2005 Campbell/Sturgeon Award Finalists
Finalists for the 2005 John W. Campbell Memorial Award, honoring the best science fiction novel of the year published in the U.S., are:
- Transcendent by Stephen Baxter
- The Meq by Steve Cash
- Child Of Earth by David Gerrold [SF Signal review]
- Mind’s Eye by Paul McAuley
- Seeker by Jack McDevitt
- Learning The World by Ken Macleod [SF Signal review]
- The Summer Isles by Ian R. Macleod
- Counting Heads by David Marusek [SF Signal review]
- Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer
- Accelerando by Charles Stross
- The World Before by Karen Traviss
- Spin by Robert Charles Wilson [SF Signal review]
Finalists for the 2005 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, honoring the best short fiction story of the year published in the U.S., are:
- “The Calorie Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi
- “Second Person, Present Tense” by Darryl Gregory
- “Magic for Beginners” by Kelly Link
- “Keyboard Practice” by John G. McDaid
- “The Little Goddess ” by Ian McDonald
- “Little Faces” by Vonda McIntyre
- “The Blemmye’s Stratagem” by Bruce Sterling
- “Panacea” by Jason Stoddard
- “The Inn at Mount Either” by James Van Pelt
- “Inside Job” by Connie Willis
Winners for both awards will be announced at the annual Campbell Conference and Awards Banquet, July 6-9, 2006.
[via Locus Online]
Ack, must catch up on my reading.