Finalist, Best Novel, 2006
Learning the World
Ken MacLeod (opens in a new tab)
A generation ship arrives at a star after centuries in space and finds it already inhabited, by a people just entering their own industrial age.
The ballot
- SpinRobert Charles WilsonTor, 2005Winner
- AccelerandoCharles StrossAce, 2005; Orbit, 2005Runner-up
- Old Man’s WarJohn ScalziTor, 2005
- A Feast for CrowsGeorge R. R. MartinVoyager, 2005; Bantam Spectra, 2005