Michael Chabon to Speak in Lawrence, KS
LAWRENCE, KS - August 6th, 2008
Author Michael Chabon will give what should be a great talk:
"Conquering the Wilderness:
Imaginative Imperialism and the Invasion of Legoland," A Hall Center for the Humanities Presentation.
2008 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners Announced
LAWRENCE, KS - July 9, 2008
The Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas has
announced the winners of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science
fiction novel of 2007 and the
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short
science fiction of 2007.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, July 11, in conjunction
with the centers annual
Campbell Conference and the annual meeting of the
Science Fiction Research Association, which is taking place July 10-13 in
Lawrence. This year the Campbell Conference offers Teaching Science Fiction: A
Portable Workshop.
The Campbell Award will be presented to Kathleen Ann Goonan for In War Times.
Second place goes to Michael Chabon's Nebula Award-winning
The Yiddish Policeman's Union, and third to Ken MacLeod for
The Execution Channel.
For the first time, there are two winners of the Sturgeon Award: Finistera,
by David R. Moles, and Tidelines, by Elizabeth Bear. Interestingly, second
place for the Sturgeon Award was also a tie: Gene Wolfe's Memorare, and Ian R.
MacLeod's The Master Miller's Tale.
The Campbell award is one of the three major annual awards for science
fiction. The award was created to honor the late editor of Astounding Science
Fiction magazine (now called Analog). Many writers and scholars call Campbell,
who edited the magazine from 1937 until his death in 1971, the father of modern
science fiction.
The Sturgeon award was established in 1987 by James Gunn, professor emeritus
of English and director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, and the
heirs of Theodore Sturgeon as a memorial to one of the great short-story writers
in a field distinguished by its short fiction.
The Science Fiction Research Association is the oldest professional
organization for the study of science fiction and fantasy literature and film.
This years conference is titled Creating, Reading and Teaching Science
Fiction. Notable guest speakers include Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane
Austen Book Club; Paul Kincaid, author of What We Do When We Read Science
Fiction; and Joan Slonczewski, a professor at Kenyon College who uses science
fiction to help teach biology. Breakout sessions explore varied topics such as
Reimagining the Future of the Past in Science Fiction Film and Television;
Aliens, Animals and Environmentalism in Science Fiction; and Playing the
Universe: Reading and Teaching Science Fiction With Video Games.
Science Fiction Research Association to Co-Host 2008 Conference with
the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Campbell Conference
From Adam Frisch, SFRA President November 15, 2007
GOOD NEWS !
Your SFRA Executive Committee has accepted the gracious invitation of the
Campbell Conference to hold our 2008 annual meeting in conjunction with them on
July 10-13 (Thurs. through Sun.) at the University of Kansas in Lawrence,
Kansas.
The Campbell Conference is the concluding event of the Writers Workshop in
Science Fiction, the Novel Writers Workshop in Science Fiction, and the
beginning of the Intensive English Institute on the Teaching of Science Fiction.
It has been held regularly at the University of Kansas since 1973, except for
the special joint event in 2007 with SFRA and the Heinlein Centennial. This year
our two organizations will be working together at a common site to provide
quality academic panels, paper presentations and author discussions. During the
coming weeks SFRA will be posting details about our part of the conference on
this list-serve and on our website (www.sfra.org);
also check out the Campbell Conference webpage.
Currently, SFRAs tentative theme for this 2008 meeting is: "Teaching,
Reading and Creating Science Fiction," which meshes well with both the Campbell
Conferences themes of "Teaching Science Fiction" plus "Current Trends in
Science Fiction" and our own previously announced Dublin theme of "Good Writing
in SF." "Creating SF" also encourages panels and paper analyzes of SF in
non-literary media, a recent extension of SFRAs traditional focuses that we
have been encouraging. This announced theme sacrifices a certain amount of
excitement for major inclusivity, its difficult at the moment to imagine what SF type of material it excludes and
thus it may be slightly tweaked when we designate our academic programmer for
this conference. But when that person is appointed shortly, rush right in with
whatever sort of presentation you may have been planning for Dublin, or come up
with a new one!
Lawrence, Kansas, lies about 50 miles west of the Kansas City International
airport. SFRA plans to work during the coming months to insure smooth and
convenient transportation between Kansas City and Lawrence. Lodging promises to
be very reasonable, as will be the conference registration fee at this new venue
and the cost for whatever banquet / reception we hold. (And don't forget that
SFRA will be offering to the extent it can some travel remuneration for graduate
students reading papers, especially overseas students who had planned on
attending in Dublin.) SFRA will soon announce its guest list of invited SF
authors and critics, and the Campbell Conference traditionally hosts local
authors, institute instructors and the winners of the John W. Campbell and
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards. The eventual list of SF authors for this
combined event promises to be absolutely awesome, as my students would say.
Finally, the University of Kansas has always been an exciting college town to visit, even when its football teams were losing almost every
game, and its the site of our SFRA archives for any workaholics out there.
SFRA hosted its annual convention in Lawrence in 1982, and absolutely
everyone Ive talked to remembers that 1982 meeting with fondness. 2008 promises
to be even better! I sure hope most of you will find a way to come. Well lift a
toast together to the Dublin conference that almost was, and celebrate the fine
Lawrence conference that is happening.
James Gunn to be Honored as Science Fiction Grand Master
LAWRENCE, KS November 22, 2006
During lunch at the University of Kansas student union today,
SFWA President Robin Wayne Bailey surprised
James Gunn and a small group
of friends with the news that Gunn will be honored this Spring as the next
Grand Master
of science fiction.
The title "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master" is bestowed upon a living author for a lifetime's achievement in
science fiction and/or fantasy. Nominations for recognition as a Grand Master are made by the president of SFWA;
the final selection must be approved by a majority of the SFWA officers and
participating past presidents. Gunn was President of SFWA in 1971-72, though for
obvious reasons they did not contact him about this potential honor.
While it is not a Nebula Award, the Grand Master honor is conferred as part of the
Nebula Awards® Banquet.
This year's ceremony will take place on May 11-13, 2007, in New York City.
AboutSF Project Posts New Lessons
LAWRENCE, KS November 12, 2006
In 2005, the Center with donations from publishers, conventions, and notable people in the field created a
Volunteer Coordinator
position at the University of Kansas to perform outreach with SF
educators, librarians, and other SF people, and this project has shown fruit especially
on the AboutSF.com website. Check out the new
"Lessons
Library" for educators and librarians here, including the Center's new
on-line course.
2006 Campbell Award and Sturgeon Award Winners Announced
LAWRENCE, KS July 7, 2006
The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the
University of Kansas has announced the winners of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial
Award for best short science fiction of 2005 and the John W. Campbell Memorial
Award for best science fiction novel of 2005.
The winner of this year's John W. Campbell Memorial Award
is Robert J. Sawyer for his novel, Mindscan (Tor Books).
The winner of this year's Theodore Sturgeon Memorial
Award is Paolo Bacigalupi for his story, "The Calorie Man" (Fantasy &
Science Fiction).
The awards were presented at a banquet tonight that is part of the Center's
annual Campbell Conference.
Campbell Award second and third place winners are Robert Charles Wilson for
Spin (Tor Books) and Ian R. Macleod for The Summer Isles (Aio Publishing).
Sturgeon Award second and third place winners are Ian MacDonald for "The Little
Goddess" (Asimov's Magazine) and Kelly Link for "Magic for Beginners" (Fantasy &
Science Fiction).
The Sturgeon award was established in 1987 by Gunn and the heirs of Theodore
Sturgeon as an appropriate memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a
field distinguished by its short fiction. The Sturgeon Award winner was decided
by Gunn, Kij Johnson, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, and Noel Sturgeon,
daughter of Theodore Sturgeon.
The Campbell Award is one of the three major annual awards for the science
fiction novel. The award was created to honor the late editor of Astounding
Science Fiction magazine (now called Analog). Many writers and scholars call
Campbell, who edited the magazine from 1937 until his death in 1971, the father
of modern science fiction. The Campbell Award winner was selected by a committee
of academics and authors that includes Gregory Benford, Paul Carter, James Gunn,
Elizabeth Anne Hull, Farah Mendlesohn, Chris McKitterick, Pamela Sargent, and
Tom Shippey.
2006 Campbell Award and Sturgeon Award Finalists Announced
LAWRENCE, KS May 22, 2006
The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the
University of Kansas has announced the 2006 finalists of its
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short
science fiction of the year and the John W. Campbell
Memorial Award for best science fiction novel of the year. The awards will
be
presented at a banquet on June 9 as part of the Centers annual
Campbell Conference.
Click here to see the finalists for the 2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.
Click here to see the finalists for the 2006 John W. Campbell
Memorial Award.
George Zebrowski Joins Sturgeon Award Jury
LAWRENCE, KS January, 2006
Award-winning science-fiction author and editor George Zebrowski has joined
forces with James Gunn, Kij Johnson, and Frederik Pohl to select the winner of
the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short SF of the year. We thank
George in advance for his efforts!
Campbell Award and Sturgeon Award Winners Announced
LAWRENCE, KS July 18, 2005
The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the
University of Kansas has announced the 2005 winners of its
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short
science fiction of the year and the John W. Campbell
Memorial Award for best science fiction novel of the year. The awards were
presented at a banquet on June 8 that was part of the Centers annual
Campbell Conference.
Bradley Denton won the Sturgeon Award for his story Sergeant Chip, and
Richard Morgan won the Campbell Award for his novel Market Forces.
Denton is an alumnus of KU, earning bachelors degrees in English and
astronomy in 1980 and a masters degree in English in 1984. He is a former
student of James Gunn. Denton had planned to attend this years Campbell
Conference, though he did not know he was receiving the Sturgeon Award and was
surprised with the news during the Awards Banquet.
Morgan, because of a scheduling conflict, was unable to attend. Morgan is a
tutor at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of a
popular two-book series, Altered Carbon and Broken Angels.
Christopher Rowe won the second place Sturgeon Award for Voluntary State,
and Richard Reed won third place for his work Mere.
The Sturgeon Award was established in 1987 by Gunn and the heirs of Theodore
Sturgeon as memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a field
distinguished by its short fiction.
Geoff Ryman won the second place Campbell Award for his novel Air. Audrey
Niffenegger won third place for her novel, The Time Travelers Wife.
The Campbell Award was created to honor the late editor of Astounding Science
Fiction magazine (now called Analog). Many writers and scholars call Campbell,
who edited the magazine from 1937 until his death in 1971, the father of modern
science fiction.
The Campbell Award winner was picked by a committee of academics and authors
that includes Gunn, director of the Center; Gregory Benford; Paul Carter;
Elizabeth Anne Hull; Chris McKitterick, an associate director of the Center;
Farah Mendlesohn; Pamela Sargent; and Tom Shippey.
The Sturgeon Award winner was decided by Gunn; Kij Johnson; Frederik Pohl;
and Noel Sturgeon, daughter of Theodore Sturgeon.
CSSF Receives Gift of SF Magazines Spanning Seven Decades
LAWRENCE, KS April 18, 2005
The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction and
the English Department announce the gift of a substantial collection of
science-fiction magazines dating from 1945. The magazines were donated by Amy
and Gary Bennett in memory of the Amy Bennetts father, the late Edward Dobert
Spear. Because Special Collections already has a collection of such magazines,
the gift will be available for general circulation in Watson Library.
Mr. Spear, whose studies in electrical engineering were interrupted by World War
II army service in Europe, began his subscription to Astounding Science
Fiction/Analog upon his return, and had the issues bound, year by year, until
his death in 1995. He also had his copies of Galaxy Science Fiction bound until
he gave them to his daughter in 1970. She also is a science-fiction reader, as
are her three sisters and her three daughters. Mr. Spear worked as a civil
engineer after the late 1960s, maintaining and designing renovations for
military buildings, including the Pentagon.
Amy Spears Bennetts mother also was an electrical/electronic engineer with a
degree from Cornell, and a science-fiction reader, until her death in 2001. She
worked on NASA contracts for the Lunar Excursion Module radars and one of the
forerunners of the internet, ARPA Net. Of her four daughters two became
engineers (one currently working on nuclear power systems), one became an
accountant, and one, Amy, became a nurse, earned a doctorate in nursing science,
and is currently working in nursing education as coordinator of a practical
nursing program in Philadelphia.
Amy Bennett comments that she and her sisters cut their teeth on their
fathers Astounding/Analog collection and found that reading science fiction
prepared them for real and rapid change in todays society. For us, todays
shocking headlines (Men Waling on the Moon!) are yesterdays interesting
stories. And we are prepared to think about the effects on society, and possible
approaches to handling consequences, because science fiction authors have
already done so. In fact, her youngest daughter is studying the social and
ethical challenges of science and technology at Pitzer College in Claremont,
California.
For full release, click here.
Robin Bailey and Jim Butcher
to Read and Sign in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, KS April 18, 2005
As many local SF readers know, Robin doesn't do a lot of formal book signings
in the Kansas City area. Therefore, we want to alert you to an upcoming event at
the Waldenbooks & More store in the Westbrooke Village Shopping Center at 75th
and Quivira. On Sunday, May 22nd, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m., I'll be reading and
signing copies of his new
DRAGONKIN series.
Also present for this event will be fellow local science fiction and fantasy
author, Jim Butcher, whose exciting
DRESDEN series from Penguin/Roc has been very successful. He'll also be
reading and signing books.
The folks at Waldenbooks & More are planning to make something of a party and
a science fiction celebration with this event. So please add it to your
calendars, drop by and say hello, and buy some good books. I hope to see you
there!
For more information, call Waldenbooks & More at 913-962-1428.
Kij Johnson's Fudoki Nominated for World Fantasy Award
LAWRENCE, KS August 6, 2004
Today it was announced that local author Kij Johnson's current novel,
Fudoki, is a finalist for the
World Fantasy
Award. Once again, congratulations, Kij! This year's winners
were announced during the
World Fantasy Convention,
October 28th-31st, in Tempe, Arizona.
Matthew Candelaria Wins Writers of the Future Golden Quill Award!
LAS ANGELES, CA JULY 9
Matthew Candelaria, a graduate student who has been working with James Gunn on a
couple of projects and has attended the last few
SF Writer's Workshops, won the Golden Quill Award (grand prize) at this
year's Writers of the Future contest, in a grand venue at the Beverly Hills Hotel at a
black-tie dinner thronged with famous people in and out of science fiction.
This makes three of Gunn's students (Merry Simmons, Dylan Otto Krider, and now Matthew)
who have won the grand prize, three years in a row.
Congratulations Matthew! And congrats to Jim for being such a great teacher
and mentor!
Kij Johnson's Fudoki Finalist for Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
LAWRENCE, KS June 11, 2004
Recently it was announced that local author Kij Johnson's current novel,
Fudoki, is a finalist for the
Mythopoeic Fantasy
Award for Adult Literature. Congratulations again, Kij! This year's winners
were announced during
Mythcon 35,
July 30th-August 2nd, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Kij Johnson's Fudoki Finalist for James Tiptree, Jr. Award
LAWRENCE, KS April 5, 2004
Today it was announced that local author Kij Johnson's current novel,
Fudoki, was a finalist for the
2003
James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Congratulations, Kij!
James Gunn's "Elixer" in May 2004 Analog Magazine
LAWRENCE, KS March, 2004
The short story, "Elixer," is Gunn's newest publication, available as the
opening story in the May 2004 Analog. This story will also appear
in the expanded edition of The Immortals, to be published by Pocket Books
in July 2004.
Kij Johnson Reads at Lawrence Public Library
LAWRENCE, KS March 31, 2004
Local author Kij Johnson will read from her current novel, Fudoki, at
the public library at 7pm on Wednesday the 31st of March. The Raven Bookstore
will have copies of her works available for purchase, and Kij will sign books
after the reading.
CSA: The Confederate States of America Wows Sundance Attendees
LAWRENCE, KS JANUARY 20, 2004
University of Kansas professors Matthew
Jacobson and Kevin Willmott have made a big hit at the
Sundance Film
Festival! Their film, CSA: The Confederate
States of America, is a feature-length speculative documentary about an
alternate present in a world where the South won the Civil War, and chattel
slavery is still legal. (Click
here for the Lawrence Journal-World story.)
Attendees of last summer's Campbell Conference will remember this film. Good
luck to all involved!
Congratulations!
CSSF Workshop Alumni Publications
Click here to see CSSF Workshop alumni publications
and awards. So many alumni of the Workshop
have been published lately that it's difficult keeping up with you. Look them
up here and be sure to share with us if you're not listed!
Kij Johnson's New Fudoki Garners Publisher's Weekly Kudos
NEW YORK, NY NOVEMBER 18
Publisher's Weekly Editors' Fiction Picks for the Year 2003 Kij's book has
just been named one of the eight best SF/F novels of the year! Below is their
full review from last month:
Publisher's Weekly Editors' Fiction Picks for October 2003
Each month
Publisher's Weekly's Forecasts editors select titles being published in the next month they deem exceptional.
The following is an excerpt from the editors' fiction recommendations (one book
of five, including one by Toni Morrison) for October 2003:
Fudoki by Kij Johnson (Tor Books, $24.95, ISBN 0-765-30390-6)
"Johnson's mesmerizing second fantasy based on Japanese myth surpasses her inspired debut,
The Fox Woman (2000).
As the half-sister, aunt and great-grandaunt of the last three Japanese emperors, respectively,
the princess Harueme has lived a long life of privilege at court, but now she is dying and must go to a convent.
While sorting through her belongings, she comes across several blank notebooks. To fill them, Harueme spins the tale
of a nameless tortoiseshell cat living in a ramshackle estate in the capital. When a fire raging through the city
destroys the estate, the cat is the only survivor. The author interweaves the story Harueme tells with Harueme's
own, equally absorbing tale. To call Johnson a stylist is to call Michael Jordan
a basketball player - each word and phrase glitters gemlike on the page. This
tale of life and dying, of love and humanity, soars with feline grace."
Congratulations Kij! This novel is now available.
More Lawrence writers publishing news!
Appearances in Local Authors Series at the Oread Bookstore
LAWRENCE, KS
Oread Books, level 2 in the Kansas Union on the KU campus in Lawrence, continues an ongoing series of meet-the-author events
featuring campus and community authors. The events are scheduled from 5:30 to 6:30 PM during Oread Books regular Thursday
evening hours. The public is invited to converse with local authors while enjoying complimentary coffee or tea in the relaxed
atmosphere of the stores browsing area. Several of the authors titles will be available for signing.
The bookstore has excellent local-author and SF/F sections.
November 2003 Appearances:
- November 20: Kij Johnson Lawrence, Kansas
Lecturer in the Department of English at KU, Johnson is a former managing editor for fantasy gaming publisher Wizards of the Coast
and researcher for the Microsoft Corporation. She has completed two novels set in a mythical Japan and is at work on a third.
Her first novel, The Fox Woman, involves a fox who became a woman, and was described in a starred review in Publishers Weekly
as steeped in historical detail. The just-published Fudoki takes on another animal totem, entering the world of a feline
creature known as Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen.
Stop by the bookstore after Kimberly Blaeser's presentation and say hi!
- November 6: James C. Cisneros Holton, Kansas
Native American non-traditional KU student Cisneros new novel Moccasins, Money and Murder is a fictionalized account of conflict
and cultural change he experienced within his tribe, the Kickapoo nation. During his service as treasurer of the tribal council,
his attempts to expose what he saw as financial improprieties connected with Indian gaming resulted in his being removed from office
and from the reservation. A movie screenplay is underway. Cisneros graduated from Haskell Indian Junior College in 1982, attended
universities in California, and has worked for several tribes in California and Kansas, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and three
major banks. He is also the founder of the Native American Junior Golf Association in Mayetta.
- October 30: Robin Wayne Bailey Kansas City, Missouri
Bailey is the author of numerous novels and short stories, including the Brothers of the Dragon series, the critically-acclaimed
Shadowdance, Nights Angel (an omnibus collection of his Frost novels) and Swords Against the Shadowland - named one the best
seven novels of 1998 by Science Fiction Chronicle. He is a regular contributor to the best-selling anthology series Thieves World.
His most recent book, Dragonkin, is the first volume of a new fantasy trilogy.
Previous guests in the Oread Books Local Authors Series include retired nuclear engineer Robert C. Hagan, KU Professor of Design
Pok Chi Lau, and poet Dave Malone. New or established local writers interested in appearing in the series may contact the store for
details.
Writers of the Future Presentation
LAWRENCE, KS SEPTEMBER 17, 2003
The Oread Bookstore (in the Kansas Union of the KU campus) hosted a presentation
about William Widder's new book, Master Storyteller, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction,
and two representatives of the publisher gave a wonderful talk and showed a
short film about
the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest. It was followed by a reading
and autographing session at which Matthew Candelaria, a graduate student in the English Department who
won the grand prize in the Writers for the Future Contest, signed copies of the
Writers and Illustrators of the Future anthology.
Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners Announced
LAWRENCE, KS JULY 12, 2003
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 Shepard's Over Yonder was published on the
SciFiction section, edited by Ellen Datlow, of SciFi.com. Second place was awarded to
Bronte's 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 Kress' Probability Space took first place
(a earlier novel in the series, Probability Sun, took third place last year).
Moreover, Kress' 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 Brin's 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.
PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
CSA: The Confederate States of America
screened during Campbell Conference
LAWRENCE, KS JUNE 18, 2003
University of Kansas professors Matthew Jacobson and Kevin Willmott graciously offered
a private screening of their film,
CSA: The Confederate States of America, a
feature-length speculative documentary about an alternate present in a world
where the South won the Civil War, and chattel slavery is still legal.
Location is
the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium
on Saturday
afternoon for all registered attendees of the Campbell Conference.
Many thanks to the University of Kansas Oread Book Store
for sponsoring this event.
Check out the Conference page for
complete information.
Click Here for Coverage of the 2002 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards
Pamela Sargent Joins Campbell Award Jury
LAWRENCE, KS 1997
Pamela Sargent has accepted appointment to the committee for the
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the Best SF Novel of the Year,
James Gunn, director of the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the
Study of Science Fiction, announced.
The Campbell Award was founded in 1972 by Harry Harrison and Brian
W. Aldiss to honor the editor who presided over science fiction's
Golden Age and died in 1971, still editor of the magazine he had
taken over in 1937. The award has been presented in various places
around the world, including Oxford, Dublin, and Stockholm, but since
1979 it has been presented at the University of Kansas. Membership
in the committee that selects the award after discussion, principally
by mail, has changed over the years. It now consists of James Gunn,
Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter, Elizabeth Anne Hull, T. A. Shippey,
Brian Stableford, Robert H. Wilcox, and Sargent. Sam Lundwall, a
long-time Swedish member of the committee, resigned after the 1996
award.
Sargent is a distinguished author of SF and historical novels,
including The Venus Trilogy, The Shore of Women, and Ruler of the Sky:
A Novel of Genghis Khan. She has won a Nebula Award for short
fiction and edited the well-known Women of Wonder anthologies.
Kij Johnson Joins Sturgeon Award Jury
LAWRENCE, KS 1997 Kij Johnson has accepted appointment to the committee
for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the Best Short SF of the Year,
James Gunn, director of the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of
Science Fiction, announced. The Theodore Sturgeon Award was established in 1987 by James Gunn
and Sturgeon's heirs, including his widow Jayne Sturgeon, as an
appropriate memorial to one of the field's great short-story writers.
Sturgeon was closely identified with the Golden Age. Originally the
winner was selected by a committee organized by Orson Scott Card, but
since 1995, the winning stories have been selected by a committee of
three judges from a list nominated by several dozen reviewers,
editors, and others familiar with the magazine and original anthology
field. Also, for the last four years, one of Theodore Sturgeon's children has
participated in the judging process, Noel Sturgeon for this year's Award. The two continuing members of the committee are James Gunn
and Frederik Pohl. Judith Merril, a distinguished writer, editor, and
critic, resigned from the committee after serving for 1995 and 1996.
Johnson won the Sturgeon Award for her story "Fox Magic" in 1994,
and
won the IAFA Crawford Award for her novel The Fox Woman in 2001. She has
published a number of short stories including an e-book anthology Tales for
the Long Rains, and has a new novel, Fudoki, due out
early October 2003. She served as managing editor for Tor Books, taught
writing at Louisiana State University, worked as the manager
for story development at Wizards of the Coast, and currently writes full-time in
Lawrence while teaching writing at the University of Kansas.
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