Annal:1994 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1994 Nebula winner
- 1994 Campbell 3rd
- 1994 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 22.44
The young may not remember Mars of old, under the yellow Sun, its cloud-streaked skies dusted pink, its soil rusty and fine, its inhabitants living in pressurized burrows and venturing Up only as rite of passage or to do maintenance or tend the ropy crops spread like nests of intensely green snakes over the wind-scoured farms. That Mars, an old and tired Mars filled with young lives, is gone forever. Now I am old and tired, and Mars is young again. Our lives are not our own, but by God, we must behave as if they are. When I was young, what I did seemed too small…
- 1994 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1994 Nebula nominee
- Score: 16.44
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars. Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity’s struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planets hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the…
- 1994 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.44
Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there’s a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage.
Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he’s falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys…
A Night in the Lonesome October
- 1994 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.44
Combine the bizarre and brilliant imagination of award-winning author Roger Zelazny with the macabre artistic genius of Gahan Wilson—stir in a pinch of dried bat wing, several drops of human blood, and a substantial dose of vintage Hollywood horror—and the result is a strong and savory brew that satisfy the soul, chill the blood and tickle the funnybone…in short, A Night in the Lonesome October.
During a dank and damp autumn in the late 19th century, good dog Snuff loyally accompanies a mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight…
Parable of the Sower: Book 1 of Earthseed
- 1994 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.44
Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome—if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is inevitably destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and…
- 1995 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1994 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.45
“When I was fourteen, a cousin of mine angered a Malignant One.” Ellen Pierson’s cousin Paul brings his problem and his fear to Ellen, and Ellen turns to famed investigator Alison Birkett for help. For these two novellas, Temporary Agency and Benign Adjustments, Pollack returns to the Living World. In Unquenchable Fire a character says that “there are only two things in the world. Suffering and ecstasy.” Here, Pollack explores this theme in a fast-paced, moving story as Ellen, Paul and Alison unwrap first a conspiracy of evil and then one of misguided good.
- 1995 WFA–Novel winner
- 1995 Clarke shortlist
- 1995 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1994 Nebula nominee
- Score: 28.45
The irreducible strangeness of the universe was first made manifest to Anthony Van Horne on his fiftieth birthday, when a despondent angel named Raphael, a being with luminous white wings and a halo that blinked on and off like a neon quoit, appeared and told him of the days to come.
What Raphael tells Van Horne is that God, for unknown reasons, has died. “Died and fell into the sea.” Soon Van Horne is charged with captaining the supertanker Carpco Valparaiso (flying the colors of the Vatican) as it tows the two-mile-long divine corpse through the…
