2015 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Finalists

The finalists for the 2015 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel published in 2014 and for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short fiction of 2014 have been announced.

John W. Campbell Memorial Award

• The Race, Nina Allan (Newcon)
• A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
• The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam)
• Afterparty, Daryl Gregory (Tor)
• Europe in Autumn, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
• Wolves, Simon Ings (Gollancz)
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
• Defenders, Will McIntosh (Orbit)
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North (Redhook)
• The Bees, Laline Paull (Ecco)
• Bête, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor)
• The Martian, Andy Weir (Broadway)
• Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)
• Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

• “Lady With Fox”, Greg Benford (Carbide Tipped Pens)
• “Childfinder”, Octavia E. Butler (Unexpected Stories)
• “In Her Eyes”, Seth Chambers (F&SF 1-2/14)
• “The Man Who Sold the Moon”, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future)
• “Herd Immunity”, Tananarive Due (The End is Now)
• “When it Ends, He Catches Her”, Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction 9/26/14)
• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
• “A Hotel in Antarctica”, Geoffrey Landis (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future)
• “The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
• “The Lightness of the Movement”, Pat MacEwen (F&SF 3-4/14)
• “We Are the Cloud”, Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed 9/14)
• “The Fifth Dragon”, Ian McDonald (Reach for Infinity)
• “Shatterdown”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov‘s 6/14)
• “The Cryptic Age”, Robert Reed (Asimov‘s 12/14)

The awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, June 11-14, 2015 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence KS.