Annal:2005 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- <–2004
- Gaylactic Spectrum Award
- –end–
Earth Logic: Book 2 of Elemental Logic saga
- 2005 Spectrum winner
- Score: 10.55
With Earth Logic, Laurie J. Marks continues the epic of her stunningly imagined world of Shaftal, which she first introduced in Fire Logic.
Shaftal has a ruler again, a woman with enough power to heal the war-torn land and expel the invading Sainnites from Shaftal. Or it would have a ruler if the earth witch Karis G’deon consented to rule. Instead, she lives in obscurity with the fractious family of elemental talents who gathered around her in Fire Logic. She is waiting for some sign, but no one, least of all Karis herself, knows what it…
- 2005 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 6.55
On the run from a fanatical cult, Ukiah Oregon is surprised to discover Atticus Steele, a brother he didn’t know he had. He’s even more surprised when Atticus involves them in the traffic of an alien drug that could end up getting them both killed.
The First Stone: Book Six of The Last Rune
- 2005 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 6.55
The Pale King has been defeated, his legions decimated. The Dark God Mohg has been destroyed. And the evil corporation, Duratek, has been disbanded, foiled in its efforts to strip-mine the world of Eldh. And for our heroes, three years have passed in relative peace. But only relative, because every one of them know in their hearts that their duties are not yet ended. For perihelion approaches, as the two worlds continue to grow nearer. And bad things are coming in its wake.
In the skies over Earth, astronomers have noted an anomaly which seems to be…
- 2005 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 6.55
Ten years ago, Niki Ky and Daria Parker saw something unspeakable in an old house in Birmingham, Alabama. Daria has denied it, escaping into a frantic music career and various addictions. But Niki has not had so many distractions. Diagnosed schizophrenic, she’s lost years in a haze of therapy and anti-psychotics.
But now, Niki’s dead lover, Spyder Baxter, is calling to her from another world-an alien, impossible place where Niki is known as a Hierophant, a feared prophesied sorceress who can open a portal between worlds. And Daria will finally have to face…
Offspring: A Novel of the Silent Empire
- 2005 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 6.55
The Dream was a telepathic place of existence where a psychic race known as the Silent could twist the laws of reality. But a madman’s lust for power has torn the Dream asunder. Now, only a handful of the Silent can enter it. Kendi Weaver is one of them. And it is up to him to protect it as political and personal enemies line up against him.
- 2005 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 6.55
The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced technological civilization of some thirty billion inhabitants, all cybernetically linked and at war with machine intelligences many light-years away. On the other side is Irion, a land of myth and legend, where the world is flat and mighty wizards once ruled.
Jedda Martele is a linguist and trader from Senal. Although fascinated by the languages and cultures of Irion, she shares her people’s assumption that Irion is backward and superstitious and no match for her…
- 2005 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 6.55
Terry North had once been on the Hollywood A-list playing a crime-fighting super hero on one of the highest rated shows on television. But the show was canceled, and for years she has spent most of her time watching old videos of Dark Avenger. In the videos time has frozen. She’s young, she’s vital, she’s super human.
Reality bites, though, and her friend’s advice to “stop living in the past” is easier said then done since Terry’s present mostly sucks on ice.
But Terry’s life takes a radical turn when an old friend from the past offers her an…
- 2005 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 6.55
Acclaimed fantasy author Tanya Huff returns to entertaining fantasy territory with this first novel in a new trilogy-featuring a popular character from her acclaimed Blood series. Tony, a former street kid-turned-producer, is behind a new TV series about a vampire detective. But what is real and what is fantasy? The answers are to be found in a wizard who’s come to Earth from another dangerous dimension…and he’s been followed.
- <–2004
- Gaylactic Spectrum Award
- –end–
