Finalist, Best Novella, 2001
Seventy-Two Letters
Ted Chiang (opens in a new tab)
In a Victorian England where names written on clay make golems move, a young nomenclator learns that humanity has only a few generations left.
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
- OracleGreg EganAsimov’s Jul 2000
- Radiant Green StarLucius ShepardAsimov’s Aug 2000