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 (Saga)
• Zero K, Don DeLillo (Scribner)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
• Into Everywhere, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz)
• Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
• Occupy Me, Tricia Sullivan (Gollancz)
• Rosewater, Tade Thompson (Apex)
• The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
• Alien Morning, Rick Wilber (Tor)
• Underground Airlines, Ben Winters (Mulholland)
• Azanian Bridges, Nick Wood (NewCon)

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

• “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 Empathy”, Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov’s 3/16)
• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

The awards were presented during the Campbell Conference held June 16-18, 2017 at the University of Kansas Student Union in Lawrence KS.