Awards and Nominations
In 1982, Camber the Heretic was ranked 6th in an annual poll of fantasy novels by Locus magazine readers, placing it between Robert Stallman's The Captive and F. Paul Wilson's The Keep. The poll was won by Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator. At the time, it was the highest ranking for a Deryni novel in the annual poll, though Kurtz' The King's Justice would later rank sixth in the 1986 poll.
At Fool*Con V, a science fiction and fantasy convention held in Kansas City in April 1982, the fans selected Camber the Heretic as the winner of the coveted Balrog Award for fantasy novels. The other finalists for the award were Piers Anthony's Centaur Island, Stephen King's Cujo, F. Paul Wilson's The Keep, and John Crowley's Little, Big.
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