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Two unusual circumstances marked this years Campbell and Sturgeon
Awards presented July 11 at the University of Kansas, James Gunn, director of
the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, announced today. For the first
time, the Theodore
Sturgeon Award for the best short SF of the year went to a story published on
the internet. Lucius Shepards Over Yonder was published on the
SciFiction section, edited by Ellen Datlow, of SciFi.com. Second place was awarded to
Brontes Egg by Richard Chwedyk, published in Fantasy and Science Fiction; and
third place, to Singleton by Australian Greg Egan, published in the British Interzone.
The other unusual circumstance: the John W. Campbell Award for the best
science-fiction novel of the year for the first time went to someone who had
earlier won the Sturgeon Award. Nancy Kresss Probability Space took first place
(a earlier novel in the series, Probability Sun, took third place last year).
Moreover, Kresss husband, the late Charles Sheffield, had won the Campbell
Award a decade before, the first husband and wife to be so honored. Second place
in the Campbell Awards went to David Brins Kiln People; third place went to
Robert J. Sawyers Hominids. All three novels were published by Tor Books.
The award to Shepard was presented by Frederik Pohl, a member of the Sturgeon
Award final jury; James Gunn read an acceptance letter from Shepard. The award
to Kress was presented by Elizabeth Anne Hull, a member of the Campbell jury;
Kress was present to accept the award.
At the dinner four persons were inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society
and the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. The
posthumous inductions went to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Damon Knight; living
authors inducted were Kate Wilhelm, who is Knights widow, and Wilson Bob
Tucker. Wilhelm was present for her induction, and also accepted for Tucker.
The dinner was followed by the Campbell Conference July 12-13, at which
History and Science Fiction was the topic for discussion, and the showing of a
locally produced alternate history documentary titled CSA: The Confederate
States of America.
The Sturgeon Award stories are nominated by a committee of some two-dozen
reviewers and editors chaired by Chris McKitterick, and the winners were chosen
by Pohl, Gunn, and Kij Johnson, with the assistance of Noel Sturgeon, from a
group of about a dozen finalists. The Campbell Award novels are nominated by
publishers and the winners selected by a committee of seven academics and
authors chaired by Gunn and consisting of Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter,
Elizabeth Anne Hull, McKitterick, Pamela Sargent, T. A. Shippey, and Ian Watson.
At the conclusion of the ceremony Chancellor Robert Hemenway made a surprise
presentation to Frederik Pohl of a citation for his many years of service to
science fiction and to the University of Kansas and its science-fiction
programs. Pohl has been a guest-writer every summer except two for the past 30
years.
- James Gunn, director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction
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James Gunn (right) opens the 2002 Campbell, Sturgeon, and
Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame award dinner.
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Elizabeth Hull (left) announces the third place Campbell
Award winner Nancy Kress for Probability Sun.
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Chris McKitterick (right) presents the first
place Campbell Award to Robert Charles Wilson for The Chronoliths.
Wilson shared the award with Jack Williamson for Terraforming Earth.
Due to the tie for first place, there was no second place winner.
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Robert Charles Wilson (left) accepts the first place
Campbell Award.
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Kij Johnson (right) announces the second place Sturgeon Award
winner Charles Stone for "Lobsters."
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Fred Pohl (left) announces the first place Sturgeon Award
winner Andy Duncan for "The Chief Designer."
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Andy Duncan (right) accepts the first place Sturgeon Award.
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Fred Pohl and Andy Duncan.
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Andy Duncan and Robert Charles Wilson.
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