Book prize
Prometheus Award winners
14 winners and 34 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.
Won
Winners
- 2016 Seveneves by Neal Stephenson First edition not yet identified
- 2012 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline First edition: Crown 2011
- 2009 Little Brother by Cory Doctorow First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2008
- 2009 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien First edition not yet identified
- 2008 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess First edition: Heinemann 1962 £450 to £888
- 2008 Ha'penny by Jo Walton First edition: Tor 2007
- 2007 Glasshouse by Charles Stross First edition: Orbit 2006
- 2006 Learning the World by Ken MacLeod First edition: Orbit 2005
- 2005 System of the World by Neal Stephenson First edition: Heinemann 2003
- 2003 Night Watch by Terry Pratchett First edition: HarperCollins 2002
- 2000 A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge First edition not yet identified
- 1999 The Golden Globe by John Varley First edition: Ace Books 1998
- 1992 Fallen Angels by Larry Niven First edition: Baen Books 1991
- 1987 Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge First edition: St Martins Pr 1986
Shortlisted and nominated
Also in the running
- Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod First edition: Orbit 2007
- Matter by Iain Banks First edition not yet identified
- 2022 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 2021
- 2020 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood First edition not yet identified
- 2019 All Systems Red by Martha Wells First edition: Tor.com 2017
- 2019 Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells First edition: Recorded Books 2018
- 2016 Golden Son by Pierce Brown First edition not yet identified
- 2015 Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett First edition: Transworld Publishers 2013
- 2015 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin First edition not yet identified
- 2012 Snuff by Terry Pratchett First edition: Doubleday 2011
- 2012 The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge First edition: Tor 2011
- 2009 Half a Crown by Jo Walton First edition: Tor 2008
- 2009 Saturn's Children by Charles Stross First edition not yet identified
- 2007 Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge First edition: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates 2006
- 2007 The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi First edition: Tor 2006
- 2006 The Hidden Family by Charles Stross First edition: Tor 2005
- 2003 Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan First edition not yet identified
- 2001 The Truth by Terry Pratchett First edition: Doubleday 2000
- 2000 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson First edition not yet identified
- 2000 The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod First edition: Little, Brown 1998
- 2000 The Martian Race by Gregory Benford First edition: Warner Books 1999
- 1998 Finity's End by C. J. Cherryh First edition: Hodder Education Group 1997
- 1996 The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson First edition: Bantam Books 1995
- 1990 The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson First edition: T. Doherty Associates 1989
- 1989 Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition: Baen Books 1988
- 1989 To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein First edition not yet identified
- 1988 The Uplift War by David Brin First edition: Phantasia Press 1987
- 1988 Way of the Pilgrim by Gordon R. Dickson First edition: Ace Science Fiction Books 1987
- 1987 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood First edition: McClelland & Stewart 1985
- 1985 The Peace War by Vernor Vinge First edition: Bluejay Books 1984
- 1984 Orion Shall Rise by Poul Anderson First edition: Timescape Books 1983
- 1983 Friday by Robert A. Heinlein First edition not yet identified
- 1983 The Many-Colored Land by Julian May First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1981
- 1982 Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany First edition: Bantam Books 1979
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