Best Novel, 1997
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson (opens in a new tab)
The last Mars book. With the planet now green and wet and nearly free, its first settlers, kept alive for two centuries, face what they have made and what they can still remember.
Also on the ballot
- MemoryLois McMaster BujoldBaen, 1996
- Remnant PopulationElizabeth MoonBaen, 1996
- StarplexRobert J. SawyerAnalog Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct 1996; Ace, 1996
- Holy FireBruce SterlingBantam Spectra, 1996