Finalist, Best Novel, 1989
Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling (opens in a new tab)
A woman who works for a global corporation is drawn into the struggle of data pirates against a networked world.
The ballot
- CyteenC. J. CherryhWarner, 1988Winner
- Red ProphetOrson Scott CardTor, 1988
- Falling FreeLois McMaster BujoldAnalog Dec,mid-Dec 1987,Jan,Feb 1988; Baen, 1988
- Mona Lisa OverdriveWilliam GibsonGollancz, 1988; Bantam Spectra, 1988