Thursday, April 25

1981 Awards

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1981 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerLord Valentine's CastleRobert SilverbergTraces the adventures of Valentine and the band of jugglers that he travels with across the magical planet of Majipoor....Amazon1981 Locus - Fantasy Novel Shortlist“The Mist”Stephen KingAmazonAfter DarkManly Wade WellmanAmazonAriostoChelsea Quinn YarbroAmazonChangelingRoger ZelaznyAmazonKill the DeadTanith LeeAmazonSabellaTanith LeeAmazonShadowlandPeter StraubAmazonSplit InfinityPiers AnthonyAmazonThe Beginning PlaceUrsula K. Le GuinAmazonThe Northern GirlElizabeth A. LynnAmazonThe Shadow of the TorturerGene WolfeAmazonThe Vampire TapestrySuzy McKee CharnasAmazonThe Wounded LandStephen R. DonaldsonAmazonThornFred SaberhagenAmazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerMornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life…Theodore RooseveltDavid McCulloughThe National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian Davi...Amazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerPrisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a NumberJacobo Timerman, Toby TalbotAn Argentine newspaper publisher who dared to criticize his government's policy of cruel repression, tells the story of his arrest, imprisonment, and torture....Amazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe White HotelD.M. ThomasIt is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an...Amazon1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDad: A NovelWilliam WhartonAmazonEllis Island and Other StoriesMark HelprinAmazonThe Collected Stories of Elizabeth BowenElizabeth BowenAmazonThe Stories of Ray BradburyRay BradburyAmazonZuckerman UnboundPhilip RothAmazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1981 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerSilver's CityMaurice LeitchAgainst the background of war-torn Belfast, two men engage in a bitter private duel. Ned Galloway, a street-wise gunman profiting from the people's anxiety, is hired to spring Silver Steele, a jailed folk-hero, from a guarded hospital room. This book won t...Amazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

1981 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 BSFA - 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 BSFA - Novel ShortlistA World BetweenNorman SpinradAmazonBeyond the Blue Event HorizonFrederik PohlAmazonEngine SummerJohn CrowleyAmazonMolly ZeroKeith RobertsAmazonTransfigurationsMichael BishopAmazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, August Derleth Award - Horror Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Fantasy Awards

1981 British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerTo Wake the DeadRamsey CampbellAn English clergyman teaches Peter Grace how to make the mind leave the body, enabling Grace to use his ability to reincarnate his evil spirit in the body of ten-year-old Rose, who experiences terrifying effects twenty years later...Amazon1981 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistA Storm of WingsM. John HarrisonAmazonFirestarterStephen KingAmazonKill the DeadTanith LeeAmazonThe Wounded LandStephen R. DonaldsonAmazon
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