John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Not to be confused with John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for best science fiction novel was created in 1973 by writers and critics Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss to honor Campbell's name. Unlike other major science fiction awards, such as the Hugo and the Nebula, recipients are selected by a jury.

The award ceremony has been held in a number of places over the years, but since 1979, has been held during the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's annual Campbell Conference at the University of Kansas, where it is often the focus of the weekend-long conference that also includes readings and discussions of the writing, illustration, publishing, teaching, and criticism of science fiction.

In 1976, the jury felt that no truly outstanding novels had been published the previous year, and so the award was given retrospectively to a novel published in 1970. In 1994, no award was given, due to a breakdown in the nomination process.

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Jury members

As of 2011, the members of the award jury are:

  1. Nebula-winning author and physicist Gregory Benford, author of the novel Timescape
  2. Science fiction author and critic Paul Di Filippo
  3. Nebula-winning author and scholar Sheila Finch
  4. Hugo-winning author and scholar James Gunn, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award honoree and past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
  5. Science fiction scholar Elizabeth Anne Hull, past president of the Science Fiction Research Association
  6. Science fiction author and scholar Christopher McKitterick, associate director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction
  7. Science fiction critic Paul Kincaid, former chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
  8. Nebula-winning author and editor Pamela Sargent, editor of the Women of Wonder anthologies
  9. Science fiction scholar Tom Shippey, editor of The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

Historian Paul A. Carter, author of The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction, retired from the jury in 2009, when Di Filippo and Finch joined the committee. In 2008, Kincaid replaced Farah Mendlesohn.

Recipients

From the Campbell Award official website[1] (which also lists runners-up):

References

  1. ^ "John W. Campbell Memorial Award". Award website. http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/campbell.htm. Retrieved August 7, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Philip K. Dick, Won Awards For Science-Fiction Works". The New York Times. March 3, 1982. http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/03/obituaries/philip-k-dick-won-awards-for-science-fiction-works.html. Retrieved March 30, 2010. "Mr. Dick, author of 35 novels and 6 collections of short stories, received the Hugo Award in 1963 for The Man in the High Castle and, in 1974, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said." 

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