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
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Other Nominees:
The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
Lincoln's Dreams by Connie WillisWar for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
C.S. Lewis by Joe R. Christopher
Other Nominees:
None
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Go to subsequent year's nominees: 1989
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