Runner-up, Best Novel, 2017
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders (opens in a new tab)
A witch and a mad scientist who were outcasts together as children meet again as adults, on opposite sides of a fight to save a dying Earth.
The ballot
- The Obelisk GateN. K. JemisinOrbit BooksWinner
- Ninefox GambitYoon Ha LeeSolaris Books
- A Closed and Common OrbitBecky ChambersHodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager US
- Too Like the LightningAda PalmerTor Books
- Death’s EndCixin Liu, translated by Ken LiuTor Books / Head of Zeus