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Prometheus Best Novel Award Winners

Year Author(s) Title
2024 Daniel Suarez Critical Mass
2023 Dave Freer Cloud-Castles
2022 Wil McCarthy Rich Man's Sky
2021 Barry B. Longyear The Hook
2020 C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher Alliance Rising
2019 Travis Corcoran Causes of Separation
2018 Travis Corcoran The Powers of the Earth
2017 Johanna Sinisalo The Core of the Sun
2016 Neal Stephenson Seveneves
2015 Daniel Suarez Influx
2014 Cory Doctorow Homeland
2014 Ramez Naam Nexus
2013 Cory Doctorow Pirate Cinema
2012 Delia Sherman The Freedom Maze
2012 Ernest Cline Ready Player One
2011 Sarah Hoyt Darkship Thieves
2010 Dani and Eytan Kollin The Unincorporated Man
2009 Cory Doctorow Little Brother
2008 Harry Turtledove The Gladiator
2008 Jo Walton Ha'penny
2007 Charles Stross Glasshouse
2006 Ken MacLeod Learning the World
2005 Neal Stephenson The System of the World
2004 F. Paul Wilson Sims
2003 Terry Pratchett Night Watch
2002 Donald Kingsbury Psychohistorical Crisis
2001 L. Neil Smith The Forge of the Elders
2000 Vernor Vinge A Deepness in the Sky
1999 John Varley The Golden Globe
1998 Ken MacLeod The Stone Canal
1997 Victor Koman Kings of the High Frontier
1996 Ken MacLeod The Star Fraction
1995 Poul Anderson The Stars are also Fire
1994 L. Neil Smith Pallas
1993 James P. Hogan The Multiplex Man
1992 Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn Fallen Angels
1991 Michael Flynn In the Country of the Blind
1990 Victor Koman Solomon's Knife
1989 Brad Linaweaver Moon of Ice
1988 Victor Koman The Jehovah Contract
1987 Vernor Vinge Marooned in Realtime
1986 Victor Milan Cybernetic Samurai
1985 None of the Above None
1984 J. Neil Schulman The Rainbow Cadenza
1983 James P. Hogan Voyage from Yesteryear
1982 L. Neil Smith The Probability Broach
1979 F. Paul Wilson Wheels Within Wheels

Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Winners

Year Author(s) Title
2024 Terry Pratchett The Truth
2023 Robert A. Heinlein Free Men
2022 Robert A. Heinlein Citizen of the Galaxy
2021 F. Paul Wilson "Lipidleggin'"
2020 Poul Anderson "Sam Hall"
2019 Kurt Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron"
2018 Jack Williamson With Folded Hands …
2017 Robert Heinlein "Coventry"
2016 Donald M. Kingsbury Courtship Rite
2015 Harlan Ellison "'Repent Harlequin!', Said the Ticktockman"
2014 Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free
2013 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
2012 E. M. Forster The Machine Stops
2011 George Orwell Animal Farm
2010 Poul Anderson "No Truce with Kings"
2009 J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
2008 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
2007 Sinclair Lewis It Can't Happen Here
2007 Vernor Vinge True Names
2006 Alan Moore (writing) and David Lloyd (art) V for Vendetta
2005 A. E. van Vogt The Weapon Shops of Isher
2004 Vernor Vinge "The Ungoverned"
2003 Robert Heinlein "Requiem"
2002 Patrick McGoohan The Prisoner
2001 Jerry Pournelle and John F. Carr editors The Survival of Freedom
2000 Hans Christian Andersen "The Emperor's New Clothes"
1999 H. Beam Piper and John McGuire A Planet for Texans aka Lone Star Planet
1998 Robert Heinlein Time Enough for Love
1997 Robert Heinlein Methuselah's Children
1996 Robert Heinlein Red Planet
1995 Poul Anderson The Star Fox
1994 Yevgeny Zamyatin We
1993 Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed
1992 Ira Levin This Perfect Day
1991 F. Paul Wilson An Enemy of the State
1990 F. Paul Wilson Healer
1989 J. Neil Schulman Alongside Night
1988 Alfred Bester The Stars my Destination
1987 Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
1987 Ayn Rand Anthem
1986 Cyril Kornbluth The Syndic
1986 Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea Illuminatus!
1985 Poul Anderson Trader to the Stars
1985 Eric Frank Russell The Great Explosion
1984 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
1983 Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
1983 Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged

Special Award Winners

Year Recipient Title
2017 Mark Stanley Special Award for Chapter 1 of Freefall, a webcomic
2016 Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn Special Award for Alex + Ada, a graphic novel (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
2016 L. Neil Smith Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement
2015 F. Paul Wilson Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement
2014 Leslie Fish Special Award for a novella, Tower of Horses and filk song, The Horsetamer's Daughter.
2014 Vernor Vinge Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement
2007 James McTeigue (director) and The Wachowski Brothers (screenplay) Special Award for V For Vendetta (movie)
2006 Joss Whedon (writer/director) Special Award for Serenity (movie)
2005 L. Neil Smith (writer) and Scott Bieser (illustrator) Special Award for The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel
2005 Editors Mark Tier and Martin H. Greenberg Special Award for Give Me Liberty and Visions of Liberty, anthologies for Baen Books (Part 1, Part 2)
2001 Poul Anderson Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement
1998 Editors Brad Linaweaver and Edward E Kramer Special Award for Free Space (Anthology)