Award Category: Best Science Fiction Novel (John W. Campbell Memorial Award)

Award Category: Best Science Fiction Novel Award Category Record # 130
Award Type: John W. Campbell Memorial Award

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1973

1	Beyond Apollo	Barry N. Malzberg
2	The Listeners	James E. Gunn
3	Fugue for a Darkening Island	Christopher Priest

1974
1	Malevil (translation of Malevil)	Robert Merle
1	Rendezvous with Rama	Arthur C. Clarke
2	The Embedding	Ian Watson
2	The Green Gene	Peter Dickinson

1975
1	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said	Philip K. Dick
2	The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia	Ursula K. Le Guin

1976
1	----	No Award
2	The Stochastic Man	Robert Silverberg
3	Orbitsville	Bob Shaw

1977
1	The Alteration	Kingsley Amis
2	Man Plus	Frederik Pohl
3	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	Kate Wilhelm

1978
1	Gateway	Frederik Pohl
2	Пикник на обочине^?Piknik na obochine	Аркадий Стругацкий^?Arkady Strugatsky and Борис Стругацкий^?Boris Strugatsky
3	A Scanner Darkly	Philip K. Dick

1979
1	Gloriana, or, The Unfulfill'd Queen	Michael Moorcock
--- Honorable Mentions -------
*	Altered States	Paddy Chayefsky
*	And Having Writ ...	Donald R. Bensen

1980
1	On Wings of Song	Thomas M. Disch
2	Engine Summer	John Crowley
3	The Unlimited Dream Company	J. G. Ballard

1981
1	Timescape	Gregory Benford
2	The Dreaming Dragons	Damien Broderick
3	The Shadow of the Torturer	Gene Wolfe

1982
1	Riddley Walker	Russell Hoban

1983
1	Helliconia Spring	Brian W. Aldiss
2	No Enemy But Time	Michael Bishop

1984
1	The Citadel of the Autarch	Gene Wolfe
2	The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica	John Calvin Batchelor
3	Tik-Tok	John Sladek

1985
1	The Years of the City	Frederik Pohl
2	Green Eyes	Lucius Shepard
3	Neuromancer	William Gibson

1986
1	The Postman	David Brin
2	Galápagos (variant of Galapagos)	Kurt Vonnegut
3	Blood Music	Greg Bear
3	Kiteworld	Keith Roberts

1987
1	A Door Into Ocean	Joan Slonczewski
2	This Is the Way the World Ends	James Morrow
3	Speaker for the Dead	Orson Scott Card

1988
1	Lincoln's Dreams	Connie Willis
2	Drowning Towers (variant of The Sea and Summer)	George Turner
3	The Unconquered Country: A Life History	Geoff Ryman

1989
1	Islands in the Net	Bruce Sterling
2	The Gold Coast	Kim Stanley Robinson
3	Dragonsdawn	Anne McCaffrey

1990
1	The Child Garden	Geoff Ryman
2	Farewell Horizontal	K. W. Jeter
3	Good News from Outer Space	John Kessel

1991
1	Pacific Edge	Kim Stanley Robinson
2	Queen of Angels	Greg Bear
3	Only Begotten Daughter	James Morrow

1992
1	Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede	Bradley Denton
2	The Difference Engine	William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
3	A Woman of the Iron People	Eleanor Arnason
3	Stations of the Tide	Michael Swanwick
3	The Silicon Man	Charles Platt

1993
1	Brother to Dragons	Charles Sheffield
2	Sideshow	Sheri S. Tepper
3	A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge

1994
1	----	No Award
2	Beggars in Spain	Nancy Kress
3	Moving Mars	Greg Bear

1995
1	Permutation City	Greg Egan
2	Brittle Innings	Michael Bishop

1996
1	The Time Ships	Stephen Baxter
2	The Diamond Age	Neal Stephenson
3	Chaga	Ian McDonald

1997
1	Fairyland	Paul J. McAuley
2	Blue Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson
3	The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell

1998
1	Forever Peace	Joe Haldeman
2	/	Greg Bear
3	Secret Passages	Paul Preuss

1999
1	Brute Orbits	George Zebrowski
2	Starfarers	Poul Anderson
3	Distraction	Bruce Sterling

2000
1	A Deepness in the Sky	Vernor Vinge
2	Darwin's Radio	Greg Bear
3	Greenhouse Summer	Norman Spinrad
--- Honorable Mentions -------
*	Starfish	Peter Watts
*	The Silicon Dagger	Jack Williamson

2001
1	Genesis	Poul Anderson
2	Ash: A Secret History (variant of A Secret History)	Mary Gentle
2	Calculating God	Robert J. Sawyer
2	Infinity Beach	Jack McDevitt
3	The Fresco	Sheri S. Tepper

2002
1	Terraforming Earth	Jack Williamson
1	The Chronoliths	Robert Charles Wilson
3	Probability Sun	Nancy Kress
--- Finalists -------
*	Dark Light	Ken MacLeod
*	Deepsix	Jack McDevitt
*	Fallen Dragon	Peter F. Hamilton
*	Hammerfall	C. J. Cherryh
*	Nekropolis	Maureen F. McHugh
*	Pashazade	Jon Courtenay Grimwood
*	Passage	Connie Willis
*	The House of Dust	Paul Johnston
*	The Meek	Scott Mackay

2003
1	Probability Space	Nancy Kress
2	Kiln People	David Brin
3	Hominids	Robert J. Sawyer
--- Finalists -------
*	Bones of the Earth	Michael Swanwick
*	Dark Ararat	Brian Stableford
*	Lion's Blood	Steven Barnes
*	The Golden Age	John C. Wright
*	The Separation	Christopher Priest
*	The Visitor	Sheri S. Tepper
*	Vitals	Greg Bear

2004
1	Omega	Jack McDevitt
2	Natural History	Justina Robson
3	The X President	Philip Baruth
--- Finalists -------
*	Darwin's Children	Greg Bear
*	Jennifer Government	Max Barry
*	Memory	Linda Nagata
*	Red Thunder	John Varley
*	Sister Alice	Robert Reed
*	Star Dragon	Mike Brotherton
*	Storyteller	Amy Thomson
*	The Braided World	Kay Kenyon
*	The Changeling Plague	Syne Mitchell
*	The Companions	Sheri S. Tepper
*	The Wreck of the River of Stars	Michael F. Flynn
*	Untied Kingdom	James Lovegrove

2005
1	Market Forces	Richard Morgan
2	Air	Geoff Ryman
3	The Time Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger
--- Finalists -------
*	City of Pearl	Karen Traviss
*	Gaudeamus	John Barnes
*	Newton's Wake	Ken MacLeod
*	The Boy Who Would Live Forever	Frederik Pohl
*	The Child Goddess	Louise Marley
*	The Plot Against America	Philip Roth
*	The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean	Jack Dann
*	The Well of Stars	Robert Reed
*	White Devils	Paul J. McAuley

2006
1	Mindscan	Robert J. Sawyer
2	Spin	Robert Charles Wilson
3	The Summer Isles	Ian R. MacLeod
--- Finalists -------
*	Accelerando	Charles Stross
*	Child of Earth	David Gerrold
*	Counting Heads	David Marusek
*	Learning the World	Ken MacLeod
*	Mind's Eye	Paul J. McAuley
*	Seeker	Jack McDevitt
*	The Meq	Steve Cash
*	The World Before	Karen Traviss
*	Transcendent	Stephen Baxter

2007
1	Titan	Ben Bova
2	The Last Witchfinder	James Morrow
3	Blindsight	Peter Watts
3	Farthing	Jo Walton
--- Finalists -------
*	A Small and Remarkable Life	Nicholas A. DiChario
*	Dry	Barbara Sapergia
*	Glasshouse	Charles Stross
*	Infoquake	David Louis Edelman
*	Living Next Door to the God of Love	Justina Robson
*	Nova Swing	M. John Harrison
*	Odyssey	Jack McDevitt
*	Rainbows End	Vernor Vinge
*	Sun of Suns	Karl Schroeder

2008
1	In War Times	Kathleen Ann Goonan
2	The Yiddish Policemen's Union	Michael Chabon
3	The Execution Channel	Ken MacLeod
--- Finalists -------
*	Axis	Robert Charles Wilson
*	Bad Monkeys	Matt Ruff
*	Brasyl	Ian McDonald
*	Deadstock	Jeffrey Thomas
*	HARM	Brian W. Aldiss
*	Mainspring	Jay Lake
*	Rollback	Robert J. Sawyer
*	The Margarets	Sheri S. Tepper
*	The New Moon's Arms	Nalo Hopkinson
*	Time's Child	Rebecca Ore
*	Zig Zag (translation of Zig Zag)	José Carlos Somoza

2009
1	Little Brother	Cory Doctorow
1	Song of Time	Ian R. MacLeod
3	The Philosopher's Apprentice	James Morrow
--- Finalists -------
*	Anathem	Neal Stephenson
*	City at the End of Time	Greg Bear
*	Valley of Day-Glo	Nicholas A. DiChario

2010
1	The Windup Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi
2	Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America	Robert Charles Wilson
3	The City & The City	China Miéville^?China Mieville
--- Finalists -------
*	Galileo's Dream	Kim Stanley Robinson
*	Gardens of the Sun	Paul J. McAuley
*	Makers	Cory Doctorow
*	Steal Across the Sky	Nancy Kress
*	The Caryatids	Bruce Sterling
*	The Year of the Flood	Margaret Atwood
*	Transition	Iain M. Banks
*	Wake	Robert J. Sawyer
*	Yellow Blue Tibia	Adam Roberts

2011
1	The Dervish House	Ian McDonald
2	How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe	Charles Yu
3	The Quantum Thief	Hannu Rajaniemi
--- Finalists -------
*	All Clear	Connie Willis
*	Anthill	E. O. Wilson
*	Aurorarama	Jean-Christophe Valtat
*	Blackout	Connie Willis
*	C	Tom McCarthy
*	Hull Zero Three	Greg Bear
*	New Model Army	Adam Roberts
*	The Waters Rising	Sheri S. Tepper
*	Veteran	Gavin G. Smith
*	Yarn	Jon Armstrong
*	Zero History	William Gibson

2012
1	The Highest Frontier	Joan Slonczewski
1	The Islanders	Christopher Priest
3	Embassytown	China Miéville^?China Mieville
--- Finalists -------
*	Dancing with Bears	Michael Swanwick
*	Home Fires	Gene Wolfe
*	Ready Player One	Ernest Cline
*	Robopocalypse	Daniel H. Wilson
*	Seed	Rob Ziegler
*	Soft Apocalypse	Will McIntosh
*	This Shared Dream	Kathleen Ann Goonan
--- Honorable Mentions -------
*	Osama	Lavie Tidhar

2013
1	Jack Glass	Adam Roberts
2	Any Day Now	Terry Bisson
3	Alif the Unseen	G. Willow Wilson
3	Empty Space	M. John Harrison
--- Finalists -------
*	2312	Kim Stanley Robinson
*	Blue Remembered Earth	Alastair Reynolds
*	Existence	David Brin
*	Intrusion	Ken MacLeod
*	Railsea	China Miéville^?China Mieville
*	Slow Apocalypse	John Varley
*	The Fractal Prince	Hannu Rajaniemi
*	The Hydrogen Sonata	Iain M. Banks
*	The Rapture of the Nerds	Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross

2014
1	Strange Bodies	Marcel Theroux
--- Finalists -------
*	Ancillary Justice	Ann Leckie
*	Evening's Empires	Paul McAuley
*	Hild	Nicola Griffith
*	Lexicon	Max Barry
*	Neptune's Brood	Charles Stross
*	On the Steel Breeze	Alastair Reynolds
*	Proxima	Stephen Baxter
*	Shaman	Kim Stanley Robinson
*	The Adjacent	Christopher Priest
*	The Circle	Dave Eggers
*	The Cusanus Game (translation of Das Cusanus-Spiel)	Wolfgang Jeschke
*	The Disestablishment of Paradise	Phillip Mann
*	The Red: First Light	Linda Nagata
*	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves	Karen Joy Fowler

2015
1	The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August	Catherine Webb
2	A Darkling Sea	James L. Cambias
3	The Three-Body Problem (translation of 三体^?Sān tǐ )	Cixin Liu
--- Finalists -------
*	Afterparty	Daryl Gregory
*	Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy	Jeff VanderMeer
*	Bête	Adam Roberts
*	Defenders	Will McIntosh
*	Echopraxia	Peter Watts
*	Europe in Autumn	Dave Hutchinson
*	Lock In	John Scalzi
*	Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel
*	The Bees	Laline Paull
*	The Martian	Andy Weir
*	The Peripheral	William Gibson
*	The Race	Nina Allan
*	Wolves	Simon Ings

2016
1	Radiomen	Eleanor Lerman
2	Going Dark	Linda Nagata
2	The Thing Itself	Adam Roberts
3	The Water Knife	Paolo Bacigalupi
--- Finalists -------
*	Aurora	Kim Stanley Robinson
*	Europe at Midnight	Dave Hutchinson
*	Galápagos Regained^?Galapagos Regained	James Morrow
*	Luna: New Moon	Ian McDonald
*	Seveneves	Neal Stephenson
*	The Book of Phoenix	Nnedi Okorafor
*	Where	Kit Reed

2017
1	Central Station	Lavie Tidhar
2	Rosewater	Tade Thompson
3	The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead
3	Underground Airlines	Ben H. Winters
--- Finalists -------
*	Alien Morning	Rick Wilber
*	Azanian Bridges	Nick Wood
*	Everfair	Nisi Shawl
*	Into Everywhere	Paul J. McAuley
*	Occupy Me	Tricia Sullivan
*	The Arrival of Missives	Aliya Whiteley
*	The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe	Kij Johnson
*	The Medusa Chronicles	Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds
*	Zero K	Don DeLillo

2018
1	The Genius Plague	David Walton
2	The Moon and the Other	John Kessel
2	The People's Police	Norman Spinrad
3	The Rift	Nina Allan
--- Finalists -------
*	After the Flare	Deji Bryce Olukotun
*	Austral	Paul McAuley
*	Autonomous	Annalee Newitz
*	Borne	Jeff VanderMeer
*	Future Home of the Living God	Louise Erdrich
*	New York 2140	Kim Stanley Robinson
*	The Stargazer's Embassy	Eleanor Lerman
*	The Stars Are Legion	Kameron Hurley
*	Tropic of Kansas	Christopher Brown (I)

2019
1	Blackfish City	Sam J. Miller
2	The Calculating Stars	Mary Robinette Kowal
3	Theory of Bastards	Audrey Schulman
--- Finalists -------
*	A Spy in Time	Imraan Coovadia
*	Moon of the Crusted Snow	Waubgeshig Rice
*	Semiosis	Sue Burke
*	Space Opera	Catherynne M. Valente
*	The Freeze-Frame Revolution	Peter Watts
*	The Loosening Skin	Aliya Whiteley
*	Time Was	Ian McDonald
*	Unholy Land	Lavie Tidhar

Award Category: Best Science Fiction Novel (John W. Campbell Memorial Award)

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