Nebula Awards - Best Novel - 1970s

Some good reads for the lockdown of 2020.  

The 1970's were a great decade.... just 50 years ago. 

This was the decade of Star wars (1977, currently known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), Superman (1978), Futureworld (1976), Buck Rogers in the 25th C (1979) and Battlestar Galactica (1978).

The Hugo & Nebula awards are another great place to start exploring this decade.

My personal favourite novels from the 70's are:  

The Left Hand of Darkness & The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin,
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. 
Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) by Stephen Donaldson .. a personal fav, though it didn't win a Hugo.
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy  ...  .. a personal fav, though it didn't win a Hugo.
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler (1979)

A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K Dick (1977) 

Children of Dune

The Nebula Awards for the 1970's were:

1970

Ringworld by Larry Niven

Publisher    Ballantine Books
Publication date
    True first printing, first edition - October 1970
Media type    Print (paperback)
Pages    342 pages
Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1971)

 (The first hardcover version was printed in 1972 by 

 Victor Gollancz , London).

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1971

 A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
 
Publisher    Nelson Doubleday
Publication date
    March–May 1971 (Galaxy Magazine***) / June 1971 (Hardcover)
Media type    Print (Magazine, Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages    183
ISBN    978-0586039953






  

 

 

A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg was first published in  Galaxy Magazine.

March–May 1971 ***

1972

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

Publisher    Doubleday
Publication date
    1972
Media type    Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages    288
Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1973)

The book is divided into three main parts, which were first published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If as three consecutive stories.

+ The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov - summary & review

 

 

galaxy magazine march 1972 *

Worlds of If magazine April 1972 ***

galaxy magazine may 1972 *

 

 

1973

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
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Publisher    Gollancz (UK)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (US)
Publication date
    Jun 1973 (UK)
Aug 1973 (US)
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    256 (UK) 69,048 words
Awards    Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Locus Award for Best Novel, etc.

Review:  Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke





1974

 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Published    1974 (Harper & Row)
Media type    Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages    341 (first edition)
Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1975)
ISBN    0-06-012563-2 (first edition, hardcover)












1975

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Publisher    St. Martin's Press
Publication date
    1974
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    236
Awards    Nebula Award for Best Novel (1975)

Locus Award for Best Novel (1976)
Hugo Award for Best Novel (1976)







1976

 Man Plus by Frederik Pohl

Publisher    Random House
Publication date
    1976
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    215
ISBN    0-394-48676-5

Awards: nominated for the Hugo and Campbell Awards, and placed third in the annual Locus Poll in 1977

Plot: Cyborg colonization of Mars
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1977

Gateway by Frederik Pohl

Publisher    St. Martin's Press
Publication date
    April 1977
(serial from Nov 1976)[1]
Media type    Print (hardcover)
Pages    313 (first ed.)

Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1978)

                1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel,

                1978 John W. Campbell Memorial Award 

                         for Best Science Fiction Novel

ISBN    0-312-31780-8

It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed (five books overall).

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Gateway was serialized in Galaxy prior to its hardcover publication.

November 1976, (Book 1, Part 1), 

Dec 1976, (Book 1, Part 2)

March 1977, (Book 1, Part 3)

 

1978

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

Publisher    Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
    1978
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    277
Awards   

    Hugo Award for Best Novel (1979)
    Locus Award for Best Novel (1979)
    Nebula Award for Best Novel (1978)

ISBN    0-395-26470-7






1979

 The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
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Publisher    Victor Gollancz (UK)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (US)
Publication date
    1979
Media type    Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages    256











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