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In 1943 seventeen-year-old Danny Boles, a shortstop who has lost his voice, joins a minor-league baseball team in a small town in Georgia. His roommate is Henry Clerval, a huge, scarred and strangely educated first baseman - who turns out to be the creature Victor Frankenstein made, still alive more than a century later.

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (Winners)
The Locus Awards are voted on each year by the readers of Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field, which makes them one of the best guides to the books readers themselves have loved most. The Best Fantasy Novel award was first given in 1978, to Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, and its winners since include Ursula K. Le Guin, four volumes of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and N. K. Jemisin. This list collects the winning novels by year.

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