A clear front-runner here, and a clear ranking of the others; though NB that last year's winner was fourth of eight nominees on both GR and LT. Note also that
The Goblin Emperor gets the highest average rating from those who have read it.
| Goodreads | LibraryThing |
| owners | av rating | owners | av rating |
| Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer | 17,895 | 3.65 | 745 | 3.79 |
| Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie | 4,474 | 4.09 | 326 | 4.16 |
| The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison | 2,783 | 4.13 | 252 | 4.27 |
| The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu | 1,585 | 4.12 | 147 | 3.90 |
| Coming Home, by Jack McDevitt | 402 | 3.77 | 44 | 3.28 |
| Trial by Fire, by Charles E. Gannon | 123 | 4.00 | 16 | 3.50 |
