Comments: There seems to be a pattern at the Prometheus Awards in which a mediocre book wins the award over a collection of nominees consisting of much better books. In 1990, this happened in both categories, although the disparity in quality between the winner and the competition was, as usual, most apparent in the Hall of Fame category where F. Paul Wilson's book Healer emerged victorious over Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Levin's This Perfect Day, and Zamyatin's We.
Best Novel
Solomon's Knife by Victor Koman
Other Nominees:
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
Henry Martyn by L. Neil SmithInfinity Hold by Barry B. Longyear
The Mirror Maze by James P. Hogan
Hall of Fame
Healer by F. Paul Wilson
Other Nominees:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Go to subsequent year's nominees: 1991
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