Finalist, Best Novella, 2001
Oracle
Greg Egan (opens in a new tab)
In a postwar England much like ours, a scientist who has survived persecution for being gay debates a famous Christian writer on whether a machine can think.
The ballot
- The Ultimate EarthJack WilliamsonAnalog Dec 2000Winner
- A Roll of the DiceCatherine AsaroAnalog Jul/Aug 2000Runner-up
- The Retrieval ArtistKristine Kathryn RuschAnalog Jun 2000
- Seventy-Two LettersTed ChiangVanishing Acts, 2000
- Radiant Green StarLucius ShepardAsimov’s Aug 2000