Annal:2003 John W. Campbell Award
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Results of the John W. Campbell Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- John W. Campbell Award
- Science Fiction books
- Science Fiction authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
Probability Space: Book 3 of The Probability Trilogy
- 2003 Campbell 1st
- Score: 10.53
In Probability Space, humanity’s war with the alien Fallers continues, and it is a war we are losing. Our implacable foes ignore all attempts at communication, and they take no prisoners. Our only hope lies with an unlikely coalition: Major Lyle Kaufman, retired warrior; Marbet Grant, the Sensitive who’s involved with Kaufman; Amanda, a very confused fourteen-year-old girl; and Magdalena, one of the biggest power brokers in all of human space.
As the action moves from Earth to Mars to the farthest reaches of known space, with civil unrest back home and alien…
- 2003 Campbell 2nd
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 20.53
In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember.
But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.
Dr. Yosil Maharal, a brilliant researcher in artificial…
Hominids: Book 1 of The Neanderthal Parallax
- 2003 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2003 Campbell 3rd
- 2003 Spectrum shortlist
- Score: 22.53
During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Captured and studied, alone and bewildered, Ponter is eventually befriended-by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the world’s strangeness.
Meanwhile, Ponter’s partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around, and an explosive murder trial that he can’t possibly win because he has no idea what actually happened. Talk about a scientific challenge!
