Finalist, Best Novel, 1967
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany (opens in a new tab)
A poet and linguist is hired to decode a language that the military think is an enemy code, and finds it changes the way its speakers think.
The ballot
- The Moon is a Harsh MistressRobert A. HeinleinIf Dec 1965,Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr 1966; Putnam, 1966Winner
- Too Many MagiciansRandall GarrettAnalog Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov 1966
- Flowers for AlgernonDaniel KeyesHarcourt, Brace & World, 1966
- The Witches of KarresJames H. SchmitzChilton, 1966
- Day of the MinotaurThomas Burnett SwannAce, 1966