Annal:2005 Prometheus Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Prometheus Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The System of the World: Volume 3 of The Baroque Cycle
- 2005 Prometheus winner
- 2005 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 16.55
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The world is a most confused and unsteady place—especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy—in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England’s shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess’s behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity…
- 2005 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.55
“In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.”
Thus begins Michael Crichton’s techno-thriller State of Fear, which takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly…
Anarquía: An Alertnate History Novel of the Spanish Civil War
Brad Linaweaver, Kent J. Hastings
- 2005 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.55
From 1936 to 1939, in the war torn world of the Spanish Civil War, proponents of every major intellectual, economic, political, and philosophical movement of the 20th Century came together for what most believed was to be an epic battle for the future of mankind. Artists, literary émigrés, reporters, philosophers, literary giants, and political activists all poured into Spain to be where the action was!
Now, in Brad Linaweaver’s and Kent Hastings’ epic: Anarquía: An Alternate History of the Spanish Civil War, a new vision of the Spanish Civil War has…
Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
- 2005 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.55
In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture—a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth’s artificial intelligences into godlike beings—a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered.
Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Skein, a chain of interplanetary star-gates left behind by the posthumans. But on a world called Eurydice, a remote planet at the farthest rim of the galaxy, Lucinda stumbled upon a forgotten relic…
- 2005 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.55
Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of , is back in business—the kind that’s anything but usual—in the new military science fiction adventure by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon.
The exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground—but Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her family’s fleet…and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off: because this time, the war has come to her. To be…
