Campbell Memorial Award Public

Created by Phil in SF

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.

  1. Islands in the Net by 

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    Bruce Sterling is the colorful rhetorician behind science fiction's new New Wave, the "cyberpunk" movement. His 1985 novel Schismatrix was …

    Phil in SF says:

    1989 winner

  2. The Child Garden by 

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    In semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddyfields, bathed in sunshine, the people photosynthesise. The Consensus, a vast DNA unit, controls the …

    Phil in SF says:

    1990 winner

  3. Pacific Edge by  (Orange County Trilogy, #3)

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    Humanity's first space station was Planet Earth itself, and the ecologic and economic disasters of the Twentieth Century brought it …

    Phil in SF says:

    1991 winner

  4. Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede by 

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    Bradley Denton breaks into hardcover with Buddy Holly Alive and Well on Ganymede, an extraordinary novel of realism and …

    Phil in SF says:

    1992 winner

  5. Brother to Dragons by 

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    The power of one. . . .

    Job. Against all evidence he never lost faith in his fellow man.

    Job. …

    Phil in SF says:

    1993 winner

  6. Permutation City by 

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    In our children's children's children's future, immortality is possible. The human mind can be scanned and downloaded into virtual environments. …

    Phil in SF says:

    1995 winner

  7. The Time Ships by 

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    There is a secret passage through time ...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the …

    Phil in SF says:

    1996 winner

  8. Fairyland by 

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    Before he met the brilliant, hypnotic child Milena, Alex Sharkey had never played with "dolls"—blue-skinned, gengineered lifeforms designed for work, …

    Phil in SF says:

    1997 winner

  9. Forever Peace by 

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    Joe Haldeman returns with a story about the horrors of war -- and how we might move past them. Julian …

    Phil in SF says:

    1998 winner

  10. Brute Orbits by 

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    It is the twenty-first century. Suffering from global warming and overpopulation, Earth is opening the solar system to industrialization. One …

    Phil in SF says:

    1999 winner

  11. A deepness in the sky by 

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    Phil in SF says:

    2000 winner

  12. Genesis by 

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    Astronaut Christian Brannock has lived to see artificial intelligence develop to a point where a human personality can be uploaded …

    Phil in SF says:

    2001 winner

  13. Terraforming Earth by 

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    Jack Williamson, the dean of American science fiction writers, has written some of the most imaginative and exciting speculative fiction …

    Phil in SF says:

    2002 joint winner

  14. Probability Space by  (Probability Trilogy, #3)

    In Probability Space, humanity's war with the alien Fallers continues, and it is a war we are losing. Our implacable …

    Phil in SF says:

    2003 winner

  15. Omega by  (The Academy, #4)

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    Now, the writer who gets better with every book delivers a scorching novel of destruction and heroism-on a galactic scale. …

    Phil in SF says:

    2004 winner

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