Finalist, Best Novel, 2022
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir (opens in a new tab)
A schoolteacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there, and has to work out how to save the Sun.
The ballot
- A Desolation Called PeaceArkady MartineTorWinner
- Light From Uncommon StarsRyka AokiTor / St Martin’s PressRunner-up
- A Master of DjinnP. Djèlí ClarkTordotcom / Orbit UK
- The Galaxy, and the Ground WithinBecky ChambersHarper Voyager / Hodder & Stoughton
- She Who Became the SunShelley Parker-ChanTor / Mantle