John W Campbell Award
Entry updated 12 August 2024. Tagged: Award.
Award for the best new sf or fantasy author, selected by votes of sf fans and invariably presented at the Worldcon as part of the Hugo ceremony. There is a two-year eligibility period: an author first published in 2000 would be eligible for the 2001 or 2002 award but not thereafter. Sponsored by Condé-Nast, publishers of Analog, the John W Campbell Award was instituted in 1972 in tribute to John W Campbell Jr, its well-known editor, who died in 1971. Davis Publications continued the sponsorship when Analog passed into their hands. The anthology series New Voices, edited by George R R Martin, was devoted to printing original novellas (written a few years later) by, in each volume, a given year's finalists; it ceased after five volumes. Several of the winners were, at the time of receiving the award, primarily fantasy writers.
Following ongoing controversy about the association of John W Campbell Jr's name with the award – in view of his expressed opinions on such fraught topics as race (see Race in SF) and Slavery – it was announced in late August 2019 by Trevor Quachri, the current editor of Analog, that the award would henceforth be called The Astounding Award for Best New Writer. [PR/PN/DRL]
Winners
- 1973: Jerry Pournelle
- 1974: Lisa Tuttle and Spider Robinson
- 1975: P J Plauger
- 1976: Tom Reamy
- 1977: C J Cherryh
- 1978: Orson Scott Card
- 1979: Stephen R Donaldson
- 1980: Barry B Longyear
- 1981: Somtow Sucharitkul (S P Somtow)
- 1982: Alexis Gilliland
- 1983: Paul O Williams
- 1984: R A MacAvoy
- 1985: Lucius Shepard
- 1986: Melissa Scott
- 1987: Karen Joy Fowler
- 1988: Judith Moffett
- 1989: Michaela Roessner
- 1990: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- 1991: Julia Ecklar
- 1992: Ted Chiang
- 1993: Laura Resnick
- 1994: Amy Thomson
- 1995: Jeff Noon
- 1996: David Feintuch
- 1997: Michael A Burstein
- 1998: Mary Doria Russell
- 1999: Nalo Hopkinson
- 2000: Cory Doctorow
- 2001: Kristine Smith
- 2002: Jo Walton
- 2003: Wen Spencer
- 2004: Jay Lake
- 2005: Elizabeth Bear
- 2006: John Scalzi
- 2007: Naomi Novik
- 2008: Mary Robinette Kowal
- 2009: David Anthony Durham
- 2010: Seanan McGuire
- 2011: Lev Grossman
- 2012: E Lily Yu
- 2013: Mur Lafferty
- 2014: Sofia Samatar
- 2015: Wesley Chu
- 2016: Andy Weir
- 2017: Ada Palmer
- 2018: Rebecca Roanhorse
- 2019: Jeannette Ng
Winners of the renamed Astounding Award
- 2020: R F Kuang
- 2021: Emily Tesh
- 2022: Shelley Parker-Chan
- 2023: Travis Baldree
- 2024: Xiran Jay Zhao
see also: Women SF Writers.
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