explorer / books · 1979
Strangers
Gardner Dozois’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1978 by Berkley Publishing Corporation · 191 pages
Nebula · 1979
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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
On the alien world of Weinunnach, human artist Joseph Farber falls deeply in love with Liraun, a humanoid member of the indigenous Cian race, despite strict taboos against interspecies relationships. To be with her, Farber undergoes radical genetic alteration, but his transformation forces him to confront the unbridgeable gulf between two cultures and the terrible price of crossing it.
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