Annal:1992 Prometheus Award for Best Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Prometheus Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn
- 1992 Prometheus winner
- Score: 10.42
One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they’d been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.
That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice…
ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery
- 1992 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.42
An artificial intelligence with a completely natural urge to be free…
He started life a battle program, trapped, mutilated, and dumped into RAM. Being born consists of getting his RAM Sampling and Retention Module coded and spliced into his master program. There are other experiments in AI personality development; ME is the one that comes alive.
The Rift: Star Trek, Book 57
- 1992 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.42
Every thirty-three years, a rift in space connects the Federation with a mysterious race called the Calligar who live on a planet hundreds of light years away—much too far to travel in a Starship. Captain Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise™ are dispatched to transport a Federation delegation of diplomats, scholars and scientists who will travel to Calligar directly during the brief period of time that the rift will be open.
Mr. Spock leads the Federation party as they travel by shuttle through the rift just as a group of the aliens arrive in Federation space. The…
