The finalists for this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction story published in 2010) and for this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science-fiction novel of 2010) have just been announced. The Awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet. This year’s Campbell Conference will be held 7-10 July, as always, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
The finalists for the Sturgeon Award are:
“Mammoths of the Great Plains” by Eleanor Arnason (originally published as a stand-alone chapbook)
“Under the Moons of Venus” by Damien Broderick (originally published in Subterranean Magazine, Spring)
“The Maiden Flight of McAuley’s Bellerophon” by Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales)
“The Sultan of the Clouds” by Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Science Fiction, September)
“Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed, September)
“Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance” by Paul Park (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February)
“Dead Man’s Run” by Robert Reed (F&SF, November/December)
“Troika” by Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
“A Letter from the Emperor” by Steve Rasnic Tem (Asimov’s, January)
“The Night Train” by Lavie Tidhar (Strange Horizons, 14 June)
“The Things” by Peter Watts (Clarkesworld, January)
Nominations are accepted from editors and short sf reviewers. The winner will be chosen from the nominees by the Sturgeon Award Jury, consisting of James Gunn, Kij Johnson, Frederik Pohl, Noel Sturgeon (one of Theodore Sturgeon’s children), and George Zebrowski.
The finalists for the Campbell Award are:
Yarn by Jon Armstrong (published by Night Shade Books)
Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear (Orbit)
Zero History by William Gibson (Putnam)
C by Tom McCarthy (Knopf)
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz/Pyr)
New Model Army by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
The Quantum Thief by Jannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz/Tor)
Veteran by Gavin Smith (Gollancz)
The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper (Eos)
Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat (Melville House)
Anthill by E.O. Wilson (W.W. Norton)
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Spectra)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Pantheon)
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.