Annal:1996 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
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Results of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in the year 1996. 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.
- 1996 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 1995 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.46
It begins in a strange place in the heart of Washington, D.C.—the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine, with its brooding shrines, its gleaming towers, and its imposing halls guarded by androgynous stone angels. Until Katherine Sweeney makes the wrong discovery. One evening, opening a door in one of the Divine’s ancient towers, Sweeney learns what she was never supposed to know—that the university is controlled by a clandestine order, the Benandanti, which secretly manipulates every government, every church, every institution in the world, and has…
- 1995 Campbell 2nd
- 1996 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1995 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1995 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 26.45
For seventeen-year-old Danny Boles, a 5’5” shortstop out of Tenkiller, Oklahoma, the summer of 1943 would be a season to remember. The country’s at war, and professional baseball needs able-bodied men. Danny’s headed for Highbridge, Georgia—home of the Goober Pride peanut butter factory and the Highbridge Hellbenders, a Class C farm club in the Chattahoochee Valley League. He’s a scrappy player with one minor quirk: a violent encounter on the train to Georgia has rendered him mute, his vocal cords tied up in knots.
Danny’s idiosyncrasy, however, is nothing…
- 1996 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1996 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.46
In the dead of night, a man climbs the tower of St. Anthony’s Church, driven by a compulsive urge to silence the bells. In a deserted alley, a seemingly random victim is consumed by a torrent of flames. And in the deceptive light of day, a mail-order businessman named Walt Stebbins receives a bizarre artifact—a glass jar containing the preserved body of a bluebird.
Things like this don’t usually happen in a town like Orange, California. Ordinary people do not expect to face evil—real evil—in their own backyards. But as Walt Stebbins unravels the mystery of…
- 1996 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 6.46
Once, Atrix Wolfe was a great and powerful mage. Then the invaders descended upon his kingdom. Defending his people through magic, Atrix Wolfe brought to life a legendary Hunter—a savage, uncontrollable force that destroyed both armies and killed his beloved king.
Now, after twenty haunted years among the wolves, Atrix Wolfe has been summoned to the timeless realm of the Queen of the Wood. She asks him to find her daughter, who vanished into the human world during the massacre he caused. No one has seen the princess—but deep in the kitchens of the Castle of…
The Dragon Path: Collected Tales of Kenneth Morris
- 1996 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 6.46
Ursula K. Le Guin has called him “an important, innovative fantasist, worthy to rank with MacDonald, Edison, and Tolkien.” This collection contains nearly 40 stories, many of them published under pseudonyms—the majority of which have never been reprinted—by one of the greatest fantasy writers of the century. Morris had three books published before his death in 1937. His sole collection of stories, The Secret Mountain & Other Tales, was published only in England. His final novel, The Chalchiuhite Dragon, was discovered and published only recently.
