Annal:1991 Hugo Award for Novel
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Results of the Hugo Award in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1991 Hugo-Novel winner
- Score: 10.41
Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under ‘house arrest’, Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military build-up near a wormhole nexus. Reviving his undercover persona as mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith, his…
- 1991 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.41
The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War—an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. “One hell of a novel … has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale”.—Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Line drawings.
The Fall of Hyperion: Book 2 of Hyperion Cantos
- 1991 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1990 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.41
In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing—nothing anywhere in the universe—will ever be the same.
- 1991 Campbell 2nd
- 1991 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 14.41
In a society enjoying peace, prosperity and technologically engineered mental health, Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, commits gruesome murder. Three people investigate the crime—one a therapist who will enter Goldsmith’s mind to search for answers. A mesmerizing work set in a tomorrow that is less than a century away.
