Rollback nominated for Campbell Memorial Award
by Rob - June 11th, 2008.Filed under: Mindscan.
I’m delighted to report that my novel Rollback has just been nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the top juried award in the science-fiction field.
The full list of nominees is here.
The Campbell jurors are:
- Nebula-winning physicist Gregory Benford, author of the classic SF novel Timescape
- Historian Paul A. Carter, author of The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction
- Hugo-winning author and scholar James Gunn, past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and SFWA Grand Master Award recipient
- Elizabeth Anne Hull, past president of the Science Fiction Research Association
- Christopher McKitterick, associate director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction
- Hugo-winning scholar Farah Mendlesohn, editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
- Nebula-winning author and editor Pamela Sargent, editor of the Women of Wonder anthologies
- T.A. Shippey, editor of The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
The winner will be announced at the joint Campbell / Science Fiction Research Association conference in Kansas City, July 10-13, 2008.
Other honors to date for Rollback include its current Hugo Award nomination, a nomination for the Aurora Award, starred reviews (denoting a book of exceptional merit) in both Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, being included on the American Library Association’s list of the year’s 10 best SF novels, and being a Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club.
This is my fourth Campbell Memorial Award nomination. I won the award in 2006 for Mindscan, and was previously also nominated for Calculating God and Hominids. That’s my trophy for Mindscan pictured above.
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