John Campbell Awards
Alongside the Nebula and the Hugo, the Campbell is one of the three major science fiction awards. It recognizes the top science fiction novel of the year. Unlike the Nebulas and Hugos, the Campbell winner is selected by committee. The committee gives a first, second, and third place award and sometimes a "special" award.
The Award is named after John Campbell, former editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine (now known as Analog). Many in the science fiction field have dubbed him as the father of modern science fiction. The award was established by science fiction writers and critics Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss.
Winners
Year |
Award |
Title |
Author |
2004 |
First | Omega | Jack McDevitt |
| Second | Natural History | Justina Robson | |
| Third | The X President | Philip Baruth | |
2003 |
First | Probability Space | Nancy Kress |
| Second | Kiln People | David Brin | |
| Third | Hominids | Robert Sawyer | |
2002 |
First | Terraforming Earth | Jack Williamson |
| First | The Chronoliths | Robert Charles Wilson | |
| Third | Probability Sun | Nancy Kress | |
2001 |
First | Genesis | Poul Anderson |
2000 |
First | A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge |
| Second | Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear | |
| Third | Greenhouse Summer | Norman Spinrad | |
1999 |
First | Brute Orbits | George Zebrowski |
| Second | Starfarers | Poul Anderson | |
| Third | Distraction | Bruce Sterling | |
1998 |
First | Forever Peace | Joe Haldeman |
| Second | Slant | Greg Bear | |
| Third | Secret Passages | Paul Preuss | |
1997 |
First | Fairyland | Paul McAuley |
| Second | Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Third | The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | |
1996 |
First | The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter |
| Second | The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | |
| Third | Chaga | Ian McDonald | |
1995 |
First | Permutation City | Greg Egan |
| Second | Brittle Innings | Michael Bishop | |
1994 |
Second | Beggars in Spain | Nancy Kress |
| Third | Moving Mars | Greg Bear | |
1993 |
First | Brother to Dragons | Charles Sheffield |
| Second | Sideshow | Sheri S. Tepper | |
| Third | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | |
1992 |
First | Buddy Holly is Alive and Well | Bradley Denton |
| Second | The Difference Engine | William Gibson and Bruce Sterling | |
| Third | A Woman of the Iron People | Eleanor Arnason | |
| Third | Stations of the Tide | Michael Swanwick | |
| Third | The Silicon Man | Charles Platt | |
1991 |
First | Pacific Edge | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| Second | Queen of Angels | Greg Bear | |
| Third | Only Begotten Daughter | James Morrow | |
1990 |
First | The Child Garden | Geoff Ryman |
| Second | Farewell Horizontal | K.W. Jeter | |
| Third | Good News From Outer Space | John Kessel | |
1989 |
First | Islands in the Net | Bruce Sterling |
| Second | The Gold Coast | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Third | Dragonsdawn | Anne McCaffrey | |
1988 |
First | Lincoln's Dreams | Connie Willis |
| Second | The Sea and the Summer | George Turner | |
| Third | The Unconquered Country | Geoff Ryman | |
1987 |
First | A Door Into the Ocean | Joan Slonczewski |
| Second | This is the Way the World Ends | James Morrow | |
| Third | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | |
1986 |
First | The Postman | David Brin |
| Second | Galapagos | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| Third | Kiteworld | Keith Roberts | |
| Third | Blood Music | Greg Bear | |
1985 |
First | The Years of the City | Frederik Pohl |
| Second | Green Eyes | Lucius Shepard | |
| Third | Neuromancer | William Gibson | |
1984 |
First | The Citadel of the Autarch | Gene Wolfe |
| Second | The Birth of the People's Republic | John Batchelor | |
| Third | Tik-Tok | John Sladek | |
1983 |
First | Helliconia Spring | Brian Aldiss |
| Second | No Enemy But Time | Michael Bishop | |
1982 |
First | Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban |
1981 |
First | Timescape | Gregory Benford |
| Second | The Dreaming Dragons | Damien Broderick | |
| Third | The Shadow of the Torturer | Gene Wolfe | |
1980 |
First | On Wings of Song | Thomas Disch |
| Second | Engine Summer | John Crowley | |
| Third | The Unlimited Dream Company | J.G. Ballard | |
1979 |
First | Gloriana | Michael Moorcock |
| Second | And Having Writ | Donald Benson | |
| Third | Altered States | Paddy Chayefski | |
1978 |
First | Gateway | Frederik Pohl |
| Second | Roadside Picnic | Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | |
| Third | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | |
1977 |
First | The Alteration | Kingsley Amis |
| Second | Man Plus | Frederik Pohl | |
| Third | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Kate Wilhelm | |
1976 |
First | The Year of the Quiet Sun | Wilson Tucker |
| Second | The Stochastic Man | Robert Silverberg | |
| Third | Orbitsville | Bob Shaw | |
1975 |
First | Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick |
| Second | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
1974 |
First | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke |
| First | Malevil | Robert Merle | |
| Second | The Embedding | Ian Watson | |
| Second | The Green Gene | Peter Dickinson | |
| Special non-fiction | The Cosmic Connectin | Carl Sagan | |
1973 |
First | Beyond Apollo | Barry Malzberg |
| Second | The Listeners | James Gunn | |
| Third | Darkening Island | Christopher Priest | |
| Special award | Dying Inside | Robert Silverberg |
