Annal:2002 Nebula Award for Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Nebula Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2002 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2002 Nebula winner
- 2001 Stoker–Novel winner
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 2002 WFA–Novel nominee
- 2001 IHG–Novel nominee
- Score: 48.52
A master of inventive fiction, Neil Gaiman delves into the murky depths where reality and imagination meet. Now in American Gods, he works his literary magic to extraordinary results.
Shadow dreamed of nothing but leaving prison and starting a new life. But the day before his release, his wife and best friend are killed in an accident. On the plane home to the funeral, he meets Mr. Wednesdaya beguiling stranger who seems to know everything about him. A trickster and rogue, Mr. Wednesday offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. With nowhere left to go, Shadow accepts, and soon learns that his role in Mr. Wednesday’s schemes will be far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being foughtand the prize is the very soul of America.
- 2001 Clarke winner
- 2002 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2002 Nebula nominee
- 2001 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 28.51
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.
Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique…
- 2003 Spectrum shortlist
- 2002 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.53
Since the moment she came into the world, Ren “Jackal” Segura has been treated differently. As a hope, she is a symbol of the highest principles of human society and is guaranteed a position of influence in the global government once she comes of age. But two months before she is to assume the role she has been preparing for her entire life—when she will leave her home to represent the massive corporate entity that houses, feeds, and employs her and everyone around her—Jackal discovers that everything she believes, everything she is, is a lie.
Saddled with a…
- 2002 Nebula nominee
- Score: 6.52
When funding is cut for the Sonomak—the fusion power project that she and her ex-husband are working on—Dr. Katie McGuire faces an uncertain future. Until the real potential of the Sonomak is unwittingly revealed.
In steps the mysterious Alexandra Mitchell. Armed with unlimited resources, Mitchell commandeers the Sonomak project for her own use. With her team now assembled, including Katie, her ex-husband, and physicist Jack Preston, Mitchell reveals her true goal: to use the Sonomak to create a brand new universe, a Picoverse one million-millionth the size of…
The Other Wind: Book 6 of The Earthsea Cycle
- 2002 WFA–Novel winner
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 2002 Nebula nominee
- Score: 22.52
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that separates our world from the Dry Land-where the grass is withered, the stars never move, and lovers pass without knowing each other. The dead are pulling Alder to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea.
Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a…
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2002 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.53
Paleontologist Richard Leyster has achieved professional nirvana: a position with the Smithsonian Museum plus a groundbreaking dinosaur fossil site he can research, publish on, and learn from for years to come. There is nothing that could lure him away—until a disturbingly secretive stranger named Griffin enters Leyster’s office with an ice cooler and a job offer. In the cooler is the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus.
Griffin has been entrusted with an extraordinary gift, an impossible technology on loan to humanity from unknown beings for an undisclosed…
