John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
The John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award is also called the Campbell Award .
The John Wood Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel has been presented annually since 1973 . In contrast to other important prizes in science fiction literature, such as the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award , the recipients are selected by a jury. The award was created in honor of the writer and editor John W. Campbell .
In 1976, the prize was awarded retrospectively to the 1970 novel The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker because the jury did not consider any of the nominated works to be worthy of a prize, although this year the works The Eternal War by Joe Haldeman (Hugo and Nebula ), Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany and Der Schockwellenreiter by John Brunner .
In 1994 the jurors could not come to an agreement, so the prize was not awarded.
The award ceremonies have taken place in different locations over the years, but since 1979 at the University of Kansas , where they are the focus of a conference on various topics related to science fiction literature.
Award winners
| 2010s | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 2019 | Sam J. Miller | Blackfish City | |
| 2018 | David Walton | The Genius Plague | |
| 2017 | Lavie Tidhar | Central Station | Central Station |
| 2016 | Eleanor Lerman | Radiomas | |
| 2015 | Claire North | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Harry August's many lives |
| 2014 | Marcel Theroux | Strange bodies | |
| 2013 | Adam Roberts | Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer | |
| 2012 | Christopher Priest | The Islanders | |
| Joan Slonczewski | The Highest Frontier | ||
| 2011 | Ian McDonald | The Dervish House | |
| 2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl | Bio war |
| 2000s | |||
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 2009 | Cory Doctorow | Little brother | Little brother |
| Ian R. MacLeod | Song of Time | ||
| 2008 | Kathleen Ann Goonan | In War Times | |
| 2007 | Ben Bova | titanium | |
| 2006 | Robert J. Sawyer | Mindscan | |
| 2005 | Richard K. Morgan | Market Forces | profit |
| 2004 | Jack McDevitt | omega | omega |
| 2003 | Nancy Kress | Probability Space | |
| 2002 | Jack Williamson | Terraforming Earth | The end-time engineers |
| Robert Charles Wilson | The Chronoliths | The chronoliths | |
| 2001 | Poul Anderson | genesis | genesis |
| 2000 | Vernor Vinge | A deepness in the sky | A depth in the sky |
| 1990s | |||
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 1999 | George Zebrowski | Brute orbits | |
| 1998 | Joe Haldeman | Forever Peace | Eternal peace |
| 1997 | Paul J. McAuley | Fairyland | Fairyland |
| 1996 | Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships | Time ships |
| 1995 | Greg Egan | Permutation City | Cybercity |
| 1994 | - no prize awarded - | ||
| 1993 | Charles Sheffield | Brother to Dragons | |
| 1992 | Bradley Denton | Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede | |
| 1991 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Pacific Edge | Pacific border |
| 1990 | Geoff Ryman | The Child Garden | A garden for children |
| 1980s | |||
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 1989 | Bruce Sterling | Islands in the Net | Islands in the network |
| 1988 | Connie Willis | Lincoln's Dreams | Lincoln's dreams |
| 1987 | Joan Slonczewski | A Door Into Ocean | |
| 1986 | David Brin | The Postman |
Gordon's calling also: Postman |
| 1985 | Frederik Pohl | The Years of the City | Super city |
| 1984 | Gene Wolfe | The Citadel of the Autarch | The Autarch's Citadel |
| 1983 | Brian W. Aldiss | Helliconia Spring | Helliconia: spring |
| 1982 | Russell Hoban | Riddley Walker | |
| 1981 | Gregory Benford | Timescape | Timeline |
| 1980 | Thomas Michael Disch | On wings of song | On the wings of song |
| 1970s | |||
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 1979 | Michael Moorcock | Gloriana | Gloriana |
| 1978 | Frederik Pohl | Gateway | Gateway |
| 1977 | Kingsley Amis | The alteration | The transformation |
| 1976 | - No prize awarded - Retrospective Award for a work from 1970, as the jury did not consider any of the nominated works to be worthy of a prize |
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| Wilson Tucker | The Year of the Quiet Sun | The year of the silent sun | |
| 1975 | Philip K. Dick | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Another world |
| 1974 | Arthur C. Clarke | Rendezvous with Rama |
Rendezvous with 31/439 also: Rendezvous with Rama |
| Robert Merle | Malevil | Malevil | |
| Also awarded: Special non-fiction award | |||
| Carl Sagan | The Cosmic Connection | ||
| 1973 | Barry N. Malzberg | Beyond Apollo | The Venus trauma |
| Also awarded: Special award for excellence in writing | |||
| Robert Silverberg | Dying inside | It dies in me | |
Web links
- The John W. Campbell Award official homepage (English)
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award , Index in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database