Finalists for the Thodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction in 1999:

• "Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance" by Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's, 9/99)
• "The Window" by Judith Berman (Asimov's, 8/99)
• "macs" by Terry Bisson (F&SF, 10-11/1999)
• "Reality Check" by Michael A. Burstein (Analog, 11/99)
• "The Giftie" by James Gunn (Analog, 9/99)
• "Suicide Coast" by M. John Harrison (F&SF, 7/99)
• "Five Days in April" by Brian Hopkins (Chiaroscuro Ezine http://www.gothic.net/chiaroscuro/chizine/fivedays.htm, 7/99)
• "The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's, 12/99)
• "The Wedding Album," by David Marusek (Asimov's, 6/99)
• "Once Upon a Matter Crushed" by Wil McCarthy (SF Age, 7/99)
• "Winemaster" by Robert Reed (F&SF, 7/99)
• "Everywhere" Geoff Ryman (Interzone, 2/99)
• "Jennifer, Just Before Midnight" by William Sanders (F&SF, 8/99)
• "Green Tea" by Richard Wadholm (Asimov's, 10-11/99)
• "Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams (Not of Woman Born, Constance Ash, ed., Roc, 3/99)

For its first eight years, the award was selected by a committee of short-fiction experts headed by Orson Scott Card. Beginning in 1995, the award was selected by a committee composed of James Gunn, Frederik Pohl, and Judith Merril; after the 1996 awards, Judith Merril resigned and was replaced by Kij Johnson, the 1994 Sturgeon winner. The semi-finalists were chosen by a committee of some two dozen writers, editors, or reviewers of short SF. The committee was chaired by Dave Truesdale, editor and publisher of the short SF and fantasy review journal Tangent, and writer Christopher McKitterick.

This year the committee will also have input from Andros Sturgeon. The 1999 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award will be presented at a banquet on July 7, 2000 in Lawrence, Kansas, in conjunction with the presentation of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel and the 2000 inductees to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

For further information contact: James Gunn, English Dept., University of Kansas, 3114 Wescoe Hall Lawrence, KS 66045-2115 sfcenter@falcon.cc.ukans.edu