Best Novel, 2003

Hominids

Robert J. Sawyer (opens in a new tab)

Paperback, 448 pages · First published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact

A physics accident drops a Neanderthal scientist from a parallel Earth, where his kind survived and ours did not, into a mine in Ontario.

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Also on the ballot

Kiln People (alt: Kil’n People)David BrinTor, 2002Runner-up
Bones of the EarthMichael SwanwickEos, 2002
The ScarChina MiévilleDel Rey, Jun 2002; Macmillan, 2002
The Years of Rice and SaltKim Stanley RobinsonBantam, 2002