Annal:2006 John W. Campbell Award
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Results of the John W. Campbell Award in the year 2006. 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.
- 2006 Campbell 1st
- Score: 10.56
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…
- 2006 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2006 Campbell 2nd
- Score: 18.56
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.
The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk—a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world’s artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their…
- 2006 Campbell 3rd
- Score: 6.56
In this fine work of fiction by award-winning author Ian R. MacLeod, a chilling alternate history unfolds…An elderly English historian sways between memories of his life’s true love and his efforts to change his nation’s course. Britain has lost the first world war and turned to fascism, and as a homosexual the narrator suffers both fear and the loss of his lover to the government, while the ordinary populace enjoys shiny modernity and with it the envy of other nations. MacLeod’s tale shows convincingly that no individual or nation is immune from totalitarianism,…
