Saturday, December 31, 1988

1988 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

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Comments: 1988 is the first time I have had a serious disagreement with the results of the Mythopoeic Award for Fantasy Literature. I simply don't think that Orson Scott Card's novel Seventh Son should have won the award. While Seventh Son is not a bad novel, it is basically just a fairly routine hodgepodge of folklore thrown into an alternate history of the United States. In comparison, all of the other nominees were simply much more creative and interesting - an observation that is substantiated when one looks at some of the other genre awards handed out in 1988, with Pat Murphy's The Falling Woman winning a Nebula Award, and Connie Willis' Lincoln's Dreams winning the Campbell Award.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:
C.S. Lewis by Joe R. Christopher

Other Nominees:
None

Go to previous year's nominees: 1987
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 1989

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