John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel

2011

Ian McDonald. The Dervish House

2010

Paolo Bacigalupi. The Windup Girl

What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.

2009 (tie, 1st)

Ian MacLeod. Song of Time

2009 (tie, 1st)

Cory Doctorow. Little Brother

After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

2008

Kathleen Ann Goonan. In War Times

2007

Ben Bova. Titan

It's 2095. After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than of 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Goddard's missions is the study of Titan, which offers the tantalizing possibility that life may exist amid its windswept islands and chill black seas.

2006

Robert J. Sawyer. Mindscan

Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds love, something that eluded him when he was encased in flesh: he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that she's no longer constrained by a worn-out body either. But suddenly Karen's son sues her, claiming that by uploading into an immortal body, she has done him out of his inheritance. Even worse, the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, has taken hostages there, demanding the return of his rights of personhood. In the courtroom and on the lunar surface, the future of uploaded humanity hangs in the balance.

2005

Richard Morgan. Market Forces

Set in a near-future world, where the classes are in direct conflict, media sets the rules, and war is just another commodity to be traded.

2004

Jack McDevitt. Omega

For a quarter of a century, mankind has known about the existence of the malignant omega clouds. Huge waves of deadly energy, they seem bent on destroying any civilization they come across. Now, Earth itself is in the line of fire - though not imminently. An omega is headed toward the planet, but it will not enter the solar system for nine hundred years.

2003

Nancy Kress. Probability Space

In the powerful conclusion to the Probability Trilogy, humanity is losing the war with the alien Fallers. As the action moves from Earth to Mars to the farthest reaches of known space, four humans try to enter the Fallers' home star system.

2002

Robert Charles Wilson. The Chronoliths

In the early 21st century, an American software developer living in Thailand witnesses an event that changes him forever. As he attempts to get his life back on track, he is caught in a strange loop that keeps drawing him back to do battle with the future.

2002

Jack Williamson. Terraforming Earth

In 1942, Jack Williamson coined the term "terraforming" in his novel "Seetee Ship", to refer to what people from Earth did to modify an alien world to make it suitable for humans. Serialized in "Science Fiction Age" and "Analog" magazines, "Terraforming Earth" is a story of struggle and adventure in a future whose history stretches back for millennia and whose civilization spans the stars.

2001

Poul Anderson. Genesis

In classic Anderson fashion, "Genesis" investigates the subjects of human immortality and artificial intelligence a billion years into the future.

2000

Vernor Vinge. A Deepness in the Sky

Readers will marvel at Vernor Vinge's science fiction creation about Qeng Ho who awaits planet Arachna's awakening into a Golden Age of technology while other traders lurk nearby.

1999

George Zebrowski. Brute Orbits

1998

Joe Haldeman. Forever Peace

2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one--not a terrifying prospect, but a tempting one.

1997

Paul McAuley. Fairyland

1996

Stephen Baxter. The Time Ships

The author of Flux and Anti-Ice, and the acknowledged heir to the visionary legacy of Wells, Heinlein, and Clarke, returns to the distant conflict between the Eloi and the Morlocks in a story that is at once an exciting expansion, and a radical departure based on the astonishing new understandings of quantum physics.

1995

Greg Egan. Permutation City

1994

No Award given

1993

Charles Sheffield. Brother to Dragons

1992

Bradley Denton. Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede

1991

Kim Stanley Robinson. Pacific Edge

Each of the novels in Robinson's "Three Californias" trilogy uses the same setting--Orange County in Southern California--but each envisions a radically different future. Pacific Edge shows readers a place transformed by the "green" politics of environmental awareness.

1990

Geoff Ryamn. The Child Garden, or, A Low Comedy

1989

Bruce Sterling. Islands in the Net

1988

Connie Willis. Lincoln's Dreams

As a researcher for a popular historical novelist, Jeff Johnston finds himself immersed in the minutiae of the Civil War. His meeting with Annie, the patient of old friend Dr. Richard Madison, changes his perspective - Annie is having vivid, horrid dreams of the civil war with details she couldn't possibly know.

1987

Joan Slonczewski. A Door Into Ocean

1986

David Brin. The Postman

He was a survivor, a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.

1985

Frederik Pohl. The Years of the City

1984

Gene Wolfe. The Citadel of the Autarch

This dramatic adventure follows Severian as he transforms from a ruthless monster to a savior of a world.

1983

Brian W. Aldiss. Helliconia Spring

A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations-long winter. Helliconia is emerging from its centuries-long winter. The tribes of the equatorial continent emerge from their hiding places and are again able to dispute possession of the planet with the ferocious phagors. In Oldorando, love, trade and coinage are being redisovered. This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy -- a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers.

1982

Russell Hoban. Riddley Walker

1981

Gregory Benford. Timescape

In the year 1998, a group of scientists works desperatey to communicate with the scientists of 1962, warning of an ecological disaster that will destroy the oceans in the future--if it is not averted in the past.

1980

Thomas M. Disch. On Wings of Song

1979

Michael Moorcock. Gloriana

1978

Frederik Pohl. Gateway

The first book of the Heechee saga. Gateway opens on all the wealth of the Universe--and on reaches of unimaginable horror. The humans who rode the alien Heechee spacecraft stored on the planetoid couldn't know whether the trip would make them millionaires or corpses!

1977

Kingsley Amis. The Alteration

1976

Wilson Tucker. The Year of the Quiet Sun

1975

Philip K. Dick. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Stunningly plausible in its portrayal of a neo-fascist America, where everyone informs on everyone else, this Orwellian novel bores deeply into the bedrock of the self--and plants dynamite at its center.

1974

Arthur C. Clarke. Rendezvous with Rama

When a space probe confirms that the celestial object, that astronomers dubbed Rama, is an interstellar space craft, Earth prepares for it's first encounter with alien intelligence.

1974

Robert Merle. Malevil

1973

Barry N. Malzberg. Beyond Apollo