John W. Campbell Memorial Award - Novel (Awarded by Campbell Conference )

Awards List

2019

Blackfish City
(Winner)
Sam J. Miller

The Calculating Stars
(Second Place)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Theory of Bastards
(Third Place)
Audrey Schulman

2018

The Genius Plague
(Winner)
David Walton

The People's Police
(Second Place)
Norman Spinrad

The Moon and the Other
(Second Place)
John Kessel

2017

Central Station
(Winner)
Lavie Tidhar

Rosewater
(Second Place)
Tade Thompson

Underground Airlines
(Third Place)
Ben H. Winters

The Underground Railroad
(Third Place)
Colson Whitehead

2016

Radiomen
(Winner)
Eleanor Lerman

Going Dark
(Second Place)
Linda Nagata

The Thing Itself
(Second Place)
Adam Roberts

The Water Knife
(Third Place)
Paolo Bacigalupi

2015

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
(Winner)
Claire North

A Darkling Sea
(Second Place)
James Cambias

Europe in Autumn
(Finalist)
Dave Hutchinson

The Martian
(Finalist)
Andy Weir

Afterparty
(Finalist)
Daryl Gregory

The Bees
(Finalist)
Laline Paull

Defenders
(Finalist)
Will McIntosh

The Race
(Finalist)
Nina Allan

Echopraxia
(Finalist)
Peter Watts

Lock in
(Finalist)
John Scalzi

Station Eleven
(Finalist)
Emily St. John Mandel

The Peripheral
(Finalist)
William Gibson

The Southern Reach Trilogy
(Finalist)
Jeff VanderMeer

Wolves
(Finalist)
Simon Ings

The Three-Body Problem
(Third Place)
Cixin Liu

2014

Strange Bodies
(Winner)
Marcel Theroux

Lexicon
(Finalist)
Max Barry

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
(Finalist)
Karen Joy Fowler

Evening's Empires
(Second Place)
Paul McAuley

Neptune's Brood
(Finalist)
Charles Stross

Shaman
(Finalist)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Ancillary Justice
(Finalist)
Ann Leckie

The Circle
(Finalist)
Dave Eggers

The Cusanus Game
(Finalist)
Wolfgang Jeschke

Hild
(Finalist)
Nicola Griffith

The Disestablishment of Paradise
(Finalist)
Phillip Mann

The Adjacent
(Finalist)
Christopher J. Priest

On the Steel Breeze
(Finalist)
Alastair Reynolds

Proxima
(Finalist)
Stephen Baxter

First Light
(Third Place)
Linda Nagata

2013

Jack Glass
(Winner)
Adam Roberts

Any Day Now
(Second Place)
Terry Bisson

Railsea
(Finalist)
China Mieville

Existence
(Finalist)
David Brin

The Rapture of the Nerds
(Finalist)
Cory Doctorow; Charles Stross

The Hydrogen Sonata
(Finalist)
Iain M. Banks

The Fractal Prince
(Finalist)
Hannu Rajaniemi

Alif the Unseen
(Third Place)
G. Willow Wilson

Empty Space
(Third Place)
M. John Harrison

2012

The Islanders
(Winner)
Christopher J. Priest

Osama
(Honorable Mention)
Lavie Tidhar

2011

The Dervish House
(Winner)
Ian McDonald

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
(Second Place)
Charles Yu

The Quantum Thief
(Third Place)
Hannu Rajaniemi

2010

Windup Girl
(Winner)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Julian Comstock
(Second Place)
Robert Charles Wilson

The City & the City
(Third Place)
China Mieville

2009

Little Brother
(Winner)
Cory Doctorow

Rosemary and Rue
(Winner)
Seanan McGuire

The Philosopher's Apprentice
(Third Place)
James Morrow

2008

In War Times
(Winner)
Kathleen Ann Goonan

The War With the Mien
(Winner)
David Anthony Durham

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
(Second Place)
Michael Chabon

The Execution Channel
(Third Place)
Ken MacLeod

2007

Titan
(Winner)
Ben Bova

The Last Witchfinder
(Second Place)
James Morrow

Farthing
(Third Place)
Jo Walton

Blindsight
(Third Place)
Peter Watts

2006

Mindscan
(Winner)
Robert J. Sawyer

Spin
(Second Place)
Robert Charles Wilson

The Summer Isles
(Third Place)
Ian R. MacLeod

2005

Market Forces
(Winner)
Richard K. Morgan

Air: Or, Have Not Have
(Second Place)
Geoff Ryman

The Time Traveler's Wife
(Third Place)
Audrey Niffenegger

2004

Omega
(Winner)
Jack McDevitt

Natural History
(Second Place)
Justina Robson

The X-President
(Third Place)
Philip E. Baruth

2003

Probability Space
(Winner)
Nancy Kress
  • / Science Fiction
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Kiln People
(Second Place)
David Brin

Hominids
(Third Place)
Robert J. Sawyer

2002

Terraforming Earth
(Winner)
Jack Williamson

The Chronoliths
(Winner)
Robert Charles Wilson

Probability Sun
(Third Place)
Nancy Kress

2001

Genesis
(Winner)
Poul Anderson

2000

A Deepness in the Sky
(Winner)
Vernor Vinge

Darwin's Radio
(Second Place)
Greg Bear

Greenhouse Summer
(Third Place)
Norman Spinrad
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1999

Brute Orbits
(Winner)
George Zebrowski

Starfarers
(Second Place)
Poul Anderson

Distraction
(Third Place)
Bruce Sterling

1998

Forever Peace
(Winner)
Joe Haldeman

Slant
(Second Place)
Greg Bear

Secret Passages
(Third Place)
Paul Preuss

1997

Fairyland
(Winner)
Paul McAuley

Blue Mars
(Second Place)
Kim Stanley Robinson

The Sparrow
(Third Place)
Mary Doria Russell

1996

The Time Ships
(Winner)
Stephen Baxter

The Diamond Age
(Second Place)
Neal Stephenson

Evolution's Shore
(Third Place)
Ian McDonald

1995

Permutation City
(Winner)
Greg Egan

Brittle Innings
(Second Place)
Michael Bishop

1994

Beggars in Spain
(Second Place)
Nancy Kress

Moving Mars
(Third Place)
Greg Bear
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1993

Brother to Dragons
(Winner)
Charles Sheffield

1992

Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede
(Winner)
Bradley Denton

1991

Pacific Edge
(Winner)
Kim Stanley Robinson

1990

The Child Garden: Or a Low Comedy
(Winner)
Geoff Ryman

1989

Islands in the Net
(Winner)
Bruce Sterling

1988

Lincoln's Dreams
(Winner)
Connie Willis

1987

Door into Ocean
(Winner)
Joan Slonczewski

1986

The Postman
(Winner)
David Brin

1985

The Years of the City
(Winner)
Frederik Pohl

1984

The Citadel of the Autarch
(Winner)
Gene Wolfe

1983

Helliconia Spring
(Winner)
Brian W. Aldiss

1982

Riddley Walker
(Winner)
Russell Hoban
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1981

Timescape
(Winner)
Gregory Benford

1980

On Wings of Song
(Winner)
Thomas M. Disch

1979

Gloriana, or the Unfulfill'd Queen
(Winner)
Michael Moorcock

1978

Gateway
(Winner)
Frederik Pohl
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1977

The Alteration
(Winner)
Kingsley Amis

1975

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
(Winner)
Philip K. Dick

1974

Malevil
(Winner)
Robert Merle
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Rendezvous with Rama
(Winner)
Arthur C. Clarke

1973

Beyond Apollo
(Winner)
Barry N. Malzberg
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

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