2023 Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.

  • “Ten Steps for Effective Mold Removal”, Derrick Boden (Apex 9/22)
  • “Slow Communication”, Dominique Dickey (Fantasy 2/22)
  • “In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird”, Maria Dong (Lightspeed 1/22)
  • “If We Make It Through This Alive”, A.T. Greenblatt (Slate 1/22)
  • “The City
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2022 Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.

  • “If the Martians Have Magic“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
  • “Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma”, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/21)
  • The Album of Dr. Moreau, Daryl Gregory (Tordotcom)
  • “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story”, Nalo Hopkinson (F&SF 11-12/21)
  • “Proof by Induction“, José
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2021 Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. The award is normally presented during the annual Campbell Conference Awards, but will instead be announced online later this summer.

  • “If You Take My Meaning”, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 2/20)
  • “An Important Failure”, Rebecca Campbell (Clarkesworld 8/20)
  • “The Translator, at Low Tide”,
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Sturgeon Award Winner

Results for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of 2019 have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. The award is normally presented during the annual Campbell Conference Awards, but was instead announced online.

  • WINNER: “Waterlines“, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s 7-8/19)
  • Second place: This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
  • Third place: “The
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2019 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Winners

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller (Ecco) is this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner for the best science fiction novel published in 2018, and “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” by Annalee Newitz (Slate.com 12/18) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short fiction of 2018.

Other finalists were:

John W. Campbell Memorial Award

  • Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)
  • A Spy
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Sturgeon Award Finalists Announced

The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards reception, to be held June 28-30, 2019.

  • “Freezing Rain, A Chance of Falling”, L.X. Beckett (F&SF 7-8/18)
  • The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
  • “The Secret Lives of the
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2018 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Winners

The Genius Plague by David Walton (Pyr) is this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner for the best science fiction novel published in 2017, and “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” by Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short fiction of 2017.

Other finalists were:

John W. Campbell Memorial Award

  • The Rift, Nina Allan
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2017 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Winners

Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon) is this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner for the best science fiction novel published in 2016, and “The Future is Blue” by Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short fiction of 2016.

Other finalists were:

John W. Campbell Memorial Award

  • The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
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2017 Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2017 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced:

  • “The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allen (Tor.com 7/16)
  • “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
  • “Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 4/16)
  • The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
  • “The Visitor From Taured”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 9/16)
  • “Things with Beards”, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 6/16)
  • “Project
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2016 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Winners

Radiomen by Eleanor Lerman (The Permanent Press) is this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner for the best science fiction novel published in 2015, and Kelly Link’s “The Game of Smash and Recovery” (Strange Horizons 10/17/15) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short fiction of 2015.

Going Dark by Linda Nagata (Mythic Island/Saga) and The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts (Gollancz) tied as ...Read More

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2016 Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2016 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced:

  • “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead”, Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
  • “The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 10/15)
  • “The New Mother”, Eugene Fischer (Asimov’s 4-5/15)
  • “Folding Beijing”, Hao Jingfang (Uncanny Magazine 1-2/15)
  • “Emergence”, Gwyneth Jones (Meeting Infinity)
  • “Damage”, David D. Levine (Tor.com 01/21/15)
  • “The Game of Smash and Recovery”, Kelly
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2015 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Winners

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Redhook) won this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel published in 2014, and Cory Doctorow’s “The Man Who Sold the Moon” (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short fiction of 2014.

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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,
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2014 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners

Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) won this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel published in 2013, and Sarah Pinsker’s “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss” (Strange Horizons 7/1/13 and 7/8/13 ) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of 2013.

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Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2014 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced:

  • “Bloom”, Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov’s 12/13)
  • “The Wildfires of Antarctica”, Alan DeNiro (Asimov’s 10-11/13)
  • “They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s 1/13)
  • “The Weight of the Sunrise”, Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s 2/13)
  • “Over There”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/13)
  • “The Irish Astronaut”, Val Nolan (Electric Velocipede 5/13)
  • “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind”, Sarah
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Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners

Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer by Adam Roberts (Gollancz) won this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel published in 2012, and Molly Gloss’s “The Grinnell Method” (Strange Horizons 9/3/12 & 9/10/12) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of 2012.

Any Day Now by Terry Bisson (Overlook) was the second place winner for the Campbell, and third ...Read More

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Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced:

  • “Things Greater Than Love”, Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons 3/19/12)
  • “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
  • “Scattered Along the River of Heaven”, Aliette  de Bodard (Clarkesworld 1/12)
  • “The Grinnell Method”, Molly Gloss (Strange Horizons 9/3/12 & 9/10/12)
  • After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Taychon)
  • “The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future”,
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Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners

The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz) and The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski (Tor) tied to win this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel published in 2011, and Paul McAuley’s “The Choice” (Asimov’s 2/11) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of 2011.

Embassytown by China Miéville (Del Rey) came in third for the Campbell, and Osama by Lavie ...Read More

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2012 Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced:

  • “Six Months, Three Days”, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 6/8/11)
  • “The Copenhagen Interpretation”, Paul Cornell (Asimov’s 7/11)
  • “Ghostweight”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/11)
  • “The Old Equations”, Jake Kerr (Lightspeed 7/11)
  • “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”, Ken Liu (Panverse Three)
  • “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
  • “The Choice”, Paul McAuley (Asimov’s 2/11)
  • Silently and Very
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McDonald, Landis win Campbell, Sturgeon Awards

Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House (Gollancz/Pyr) is the winner of this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel published in 2010, and Geoffrey A. Landis’s novella “The Sultan of the Clouds” (Asimov’s 9/10) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of 2010.

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Paolo Bacigalupi, James Morrow win Campbell, Sturgeon Awards

Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (Night Shade) has won this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel published in 2009, and James Morrow’s novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima (Tachyon) has won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of 2009, in results announced a week prior to the official Campbell Conference and Awards Ceremony next weekend.

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Sturgeon Award Finalists

Finalists for the 2009 Sturgeon Awards have been announced:

“The Gambler”, Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)“The Political Prisoner”, Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 8/08) “True Names”, Cory Doctorow & Benjamin Rosenbaum (Fast Forward 2)“The Ray Gun: A Love Story”, James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s 2/08) “Memory Dog”, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Asimov’s 4-5/08)“The Tear”, Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)“Special Economics”, Maureen McHugh (The Del Rey Book of ...Read More

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2018 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2018 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year have been announced:

  • “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
  • “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
  • “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 11-12/17)
  • “Sidewalks”, Maureen McHugh (Omni 11/17)
  • “The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata
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2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2011 Sturgeon Award have been announced:

  • “Mammoths of the Great Plains”, Eleanor Arnason (Mammoths of the Great Plains)
  • “Under the Moons of Venus”, Damien Broderick (Subterranean Spring ’10)
  • “The Maiden Flight of McAuley’s Bellerophon“, Elizabeth Hand (Stories)
  • “The Sultan of the Clouds”, Geoffrey A. Landis  (Asimov’s 9/10)
  • “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain”, Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed 9/10)
  • “Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance”, Paul
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2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Award have been announced:

  • “Things Undone”, John Barnes (Baen’s Universe 12/09)
  • “This Wind Blowing, and this Tide”, Damien Broderick (Asimov’s 4-5/09)
  • “As Women Fight”, Sara Genge (Asimov’s 10-11/09)
  • “Spar”, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
  • “Blood Dauber”, Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore (Asimov’s 12/09)
  • “Cockatrice”, Tanith Lee (Fantasy Magazine 10/09)
  • Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
  • “Her Voice in a Bottle”, Tim Pratt (Subterranean
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Mills Wins Sturgeon

“Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11/22) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story, presented by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.

Other finalists were:

  • “Ten Steps for Effective Mold Removal”, Derrick Boden (Apex 9/22)
  • “Slow Communication”, Dominique Dickey (Fantasy 2/22)
  • “In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird”, Maria Dong (Lightspeed 1/22)
  • “If We Make It
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2023 Sturgeon Symposium

The Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction has announced the second annual Sturgeon Symposium, to be held September 28-30, 2023 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence KS.

The Symposium is “celebrating the 30th anniversary of Octavia Butler’s groundbreaking novel, The Parable of the Sower. As KU’s choice for the 2023 Common Book program, this novel is a powerful inspiration for our Symposium’s theme, ‘Fantastic Worlds, Fraught ...Read More

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Hopkinson Wins Sturgeon

The winner for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story has been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.

  • WINNER: “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story”, Nalo Hopkinson (F&SF 11-12/21)
  • “If the Martians Have Magic“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
  • “Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma”, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/21)
  • The Album of Dr. Moreau, Daryl Gregory (Tordotcom)
  • “Proof by Induction“,
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Sturgeon Symposium Announced

The Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction has announced the first Annual Sturgeon Symposium, to be held September 29-30, 2022 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence KS.

The Symposium “which will feature the presentation of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story and a reading from this year’s winner. This hybrid in-person/online symposium will also feature panels, presentations, and roundtable discussions that highlight ...Read More

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Campbell Wins Sturgeon

Results for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of 2020 have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. The award is traditionally presented during the annual Campbell Conference Awards, but was instead announced online.

  • WINNER: “An Important Failure”, Rebecca Campbell (Clarkesworld 8/20)
  • Second place: “The Pill”, Meg Elison (Big Girl)
  • Third place: “Yellow and the Perception of Reality”,
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1945 Retro Hugo Awards Winners

Winners of the 1945 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1944, have been announced by CoNZealand, the 78th Worldcon.

Best Novel

  • WINNER: “Shadow Over Mars”, Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories Fall ’44)
  • Land of Terror, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.)
  • The Golden Fleece, Robert Graves (Cassell)
  • “The Winged Man”, E. Mayne Hull & A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction 5-6/44)
  • The Wind on the Moon, Eric
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