Comments: There is a kind of inevitability in the results for the 1990 Clarke Awards. I'm not talking about Geoff Ryman winning for The Child Garden, or even Jonathan Carroll winning for A Child Across the Sky. No, I am referring to the tie for third place, which was almost assured after the judges saw fit to include a third place ranking in 1989. Once a new result category is added, it is almost a certainty that it will quickly result in a tie, and in 1990, the Clarke Awards provided yet another example of this phenomenon.
Winner
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
Runner-Up
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
Third Place
(tie) Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
(tie) A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein
Shortlist
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Neverness by David Zindell
Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park
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