2005 BSFA – Novel Winner
![River of Gods](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
River of Gods
Ian McDonald
A superpower of two billion people, a dozen new nations from Kerela to the Himalayas, artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, a…
2005 BSFA – Novel Shortlist
![Century Rain](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580867521-373-image-3.jpg)
Century Rain
Alastair Reynolds
![Forty Signs of Rain](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580858693-59878-image-3.jpg)
Forty Signs of Rain
Kim Stanley Robinson
![Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580855702-59630-image-3.jpg)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
![Newton's Wake](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580852345-59355-image-3.jpg)
Newton’s Wake
Ken MacLeod
![Stamping Butterflies](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580957534-1797-image-3.jpg)