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]