Finalist, Best Novel, 2004
Singularity Sky
Charles Stross (opens in a new tab)
A backward empire that bans technology finds a colony world flooded with information by an alien Festival, and sends its navy, with two spies aboard.
The ballot
- Paladin of SoulsLois McMaster BujoldEos, 2003Winner
- IliumDan SimmonsSubterranean, 2003; Eos, 2003; Gollancz, 2003Runner-up
- Blind LakeRobert Charles WilsonTor, 2003
- HumansRobert J. SawyerTor, 2003