John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
A wooden trophy with a metal oval on top standing in front of a podium, which has a plexiglass trophy on top
The permanent trophy of the Campbell Memorial Award and one of the personalized trophies given in 2009
Awarded forThe best science fiction novel published in English in the previous calendar year
Presented byvarious
First awarded1973
Last awarded2019
Websitehttps://christopher-mckitterick.com/Sturgeon-Campbell/campbell.htm

The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, was an annual award presented to the author of the best science fiction novel published in English in the preceding calendar year. It was given by several organizations from 1973-1979 and then by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas until 2019. It was the novel counterpart of the Theodore Sturgeon Award for best short story, awarded at the same conference by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust. The award was named in honor of John W. Campbell (1910–1971), whose science fiction writing and role as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact made him one of the most influential editors in the early history of science fiction. The award was established in 1973 by writers and critics Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss "as a way of continuing his efforts to encourage writers to produce their best possible work." Locus magazine listed it as one of the "major awards" of written science fiction.

The winning novel was selected by a panel of science fiction experts, intended to be "small enough to discuss among its members all of the nominated novels". Among members of the panel have been Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Christopher McKitterick, Farah Mendlesohn, Pamela Sargent, and Tom Shippey. In 2008 Mendlesohn was replaced with Paul Kincaid, in 2009 Carter left the panel while Paul Di Filippo and Sheila Finch joined, and Lisa Yaszek replaced Di Filippo in 2016. Nominations were submitted by publishers and jurors, and collated by the panel into a list of finalists to be voted on. The minimum eligible length that a work may be is not formally defined by the center. The winner was selected by May of each year, and was for a number of years presented during the Campbell Conference awards banquet in Lawrence as part of the centerpiece of the conference along with the Sturgeon Award. The award was given at this conference since 1979; prior to then it was awarded at various locations around the world, starting at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. Winners were invited to attend the ceremony. James Gunn had maintained a trophy which records all of the winners on engraved plaques affixed to the sides, and since 2004 winners received a smaller personalized trophy as well. In 2019, McKitterick (the award's chair) announced plans to rename both the conference and the award. Both the conference and the award were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center for the Study of Science Fiction itself was taken over by the English department of the University of Kansas in 2022, which subsequently ended the conference and award.

During the 47 years the award was active, 183 authors had works nominated; 47 of these authors won. In two years, 1976 and 1994, the panel selected none of the nominees as a winner, while in 1974, 2002, 2009, and 2012 the panel selected two winners rather than one. Frederik Pohl and Joan Slonczewski each won twice, the only authors to do so, out of four and two nominations, respectively. Kim Stanley Robinson and Paul J. McAuley won once out of seven nominations, and Jack McDevitt, Ian McDonald, Adam Roberts, and Robert J. Sawyer won once out of five nominations, while Nancy Kress, Bruce Sterling, and Robert Charles Wilson won once out of four nominations. Greg Bear had the most nominations without winning at nine, followed by Sheri S. Tepper at six, James K. Morrow at five, and William Gibson, Ken MacLeod, Charles Stross, and Peter Watts at four.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist. Entries with a gray background and a plus sign (+) indicate a year where no novel was selected as the winner.

  *   Winners   +   No winner selected

Winners and nominees
Year Author Novel Publisher Ref.
1973 Barry N. Malzberg* Beyond Apollo Random House
James E. Gunn The Listeners Charles Scribner's Sons
Christopher Priest Darkening Island Harper & Row
1974 Robert Merle* Malevil Simon & Schuster
Arthur C. Clarke* Rendezvous with Rama Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Ian Watson The Embedding Hodder & Stoughton
Peter Dickinson The Green Gene Anchor Books
1975 Philip K. Dick* Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Doubleday
Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed Harper & Row
1976 (no award)+
Robert Silverberg The Stochastic Man Harper & Row
Bob Shaw Orbitsville Victor Gollancz Ltd
1977 Kingsley Amis* The Alteration Viking Press
Frederik Pohl Man Plus Random House
Kate Wilhelm Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Harper & Row
1978 Frederik Pohl* Gateway St. Martin's Press
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic and Tale of the Troika Macmillan Publishers
Philip K. Dick A Scanner Darkly Doubleday
1979 Michael Moorcock* Gloriana Avon Publications
Paddy Chayefsky Altered States Harper & Row
Donald R. Bensen And Having Writ... Bobbs-Merrill Company
1980 Thomas M. Disch* On Wings of Song St. Martin's Press
John Crowley Engine Summer Doubleday
J. G. Ballard The Unlimited Dream Company Holt, Rinehart & Winston
1981 Gregory Benford* Timescape Simon & Schuster
Damien Broderick The Dreaming Dragons Pocket Books
Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer Simon & Schuster
1982 Russell Hoban* Riddley Walker Jonathan Cape
1983 Brian W. Aldiss* Helliconia Spring Atheneum Books
Michael Bishop No Enemy But Time Timescape
1984 Gene Wolfe* The Citadel of the Autarch Timescape
John Batchelor The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica Dial Press
John Sladek Tik-Tok Victor Gollancz Ltd
1985 Frederik Pohl* The Years of the City Timescape
Lucius Shepard Green Eyes Ace Books
William Gibson Neuromancer Ace Books
1986 David Brin* The Postman Bantam Spectra
Kurt Vonnegut Galápagos Delacorte Press
Greg Bear Blood Music Arbor House
Keith Roberts Kiteworld Victor Gollancz Ltd
1987 Joan Slonczewski* A Door into Ocean Arbor House
James K. Morrow This Is the Way the World Ends Henry Holt and Company
Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead Tor Books
1988 Connie Willis* Lincoln's Dreams Bantam Spectra
George Turner The Sea and Summer Faber and Faber
Geoff Ryman The Unconquered Country Bantam Spectra
1989 Bruce Sterling* Islands in the Net Arbor House
Kim Stanley Robinson The Gold Coast Tor Books
Anne McCaffrey Dragonsdawn Del Rey Books
1990 Geoff Ryman* The Child Garden Unwin Hyman
K. W. Jeter Farewell Horizontal St. Martin's Press
John Kessel Good News From Outer Space Tor Books
1991 Kim Stanley Robinson* Pacific Edge Tor Books
Greg Bear Queen of Angels Questar Science Fiction
James K. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter William Morrow and Company
1992 Bradley Denton* Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede William Morrow and Company
William Gibson The Difference Engine Bantam Spectra
Bruce Sterling
Charles Platt The Silicon Man William Morrow and Company
Michael Swanwick Stations of the Tide William Morrow and Company
1993 Charles Sheffield* Brother to Dragons Baen Books
Sheri S. Tepper Sideshow Bantam Spectra
Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep Tor Books
1994 (no award)+
Nancy Kress Beggars in Spain Morrow AvoNova
Greg Bear Moving Mars Tor Books
1995 Greg Egan* Permutation City Millennium
Michael Bishop Brittle Innings Bantam Books
1996 Stephen Baxter* The Time Ships HarperCollins
Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age Bantam Spectra
Ian McDonald Chaga Victor Gollancz Ltd
1997 Paul J. McAuley* Fairyland Victor Gollancz Ltd
Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Mars HarperCollins Voyager
Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow Villard
1998 Joe Haldeman* Forever Peace Ace Books
Greg Bear Slant Tor Books
Paul Preuss Secret Passages Tor Books
1999 George Zebrowski* Brute Orbits HarperPrism
Poul Anderson Starfarers Tor Books
Bruce Sterling Distraction Bantam Spectra
2000 Vernor Vinge* A Deepness in the Sky Tor Books
Greg Bear Darwin's Radio Del Rey Books
Norman Spinrad Greenhouse Summer Tor Books
Jack Williamson The Silicon Dagger Tor Books
Peter Watts Starfish Tor Books
2001 Poul Anderson* Genesis Tor Books
Mary Gentle Ash: A Secret History Victor Gollancz Ltd
Robert J. Sawyer Calculating God Tor Books
Jack McDevitt Infinity Beach HarperPrism
Sheri S. Tepper The Fresco Eos
2002 Robert Charles Wilson* The Chronoliths Tor Books
Jack Williamson* Terraforming Earth Tor Books
Nancy Kress Probability Sun Tor Books
Ken MacLeod Dark Light Orbit Books
Jack McDevitt Deepsix Eos
Peter F. Hamilton Fallen Dragon Macmillan Publishers
C. J. Cherryh Hammerfall Eos
Paul Johnston The House of Dust Hodder & Stoughton
Scott Mackay The Meek Roc Books
Maureen F. McHugh Nekropolis Eos
Jon Courtenay Grimwood Pashazade: The First Arabesk Earthlight
Connie Willis Passage Bantam Books
2003 Nancy Kress* Probability Space Tor Books
David Brin Kiln People Tor Books
Robert J. Sawyer Hominids Tor Books
Michael Swanwick Bones of the Earth Eos
Brian Stableford Dark Ararat Tor Books
John C. Wright The Golden Age Tor Books
Steven Barnes Lion's Blood Warner Aspect
Christopher Priest The Separation Charles Scribner's Sons
Sheri S. Tepper The Visitor Eos
Greg Bear Vitals Del Rey Books
2004 Jack McDevitt* Omega Ace Books
Justina Robson Natural History Macmillan Publishers
Philip Baruth The X President Bantam Books
Kay Kenyon The Braided World Bantam Books
Syne Mitchell The Changeling Plague Roc Books
Sheri S. Tepper The Companions Eos
Greg Bear Darwin's Children Del Rey Books
Max Barry Jennifer Government Doubleday
Linda Nagata Memory Tor Books
John Varley Red Thunder Ace Books
Robert Reed Sister Alice Orbit Books
Mike Brotherton Star Dragon Tor Books
Amy Thomson Storyteller Ace Books
James Lovegrove Untied Kingdom Victor Gollancz Ltd
Michael F. Flynn The Wreck of The River of Stars Tor Books
2005 Richard Morgan* Market Forces Victor Gollancz Ltd
Geoff Ryman Air St. Martin's Griffin
Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife MacAdam/Cage
Frederik Pohl The Boy Who Would Live Forever Tor Books
Louise Marley The Child Goddess Ace Books
Karen Traviss City of Pearl Eos
John Barnes Gaudeamus Tor Books
Ken MacLeod Newton's Wake Tor Books
Philip Roth The Plot Against America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jack Dann The Rebel William Morrow and Company
Robert Reed The Well of Stars Orbit Books
Paul J. McAuley White Devils Simon & Schuster
2006 Robert J. Sawyer* Mindscan Tor Books
Robert Charles Wilson Spin Tor Books
Ian R. MacLeod The Summer Isles Aio Publishing
Charles Stross Accelerando Ace Books
David Gerrold Child of Earth BenBella Books
David Marusek Counting Heads Tor Books
Ken MacLeod Learning the World Tor Books
Steve Cash The Meq Tor Books
Paul J. McAuley Mind's Eye Simon & Schuster
Jack McDevitt Seeker Ace Books
Stephen Baxter Transcendent Victor Gollancz Ltd
Karen Traviss The World Before Eos
2007 Ben Bova* Titan Tor Books
James K. Morrow The Last Witchfinder William Morrow and Company
Peter Watts Blindsight Tor Books
Jo Walton Farthing Tor Books
Barbara Sapergia Dry Coteau Books
Charles Stross Glasshouse Ace Books
David Louis Edelman Infoquake Pyr
Justina Robson Living Next Door to the God of Love Tor Books
M. John Harrison Nova Swing Victor Gollancz Ltd
Jack McDevitt Odyssey Ace Books
Vernor Vinge Rainbows End Tor Books
Nick DiChario A Small and Remarkable Life Robert J. Sawyer Books
Karl Schroeder Sun of Suns Tor Books
2008 Kathleen Ann Goonan* In War Times Tor Books
Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen's Union HarperCollins
Ken MacLeod The Execution Channel Tor Books
Robert Charles Wilson Axis Tor Books
Matt Ruff Bad Monkeys HarperCollins
Ian McDonald Brasyl Pyr
Jeffrey Thomas Deadstock Solaris Books
Brian W. Aldiss HARM Del Rey Books
Jay Lake Mainspring Tor Books
Sheri S. Tepper The Margarets Eos
Nalo Hopkinson The New Moon's Arms Warner
Robert J. Sawyer Rollback Tor Books
Rebecca Ore Time's Child Eos
José Carlos Somoza Zig Zag Rayo
2009 Cory Doctorow* Little Brother Tor Books
Ian R. MacLeod* Song of Time PS Publishing
James K. Morrow The Philosopher's Apprentice William Morrow and Company
Neal Stephenson Anathem William Morrow and Company
Greg Bear City at the End of Time Del Rey Books
Nick DiChario Valley of Day-Glo Robert J. Sawyer Books
2010 Paolo Bacigalupi* The Windup Girl Night Shade Books
Robert Charles Wilson Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Tor Books
China Miéville The City & the City Del Rey Books
Bruce Sterling The Caryatids Del Rey Books
Kim Stanley Robinson Galileo's Dream Ballantine Spectra
Paul J. McAuley Gardens of the Sun Pyr
Cory Doctorow Makers Tor Books
Nancy Kress Steal Across the Sky Tor Books
Iain M. Banks Transition Orbit Books
Robert J. Sawyer WWW: Wake Ace Books
Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood Nan A. Talese
Adam Roberts Yellow Blue Tibia Victor Gollancz Ltd
2011 Ian McDonald* The Dervish House Victor Gollancz Ltd
Charles Yu How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Pantheon Books
Hannu Rajaniemi The Quantum Thief Victor Gollancz Ltd
E. O. Wilson Anthill W. W. Norton & Company
Jean-Christophe Valtat Aurorarama Melville House Publishing
Connie Willis Blackout/All Clear Bantam Spectra
Tom McCarthy C Alfred A. Knopf
Greg Bear Hull Zero Three Orbit Books
Adam Roberts New Model Army Victor Gollancz Ltd
Gavin Smith Veteran Victor Gollancz Ltd
Sheri S. Tepper The Waters Rising Eos
Jon Armstrong Yarn Night Shade Books
William Gibson Zero History Putnam Publishing Group
2012 Christopher Priest* The Islanders Victor Gollancz Ltd
Joan Slonczewski* The Highest Frontier Tor Books
China Miéville Embassytown Del Rey Books
Lavie Tidhar Osama PS Publishing
Ernest Cline Ready Player One Crown Publishing Group
Kathleen Ann Goonan This Shared Dream Tor Books
Will McIntosh Soft Apocalypse Night Shade Books
Michael Swanwick Dancing with Bears Night Shade Books
Daniel H. Wilson Robopocalypse Simon & Schuster
Gene Wolfe Home Fires Tor Books
Rob Ziegler Seed Night Shade Books
2013 Adam Roberts* Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer Victor Gollancz Ltd
Iain M. Banks The Hydrogen Sonata Orbit Books
Terry Bisson Any Day Now The Overlook Press
David Brin Existence Tor Books
Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross The Rapture of the Nerds Tor Books
M. John Harrison Empty Space Victor Gollancz Ltd, Night Shade Books
Ken MacLeod Intrusion Orbit Books
China Miéville Railsea Del Rey Books
Hannu Rajaniemi The Fractal Prince Victor Gollancz Ltd, Tor Books
Alastair Reynolds Blue Remembered Earth Ace Books
Kim Stanley Robinson 2312 Orbit Books
John Varley Slow Apocalypse Ace Books
G. Willow Wilson Alif the Unseen Grove Press
2014 Marcel Theroux* Strange Bodies Faber and Faber
Max Barry Lexicon Penguin Group
Stephen Baxter Proxima Victor Gollancz Ltd
Dave Eggers The Circle Alfred A. Knopf
Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Marian Wood
Nicola Griffith Hild Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Wolfgang Jeschke The Cusanus Game Tor Books
Ann Leckie Ancillary Justice Orbit Books
Phillip Mann The Disestablishment of Paradise Victor Gollancz Ltd
Paul J. McAuley Evening's Empires Victor Gollancz Ltd
Linda Nagata The Red: First Light Mythic Island Press
Christopher Priest The Adjacent Victor Gollancz Ltd
Alastair Reynolds On the Steel Breeze Victor Gollancz Ltd
Kim Stanley Robinson Shaman Orbit Books
Charles Stross Neptune's Brood Ace Books
2015 Claire North* The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Redhook Books
Nina Allan The Race Newcon Press
James L. Cambias A Darkling Sea Tor Books
William Gibson The Peripheral G. P. Putnam's Sons
Daryl Gregory Afterparty Tor Books
Dave Hutchinson Europe In Autumn Solaris Books
Simon Ings Wolves Victor Gollancz Ltd
Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem Tor Books
Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven Alfred A. Knopf
Will McIntosh Defenders Orbit Books
Laline Paull The Bees Ecco Press
Adam Roberts Bête Victor Gollancz Ltd
John Scalzi Lock In Tor Books
Andy Weir The Martian Broadway Books
Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation FSG Originals
Peter Watts Echopraxia Tor Books
2016 Eleanor Lerman* Radiomen Permanent Press
Kim Stanley Robinson Aurora Orbit Books
Nnedi Okorafor The Book of Phoenix DAW Books
Dave Hutchinson Europe at Midnight Solaris Books
James K. Morrow Galapágos Regained St. Martin's Press
Linda Nagata Going Dark Mythic Island Press, Saga Press
Ian McDonald Luna: New Moon Victor Gollancz Ltd, Tor Books
Neal Stephenson Seveneves William Morrow and Company, HarperCollins
Adam Roberts The Thing Itself Victor Gollancz Ltd
Paolo Bacigalupi The Water Knife Orbit Books, Alfred A. Knopf
Kit Reed Where Tor Books
2017 Lavie Tidhar* Central Station Tachyon Publications
Rick Wilber Alien Morning Tor Books
Aliya Whiteley The Arrival of Missives Unsung Stories
Nick Wood Azanian Bridges NewCon Press
Kij Johnson The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe Tor.com Publishing
Nisi Shawl Everfair Tor Books
Paul J. McAuley Into Everywhere Victor Gollancz Ltd
Stephen Baxter The Medusa Chronicles Saga Press
Alastair Reynolds
Tricia Sullivan Occupy Me Victor Gollancz Ltd
Tade Thompson Rosewater Apex Publications
Ben H. Winters Underground Airlines Mulholland Books
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Doubleday
Don DeLillo Zero K Charles Scribner's Sons
2018 David Walton* The Genius Plague Pyr
Deji Bryce Olukotun After the Flare Unnamed Press
Paul J. McAuley Austral Victor Gollancz Ltd
Annalee Newitz Autonomous Tor Books
Jeff VanderMeer Borne MCD
Louise Erdrich Future Home of the Living God Harper
John Kessel The Moon and the Other Saga Press
Kim Stanley Robinson New York 2140 Orbit Books
Norman Spinrad The People's Police Tor Books
Nina Allan The Rift Titan Books
Eleanor Lerman The Stargazer's Embassy Mayapple Press
Kameron Hurley The Stars Are Legion Saga Press
Christopher Brown Tropic of Kansas HarperCollins
2019 Sam J. Miller* Blackfish City Ecco Press
Mary Robinette Kowal The Calculating Stars Tor Books
Peter Watts The Freeze-Frame Revolution Tachyon Publications
Aliya Whiteley The Loosening Skin Unsung Stories
Waubgeshig Rice Moon of the Crusted Snow ECW Press
Sue Burke Semiosis Tor Books
Catherynne M. Valente Space Opera Saga Press
Imraan Coovadia A Spy in Time Rare Bird Books
Audrey Schulman Theory of Bastards Europa Editions
Ian McDonald Time Was Tor.com
Lavie Tidhar Unholy Land Tachyon Publications

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