NOMINEES: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

Finalists have been announced for this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, given annually to the best science fiction short story, novelette or novella of the year.

The nominees (and available online versions) are:

• “Yellow Card Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi
• “Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth” by Michael F. Flynn
• “Botch Town” by Jeffrey Ford
• “The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald
• “The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko
• “A Billion Eves” by Robert Reed
• “You Have Never Been Here” by M. Rickert
• “The House Beyond Your Sky” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• “Another Word for Map Is Faith” by Christopher Rowe
• “Inclination” by William Shunn
• “Lord Weary’s Empire” by Michael Swanwick
• “The Cartesian Theater” by Robert Charles Wilson
• “Julian: A Christmas Story” by Robert Charles Wilson

See also: Past winners