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2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Winners
The winners of the 2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award have been announced and we have a tie:
- The Islanders – Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
- The Highest Frontier – Joan Slonczewski (Tor Books)
The other nominees were:
- Embassytown (third place) – China Miéville (Ballantine Books/Del Rey)
- Osama (honorable mention) – Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
- Ready Player One – Ernest Cline (Crown/Random House)
- This Shared Dream – Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor Books)
- Soft Apocalypse – Will McIntosh (Night Shade Books)
- Dancing with Bears – Michael Swanwick (Night Shade Books)
- Robopocalypse – Daniel H. Wilson (Simon & Schuster)
- Home Fires – Gene Wolfe (Tor Books)
- Seed – Rob Ziegler (Night Shade Books)
The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference and Awards Ceremony, July 5-8, 2012.
Congratulations to Joan Slonczewski and Christopher Priest and to all the nominees! What do you think of the results?
2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists
The Center for the Study of Science Fiction has announced the John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalists for 2012.
- Ready Player One – Ernest Cline (Crown/Random House)
- This Shared Dream – Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor Books)
- Soft Apocalypse – Will McIntosh (Night Shade Books)
- Embassytown – China Miéville (Ballantine Books/Del Rey)
- The Islanders – Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
- The Highest Frontier – Joan Slonczewski (Tor Books)
- Dancing with Bears – Michael Swanwick (Night Shade Books)
- Osama – Lavie Tidhar(PS Publishing)
- Robopocalypse – Daniel H. Wilson (Simon & Schuster)
- Home Fires – Gene Wolfe (Tor Books)
- Seed – Rob Ziegler (Night Shade Books)
The winner will be announced during the Campbell Conference, July 5-8, 2012.
Congratulations to all the nominees! What do you think of this list? Any surprises? With this nod, Embassytown, has garnered it’s 6th award nomination!
2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Irish author Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House won the 2011 John W. Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year and Geoffrey A. Landis’s “The Sultan of the Clouds” won the Sturgeon Award for the best short science fiction of the year in a ceremony Friday at the University of Kansas.
The Campbell Award was presented to McDonald by Campbell Award juror Elizabeth Anne Hull. The Sturgeon Award was presented to Landis by Noël Sturgeon, Theodore Sturgeon’s daughter, trustee of his literary estate, and a member of the Sturgeon Award jury.
The Awards are presented by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction during the Campbell Conference, a four-day event held annually at the University of Kansas. The Campbell Award is selected, from nominations by publishers, by a jury composed of seven writers and academics. The Sturgeon Award is selected, from nominations by reviewers and editors, by a jury composed of five writers and academics.
Mr. McDonald is on a roll now. That’s 2 wins out of 5 nominations so far with the Hugo Award coming up in August. Can he pull off the hat trick? I wonder, are multiple award-winning books a good thing for SF or is it better if the awards are spread around to more books/authors? What do you think?
2011 Campbell Award Finalists
The Finalists for the 2011 The John W. Campbell Memorial Award have been announced!
- Yarn – Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
- Hull Zero Three – Greg Bear (Orbit)
- Zero History – William Gibson (Putnam)
- C – Tom McCarthy (Knopf)
- The Dervish House – Ian McDonald (Gollancz / Pyr Books)
- New Model Army – Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz / Tor Books)
- Veteran – Gavin Smith (Gollancz)
- The Waters Rising – Sheri S. Tepper (Eos)
- Aurorarama – Jean-Christophe Valtat (Melville House)
- Anthill – E.O. Wilson (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Blackout/All Clear – Connie Willis (Spectra)
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu (Pantheon)
There is quite a variety of books here with some of the usual suspects like Gibson, McDonald and Willis making an appearance as well as some authors I’ve never heard of. What do you think of this list? Who are your favorites to win it?
2010 Campbell Award Winners Announced
The Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas has announced the winners of the 2010 Campbell Award:
- 1st Place: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- 2nd Place: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson
- 3rd Place: The City & the City by China Mieville
The Windup Girl won the Nebula back in May as well as the 2010 Locus Award for First Novel and is still in the hunt for the Hugo. Congratulations to Paol Bacigalupi, Robert Charles Wilson and China Mieville and all the 2010 Campbell Award Finalists.
So what do you think? Surprised that the juggernaut that is The City & The City got beat to the finish?
2010 Campbell Award Finalists
The finalists for the 2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel of the year have been announced by the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. They are:
- The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood (Talese)
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
- Transition, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
- Makers, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
- Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
- Gardens of the Sun, Paul McAuley (Pyr)
- The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey)
- Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (Ballantine Spectra)
- WWW: Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Gollancz)
- The Caryatids, Bruce Sterling (Del Rey)
- Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
My God, it’s full of stars! The awards will be presented at a banquet on July 18 as part of the Center’s annual Campbell Conference.
The 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Winners
This 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award winners have been announced. It’s a tie.
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Song of Time, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
Read the official press release here.
2009 John W. Campbell Award Finalists
The finalists for the 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award have been announced. The nominees are:
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear (Del Rey)
Valley of Day-Glo by Nick Di Chario (Robert J. Sawyer Books)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Song of Time by Ian MacLeod, (PS Publishing)
The Philosopher’s Apprentice by James Morrow (William Morrow)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)
