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1987 Awards

25Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1987 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1987 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerSoldier of the MistGene WolfeThe first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods and goddesses who invisibly i...Amazon1987 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Darkness at SethanonRaymond E. FeistAmazonBlood of AmberRoger ZelaznyAmazonGodbodyTheodore SturgeonAmazonHomunculusJames P. BlaylockAmazonItStephen KingAmazonMagic Kingdom For Sale--Sold!Terry BrooksAmazonThe Darkest RoadGuy Gavriel KayAmazonThe Folk of the AirPeter S. BeagleAmazonThe Mirror of Her DreamsStephen R. DonaldsonAmazonThe Quest for Saint CamberKatherine KurtzAmazonThe Serpent MageGreg BearAmazonTwisting the RopeR. A. Ma...
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1987 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1987 Locus - SF Novel WinnerSpeaker for the DeadOrson Scott CardIn the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are ...Amazon1987 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistChanur's HomecomingC. J. CherryhAmazonCount ZeroWilliam GibsonAmazonEnigmaMichael P. Kube-McDowellAmazonFoundation and EarthIsaac AsimovAmazonHeart of the CometGregory Benford & David BrinAmazonLear's DaughtersM. Bradley Kellogg with William RossowAmazonMarooned in RealtimeVernor VingeAmazonNerilka's StoryAnne McCaffreyAmazonSantiagoMike ResnickAmazonStar of GypsiesRobert SilverbergAmazonThe Coming of the Quantum CatsFrederik PohlAmazon...
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25Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without DesignRichard DawkinsRichard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution. The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor...Amazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerFools CrowJames WelchThe year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humil...Amazon1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Summons to MemphisPeter TaylorAmazonOf Love and ShadowsIsabel AllendeAmazonThat Night: A NovelAlice McDermottAmazonYou Must Remember ThisJoyce Carol OatesAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerPartial Accounts: New and Selected PoemsWilliam MeredithPoems deal with dreams, suffering, nature, travel, death, the sea, shipwrecks, poetry, mythology, decisions, the seasons, children, language, and music...Amazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1987 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1987 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Child in TimeIan McEwanStephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realize...Amazon
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22Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

1987 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

1987 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Ragged AstronautsBob ShawLand and Overland - twin worlds a few thousand miles apart. On Land, humanity faces a threat to its very survival - an airborne species, the ptertha, has declared war on humankind, and is actively hunting for victims. The only hope lies in migration. Throu...Amazon1987 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBlood MusicGreg BearAmazonCount ZeroWilliam GibsonAmazonQueen of the StatesJosephine SaxtonAmazonSchismatrixBruce SterlingAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke - Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year

1987 Arthur C. Clarke – Novel Winner and Nominees

1987 Arthur C. Clarke - Novel WinnerThe Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood...Amazon1987 Arthur C. Clarke - Novel ShortlistEonGreg BearAmazonEscape PlansGwyneth JonesAmazonGreen EyesLucius ShepardAmazonQueen of the StatesJosephine SaxtonAmazonStars In My Pocket Like Grains of SandSamuel R. DelanyAmazonThe Memory of WhitenessKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonThe Ragged AstronautsBob ShawAmazon
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