Runner-up, Best Novel, 2009
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow (opens in a new tab)
A teenage gamer is caught up in a terrorist attack on San Francisco and taken in by the authorities, then fights back against the surveillance that follows.
The ballot
- The Graveyard BookNeil GaimanHarperCollins; Bloomsbury UKWinner
- AnathemNeal StephensonMorrow; Atlantic UK
- Saturn’s ChildrenCharles StrossAce; Orbit UK
- Zoe’s TaleJohn ScalziTor