Annal:2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
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Results of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in the year 2003. 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.
- 2003 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 2003 WFA–Novel winner
- Score: 20.53
When Ombria’s prince, Royce Greve, breathes his last, he leaves his young son at the mercy of his ancient great-aunt, Domina Pearl, who has plotted her rise to power for many years. Already she has thrown Greve’s pretty mistress out into the streets, where no one would expect her to live an hour. The boy will take her a little longer.
Meanwhile, in a dreamlike underworld peopled by Ombria’s ghosts, a sorceress weaves her spells and brews her potions, never revealing her real face—or true heart. And somewhere in between, the struggle to rule the whole of Ombria will rest in the hands of those whose fractured lives align like the lost pieces of a magical puzzle
- 2003 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 2003 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 12.53
This stunning follow-up to Ellen Kushner’s cult-classic novel, Swordspoint, is set in the same world of labyrinthine intrigue, where sharp swords and even sharper wits rule. Against a rich tapestry of artists and aristocrats, students, strumpets, and spies, a gentleman and a scholar will find themselves playing out an ancient drama destined to explode their society’s smug view of itself–and reveal that sometimes the best price of uncovering history is being forced to repeat it…
Generations ago the last king fell, taking with him the final truths about a…
- 2003 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 6.53
Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition—the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perhaps she was a late bloomer, she thought—until her younger siblings came into their powers as well. Now, at twenty, Gypsum fears that she must accept her fate: a mundane life without magic.
She can live with being ordinary, an outsider. After all, someone in the family had to take after her father…But one day, alone at…
