Sturgeon and Campbell award complete winner listings

After the controversy and drama of this weekend's award results. I want to thank Science Fiction Award Watch blog for sticking with it and adding some sanity. Here are the full results of the Campbell and Sturgeon awards.

Campbell

• 1st In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan
• 2nd The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon
• 3rd The Execution Channel, Ken MacLeod

Sturgeon

• 1st (tie) “Tidelines,” Elizabeth Bear
• 1st (tie) “Finisterra,” David R. Moles
• 2nd (tie) “Memorare,” Gene Wolfe
• 2nd (tie) “The Master Miller’s Tale,” Ian R. MacLeod

Campbell & Sturgeon award winners?!

Wow, there has been some weirdness lately as concerns the current crop of awards. What I have been hearing is some real strangeness from Locus which is changing its voting system and now the Kansas City infoZine website seems to have leaked the winners of the Campbell and Sturgeon awards that were to be announced Friday.

The Campbell award will go to "In War Times" by Kathleen Ann Goonan. For the first time, there are two winners of the Sturgeon award: "Finisterra" by David R. Moles and "Tidelines" by Elizabeth Bear.

Kinda feels like cheatin huh? lol wonder whats up

infoZine via Science Fiction Award Watch

A rare confluence of sci-fi and history

Jay Garmon over at Geekend blog came up with a coincidence in the date July 11th.
He writes:

*Take a moment to recognize one of those odd historical coincidences that history occasionally *serves up: Today is the anniversary of both Cordwainer Smith’s birth and John W. Campbell’s *death. For those outside sci-fi literature, this date probably goes utterly unnoticed, but it *shouldn’t. These two men literally changed the course of not just science fiction, but history *itself.


As you know Campbell was the editor of the pulp fiction mag Astounding Science Fiction (today known as Analog Science Fiction & Fact) from 1937 until his death on this date in 1971.

and Cordwainer Smith's fiction well was vividly bizarre with an emphasis on psychological distortions and strange devices.

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The Thing remake

SF SIGNALS reports: Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter's SF horror movie The Thing, with Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ronald D. Moore writing the script, Variety reported. The 1982 original dealt with a shapeshifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic station. That film in turn was a remake of the 1951 classic SF movie The Thing From Another World, which was adapted from the 1938 short story "Who Goes There?" by legendary SF author John W. Campbell Jr.
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