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The Clone
Theodore L. Thomas & Kate Wilhelm’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1965 by Berkley Books · 143 pages
Nebula · 1966
FinalistOn the ballot with
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.
★ Winner
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Frank Herbert
Finalist
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Finalist
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Avram Davidson
Finalist
A Plague of Demons
Keith Laumer
Finalist
All Flesh is Grass
Clifford D. Simak
Finalist
The Escape Orbit
James White
Finalist
The Genocides
Thomas M. Disch
Finalist
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick
Finalist
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
Philip K. Dick
Finalist · this book
The Clone
Theodore L. Thomas & Kate Wilhelm
Finalist
Nova Express
William S. Burroughs
Finalist
The Star Fox
Poul Anderson
Synopsis
A monstrous organism is accidentally created when chemicals and organic matter combine in a Chicago sewer, growing into an enormous blob that spreads through the city's underground infrastructure. Absorbing everything it touches into more of its own tissue, the clone threatens to consume the entire city as authorities race to find a way to stop it.
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