Annal:1992 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1993 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1992 Nebula winner
- 1993 Clarke shortlist
- 1993 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 32.43
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.
But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear,…
- 1993 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 1993 WFA–Novel nominee
- 1992 Nebula nominee
- Score: 22.43
…Around the castle there grew a hedge of thorns, which every year grew higher, and at last there was nothing more to be seen, not even the flag upon the roof. But the story of the beautiful sleeping princess, Briar Rose, went about the country so that from time to time the King’s sons came and tried to get through the thorny hedge…
So goes the German fairy tale of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty… an old, old tale, yet so potent that few among us do not know it today. Now one of America’s most celebrated writers tells it afresh, set this time in forests…
- 1993 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1992 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.43
Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade’s best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a postrevolution America, moving from the hyperurbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyberkite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit…
- 1993 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1993 Campbell 3rd
- 1992 Nebula nominee
- Score: 22.43
A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge’s career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind’s potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these “regions of thought,” but when the warring Straumli realm use an…
- 1994 Clarke shortlist
- 1992 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.44
Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut—swordsman, troubador, lover—is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity’s Thousand Cultures.
But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan. As the invention of the “springer”—instantaneous interstellar travel, at a price—spreads throughout the human galaxy, the stability and purity of no world, no matter how isolated, is safe. Nor can Giraut’s life remain untouched. To his wonder, his is about to find himself made an…
- 1992 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.42
When an enigmatic woman cloaked in black wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Pacific Northwest of 1873, one man is chosen to lead her out into the woods. But soon, he becomes the enchanted follower. Thus begins a magical journey…
