Annal:1999 Nebula Award for Novel
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Results of the Nebula Award in the year 1999. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Parable of the Talents: Book 2 of Earthseed
- 1999 Nebula winner
- 2001 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 16.49
In her longest and arguably greatest novel, the long-awaited Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler revisits her familiar themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, separation and community in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032.
Parable of the Talents continues the story which began in Parable of the Sower. That novel’s heroine, Lauren, now has a daughter, and Parable of the Talents is told from the daughter’s point of view. A new government is in power, led by a far-right religious crusader as…
- 1999 Nebula nominee
- 1999 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.49
Toni Beauchamp never liked her mother’s world of magic and visions and six strange gods that took over her body at will. So when her mother died, Toni and her sister Candy thought it meant a new beginning, a life free of magic. But Elena had one last gift for her daughter—a sip from the Mockingbird Cordial. And from the moment Tone held the drink to her lips, her life would never be the same…
- 1999 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.49
Young Janna has lived her fourteen years on the icy northern plains of a world that has forgotten its history. Now the arrival of Earthers—descendants of the humans who first settled the planet many centuries before—has violently upset the fragile balance of a developing civilization. The offworlders’ advanced technologies and cruel indifference to local life have brought despair and destruction to janna’s home, robbing her of family, husband, child, and self. Haunted by a dead past—mysteriously altered by the gift of three alien artifacts—Janna must now redefine…
- 2000 Prometheus finalist
- 1999 Clarke shortlist
- 1999 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.5
Ellen May Ngewthu is a young woman with centuries of experience, a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around a mysteriously transformed Jupiter, are the front line in humanity’s long standoff with the unknowable posthumans—godlike and remote beings descended from the people who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago.
The posthumans’ capacities are unknown…but we know they disintegrated Ganymede, we know they…
- 2000 Campbell 1st
- 2000 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2000 Prometheus winner
- 2000 Clarke shortlist
- 1999 Nebula nominee
- Score: 42.5
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.
The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens’ very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every tow hundred and fifty years….
Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their…
A Clash of Kings: Book 2 of A Song of Fire and Ice
- 1999 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.49
Time is out of joint. The summer of peace and plenty, ten years long, is drawing to a close, and the harsh, chill winter approaches like an angry beast. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who held sway over an age of enforced peace are dead…victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns, as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms prepare to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.
As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky—a comet the…
