Runner-up, Best Novel, 2000
A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold (opens in a new tab)
Miles Vorkosigan tries to court a widow by stealth while the capital fills with family plots, a political crisis and a lab full of butter bugs.
The ballot
- A Deepness in the SkyVernor VingeTor, 1999Winner
- 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