explorer / books · 1981
Mockingbird
Walter Tevis’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1980 by Doubleday · 247 pages
Nebula · 1981
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This book is recorded on the Nebula ballot only. Each row shows the full Best Novel ballot for that award and ceremony year. Winners appear first.
Synopsis
In a far-future New York where robots manage a declining human population, literacy has been forgotten and people drift through life in a drug-induced haze. When a man secretly teaches himself to read from ancient film recordings, he sets in motion a chain of events that challenges the very foundations of this quiet dystopia.
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