Finalist, Best Novel, 2003
Bones of the Earth
Michael Swanwick (opens in a new tab)
A palaeontologist is handed a fresh dinosaur bone by a time traveller, and becomes part of a project to study the past that must never change it.
The ballot
- HominidsRobert J. SawyerAnalog Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr 2002; Tor, 2002Winner
- Kiln People (alt: Kil’n People)David BrinTor, 2002Runner-up
- The ScarChina MiévilleDel Rey, Jun 2002; Macmillan, 2002
- The Years of Rice and SaltKim Stanley RobinsonBantam, 2002