The John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award are normally announced at the Campbell Conference, which is next weekend. However, as Chris McKitterick explains, this year the winners were announced a week early at Readercon. The winners are as follows:
Campbell: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Sturgeon: Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James [...]
Posted in John W. Campbell Memorial Award on June 22nd, 2010 Comments Off
The University of Kansas has announced the finalists for this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award. 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 [...]
Posted in John W. Campbell Memorial Award on November 18th, 2009 Comments Off
SFWA reports some changes in the jury for the John W Campbell Memorial Award. Paul Di Filippo and Sheila Finch join the jury while Paul A. Carter retires.
We now have the full details of the John W Campbell Memorial Award results:
1st (tie) Song of Time, Ian MacLeod
1st (tie) Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
3rd The Philosopher’s Apprentice, James Morrow
and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award results:
1st “The Ray Gun: A Love Story,” James Alan Gardner
2nd “Memory Dog,” Kathleen Ann Goonan
3rd “The Tear,” Ian McDonald
The University of Kansas has release the winners of the two annual awards.
The Theodore Strugeon Memorial Award (for short fiction) has been won by James Alan Gardner’s “The Ray Gun: A Love Story” (Asimov’s).
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award was a tie between Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (Tor) and Ian R. MacLeod’s Song of Time [...]
Posted in John W. Campbell Memorial Award on June 11th, 2009 Comments Off
The list of finalists for the John W Campbell Memorial Award has been announced. They are:
City at the End of Time, Greg Bear (published by Del Rey)
Valley of Day-Glo, Nick Di Chario (Robert J. Sawyer Books)
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Song of Time, Ian MacLeod (PS Publishing)
The Philosopher’s Apprentice, James Morrow (William Morrow)
Anathem, Neal Stephenson (William [...]
The Campbell Conference is now over and the full results of both the John W Campbell Memorial Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have both been posted. They are as follows:
Campbell
1st In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan
2nd The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon
3rd The Execution Channel, Ken MacLeod
Sturgeon
1st (tie) “Tidelines,” Elizabeth Bear
1st [...]
It is turning into a day for award weirdness. Firstly we have Locus changing the voting system, and now we have the Campbell and Sturgeon apparently leaking their own results. The awards banquet isn’t due to take place until Friday, but the results have appeared on a Kansas-based web site. It looks like the site [...]
In the department of Things That Get Announced While We Are Offline, we hereby become probably the last news site on the Internet to bring you this year’s finalists for the John W Campbell Memorial Award and the Theordore Sturgeon Memorial Award. The winners will be announced at the joint SFRA/Campbell conference on July 11th.
Posted in John W. Campbell Memorial Award on May 16th, 2008 Comments Off
Most awards have a different set of jurors each year. However, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award has the same jury year after year. Well, more or less, because every so often someone has to move on. As we have mentioned before, being a juror is hard work. We understand that Farah Mendlesohn has decided [...]
The one thing that awards generally claim for their winners is that they are somehow “the best” in whatever field the award covers. For an international SF award, that field is very big. You would think that a book that wins Best Novel in a major international SF award would be a very good book [...]
