Finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and Theodore Sturgeon Award have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. The Campbell Award is for the best science-fiction novel of the previous year, and the Sturgeon Award is for the best short science fiction of the previous year. The juried awards will be presented on July 11th.

2008 Campbell Award Finalists

Brain Aldiss HARM
Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Kathleen Ann Goonan In War Times
Nalo Hopkinson The New Moon's Arms
Jay Lake Mainspring
Ken MacLeod The Execution Channel
Ian McDonald Brasyl
Rebecca Ore Time's Child
Matt Ruff Bad Monkeys
Robert J. Sawyer Rollback
Jose Carlos Somoza Zig Zag
Sheri S. Tepper The Margarets
Jeffrey Thomas Deadstock
Robert Charles Wilson Axis

Laird Barron "The Forest"
Elizabeth Bear "Tideline"
Ted Chiang "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate"
Jeffrey Ford, "The Dreaming Wind"
Karen Joy Fowler "Always"
Kij Johnson "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the Change"
Gwynneth Jones "The Tomb Wife"
John Kessel "The Last American"
Ian R. McLeod "The Master Miller's Wife"
David Moles "Finistera"
Johanna Sinisalo "Baby Doll"
Gene Wolfe "Memorare"

Posted June 11, 2008