Finalist, Best Novel, 1973
When Harlie Was One
David Gerrold (opens in a new tab)
An engineer works with a self-aware computer as a child as it grows, and tries to stop the company shutting it down.
The ballot
- The Gods ThemselvesIsaac AsimovGalaxy Mar/Apr,May/Jun 1972; If Mar/Apr 1972Winner
- There Will Be TimePoul AndersonSignet, 1972
- The Book of SkullsRobert SilverbergScribner’s, 1972
- Dying InsideRobert SilverbergGalaxy Jul/Aug,Sep/Oct 1972; Scribner’s, 1972
- A Choice of GodsClifford D. SimakPutnam, 1972