Wednesday, October 9

1979 Awards

1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1979 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1979 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerDreamsnakeVonda N. McIntyreSnake travels the land with her serpents, the rattlesnake Sand, the cobra Mist and the rare alien dreamsnake called Grass, whose bite can ease the fear and pain of death. But the blasted landscape of a far-future post-holocaust Earth is a dangerous place, ...Amazon1979 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistBlind VoicesTom ReamyAmazonThe Faded Sun: KesrithC. J. CherryhAmazonThe White DragonAnne McCaffreyAmazonUp the Walls of the WorldJames Tiptree, Jr.Amazon
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerDarkness VisibleWilliam GoldingWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a w...Amazon
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1979 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1979 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Old JestJennifer JohnstonWinner of the Whitbread Literary Award for Best Novel: In the wake of the Great War, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she befriends a soldier of the grisly struggle on Ireland’s horizon Nancy lives with her aunt and ailing grandfather in a s...Amazon
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

1979 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

1979 BSFA - Novel WinnerA Scanner DarklyPhilip K. DickBob Arctor is a junkie and a drug-dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. In or...Amazon
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, August Derleth Award - Horror Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Fantasy Awards

1979 British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel Winner and Nominees

1979 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverStephen R. DonaldsonHe called himself Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, because he dared not believe in the strange alternative world on which he suddenly found himself - the Land. But the Land tempted him. As a leper, in his own world he had been an outcast, unclean, a pariah...Amazon1979 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistDying of the LightGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonGlorianaMichael MoorcockAmazonThe Quest of the White WitchTanith LeeAmazonThe Road to CorlayRichard CowperAmazon