Annal:2007 Prometheus Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Prometheus Award in the year 2007. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2007 Prometheus winner
- 2007 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 16.57
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn’t take him long to discover that someone’s trying to kill him. It’s the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities-including Robin’s earlier self.
On the run from unknown enemies, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity, the Glasshouse, constructed to simulate a preaccelerated culture. Participants are assigned anonymized identities: it looks like the ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in this escape-proof environment, Robin will undergo an even more radical change, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters-and at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche.
- 2007 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.57
The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone.
The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons and strategic geniuses of their own.
When the American dream shatters into violence, who can hold the people and the government together? And which side will you be on?
- 2007 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.57
A traitor to humanity is helping a trio of alien races destroy humanity—all of it. His motivations are unclear, his whereabouts unknown. But the traitor left something behind: a recording of his consciousness. That consciousness is poured into Jared Dirac, a warrior born as an adult to fight the battles no one else will take. As Jared fights, he learns more about the man whose personality has been placed in his head—and learns why he turned traitor. But can Jared, bred to save humanity, be trusted not betray it instead?
Harbingers: A Repairman Jack Novel
- 2007 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 6.57
It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio’s when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it’s too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says he’ll put the word out on the street. This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life.
Rainbows End: A Novel With One Foot in the Future
- 2007 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2007 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 16.57
The year is 2025. Robert Gu, the internationally renowned 75-year old poet, receives a groundbreaking treatment for Alzheimer’s and a new outlook on life. When he begins re-training at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts. Even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot.
