Finalist, Best Novel, 2000
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson (opens in a new tab)
A codebreaker in the Second World War and his grandson, a programmer building a data haven in the 1990s, are tied together by a hoard of lost gold.
The ballot
- A Deepness in the SkyVernor VingeTor, 1999Winner
- A Civil CampaignLois McMaster BujoldBaen, 1999Runner-up
- Darwin’s RadioGreg BearHarperCollins UK, 1999; Ballantine Del Rey, 1999
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanJ. K. RowlingBloomsbury, 1999; Scholastic, 1999