This year's John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year was presented to Nancy Kress's Probability Space, published by Tor. At the same ceremony in Lawrence, Kansas, on July 11, the Theodore Sturgeon Award for best short SF of the year was presented to "Over Yonder" by Lucius Shepard, first published online by Sci Fiction. Kress was present to accept her award; Shepard's was accepted by James Gunn.
Four persons, previously announced were formally inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society and the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Posthumous inductees were Edgar Rice Burroughs and Damon Knight; living authors inducted were Kate Wilhelm, who is Knight’s widow, and Wilson “Bob” Tucker. Wilhelm was present for the induction.
Second place in the Campbell competition was David Brin's Kiln People (Tor), third place Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids (Tor). The Campbell is a juried award in which novels are nominated by publishers and the winners are selected by a committee of seven academics and authors chaired by Gunn and consisting of Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Chris McKitterick, Pamela Sargent, T. A. Shippey, and Ian Watson.
Second place for the Sturgeon was "Bronte’s Egg" by Richard Chwedyk, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; third place was "Singleton" by Greg Egan, published in the British magazine Interzone. Stories are nominated for the Sturgeon Award by a committee of some two-dozen reviewers and editors chaired by Chris McKitterick, and the winners were chosen by Frederik Pohl, James Gunn, and Kij Johnson, with the assistance of Noel Sturgeon, from a group of about a dozen finalists.
Photos from the event by Keith Stokes have been posted at http://kcsciencefiction.org/03camp1.htm.
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Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas—
The John W. Campbell Award
The Theodore Sturgeon Award
Locus Index to SF Awards —
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Past winners by Year
Past finalists and winners
Sturgeon Award —
Past winners by Year
Past finalists and winners
