The finalists for this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science-fiction novel of 2007) and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction story published in 2007), have just been announced. The Awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet. This year’s Campbell Conference will be held 10-13 July, as always, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
This year’s Campbell finalists are:
HARM by Brian Aldiss (Del Rey)
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
The New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
Mainspring by Jay Lake (Tor)
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod (Tor)
Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Pyr)
Time’s Child by Rebecca Ore (Eos)
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff (HarperCollins)
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor)
Zig Zag by Jose Carlos Somoza (Rayo)
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper (Eos)
Deadstock by Jeffrey Thomas (Solaris)
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
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This year’s Sturgeon finalists are:
“The Forest” by Laird Barron (Inferno)
“Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s, March)
“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang (F&SF, September)
“The Dreaming Wind” by Jeffrey Ford (Coyote Road)
“Always” by Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s, April/May)
“The Tomb Wife” by Gwynneth Jones (F&SF, August)
“The Last American” by John Kessel (Foundation 100)
“The Master Miller’s Wife” by Ian R. McLeod (F&SF, May)
“Finistera” by David Moles (F&SF, December)
“Baby Doll” by Johanna Sinisalo (SFWA European Hall of Fame)
“Memorare” by Gene Wolfe (F&SF, April)
“The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change” by Kij Johnson (published in Coyote Road) also made the list, but was removed by the author because she is a juror.
Nominators for the Sturgeon award included: Lou Anders, Rebecca Bates, Suzanne Church, Ellen Datlow, Wendy Delmater, Gardner Dozois, L. Timmel Duchamp, Scott Edelman, Nick Gevers, Eileen Gunn, Brian Hades, David Hartwell, Jim Kelly, Mark R. Kelly, Bridget McKenna, C. Powell, Eric Reynolds, Stanley Schmidt, Ekaterina Sedia, Mike Payne, Sue Ramey, Steve Silver, Larry Taylor, Lois Tilton, Gordon Van Gelder, and Sheila Williams.