sfadb: Prometheus Awards 2016 (original) (raw)

Where and When: MidAmericon II, Kansas City MO : August 17, 2016 - August 21, 2016
Eligibility Year: 2015

Novel

• Winner: Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
• Apex, Ramez Naam (Angry Robot)
• A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Golden Son, Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
• The Just City, Jo Walton (Tor)

Hall Of Fame

• Winner: Courtship Rite, Donald Kingsbury
• “As Easy as A.B.C.”, Rudyard Kipling
• The Island Worlds, Eric Kotani & John Maddox Roberts
• Manna, Lee Correy
• A Mirror for Observers, Edgar Pangborn

Remarks:
This is Donald Kingsbury's second Prometheus win, following a win in 2002 for Psychohistorical Crisis; this year's win for Courtship Rite follows four previous nominations in the "hall of fame" category for this work, in 2009, 2013, 2014, and 2015; Prometheus rules, like Mythopoeic rules, allow some workw to be nominated year after year. Neal Stephenson has won two previous Prometheus Awards, out of a total 7 nominations, for The System of the World in 2005, and Cryptonomicon, as a Hall of Fame winner, in 2013.