Thursday, November 21

1984 Awards

1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerCelestial NavigationPaulette JilesBy the highly acclaimed author of the novel "Enemy Women" Winner of the Governor Generals Award for Poetry, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award " "Now back in print, Paulette Jiless celebrated, multi-award-winning poetry...Amazon1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistConfabulationsSharon ThesenAmazonMountain TeaPeter van ToornAmazonThe Art of DarknessDavid McFaddenAmazonThe Sunday before WinterMarilyn BoweringAmazonThe Whole Night, Coming HomeRoo BorsonAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and LaurierSandra Gwyn...Amazon1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistP.Q.: René Levesque and the Parti Québécois in PowerGraham FraserAmazonPrairie Fire: The 1885 North-West RebellionBob Beal and Rod MacleodAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Engineer of Human SoulsJosef Skvorecky"So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud."...Amazon1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistIntertidal LifeAudrey ThomasAmazonNot Wanted on the VoyageTimothy FindleyAmazonThe Book of FearsSusan KerslakeAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerWhite Biting DogJudith ThompsonThis book collects some of Judith Thompsons earlier, hard- to-find plays, including White Biting Dog, a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer who prepares to kill himself by jumping off the Bloor Street Viaduct, until he encounters a small dog who s...Amazon1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistA Letter to My SonGeorge RygaAmazonThe Canadian Brothers or The Prophecy FulfilledJames ReaneyAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1984 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerStartide RisingDavid BrinThe second in the Uplift series and winner of the Hugo and Nebula award, this novel describes how a spaceship crew of dolphins and a genetically engineered human find an ancient fleet and cadaver. They must fight to carry their prize of knowledge and power...Amazon1984 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistMillenniumJohn VarleyAmazonMoreta: Dragonlady of PernAnne McCaffreyAmazonTea with the Black DragonR. A. MacAvoyAmazonThe Robots of DawnIsaac AsimovAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerVirginia Woolf: A Writer's LifeLyndall GordonThis prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer...Amazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerEmpire of the SunJ.G. BallardThe classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events...Amazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1984 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe Citadel of the AutarchGene WolfeSeverian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not refuse . . . Winner of the John W. Ca...Amazon1984 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistThe Birth of the People's Republic of AntarcticaJohn Calvin BatchelorAmazonTik-TokJohn SladekAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1984 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerThe Mists of AvalonMarion Zimmer BradleyMorgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change. Through the lives of ...Amazon1984 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistChristineStephen KingAmazonCugel's SagaJack VanceAmazonDamianoR. A. MacAvoyAmazonDragon on a PedestalPiers AnthonyAmazonHart's HopeOrson Scott CardAmazonLyonesseJack VanceAmazonNeveryónaSamuel R. DelanyAmazonPet SemataryStephen KingAmazonTea with the Black DragonR. A. MacAvoyAmazonThe Anubis GatesTim PowersAmazonThe Armageddon RagGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonThe DreamstoneC. J. CherryhAmazonThe Sword of WinterMarta RandallAmaz...
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1984 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Locus - SF Novel WinnerStartide RisingDavid BrinThe second in the Uplift series and winner of the Hugo and Nebula award, this novel describes how a spaceship crew of dolphins and a genetically engineered human find an ancient fleet and cadaver. They must fight to carry their prize of knowledge and power...Amazon1984 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistAgainst InfinityGregory BenfordAmazonHelliconia SummerBrian W. AldissAmazonMillenniumJohn VarleyAmazonMoreta: Dragonlady of PernAnne McCaffreyAmazonOrion Shall RisePoul AndersonAmazonSuperluminalVonda N. McIntyreAmazonThe Crucible of TimeJohn BrunnerAmazonThe Nonborn KingJulian MayAmazonThe Robots of DawnIsaac AsimovAmazonThe Void Captain's TaleNorman SpinradAmazonThendara HouseMarion Zimmer BradleyAmazonValentine PontifexRobert SilverbergAmazonWe...