1990 Arthur C. Clarke Award: science fiction winners and finalists
Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 1990 Arthur C. Clarke Award, winners first, with page counts, reader ratings and a link to each book.
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a juried award for science fiction novels published in the United Kingdom. It supplies a different perspective from fan and professional voting. Clarke records in this catalog are novels, not a separate novella prize. Official award site ↗
The Child Garden is a 1989 science fiction novel by Canadian writer Geoff Ryman. The novel is structured as two books with a brief introduction. The first book was originally published in two parts as "Love Sickness" in the Summer and Autumn 1987 editions of the British science fiction magazine Interzone.
Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future is a science fiction novel (or a novel-like series of vignettes) by American writer Mike Resnick, published in 1988. Set in Resnick's Birthright Universe, it describes the fictional past and future history of the (real) Kilimanjaro Tusks and those who own them.
Neverness is a science fiction novel by American writer David Zindell, published in 1988. The related novelette "Shanidar" won the Writers of the Future contest in 1985. Zindell has said that it was partly based on Le Morte d'Arthur, with the pilots as "knights zipping around the universe in search of the Holy Grail".