Sunday, November 17

1981 Awards

1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerA Virgil Thomson ReaderVirgil Thomson...Amazon1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistBoccaccioThomas G. BerginAmazonEarly AudenEdward MendelsonAmazonScience: Good, Bad and BogusMartin GardnerAmazonThe Geography of the Imagination: Forty EssaysGuy DavenportAmazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1981 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 Locus - SF Novel WinnerThe Snow QueenJoan D. VingeThis reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-nominated The Snow Queen, marks the first time the book has been reprinted in fifteen years. The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 15...Amazon1981 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistBeyond the Blue Event HorizonFrederik PohlAmazonDangerous GamesMarta RandallAmazonDragon's EggRobert L. ForwardAmazonFirestarterStephen KingAmazonGolem100Alfred BesterAmazonMockingbirdWalter S. TevisAmazonSerpent's ReachC. J. CherryhAmazonThe Magic LabyrinthPhilip José FarmerAmazonThe Number of the BeastRobert A. HeinleinAmazonThe Ringworld EngineersLarry NivenAmazonTimescapeGregory BenfordAmazonTwo to ConquerMarion Zimmer BradleyAmazonWild Seed...
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Collected Poems of F.R. ScottF.R. Scott...Amazon1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistMiramichi Lightning: Collected PoemsAlfred BaileyAmazonThe TheBarry McKinnonAmazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerCaribou and the Barren-LandsGeorge CalefPhotographic account of the great herds of Barren-ground caribou and their yearly migrations through northern Canada and Alaska....Amazon1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistHugh MacLennan: A Writer's LifeElspeth CameronAmazonThe Young Vincent MasseyClaude BissellAmazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerHome Truths: Selected Canadian StoriesMavis GallantFrom a PEN Award winner, these tales ranging from Depression-era Quebec to contemporary Vancouver offer “irresistible storytelling through and through” (Kirkus Reviews). Canada is one of the worlds most diverse and gorgeous countries, stretching from the ...Amazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerBlood RelationsSharon Pollock...Amazon1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistStraight Ahead and Blind DancersCharles TidlerAmazonTheatre of the Film NoirGeorge F. WalkerAmazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1981 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerThe Snow QueenJoan D. VingeThis reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-nominated The Snow Queen, marks the first time the book has been reprinted in fifteen years. The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 15...Amazon1981 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistBeyond the Blue Event HorizonFrederik PohlAmazonLord Valentine's CastleRobert SilverbergAmazonThe Ringworld EngineersLarry NivenAmazonWizardJohn VarleyAmazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerEdith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among LionsVictoria GlendinningHer looks attracted Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. Among her friends were Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew. The 1930s she ...Amazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerMidnight's ChildrenSalman RushdieSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincide...Amazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1981 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerTimescapeGregory BenfordDetecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner....Amazon1981 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistThe Dreaming DragonsDamien BroderickAmazonThe Shadow of the TorturerGene WolfeAmazon