Finalist, Best Novella, 2011
The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon
Elizabeth Hand (opens in a new tab)
As an aviation historian lies dying, her friends rebuild a 19th-century flying machine to give her theory of flight the proof it lacks.
The ballot
- The Lifecycle of Software ObjectsTed ChiangSubterraneanWinner
- TroikaAlastair ReynoldsGodlike Machines, Science Fiction Book ClubRunner-up
- The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s WindowRachel SwirskySubterranean Magazine, Summer 2010
- The Sultan of the CloudsGeoffrey A. LandisAsimov’s, September 2010