Finalist, Best Novel, 2010
Wake
Robert J. Sawyer (opens in a new tab)
A blind girl gets an implant to help her see, and through it perceives an intelligence growing in the web.
The ballot
- The City & The CityChina MiévilleDel Rey; Macmillan UKWinner
- The Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiNight ShadeWinner
- BoneshakerCherie PriestTor
- Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century AmericaRobert Charles WilsonTor
- PalimpsestCatherynne M. ValenteBantam Spectra