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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human AnimalJared DiamondThe Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communicat...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistArtificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet BiologySteven LevyAmazonBlinded By The Light: New Theories About the Sun and the Search for Dark MatterJohn GribbinAmazonConsciousness ExplainedDaniel C. DennettAmazonThe Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes & Consequences of Left-HandednessStanley CorenAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1993 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1993 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerBrother to DragonsCharles SheffieldThe power of one... Job. Against all evidence he never lost faith in his fellow man. Job. Born on he bottom rung in an age that made ours seem Golden, his life went rapidly downhill from there. Job. Cast adrift into a world he never made, but would change ...Amazon1993 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistA Fire Upon the DeepVernor VingeAmazonSideshowSheri S. TepperAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1993 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1993 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerLast CallTim PowersEnchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers. Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of ...Amazon1993 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Song for ArbonneGuy Gavriel KayAmazonA Sudden Wild MagicDiana Wynne JonesAmazonBriar RoseJane YolenAmazonDomes of FireDavid EddingsAmazonForest of the NightS. P. SomtowAmazonLast RefugeElizabeth Ann ScarboroughAmazonSmall GodsTerry PratchettAmazonThe Cutting EdgeDave DuncanAmazonThe GypsySteven Brust & Megan LindholmAmazonThe Magicians of Night (UK title: Magicians of the Night)Barbara HamblyAmazonThe Shadow RisingRobert JordanAmazonThe Spir...

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1993 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1993 Locus - SF Novel WinnerDoomsday BookConnie WillisFor Kivrin Engle, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone....Amazon1993 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistA Fire Upon the DeepVernor VingeAmazonAnvil of StarsGreg BearAmazonChanur's LegacyC. J. CherryhAmazonCount Geiger's BluesMichael BishopAmazonCrystal LineAnne McCaffreyAmazonHellburnerC. J. CherryhAmazonMarsBen BovaAmazonRed MarsKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonSideshowSheri S. TepperAmazonSnow CrashNeal StephensonAmazonSteel BeachJohn VarleyAmazonThe Hollow ManDan SimmonsAmazonThe Memory of EarthOrson Scott CardAmazonWorlds Enough and TimeJoe HaldemanAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerDaniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American PioneerJohn Mack FaragherWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular na...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistCharles Sanders Peirce: A LifeJoseph BrentAmazonGenius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the BombWilliam Lanouette, Bela SilardAmazonLincoln: An Illustrated BiographyPhilip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. KunhardtAmazonThe Six Wives of Henry VIIIAntonia FraserAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerMexican Americans: The Ambivalent MinorityPeter Skerry"Some of us have been here for three hundred years, some for three days." This comment, often repeated by Mexican Americans, affirms their status as one of America's oldest ethnic groups, as well as one of its newest and fastest growing. Not surprisingly, ...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistAfrican Laughter: Four Visits to ZimbabweDoris May LessingAmazonConduct UnbecomingRandy ShiltsAmazonPreparing for the Twenty-First CenturyPaul KennedyAmazonThe Real Anita HillDavid BrockAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerPigs in HeavenBarbara KingsolverMother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love. Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistFor LoveSue MillerAmazonRameau's NieceCathleen SchineAmazonThe Burning Glass: StoriesHelen NorrisAmazonWilliam Trevor: The Collected StoriesWilliam TrevorAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerLove EnterPaul KafkaA romantic, computer-age love story set in Paris and New Orleans. Young Dan Shoenfeld, spending a year abroad after college, falls in love with Bou and Margot, two women who happen to be in love with each other. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize f...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistCome to Me: StoriesAmy BloomAmazonLike Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home RemediesLaura EsquivelAmazonMother Rocket: StoriesRita CiresiAmazonMourning Doves: StoriesJudy TroyAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerNew Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of DiscoveryAnthony Grafton, April Shelford, Nancy SiraisiOn encountering what he called "the Indies", the Jesuit Jose de Acosta wrote, "Having read what poets and philosophers write of the Torrid Zone, I persuaded myself that when I came to the Equator, I would not be able to endure the violent heat, but it turn...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistRising in the West: The True Story of an "Okie" family in Search of the American DreamDan MorganAmazonThe Immobile EmpireAlain Peyrefitte, Jon RothschildAmazonThe Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional IdentityJames C. CobbAmazonTragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans...

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerMy Alexandria: PoemsMark DotyA book about mortality, the mortal weight of AIDS in particular....Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAfterworldChristine GarrenAmazonHotel Insomnia: A NovelCharles SimicAmazonLegends from Camp: PoemsLawson Fusao InadaAmazonNeon Vernacular: New and Selected PoemsYusef KomunyakaaAmazon