Finalist, Best Novel, 1961
Rogue Moon
Algis Budrys (opens in a new tab)
A scientist sends duplicates of men into a deadly alien maze on the Moon, where each copy dies, and picks a man who courts death to find the way through.
The ballot
- A Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M. Miller, Jr.J. B. Lippincott, 1959Winner
- The High CrusadePoul AndersonAstounding Jul,Aug,Sep 1960
- DeathworldHarry HarrisonAstounding Jan,Feb,Mar 1960
- Venus Plus XTheodore SturgeonPyramid, 1960