Best Novel, 2000

A Deepness in the Sky

Vernor Vinge (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 792 pages · First published by Tor Books

Two human fleets arrive at a star that switches off for two centuries at a time, to wait for the spider-like people on its one planet to wake.

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Also on the ballot

A Civil CampaignLois McMaster BujoldBaen, 1999Runner-up
CryptonomiconNeal StephensonAvon, 1999
Darwin’s RadioGreg BearHarperCollins UK, 1999; Ballantine Del Rey, 1999
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanJ. K. RowlingBloomsbury, 1999; Scholastic, 1999