The finalists for this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, for best short science fiction story published in 2006, have been announced. The Award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet. This year’s Campbell Conference will be held 6-8 July, as always, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
This year’s finalists are:
“Yellow Card Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi (originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December)
“Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth” by Michael F. Flynn (Asimov’s, October/November)
“Botch Town” by Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon)
“The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald (Asimov’s, July)
“The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko (Asimov’s, April/May)
“A Billion Eves” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s, October)
“You Have Never Been Here” by M. Rickert (Feeling Very Strange)
“The House Beyond Your Sky” by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons, September)
“Another Word for Map is Faith” by Christopher Rowe (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August)
“Inclination” by William Shunn (Asimov’s, April/May)
“Lord Weary’s Empire” by Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s, December)
“The Cartesian Theater” by Robert Charles Wilson (Futureshocks, Roc)
“Julian: A Christmas Story” by Robert Charles Wilson (PS Publishing)
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year is also awarded at the Campbell Conference. That list of finalists is expected soon.