Finalist, Best Novel, 1998

Jack Faust

Michael Swanwick (opens in a new tab)

337 pages

Faust is given knowledge of the future by a demon, and uses it to bring about the industrial revolution centuries early.

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The ballot

Forever PeaceJoe HaldemanAce, 1997Winner
City on FireWalter Jon WilliamsHarperPrism, 1997
The Rise of EndymionDan SimmonsBantam Spectra, 1997
FrameshiftRobert J. SawyerTor, 1997