Annal:1999 Prometheus Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Prometheus Award in the year 1999. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1999 Prometheus winner
- Score: 10.49
All the universe is a stage, and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian. He makes his way from planet to planet as part of a motley theater troupe, bringing Shakespeare—a version of it anyway—to the outer reaches of earth’s solar system. Here Sparky plies his trade, transforming himself from young to old, fat to thin, man to woman, by altering magnetic implants beneath his skin. Indispensable hardware for a career actor and an interstellar con man wanted for murder—for while Sparky Valentine may have a song on his heart, he also has a price on his head. But…
- 1999 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.49
Moonbase rose up like the Phoenix out of the lunar dust— a new society thriving on an inhospitable world battling the bitter enmity of powerful Earthside foes for the right to exist.
Now it’s total war.
Seven years after the remarkable Stavenger family made Moonbase a reality, a substantial community lives, labors and flourishes under the leadership of Doug Stavenger, thanks to the wonders of nanotechnology—virus-size machines that can build, refine, cure, create…and destroy. But the science that sustains and supports the young off Earth colony has been…
Rogue Star: Book 2 of Firestar Saga
- 1999 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.49
It is the early twenty-first century. There’s a space station being built, and the first manned flight to the asteroids is in progress. The grand plan of Mariesa Van Huyten to give humanity a big push back into space, and in the process save the human race from terrible disaster, continues. And there are enemies who will kill to stop it.
- 1999 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.49
Y2K: The Millennium Bug is about fallible, human people not about superheroes. Some are valiant and some are vile, but they all have to deal with their own problems in order to survive the chaos caused by the infamous year 2000 computer problem known as: The Millennium Bug!
Y2K: The Millennium Bug tracks the onset of the year 2000 and the results of the computer shut-downs, as seen by a number of characters with differing perspectives, education levels, and preparedness for disasters. Some people in America are more well prepared than others,…
F. Paul Wilson, Matthew J. Costello
- 1999 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.49
Tristan is the perfect spy. He’s a “mime,” an artificially created and cloned human who’s metamorphic DNA can be programmed to transform him into a “masque”—a perfect genetic copy of anyone. Mimes can be turned into anyone their corporate city-state owners want, until the stress of assuming masques causes a meltdown. Earning Selfhood—citizenship and a permanent form—is a mime’s sole hope for survival.
Tristan is one mission away from Selfhood. His assignment is to enter the heart of the enemy corporation’s nerve center, steal top-secret data, and escape…
