Finalist, Best Novel, 2017

A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers (opens in a new tab)

Paperback, 416 pages

An artificial intelligence newly installed in an illegal body tries to learn how to be a person, with the help of an engineer who was raised by one.

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The ballot

The Obelisk GateN. K. JemisinOrbit BooksWinner
All the Birds in the SkyCharlie Jane AndersTor Books / Titan BooksRunner-up
Ninefox GambitYoon Ha LeeSolaris Books
Too Like the LightningAda PalmerTor Books
Death’s EndCixin Liu, translated by Ken LiuTor Books / Head of Zeus