The finalists for this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction story published in 2012) and for this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science-fiction novel of 2012) have just been announced. The Awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet. This year’s Campbell Conference will be held 13-16 June, as always, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

The finalists for the Sturgeon Award are:
“Things Greater Than Love” by Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons, 19 March 2012)
“Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld, June 2012)
“Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld, January 2012)
“The Grinnell Method” by Molly Gloss (Strange Horizons, 3 September & 10 September 2012)
“The Weight of History, The Lightness of the Future” by Jay Lake (Subterranean Press Magazine, Spring 2012)
“The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” by Ken Liu (Lightspeed, August 2012)
“Mono No Aware” by Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese, Haikasoru)
“Nahiku West” by Linda Nagata (Analog, October 2012)
Eater-of-Bone by Robert Reed (PS Publishing)
“The Peak of Eternal Light” by Bruce Sterling (Edge of Infinity, Solaris)
“(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky” by E. Catherine Tobler (Clarkesworld, November 2012)
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Press)

In addition, “Close Encounters” by Andy Duncan was also nominated, but the author, who is also a juror, removed the story from consideration.

Nominations are accepted from editors and short sf reviewers. The winner will be chosen from the nominees by the Sturgeon Award Jury, consisting of of Elizabeth Bear, Andy Duncan, James Gunn, Kij Johnson, George Zebrowski, and Noël Sturgeon.

The finalists for the Campbell Award are:
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Any Day Now by Terry Bisson
Existence by David Brin
The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
Empty Space by M. John Harrison
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
Railsea by China Miéville
The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer by Adam Roberts
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Slow Apocalypse by John Varley
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

The jury, which will choose the winner from among the finalists, is composed of: Gregory Benford, Paul Di Filippo, Sheila Finch, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Paul Kincaid, Christopher McKitterick, Pamela Sargent, and T.A. Shippey.