The Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh  

Shortlist:

Voyage Stephen Baxter
Engines of God Jack McDevitt
Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
Gibbon's Decline and Fall Sheri S. Tepper
Looking for the Mahdi N. Lee Wood

Judges:

BSFA: Andrew Butler, Steve Jeffery
SFF: Gwyneth Jones, Ian Watson
ISPF: Mark Birdwood, Maurice Goldsmith

Chair:

Paul Kincaid