The Campbell Conference was held 6-8 July at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
The winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best science fiction novel of 2006 is: Titan by Ben Bova. Second place went to The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow. There was a tie for third place: Farthing by Jo Walton and Blindsight by Peter Watts. We published the full list of nominees in this article.
The winner of Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story of 2006 was also announced. The winner is “The Cartesian Theater” by Robert Charles Wilson (originally published in Futureshocks). Second place went to “A Billion Eves” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s), and third place to “Lord Weary’s Empire” by Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s). And we published the full list of nominees was published in this article.
Additionally, during the conference, the Science Fiction Research Association presented several awards:
The award for Graduate Student Paper went to Linda Wight for “Magic, Art, Religion, Science: Blurring the Boundaries of Science and Science Fiction in Marge Piercy’s Cyborgian Narrative.”
The Mary Kay Bray Award, for the “best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRAReview during the year,” was given to Ed Carmien for “The Space Opera Renaissance by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.”
The Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service, for “outstanding service activities-promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations,” went to Michael Levy.
The Pioneer Award, for “best critical essay-length work of the year” went to Amy J. Ransom for “Oppositional Postcolonialism in Québécois Science Fiction” (which was published in Science Fiction Studies, July 2006).
And the Pilgrim Award, which honors “lifetime contributions to SF and fantasy scholarship,” was given to Algis Budrys.
The MidAmerican Fan Photo Archive has many photographs of the weekend’s activities.
[Editor’s note: there was a typo in the original title of this article. It read “SFWA” where it should have read “SFRA.” We have corrected it, and apologize for any confusion it may have caused.]
[Editor’s note, 21 July 2007: The location listed in this article is incorrect. In fact, the Campbell, Heinlein, and SFRA conventions were held together in Kansas City, Missouri. A correction is posted in this article.]