John W. Campbell Memorial Award

Paolo Bacigalupi, James Morrow win Campbell, Sturgeon Awards

July 10, 2010September 6, 2017 admin John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

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.

Bacigalupi’s novel has already won the Nebula Award, the ...Read More

Awards News

2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists

June 21, 2010September 6, 2017 admin John W. Campbell Memorial Award

The 2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalists have been named:

The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood (Talese) The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) Transition, Iain M. Banks (Orbit) Makers, Cory Doctorow (Tor) Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor) Gardens of the Sun, Paul McAuley (Pyr) The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey) Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam ...Read More

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Complete 2020 Hugo Voting

September 3, 2020 locusmag 0

CoNZealand, the 78th World Science Fiction Convention, received 2,221 valid ballots, down from 3,097 at Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon, Worldcon 77. There were 1,584 valid nominating ballots, down from 1,800.

The procedure for counting nominations was the same as last three years, using the system known as E Pluribus Hugo, or EPH. The rather complicated point system gives a single point to each voter’s ballot, dividing that point among ...Read More

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