2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists

The 2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalists have been named:

• Lexicon, Max Barry (Penguin)
• Proxima, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
• The Circle, Dave Eggers (Knopf)
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood/Putnam)
• Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• The Cusanus Game, Wolfgang Jeschke (Tor)
• Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit)
• The Disestablishment of Paradise, Phillip Mann (Gollancz)
• Evening’s Empires, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
• The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island Press)
• The Adjacent, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• On the Steel Breeze, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
• Shaman, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
• Neptune’s Brood, Charles Stross (Ace)
• Strange Bodies, Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

The award, for best SF novel, will be presented during the Campbell Conference, to be held June 13-15, 2014 at the Oread Hotel in Lawrence KS.