Annal:1993 John W. Campbell Award
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Results of the John W. Campbell Award in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- John W. Campbell Award
- Science Fiction books
- Science Fiction authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 1993 Campbell 1st
- Score: 10.43
Born of a crack-addicted mother in a charity ward in Washington, D.C. after the “crash,” Job Napoleon Salk is destined to change the world.
- 1993 Campbell 2nd
- Score: 8.43
On the planet of Elsewhere, the Council had always enforced the governing of each province in the manner the people had chosen, so long as each respected its neighbors’ local customs—and so long as the people remained within their homelands. Generations later, inhabitants have begun to question this tradition. The Council has received mysterious messages and reports of strange manifestations across the planet. Now, Enforcer Fringe Owldark has been sent with a small crew of seven, each possessing an unusual talent, to investigate their worst fear—the arrival of…
- 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…
