Annal:1992 World Fantasy Award for Novel
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Results of the World Fantasy Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- World Fantasy Award for Novel
- Fantasy books
- Fantasy authors
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- 1992 WFA–Novel winner
- 1991 Stoker–Novel winner
- Score: 20.42
Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson—a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake—and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever.
As Cory struggles to understand his father’s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the…
- 1993 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1992 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.43
Curator Howard Barton goes to Mendocino, California, to get a 19th-century woodcut sketch for his museum back home. But other, rather strange, people want the sketch for their own dubious purposes. Now Howard’s caught in the middle of a secret war that somehow involves a piece of paper that is much more than it seems.
- 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.
- 1992 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.42
Set in the Stone Age, this is the story of a clash between the last of the Neanderthals and the new emerging race of men. Other work by the author includes “Radix”, “In Other Worlds”, “Arc of the Dream”, “Wyvern” and “The Last Legends of Earth”.
- 1992 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.42
Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect—witty and remarkable. He’s also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way. But now, newly divorced and having had an inexplicable nervous breakdown, Harry is being wooed by the extremely wealthy Sultan of Saru to design a billion-dollar dog museum. In Saru, he finds himself in a world even madder and more unreal than the one he left behind, and as his obsession grows, the powers of magic weave around him, and the implications of his strange undertaking…
- 1992 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.42
When folk musician Janey Little finds a mysterious manuscript in an old trunk in her grandfather’s cottage, she is swept into a dangerous realm both strange and familiar. But true magic lurks within the pages of The Little Country, drawing genuine danger from across the oceans into Janey’s life, impelling her—armed only with her music—toward a terrifying confrontation.
Come walk the mist-draped hills of Cornwall, come walk the ancient standing stones. Listen to the fiddles, and the wind, and the sea. Come step with Janey Little into the pages of…The Little Country.
