2024 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 Rainbow Ghosts”, Violet Allen (Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention)
- “Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe”, Beston Barnett (Strange Horizons 11/20/23)
- “The Unpastured Sea”, Gregory Feeley (Asimov’s 9-10/23)
- “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200″, R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny 7/23)
- “The State Street Robot Factory”, Claire Humphrey (Apex 3/23)
- “What It Means to Be a Car”, James Patrick Kelly (Tor.com 7/26/23)
- “The Year Without Sunshine“, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)
- “Notes From a Pyre”, Amal Singh (The Deadlands 3/23)
- “An Infestation of Blue”, Wendy N. Wagner (Analog 11-12/23)
Established in 1987 by James Gunn and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne Engelhart Tannehill and Sturgeon’s children, the Sturgeon Award is “a memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a field distinguished by its short fiction.”
The winner, who will be announced later this summer, will receive a cash prize as guest of honor at the third annual Sturgeon Symposium, October 24-25, 2024. For more information, see the Gunn Center’s website.
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