Finalist, Best Novel, 2010

Boneshaker

Cherie Priest (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 416 pages

In an alternative Seattle walled off after a drilling machine released a poisonous gas that turns people into zombies, a widow goes inside to find her son.

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The ballot

The City & The CityChina MiévilleDel Rey; Macmillan UKWinner
The Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiNight ShadeWinner
WakeRobert J. SawyerAce; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century AmericaRobert Charles WilsonTor
PalimpsestCatherynne M. ValenteBantam Spectra