The finalists for this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction story published in 2011) and for this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science-fiction novel of 2011) have just been announced. The Awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet. This year’s Campbell Conference will be held 5-8 July, as always, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
The finalists for the Sturgeon Award are:
“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com, June)
“The Copenhagen Interpretation” by Paul Cornell (Asimov’s Science Fiction, July)
“Ghostweight” by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld, January)
“The Old Equations” by Jake Kerr (Lightspeed, July)
“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” by Ken Liu (Panverse Three)
“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April)
“The Choice” by Paul McAuley (Asimov’s, December/January)
“Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld, October)
In addition, “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson was also nominated, but the author, who is also a juror, removed the story from consideration.
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, and George Zebrowski.
The finalists for the Campbell Award are:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (published by Crown/Random House)
This Shared Dream by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh (Night Shade)
Embassytown by China Miéville (Ballantine/Del Rey)
The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski (Tor)
Dancing with Bears by Michael Swanwick (Night Shade)
Osama by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson (Simon & Schuster)
Home Fires by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Seed by Rob Ziegler (Night Shade)
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.