Annal:1994 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
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Results of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- Fantasy books
- Fantasy authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 1994 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- Score: 10.44
The magic of history and the enchantment of an extraordinary story come together in this novel of beguiling romance and dazzling revelation. Eighteenth-century France is the setting—a time and a place where age-old superstitions shadow an age of enlightenment, where the minuet of aristocratic life is deaf to the approaching drumbeats of revolution, where elegance masks depravity and licentiousness makes mockery of love. Against this background, Berthe Duvet, maid to Adele du Fourchet, later Mme la duchesse de Malvoeux, tells her tale of a doomed society and of a…
The Innkeeper's Song: A Novel
- 1994 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1994 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.44
The Innkeeper’s Song is the story of young Tikat’s search for the lover whose death and resurrection he witnessed. It is a search that will lead him into a world of magic and mystery beyond his comprehension, for his wild ride sets him on the trail of three women who are blessed—or cursed—to undertake an impossible mission of their own. Each of the three has secrets—from the world, from the two others, from herself. Each is followed by demons she can never escape. And all their destinies will be irrevocably linked in a far distant inn, when hunted and hunters…
- 1994 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 6.44
The firebird came at night—a magnificent creature whose magical cry seemed to transform objects at random. Gifted with powers of her own, Meguet tried to reach out to the bird. But at moonrise, the firebird became human, a prince cursed by dark magic. Meguet vowed to help him. But then the mystery carried her away, on alien winds, to a land far from her home…
At the edge of the world, the Luxor Desert awaits—a barren land where a sorcerer’s war rages. Where invisible dragons cast shadows over ruined castles. And where Meguet’s own fate depends upon a…
- 1994 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 6.44
As Princess Lissar reaches womanhood, it is clear to all the kingdom that in her breathtaking beauty she is the mirror image of her mother, the queen. But this seeming blessing forces her to flee for safety from her father’s wrath. With her loyal dog Ash at her side, Lissar will unlock a door to a world of magic, where she will find the key to her survival-and an adventure beyond her wildest dreams.
