James Gunn, director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, has announced the winners of the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for the best science fiction novel of the year and the 2009 Theodore Sturgeon Award for the best short science fiction of the year. The awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference the weekend of 10-12 July.
For the third time in the award’s history, the Campbell Award is a tie, and will be shared by Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Books) and Song of Time by Ian MacLeod (PS Publishing).
The Sturgeon Award will go to “The Ray Gun: A Love Story” by James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2008).
The two previous times the Campbell was a tie were in 1974 (Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama and Robert Merle’s Malevil) and 2002 (Jack Williamson’s Terraforming Earth and Robert Charles Wilson’s The Chronoliths).
We detailed the Sturgeon Award finalists in this article. The Campbell Award finalists were the subject of this article.