance graffex artist, took to the Vertical, the outside of the Cylinder. Here people traveled the cable network with microchip implants that let them tap into the computer-run economic and information net. Roaming among the warring military tribes that ruled the Vertical, Ny sought his big break. But when it came, he was caught in a tribal power struggle, pursued by a megassassin, and forced…
- 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.
