# John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, was an annual award presented to the author of the best science fiction novel published in English in the preceding calendar year. It was given by several organizations from 1973 to 1979 and then by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas until 2019. It was the novel counterpart of the Theodore Sturgeon Award for best short story, awarded at the same conference by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust. The award was named in honor of John W. Campbell (1910–1971), whose science fiction writing and role as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact made him one of the most influential editors in the early history of science fiction. The award was established in 1973 by writers and critics Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss "as a way of continuing his efforts to encourage writers to produce their best possible work." Locus magazine listed it as one of the "major awards" of written science fiction.
The winning novel was selected by a panel of science fiction experts, intended to be "small enough to discuss among its members all of the nominated novels". Among members of the panel have been Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Christopher McKitterick, Farah Mendlesohn, Pamela Sargent, and Tom Shippey. In 2008 Mendlesohn was replaced with Paul Kincaid, in 2009 Carter left the panel while Paul Di Filippo and Sheila Finch joined, and Lisa Yaszek replaced Di Filippo in 2016. Nominations were submitted by publishers and jurors, and collated by the panel into a list of finalists to be voted on. The minimum eligible length that a work may be is not formally defined by the center. The winner was selected by May of each year, and was for a number of years presented during the Campbell Conference awards banquet in Lawrence as part of the centerpiece of the conference along with the Sturgeon Award. The award was given at this conference since 1979; prior to then it was awarded at various locations around the world, starting at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. Winners were invited to attend the ceremony. James Gunn had maintained a trophy which records all of the winners on engraved plaques affixed to the sides, and since 2004 winners received a smaller personalized trophy as well. In 2019, McKitterick (the award's chair) announced plans to rename both the conference and the award. Both the conference and the award were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center for the Study of Science Fiction itself was taken over by the English department of the University of Kansas in 2022, which subsequently ended the conference and award.
During the 47 years the award was active, 183 authors had works nominated; 47 of these authors won. In two years, 1976 and 1994, the panel selected none of the nominees as a winner, while in 1974, 2002, 2009, and 2012 the panel selected two winners rather than one. Frederik Pohl and Joan Slonczewski each won twice, the only authors to do so, out of four and two nominations, respectively. Kim Stanley Robinson and Paul J. McAuley won once out of seven nominations, and Jack McDevitt, Ian McDonald, Adam Roberts, and Robert J. Sawyer won once out of five nominations, while Nancy Kress, Bruce Sterling, and Robert Charles Wilson won once out of four nominations. Greg Bear had the most nominations without winning at nine, followed by Sheri S. Tepper at six, James K. Morrow at five, and William Gibson, Ken MacLeod, Charles Stross, and Peter Watts at four.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist. Entries with a gray background and a plus sign (+) indicate a year where no novel was selected as the winner.
* Winners  + No winner selected
Winners and nominees :
| Year | Author | Novel | Publisher |
| 1973 | Barry N. Malzberg* | Beyond Apollo | Random House |
| 1973 | James E. Gunn | The Listeners | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 1973 | Christopher Priest | Darkening Island | Harper & Row |
| 1974 | Robert Merle* | Malevil | Simon & Schuster |
| 1974 | Arthur C. Clarke* | Rendezvous with Rama | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| 1974 | Ian Watson | The Embedding | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 1974 | Peter Dickinson | The Green Gene | Anchor Books |
| 1975 | Philip K. Dick* | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Doubleday |
| 1975 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Dispossessed | Harper & Row |
| 1976 | (no award)+ | | |
| 1976 | Robert Silverberg | The Stochastic Man | Harper & Row |
| 1976 | Bob Shaw | Orbitsville | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1977 | Kingsley Amis* | The Alteration | Viking Press |
| 1977 | Frederik Pohl | Man Plus | Random House |
| 1977 | Kate Wilhelm | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Harper & Row |
| 1978 | Frederik Pohl* | Gateway | St. Martin's Press |
| 1978 | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | Roadside Picnic and Tale of the Troika | Macmillan Publishers |
| 1978 | Philip K. Dick | A Scanner Darkly | Doubleday |
| 1979 | Michael Moorcock* | Gloriana | Avon Publications |
| 1979 | Paddy Chayefsky | Altered States | Harper & Row |
| 1979 | Donald R. Bensen | And Having Writ... | Bobbs-Merrill Company |
| 1980 | Thomas M. Disch* | On Wings of Song | St. Martin's Press |
| 1980 | John Crowley | Engine Summer | Doubleday |
| 1980 | J. G. Ballard | The Unlimited Dream Company | Holt, Rinehart & Winston |
| 1981 | Gregory Benford* | Timescape | Simon & Schuster |
| 1981 | Damien Broderick | The Dreaming Dragons | Pocket Books |
| 1981 | Gene Wolfe | The Shadow of the Torturer | Simon & Schuster |
| 1982 | Russell Hoban* | Riddley Walker | Jonathan Cape |
| 1983 | Brian W. Aldiss* | Helliconia Spring | Atheneum Books |
| 1983 | Michael Bishop | No Enemy But Time | Timescape |
| 1984 | Gene Wolfe* | The Citadel of the Autarch | Timescape |
| 1984 | John Batchelor | The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica | Dial Press |
| 1984 | John Sladek | Tik-Tok | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1985 | Frederik Pohl* | The Years of the City | Timescape |
| 1985 | Lucius Shepard | Green Eyes | Ace Books |
| 1985 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | Ace Books |
| 1986 | David Brin* | The Postman | Bantam Spectra |
| 1986 | Kurt Vonnegut | Galápagos | Delacorte Press |
| 1986 | Greg Bear | Blood Music | Arbor House |
| 1986 | Keith Roberts | Kiteworld | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1987 | Joan Slonczewski* | A Door into Ocean | Arbor House |
| 1987 | James K. Morrow | This Is the Way the World Ends | Henry Holt and Company |
| 1987 | Orson Scott Card | Speaker for the Dead | Tor Books |
| 1988 | Connie Willis* | Lincoln's Dreams | Bantam Spectra |
| 1988 | George Turner | The Sea and Summer | Faber and Faber |
| 1988 | Geoff Ryman | The Unconquered Country | Bantam Spectra |
| 1989 | Bruce Sterling* | Islands in the Net | Arbor House |
| 1989 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Gold Coast | Tor Books |
| 1989 | Anne McCaffrey | Dragonsdawn | Del Rey Books |
| 1990 | Geoff Ryman* | The Child Garden | Unwin Hyman |
| 1990 | K. W. Jeter | Farewell Horizontal | St. Martin's Press |
| 1990 | John Kessel | Good News From Outer Space | Tor Books |
| 1991 | Kim Stanley Robinson* | Pacific Edge | Tor Books |
| 1991 | Greg Bear | Queen of Angels | Questar Science Fiction |
| 1991 | James K. Morrow | Only Begotten Daughter | William Morrow and Company |
| 1992 | Bradley Denton* | Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede | William Morrow and Company |
| 1992 | William Gibson | The Difference Engine | Bantam Spectra |
| 1992 | Bruce Sterling | The Difference Engine | Bantam Spectra |
| 1992 | Charles Platt | The Silicon Man | William Morrow and Company |
| 1992 | Michael Swanwick | Stations of the Tide | William Morrow and Company |
| 1993 | Charles Sheffield* | Brother to Dragons | Baen Books |
| 1993 | Sheri S. Tepper | Sideshow | Bantam Spectra |
| 1993 | Vernor Vinge | A Fire Upon the Deep | Tor Books |
| 1994 | (no award)+ | | |
| 1994 | Nancy Kress | Beggars in Spain | Morrow AvoNova |
| 1994 | Greg Bear | Moving Mars | Tor Books |
| 1995 | Greg Egan* | Permutation City | Millennium |
| 1995 | Michael Bishop | Brittle Innings | Bantam Books |
| 1996 | Stephen Baxter* | The Time Ships | HarperCollins |
| 1996 | Neal Stephenson | The Diamond Age | Bantam Spectra |
| 1996 | Ian McDonald | Chaga | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1997 | Paul J. McAuley* | Fairyland | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1997 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Blue Mars | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1997 | Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | Villard |
| 1998 | Joe Haldeman* | Forever Peace | Ace Books |
| 1998 | Greg Bear | Slant | Tor Books |
| 1998 | Paul Preuss | Secret Passages | Tor Books |
| 1999 | George Zebrowski* | Brute Orbits | HarperPrism |
| 1999 | Poul Anderson | Starfarers | Tor Books |
| 1999 | Bruce Sterling | Distraction | Bantam Spectra |
| 2000 | Vernor Vinge* | A Deepness in the Sky | Tor Books |
| 2000 | Greg Bear | Darwin's Radio | Del Rey Books |
| 2000 | Norman Spinrad | Greenhouse Summer | Tor Books |
| 2000 | Jack Williamson | The Silicon Dagger | Tor Books |
| 2000 | Peter Watts | Starfish | Tor Books |
| 2001 | Poul Anderson* | Genesis | Tor Books |
| 2001 | Mary Gentle | Ash: A Secret History | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2001 | Robert J. Sawyer | Calculating God | Tor Books |
| 2001 | Jack McDevitt | Infinity Beach | HarperPrism |
| 2001 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Fresco | Eos |
| 2002 | Robert Charles Wilson* | The Chronoliths | Tor Books |
| 2002 | Jack Williamson* | Terraforming Earth | Tor Books |
| 2002 | Nancy Kress | Probability Sun | Tor Books |
| 2002 | Ken MacLeod | Dark Light | Orbit Books |
| 2002 | Jack McDevitt | Deepsix | Eos |
| 2002 | Peter F. Hamilton | Fallen Dragon | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2002 | C. J. Cherryh | Hammerfall | Eos |
| 2002 | Paul Johnston | The House of Dust | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2002 | Scott Mackay | The Meek | Roc Books |
| 2002 | Maureen F. McHugh | Nekropolis | Eos |
| 2002 | Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Pashazade: The First Arabesk | Earthlight |
| 2002 | Connie Willis | Passage | Bantam Books |
| 2003 | Nancy Kress* | Probability Space | Tor Books |
| 2003 | David Brin | Kiln People | Tor Books |
| 2003 | Robert J. Sawyer | Hominids | Tor Books |
| 2003 | Michael Swanwick | Bones of the Earth | Eos |
| 2003 | Brian Stableford | Dark Ararat | Tor Books |
| 2003 | John C. Wright | The Golden Age | Tor Books |
| 2003 | Steven Barnes | Lion's Blood | Warner Aspect |
| 2003 | Christopher Priest | The Separation | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 2003 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Visitor | Eos |
| 2003 | Greg Bear | Vitals | Del Rey Books |
| 2004 | Jack McDevitt* | Omega | Ace Books |
| 2004 | Justina Robson | Natural History | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2004 | Philip Baruth | The X President | Bantam Books |
| 2004 | Kay Kenyon | The Braided World | Bantam Books |
| 2004 | Syne Mitchell | The Changeling Plague | Roc Books |
| 2004 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Companions | Eos |
| 2004 | Greg Bear | Darwin's Children | Del Rey Books |
| 2004 | Max Barry | Jennifer Government | Doubleday |
| 2004 | Linda Nagata | Memory | Tor Books |
| 2004 | John Varley | Red Thunder | Ace Books |
| 2004 | Robert Reed | Sister Alice | Orbit Books |
| 2004 | Mike Brotherton | Star Dragon | Tor Books |
| 2004 | Amy Thomson | Storyteller | Ace Books |
| 2004 | James Lovegrove | Untied Kingdom | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2004 | Michael F. Flynn | The Wreck of the River of Stars | Tor Books |
| 2005 | Richard Morgan* | Market Forces | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2005 | Geoff Ryman | Air | St. Martin's Griffin |
| 2005 | Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife | MacAdam/Cage |
| 2005 | Frederik Pohl | The Boy Who Would Live Forever | Tor Books |
| 2005 | Louise Marley | The Child Goddess | Ace Books |
| 2005 | Karen Traviss | City of Pearl | Eos |
| 2005 | John Barnes | Gaudeamus | Tor Books |
| 2005 | Ken MacLeod | Newton's Wake | Tor Books |
| 2005 | Philip Roth | The Plot Against America | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 2005 | Jack Dann | The Rebel | William Morrow and Company |
| 2005 | Robert Reed | The Well of Stars | Orbit Books |
| 2005 | Paul J. McAuley | White Devils | Simon & Schuster |
| 2006 | Robert J. Sawyer* | Mindscan | Tor Books |
| 2006 | Robert Charles Wilson | Spin | Tor Books |
| 2006 | Ian R. MacLeod | The Summer Isles | Aio Publishing |
| 2006 | Charles Stross | Accelerando | Ace Books |
| 2006 | David Gerrold | Child of Earth | BenBella Books |
| 2006 | David Marusek | Counting Heads | Tor Books |
| 2006 | Ken MacLeod | Learning the World | Tor Books |
| 2006 | Steve Cash | The Meq | Tor Books |
| 2006 | Paul J. McAuley | Mind's Eye | Simon & Schuster |
| 2006 | Jack McDevitt | Seeker | Ace Books |
| 2006 | Stephen Baxter | Transcendent | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2006 | Karen Traviss | The World Before | Eos |
| 2007 | Ben Bova* | Titan | Tor Books |
| 2007 | James K. Morrow | The Last Witchfinder | William Morrow and Company |
| 2007 | Peter Watts | Blindsight | Tor Books |
| 2007 | Jo Walton | Farthing | Tor Books |
| 2007 | Barbara Sapergia | Dry | Coteau Books |
| 2007 | Charles Stross | Glasshouse | Ace Books |
| 2007 | David Louis Edelman | Infoquake | Pyr |
| 2007 | Justina Robson | Living Next Door to the God of Love | Tor Books |
| 2007 | M. John Harrison | Nova Swing | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2007 | Jack McDevitt | Odyssey | Ace Books |
| 2007 | Vernor Vinge | Rainbows End | Tor Books |
| 2007 | Nick DiChario | A Small and Remarkable Life | Robert J. Sawyer Books |
| 2007 | Karl Schroeder | Sun of Suns | Tor Books |
| 2008 | Kathleen Ann Goonan* | In War Times | Tor Books |
| 2008 | Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | HarperCollins |
| 2008 | Ken MacLeod | The Execution Channel | Tor Books |
| 2008 | Robert Charles Wilson | Axis | Tor Books |
| 2008 | Matt Ruff | Bad Monkeys | HarperCollins |
| 2008 | Ian McDonald | Brasyl | Pyr |
| 2008 | Jeffrey Thomas | Deadstock | Solaris Books |
| 2008 | Brian W. Aldiss | HARM | Del Rey Books |
| 2008 | Jay Lake | Mainspring | Tor Books |
| 2008 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Margarets | Eos |
| 2008 | Nalo Hopkinson | The New Moon's Arms | Warner |
| 2008 | Robert J. Sawyer | Rollback | Tor Books |
| 2008 | Rebecca Ore | Time's Child | Eos |
| 2008 | José Carlos Somoza | Zig Zag | Rayo |
| 2009 | Cory Doctorow* | Little Brother | Tor Books |
| 2009 | Ian R. MacLeod* | Song of Time | PS Publishing |
| 2009 | James K. Morrow | The Philosopher's Apprentice | William Morrow and Company |
| 2009 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | William Morrow and Company |
| 2009 | Greg Bear | City at the End of Time | Del Rey Books |
| 2009 | Nick DiChario | Valley of Day-Glo | Robert J. Sawyer Books |
| 2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi* | The Windup Girl | Night Shade Books |
| 2010 | Robert Charles Wilson | Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America | Tor Books |
| 2010 | China Miéville | The City & the City | Del Rey Books |
| 2010 | Bruce Sterling | The Caryatids | Del Rey Books |
| 2010 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Galileo's Dream | Ballantine Spectra |
| 2010 | Paul J. McAuley | Gardens of the Sun | Pyr |
| 2010 | Cory Doctorow | Makers | Tor Books |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress | Steal Across the Sky | Tor Books |
| 2010 | Iain M. Banks | Transition | Orbit Books |
| 2010 | Robert J. Sawyer | WWW: Wake | Ace Books |
| 2010 | Margaret Atwood | The Year of the Flood | Nan A. Talese |
| 2010 | Adam Roberts | Yellow Blue Tibia | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2011 | Ian McDonald* | The Dervish House | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2011 | Charles Yu | How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Pantheon Books |
| 2011 | Hannu Rajaniemi | The Quantum Thief | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2011 | E. O. Wilson | Anthill | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2011 | Jean-Christophe Valtat | Aurorarama | Melville House Publishing |
| 2011 | Connie Willis | Blackout/All Clear | Bantam Spectra |
| 2011 | Tom McCarthy | C | Alfred A. Knopf |
| 2011 | Greg Bear | Hull Zero Three | Orbit Books |
| 2011 | Adam Roberts | New Model Army | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2011 | Gavin Smith | Veteran | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2011 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Waters Rising | Eos |
| 2011 | Jon Armstrong | Yarn | Night Shade Books |
| 2011 | William Gibson | Zero History | Putnam Publishing Group |
| 2012 | Christopher Priest* | The Islanders | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2012 | Joan Slonczewski* | The Highest Frontier | Tor Books |
| 2012 | China Miéville | Embassytown | Del Rey Books |
| 2012 | Lavie Tidhar | Osama | PS Publishing |
| 2012 | Ernest Cline | Ready Player One | Crown Publishing Group |
| 2012 | Kathleen Ann Goonan | This Shared Dream | Tor Books |
| 2012 | Will McIntosh | Soft Apocalypse | Night Shade Books |
| 2012 | Michael Swanwick | Dancing with Bears | Night Shade Books |
| 2012 | Daniel H. Wilson | Robopocalypse | Simon & Schuster |
| 2012 | Gene Wolfe | Home Fires | Tor Books |
| 2012 | Rob Ziegler | Seed | Night Shade Books |
| 2013 | Adam Roberts* | Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2013 | Iain M. Banks | The Hydrogen Sonata | Orbit Books |
| 2013 | Terry Bisson | Any Day Now | The Overlook Press |
| 2013 | David Brin | Existence | Tor Books |
| 2013 | Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross | The Rapture of the Nerds | Tor Books |
| 2013 | M. John Harrison | Empty Space | Victor Gollancz Ltd, Night Shade Books |
| 2013 | Ken MacLeod | Intrusion | Orbit Books |
| 2013 | China Miéville | Railsea | Del Rey Books |
| 2013 | Hannu Rajaniemi | The Fractal Prince | Victor Gollancz Ltd, Tor Books |
| 2013 | Alastair Reynolds | Blue Remembered Earth | Ace Books |
| 2013 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2312 | Orbit Books |
| 2013 | John Varley | Slow Apocalypse | Ace Books |
| 2013 | G. Willow Wilson | Alif the Unseen | Grove Press |
| 2014 | Marcel Theroux* | Strange Bodies | Faber and Faber |
| 2014 | Max Barry | Lexicon | Penguin Group |
| 2014 | Stephen Baxter | Proxima | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2014 | Dave Eggers | The Circle | Alfred A. Knopf |
| 2014 | Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Marian Wood |
| 2014 | Nicola Griffith | Hild | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2014 | Wolfgang Jeschke | The Cusanus Game | Tor Books |
| 2014 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | Orbit Books |
| 2014 | Phillip Mann | The Disestablishment of Paradise | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2014 | Paul J. McAuley | Evening's Empires | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2014 | Linda Nagata | The Red: First Light | Mythic Island Press |
| 2014 | Christopher Priest | The Adjacent | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2014 | Alastair Reynolds | On the Steel Breeze | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2014 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Shaman | Orbit Books |
| 2014 | Charles Stross | Neptune's Brood | Ace Books |
| 2015 | Claire North* | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Redhook Books |
| 2015 | Nina Allan | The Race | Newcon Press |
| 2015 | James L. Cambias | A Darkling Sea | Tor Books |
| 2015 | William Gibson | The Peripheral | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| 2015 | Daryl Gregory | Afterparty | Tor Books |
| 2015 | Dave Hutchinson | Europe In Autumn | Solaris Books |
| 2015 | Simon Ings | Wolves | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2015 | Cixin Liu | The Three-Body Problem | Tor Books |
| 2015 | Emily St. John Mandel | Station Eleven | Alfred A. Knopf |
| 2015 | Will McIntosh | Defenders | Orbit Books |
| 2015 | Laline Paull | The Bees | Ecco Press |
| 2015 | Adam Roberts | Bête | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2015 | John Scalzi | Lock In | Tor Books |
| 2015 | Andy Weir | The Martian | Broadway Books |
| 2015 | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation | FSG Originals |
| 2015 | Peter Watts | Echopraxia | Tor Books |
| 2016 | Eleanor Lerman* | Radiomen | Permanent Press |
| 2016 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Aurora | Orbit Books |
| 2016 | Nnedi Okorafor | The Book of Phoenix | DAW Books |
| 2016 | Dave Hutchinson | Europe at Midnight | Solaris Books |
| 2016 | James K. Morrow | Galapágos Regained | St. Martin's Press |
| 2016 | Linda Nagata | Going Dark | Mythic Island Press, Saga Press |
| 2016 | Ian McDonald | Luna: New Moon | Victor Gollancz Ltd, Tor Books |
| 2016 | Neal Stephenson | Seveneves | William Morrow and Company, HarperCollins |
| 2016 | Adam Roberts | The Thing Itself | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2016 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Water Knife | Orbit Books, Alfred A. Knopf |
| 2016 | Kit Reed | Where | Tor Books |
| 2017 | Lavie Tidhar* | Central Station | Tachyon Publications |
| 2017 | Rick Wilber | Alien Morning | Tor Books |
| 2017 | Aliya Whiteley | The Arrival of Missives | Unsung Stories |
| 2017 | Nick Wood | Azanian Bridges | NewCon Press |
| 2017 | Kij Johnson | The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2017 | Nisi Shawl | Everfair | Tor Books |
| 2017 | Paul J. McAuley | Into Everywhere | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2017 | Stephen Baxter | The Medusa Chronicles | Saga Press |
| 2017 | Alastair Reynolds | The Medusa Chronicles | Saga Press |
| 2017 | Tricia Sullivan | Occupy Me | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2017 | Tade Thompson | Rosewater | Apex Publications |
| 2017 | Ben H. Winters | Underground Airlines | Mulholland Books |
| 2017 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | Doubleday |
| 2017 | Don DeLillo | Zero K | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 2018 | David Walton* | The Genius Plague | Pyr |
| 2018 | Deji Bryce Olukotun | After the Flare | Unnamed Press |
| 2018 | Paul J. McAuley | Austral | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2018 | Annalee Newitz | Autonomous | Tor Books |
| 2018 | Jeff VanderMeer | Borne | MCD |
| 2018 | Louise Erdrich | Future Home of the Living God | Harper |
| 2018 | John Kessel | The Moon and the Other | Saga Press |
| 2018 | Kim Stanley Robinson | New York 2140 | Orbit Books |
| 2018 | Norman Spinrad | The People's Police | Tor Books |
| 2018 | Nina Allan | The Rift | Titan Books |
| 2018 | Eleanor Lerman | The Stargazer's Embassy | Mayapple Press |
| 2018 | Kameron Hurley | The Stars Are Legion | Saga Press |
| 2018 | Christopher Brown | Tropic of Kansas | HarperCollins |
| 2019 | Sam J. Miller* | Blackfish City | Ecco Press |
| 2019 | Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | Tor Books |
| 2019 | Peter Watts | The Freeze-Frame Revolution | Tachyon Publications |
| 2019 | Aliya Whiteley | The Loosening Skin | Unsung Stories |
| 2019 | Waubgeshig Rice | Moon of the Crusted Snow | ECW Press |
| 2019 | Sue Burke | Semiosis | Tor Books |
| 2019 | Catherynne M. Valente | Space Opera | Saga Press |
| 2019 | Imraan Coovadia | A Spy in Time | Rare Bird Books |
| 2019 | Audrey Schulman | Theory of Bastards | Europa Editions |
| 2019 | Ian McDonald | Time Was | Tor.com |
| 2019 | Lavie Tidhar | Unholy Land | Tachyon Publications |