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.
The awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, held June 13-15, 2014 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
Other finalists were as follows:
John W. Campbell Memorial Award
- 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)
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
- “Bloom”, Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov’s 12/13)
- “The Weight of the Sunrise”, Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s 02/13)
- “They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s 01/13)
- “Over There”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 01/13)
- “The Wildfires of Antarctica”, Alan DeNiro (Asimov’s 10 & 11/13)
- “The Irish Astronaut”, Val Nolan (Electric Velocipede 05/13)
- “Mystic Falls”, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld 11/13)
- “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer”, Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
- “The Urashima Effect”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 06/13)
