The full list of Hugo Award finalists this year was:

• 1st place: Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer (Canadian)
  
• 2nd place: Kiln People by David Brin (American)
  
• 3rd place: Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick (American)
  
• 4th place: The Scar by China Miéville (British)
  
• 5th place: The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (American)
  

Having won the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, Rob now joins a select list of only 16 people who have won both a Best-Novel Hugo and a Best-Novel Nebula:

• Isaac Asimov
  
• David Brin
  
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  
• Orson Scott Card
  
• Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Neil Gaiman
  
• William Gibson
  
• Joe Haldeman
  
• Frank Herbert
  
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  
• Vonda N. McIntyre
  
• Larry Niven
  
• Frederik Pohl
  
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  
• Robert J. Sawyer
  
• Connie Willis