Finalist, Best Novel, 2009
Anathem
Neal Stephenson (opens in a new tab)
A young monk in a cloister of mathematicians is called into the world outside when an alien ship appears above it.
The ballot
- The Graveyard BookNeil GaimanHarperCollins; Bloomsbury UKWinner
- Little BrotherCory DoctorowTor Teen; HarperVoyager UKRunner-up
- Saturn’s ChildrenCharles StrossAce; Orbit UK
- Zoe’s TaleJohn ScalziTor