Finalist, Best Novel, 1990

The Boat of a Million Years

Poul Anderson (opens in a new tab)

Paperback, 530 pages

A handful of immortals live through the whole of human history, and look for each other.

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The ballot

HyperionDan SimmonsDoubleday Foundation, 1989Winner
A Fire in the SunGeorge Alec EffingerDoubleday Foundation, 1989
Prentice AlvinOrson Scott CardTor, 1989
GrassSheri S. TepperDoubleday Foundation, 1989