Winners of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. Do not confuse with the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer which is given by a different organzation.
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Winners of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. Do not confuse with the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer which is given by a different organzation.
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Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
3 stars
Bruce Sterling is the colorful rhetorician behind science fiction's new New Wave, the "cyberpunk" movement. His 1985 novel Schismatrix was …
Phil in SF says: 1989 winner
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The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
In semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddyfields, bathed in sunshine, the people photosynthesise. The Consensus, a vast DNA unit, controls the …
Phil in SF says: 1990 winner
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Pacific edge by Kim Stanley Robinson
3 stars
2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in …
Phil in SF says: 1991 winner
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Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede by Bradley Denton
Bradley Denton breaks into hardcover with Buddy Holly Alive and Well on Ganymede, an extraordinary novel of realism and …
Phil in SF says: 1992 winner
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Brother to Dragons by Charles Sheffield
The power of one. . . .
Job. Against all evidence he never lost faith in his fellow man.
…Phil in SF says: 1993 winner
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4 stars
Permutation City is a 1994 science-fiction novel by Greg Egan that explores many concepts, including quantum ontology, through various philosophical …
Phil in SF says: 1995 winner
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The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
1 star
The Time Ships is a 1995 hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. A canonical sequel to the 1895 novella …
Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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Before he met the brilliant, hypnotic child Milena, Alex Sharkey had never played with "dolls"—blue-skinned, gengineered lifeforms designed for work, …
Phil in SF says: 1997 winner
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2 stars
Joe Haldeman returns with a story about the horrors of war -- and how we might move past them. Julian …
Phil in SF says: 1998 winner
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Brute Orbits by George Zebrowski
It is the twenty-first century. Suffering from global warming and overpopulation, Earth is opening the solar system to industrialization. One …
Phil in SF says: 1999 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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Astronaut Christian Brannock has lived to see artificial intelligence develop to a point where a human personality can be uploaded …
Phil in SF says: 2001 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2002 joint winner
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Terraforming Earth by Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson, the dean of American science fiction writers, has written some of the most imaginative and exciting speculative fiction …
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Probability Space by Nancy Kress (Probability Trilogy, #3)
Nancy Kress cemented her reputation in SF with the publication of her multiple-award–winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," which became the …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
