Campbell and Sturgeon Winners
July 8th, 2008 by Editors
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 has just reproduced a press release, so maybe the web site folks didn’t see an embargo notice.
Anyway, assuming this is genuine, the winners are:
John W Campbell Memorial Award: In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan.
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award: a tie between “Finisterra” by David R. Moles and “Tidelines” by Elizabeth Bear.
As ever, congratulations to all involved, and congratulations to Niall for finding this.
Update: Elizabeth Bear is talking about it on her LJ, and clearly she knew in advance, which makes us feel a lot more confident.
Update 2: Typo corrected as per below. Very sorry, David.
Maybe I’m confused, but it seems to me I remember other instances of the Campbell & Sturgeon people revealing the winners prior to their banquet. It didn’t strike me as notable.
And indeed they are perfectly within their rights to do so. It is their award, after all. But if they were going to announce it early I would have thought they would have sent a press release to people like Locus, and let the winners know that they could talk about it.
“… a Kansas-based web site. It looks like the site has just reproduced a press release, so maybe the web site folks didn’t see an embargo notice.”
There was no embargo notice on the press release from the University of Kansas, who made the announcenment, infoZine picked up on.
FYI: it’s “Finisterra” by David R. Moles not “Finistera”.
Ciao
Oh, that explains everything. University PR people trying to be helpful, but no knowledge of who to actually send the PR too. Thank you.
And good catch on the typo.