Winners of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. Do not confuse with the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer which is given by a different organzation.
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Winners of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. Do not confuse with the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer which is given by a different organzation.
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Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Dance Family, #1)
Sam Dance is a young enlisted soldier in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to …
Phil in SF says: 2009 joint winner
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Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
A man lies half-drowned on a Cornish beach at dawn in the furthest days of this century. The old woman …
Phil in SF says: 2009 joint winner
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Everyone it seems is after a piece of Turkey. But …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski
One of the most respected writers of hard SF, it has been more than ten years since Joan Slonczewski's last …
Phil in SF says: 2012 joint winner
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The islanders by Christopher Priest
A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what …
Phil in SF says: 2012 joint winner
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Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux
Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Catherine Webb
SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ONE LIFETIME.
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again.
No matter …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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There are two themes to Radiomen. First, if there are aliens interacting with our world they are likely just as …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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The Genius Plague by David Walton
In this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social …
Phil in SF says: 2019 (and final) winner
