Finalist, Best Novel, 1989

Falling Free

Lois McMaster Bujold (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 288 pages

An engineer is sent to teach a new human species, bred to live in zero gravity, and takes their side when the company that owns them decides they are obsolete.

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The ballot

CyteenC. J. CherryhWarner, 1988Winner
Red ProphetOrson Scott CardTor, 1988
Islands in the NetBruce SterlingMorrow/Arbor House, 1988
Mona Lisa OverdriveWilliam GibsonGollancz, 1988; Bantam Spectra, 1988