Winner
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North (Redhook)
Finalists
- Afterparty, Daryl Gregory (Tor)
- Area X (The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance), Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)
- The Bees, Laline Paull (Ecco)
- Bête, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
- Defenders, Will McIntosh (Orbit)
- Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)
- Europe in Autumn, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
- Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor)
- The Martian, Andy Weir (Broadway)
- The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam)
- The Race, Nina Allan (Newcon)
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
- The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (Tor)
- Wolves, Simon Ings (Gollancz)