Annal:2002 Prometheus Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Prometheus Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2002 Prometheus winner
- Score: 10.52
A loving homage to Asimov, and dialogue with him—a triumph of galactic-scaled SF that is destined to be recognized as a classic in its own right
Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the augmentation of his brain by his electronic familiar, he can barely function amidst the bewildering complexities of everyday life on Splendid Wisdom. Here, on the capital world of the galaxy’s Second Empire, everyone from the meanest citizen to the ruling Pscholars has depended upon a fam since childhood. Without one, simply…
Falling Stars: Book 4 of Firestar Saga
- 2002 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.52
Michael Flynn’s epic of the near future, begun in Firestar and advanced in Rogue Star and Lodestar, climaxes with Falling Stars. In the early years of the 21st century humanity has advanced into space, but has discovered that certain asteroids have changed their orbits and are headed for horrifying impact with Earth. But there is a world financial crash, and politics get in the way of progress, requiring the cast of characters introduced in the earlier books to pull together and save humanity from disaster. With great difficulty, serious preparations begin to…
- 2002 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.52
Young Llewelyn is an unhappy child in the southern city of Sunnashiven. Estranged from his parents, he finds solace in the friendship of a local hedge witch who teaches him and gives him hope with her predictions for his future. After the witch dies, Llewelyn wants to continue learning and is allowed to enter school and train to be a religious magician.
His education is interrupted when war leads to revolution in Llewelyn’s small kingdom. Llewelyn, now a young man, flees to another country and joins a strange little revolutionary cadre led by young Duke…
- 2002 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.52
In The Probability Broach, which won the coveted Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian Fiction, L. Neil Smith created a universe parallel to ours, in which George Washington was executed, there was no Civil War, drugs are sold in vending machines, a gorilla is President of the North American Confederacy, there is no United States, and everybody—and that means everybody—carries guns.
Now, in this much anticipated sequel to The Probability Broach, we again follow Detective Win Bear as he combats terrorists who have begun a campaign of bombings and…
