Finalist, Best Novel, 1999

Distraction

Paperback, 468 pages

A political spin doctor in a broke and chaotic future America takes up the cause of a neurology lab, and finds himself in a fight over the country's future.

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The ballot

To Say Nothing of the DogConnie WillisBantam Spectra, 1998Winner
Children of GodMary Doria RussellVillard, 1998
DarwiniaRobert Charles WilsonTor, 1998
Factoring HumanityRobert J. SawyerTor, 1998