Although the Campbell Conference is not scheduled to take place until the weekend of July 9-12, the winners of the Campbell and Sturgeon Awards have been announced, with a tie for the Campbell Award. Both are juried awards, with the Campbell being presented for the Best SF Novel and the Sturgeon for Best Short Story. The presentation will be held at Lawrence, Kansas.
- John W. Campbell Award: (tie) Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow and Song of Time, by Ian MacDonald
- Theodore Sturgeon Award: “The Ray Gun: A Love Story,” by James Alan Gardner
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The nominees for the John W. Campbell Award, presented for best science-fiction novel of the year, the winner will be announced during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. This year’s banquet will take place the weekend of July 9 – 12. The Campbell Award is selected by a jury which currently consists of Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Paul Kincaid, Christopher McKitterick, Pamela Sargent, and T.A. Shippey.
- Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
- City at the End of Time, by Greg Bear
- Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
- The Philosopher’s Apprentice, by James Morrow
- Song of Time, by Ian MacLeod
- Valley of Day-Glo, by Nick Di Chario
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The nominees for the Theodore Sturgeon Award for short science fiction have been announced. The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet in Lawrence, Kansas the weekend of July 9. Kij Johnson, one of the jurors, removed her story “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” from the ballot.
- “The Gambler,” by Paolo Bacigalupi
- “Exhalation,” by Ted Chiang
- “The Political Prisoner,” by Charles Coleman Finlay
- “True Names,” by Cory Doctorow & Benjamin Rosenbaum
- “The Ray Gun: A Love Story,” James Alan Gardner
- “Memory Dog,” by Kathleen Ann Goonan
- “The Tear,” by Ian McDonald
- “Special Economics,” by Maureen McHugh
- “His Master’s Voice,” by Hanu Rajaniemi
- “From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled,” by Michael Swanwick
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