Annal:2000 Prometheus Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Prometheus Award in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2000 Campbell 1st
- 2000 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2000 Prometheus winner
- 2000 Clarke shortlist
- 1999 Nebula nominee
- Score: 42.5
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.
The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens’ very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every tow hundred and fifty years….
Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their…
- 2000 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.5
At the turn of the new millennium, nearly a dozen U.S., Russian, and Japanese robot missions have been sent to Mars…all in preparation for the first humans who will walk on the Red Planet. Now science fiction master Gregory Benford, recipient of multiple honors including two Nebula Awards and the United Nations Medal in Literature, presents a powerful and realistic novel that captures the conflict, suspense, and drama of this coming adventure, and of the new century’s great space challenge…The Martian Race. For American John Axelrod, it’s not about…
- 2000 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.5
“That Planet Has No Right To Be There!”
Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name for Saturn. Operating without the hidebound restrictions of bureaucratic Earth, the colony is a magnet, attracting the best and brightest of the home world, and has been making important new discoveries. But one of their claims—that they have found proof that the Solar System has undergone repeated cataclysms, and as recently…
- 2000 Prometheus finalist
- 1999 Clarke shortlist
- 1999 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.5
Ellen May Ngewthu is a young woman with centuries of experience, a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around a mysteriously transformed Jupiter, are the front line in humanity’s long standoff with the unknowable posthumans—godlike and remote beings descended from the people who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago.
The posthumans’ capacities are unknown…but we know they disintegrated Ganymede, we know they…
- 2000 Clarke shortlist
- 2000 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2000 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 18.5
In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse—mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy—is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702—commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe—is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy’s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into…
