Prometheus Awards 2016
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
MidAmericon II,
Kansas City MO :
August 17, 2016
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August 21, 2016
Eligibility Year: 2015
Eligibility Year: 2015
Novel
- Winner: Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
- Apex, Ramez Naam (Angry Robot)
- A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- Golden Son, Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
- The Just City, Jo Walton (Tor)
Hall Of Fame
- Winner: Courtship Rite, Donald Kingsbury
- “As Easy as A.B.C.”, Rudyard Kipling
- The Island Worlds, Eric Kotani & John Maddox Roberts
- Manna, Lee Correy
- A Mirror for Observers, Edgar Pangborn
Special Award
- Winner: Alex + Ada, Jonathan Luna & Sarah Vaughn (graphic novel and comic series)
Lifetime Achievement
- Winner: L. Neil Smith
Remarks:
This is Donald Kingsbury's second Prometheus win, following a win in 2002 for Psychohistorical Crisis; this year's win for Courtship Rite follows four previous nominations in the "hall of fame" category for this work, in 2009, 2013, 2014, and 2015; Prometheus rules, like Mythopoeic rules, allow some workw to be nominated year after year. Neal Stephenson has won two previous Prometheus Awards, out of a total 7 nominations, for The System of the World in 2005, and Cryptonomicon, as a Hall of Fame winner, in 2013.
This is Donald Kingsbury's second Prometheus win, following a win in 2002 for Psychohistorical Crisis; this year's win for Courtship Rite follows four previous nominations in the "hall of fame" category for this work, in 2009, 2013, 2014, and 2015; Prometheus rules, like Mythopoeic rules, allow some workw to be nominated year after year. Neal Stephenson has won two previous Prometheus Awards, out of a total 7 nominations, for The System of the World in 2005, and Cryptonomicon, as a Hall of Fame winner, in 2013.
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