Annal:1991 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1991 Nebula winner
- 1993 Clarke shortlist
- 1992 Campbell 3rd
- 1992 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 28.41
The fiction of Michael Swanwick transports readers through thought and space; into dark, fantastic worlds teeming with awesome creations, characters and ideas. From the critically acclaimed author of Jack Faust comes an award-winning vision of cataclysm and transformation; an extraordinary excursion into questionable realms of morality and godhood.
The world of Miranda is dying—doomed to drown beneath the weight of its own oceans. In the final days before the unavoidable natural disaster, the race is on to locate Gregorian—a brilliant renegade scientist and…
- 1992 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1991 Nebula nominee
- Score: 16.42
Cordelia Naismith had married a simple retired soldier. Now pregnant with their first child, she expected a peaceful country life with Aral Vorkosigan and their children. Instead, dying Emperor Ezar Vorbarra appointed Aral to rule Barrayar until Prince Gregor, four-year-old heir to the throne, could come of age.
Just months after Aral was sworn in, an attempt was made to kill him. Who would most benefit from killing the new Regent? Cetaganda? Komarr? A disgruntled Vor lord? Who will control Barrayar?
- 1991 Philip K Dick citation
- 1992 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1992 WFA–Novel nominee
- 1991 Nebula nominee
- Score: 26.41
Sparrow’s my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some might call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the old Earth. I know how to set a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horseman - the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between the Americas. That’s the prize I’m after.
But it seems I’m having trouble controlling my own mind.
The Horsemen are coming.
William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
- 1992 Campbell 2nd
- 1991 Nebula nominee
- Score: 14.42
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history—and the future: Sybil Gerard - fallen woman, politicians tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward “Leviathan” Mallory - explorer and paleontologist. Laurence Oliphant - diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched…
- 1991 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.41
For the last thirty years, the survivors of the collapse has tried to exist Earthside. Space colonies like the Flying Duthman offer the last and best hope for the mother planet’s future; the adolescents on board the Dutchman really are humanity’s last hope, but knowing is a heavy burden - especially for Mel who has plans of her own.
- 1992 Clarke winner
- 1991 Nebula nominee
- Score: 16.42
In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before it hits the streets; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with reality is incidental.
