Finalist, Best Novel, 1968

Thorns

222 pages

A man who survived alien surgery on a distant planet and a girl who gave birth to a hundred children without sex are brought together by a showman of misery.

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The ballot

Lord of LightRoger ZelaznyDoubleday, 1967Winner
The Einstein IntersectionSamuel R. DelanyAce, 1967
ChthonPiers AnthonyBallantine, 1967
The Butterfly KidChester AndersonPyramid, 1967