The finalists for this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science-fiction novel of 2009) have just been announced. The Awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet. This year’s Campbell Conference will be held 16-18 July, as always, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
The finalists are:
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (published by Nan A. Talese Books)
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)
Transition by Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
Makers by Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress (Tor/Pyr)
Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
The City & the City by China Mieville (Del Rey)
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson (Spectra)
WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer (Ace/Gollancz)
The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling (Del Rey)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
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.