Annal:1998 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1998. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1998 Campbell 1st
- 1998 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1998 Nebula winner
- Score: 30.48
- 1998 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.48
Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts of vengeance, he is consoled only by thoughts of the beautiful, dangerous Madeline. He is also the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien…
On the gas light streets of the city, he assumes the guise of a master criminal, stealing jewels from wealthy nobles to finance his quest for vengeance the murder of Count Montesq. Montesq orchestrated the wrongful execution of Nicholas’s beloved godfather on false charges of necromancy—the art of divination through communion with spirits of the dead—a practice long outlawed in the kingdom of Ile-Rein.
But now Nicholas’s murderous mission is being interrupted by a series of eerie, unexplainable, even fatal events. Someone with tremendous magical powers is opposing him. Children vanish, corpses assume the visage of real people, mortal spells are cast, and traces of necromantic power that hasn’t been used for centuries are found. And when a spiritualist unwittingly leads Nicholas to a decrepit mansion, the monstrous nature of his peril finally…
How Few Remain: A Novel of the Second War Between the States
- 1998 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.48
From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair….
1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America in 1881.
But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw, the French, and the English. As Confederate General Stonewall Jackson again demonstrated his military expertise, the North struggled to find a leader who could prove his equal. In the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed—and so would history…
- 1998 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.48
When Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Skolia, crash-lands his fighter on the off-limits planet of Coba, he figures it will be only a short time before he makes his way home. But he fails to account for the powerful matriarchy of Coba, the mistresses of the great estates who do not want the Empire to know about their recent cultural advances.
First they take him prisoner.
Then, one by one, the most powerful women on the planet fall in love with him!
- 1998 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.48
It’s the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm.Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.
But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new comet. Named for its discover, Tomiko is a “sun-grazer,”an interstellar wanderer with a hundred times the mass and ten times the speed of other comets. And it is headed straight for our moon.
In less than five days, if scientists’ predictions are right, Tomiko will crash into the moon, shattering it into a cloud of superheated gas, dust, and huge chunks of rock that will rain down on the earth, causing chaos and killer storms, possibly tidal waves inundating entire cities…or worse: a single apocalyptic worldwide “extinction event.”
In the meantime, the population of Moonbase must be evacuated by a hastily assembled fleet of…
- 1999 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1998 Nebula nominee
- Score: 16.49
On the surface, England in the summer of 1888 is possibly the most restful time in history—lazy afternoons boating on the Thames, tea parties, croquet on the lawn—and time traveler Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling back and forth between the 21st century and the 1940s looking for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop’s birdstump. It’s only the latest in a long string of assignments from Lady Schrapnell, the rich dowager who has invaded Oxford University. She’s promised to endow the university’s time-travel research project in return for their help in rebuilding the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years before.
But the bargain has turned into a nightmare. Lady Schrapnell’s motto is “God is in the details,” and as the l25th anniversary of the cathedral’s destruction—and the deadline for its proposed completion—approaches, time-travel research has fallen by the wayside. Now Ned and his colleagues are frantically engaged in installing organ pipes, researching misericords, and generally risking life and…
