Annal:2003 Hugo Award for Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Hugo Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Hominids: Book 1 of The Neanderthal Parallax
- 2003 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2003 Campbell 3rd
- 2003 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 22.53
During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Captured and studied, alone and bewildered, Ponter is eventually befriended-by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the world’s strangeness.
Meanwhile, Ponter’s partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around, and an explosive murder trial that he can’t possibly win because he has no idea what actually happened. Talk about a scientific challenge!
- 2003 Campbell 2nd
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 20.53
In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember.
But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.
Dr. Yosil Maharal, a brilliant researcher in artificial…
- 2002 Philip K Dick citation
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2003 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 26.52
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage—and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon…
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.53
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur—the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been–a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. These are the years of rice and…
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2002 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.53
Paleontologist Richard Leyster has achieved professional nirvana: a position with the Smithsonian Museum plus a groundbreaking dinosaur fossil site he can research, publish on, and learn from for years to come. There is nothing that could lure him away—until a disturbingly secretive stranger named Griffin enters Leyster’s office with an ice cooler and a job offer. In the cooler is the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus.
Griffin has been entrusted with an extraordinary gift, an impossible technology on loan to humanity from unknown beings for an undisclosed…
