Finalists for this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction have been selected. The awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banqueton Friday, June 16, as part of the annual Campbell Conference.
Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House has won the Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year, and Geoffrey A. Landis’s “The Sultan of the Clouds” has won the Sturgeon Award for the best short science fiction of the year.
When vampire Roxanne resurrects her deceased best friends, she’s confronted by a dream-dwelling Guardian of the Underworld, who demands that she replace them in his afterlife with three equally nefarious creatures—or he’ll drag her there instead.
Author of the Halberd series (Gallantry in Action, In Harm’s Way, True Allegiance, and Surrender Demand) and the Sandy Pike series (Pike’s Potential–Cygnus Award semifinalist, Pike’s Passage–BookLife Prize finalist, and Pike’s Progress).
