Имя лауреата стало известно 13 апреля. Сумма премии составляет 1000 долларов США.
Из-за коронавируса и принятых властями карантинных мер традиционный конвент в Балтиморе был отменён и церемония награждения прошла в виртуальном формате.
Страна: США
Место проведения: Balticon 54 (интернет-формат)
Дата проведения: май 2020 г.
Аркади Мартин3.9 Жители космических станций много поколений держат дистанцию с захватнической империей Тейкскалаан. Внезапный запрос выслать в столицу нового посла поднимает много вопросов.
Махит Дзмаре прибывает на планету-город, где все буквально пронизано поэзией, что драпирует интриги и соперничество. Имаго – вживленная в мозг Махит память прежнего посла, должен помочь ей распутать клубок связей, договоренностей и афер предшественника, но сбой имаго-аппарата ставит все под угрозу. Теперь Махит придется во всем разбираться самостоятельно.
Майк Чен0.0 Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.
Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler’s brain. Until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives—eighteen years too late.
Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he’s been gone only weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can’t remember.
Torn between two lives, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself, his daughter’s very existence is at risk. It’ll take one final trip across time to save Miranda—even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.
Аликс Э. Харроу3.8 В начале двадцатого века одна юная особа, отыскав загадочную книгу, отправляется в фантастическое путешествие, чтобы узнать тайну своего прошлого... Будучи подопечной богатого мистера Локка, Январри Сколлер чувствует, что не слишком отличается от других артефактов, украшающих коридоры его особняка: ее заботливо содержат, по большей части не замечают, и она совсем здесь не к месту.
Однажды Январри обнаруживает странную книгу, в которой рассказывается о загадочных дверях, ведущих в другие миры... Каждая страница открывает ей невороятную историю, тесно связанную с ее собственной судьбой...
Ада Хоффманн0.0 Humanity's super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents. Instead of simply executing her, they offer mercy - if she'll help them hunt down a bigger target: her own mysterious, vanished mentor. With her homeworld's fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out.
Sarah Pinsker4.8 In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world--her music, her purpose--is closed off forever. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law.
Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery--no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. The only catch is that she'll have to do something she's never done before and go out in public. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve. But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won't be enough.
