Annal:1995 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

Something Rich and Strange: A Tale of Brian Froud's Faerielands

Patricia A. McKillip

• 1995 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
• Score: 10.45

 

The Dubious Hills

Pamela Dean

• 1995 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
• Score: 6.45

 

The Hollowing

Robert Holdstock

• 1995 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
• Score: 6.45

A highly imaginative child vanishes into a forest which shields strange phantoms and mythagos—those shades generated over time by our dreams and nightmares. Thus begins a personal and epic quest by the boy’s father, who must travel into his son’s dreams to save him. This is the third book in the Mythago series.

Temporary Agency

Rachel Pollack

• 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.