Winner
- Strange Bodies, Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists
- The Adjacent, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
- Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- The Circle, Dave Eggers (Knopf)
- The Cusanus Game, Wolfgang Jeschke (Tor)
- The Disestablishment of Paradise, Phillip Mann (Gollancz)
- Evening's Empires, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Lexicon, Max Barry (Penguin)
- Neptune's Brood, Charles Stross (Ace)
- On the Steel Breeze, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
- Proxima, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island Press)
- Shaman, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood/Penguin)