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Sawyer wins for Canada
16/07/2006 . Source: Jessica Martin 
SFF author Robert J. Sawyer wins the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Buy John W. Campbell in the USA - or Buy John W. Campbell in the UK  Robert J. Sawyer has just won the the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of the Year.
The award, which Sawyer won for his latest novel, MINDSCAN, was presented Friday night, July 7, 2006, at a banquet at the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas.
With this award win - his 38th for his fiction - Robert J. Sawyer now joins the most-select club in all of science fiction, the seven writers who have won all three of the field's top awards for best novel of the year:
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award was created to honor the late editor of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION magazine (renamed ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT in 1960). Campbell, who edited the magazine from 1937 until his death in 1971, is often called the father of modern science fiction. Writers Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss established the award in 1973 as a way of continuing Campbell's efforts to encourage writers to produce their best possible work.
As a reflection of Campbell's stature, there's also another award named for him: the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, which is voted on by readers and sponsored by the publisher of Campbell's magazine ANALOG; that award shouldn't be confused with the juried John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of the Year.
The 12 finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award this year were:
* TRANSCENDENT by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz) * THE MEQ by Steve Cash (Del Rey) * CHILD OF EARTH by David Gerrold (BenBella) * MIND'S EYE by Paul J. McAuley (Simon&Schuster UK) * SEEKER by Jack McDevitt (Ace) * LEARNING THE WORLD by Ken MacLeod (Tor) * THE SUMMER ISLES by Ian R. MacLeod (Aio) * COUNTING HEADS by David Marusek (Tor) * MINDSCAN by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor) * ACCELERANDO by Charles Stross (Ace) * THE WORLD BEFORE by Karen Traviss (Eos) * SPIN by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Baxter, McAuley, Traviss, and Ian MacLeod are British; Cash, Gerrold, McDevitt, and Marusek are American; Ken MacLeod and Stross are Scottish; and Wilson and Sawyer are Canadian. This was Sawyer's third Campbell nomination. He'd previously been nominated in 2001 for his CALCULATING GOD, and in 2003 for his Hugo-winning HOMINIDS.
Previous winners of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award include such SF classics as RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA by Arthur C. Clarke, GATEWAY by Frederik Pohl, THE POSTMAN by David Brin, and THE TIME SHIPS by Stephen Baxter.
The jury consisted of eight writers, editors, and scholars from the United States and Britain:
* Nebula-winning physicist GREGORY BENFORD, author of the classic SF novel TIMESCAPE.
* Historian PAUL A. CARTER, author of THE CREATION OF TOMORROW: FIFTY YEARS OF MAGAZINE SCIENCE FICTION
* Hugo-winning author and scholar JAMES GUNN, past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
* ELIZABETH ANNE HULL, past president of the Science Fiction Research Association.
* CHRISTOPHER McKITTERICK, associate director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction.
* Hugo-winning scholar FARAH MENDLESOHN, editor of FOUNDATION: THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION.
* Nebula-winning author and editor PAMELA SARGENT, editor of the WOMEN OF WONDER anthologies.
* T.A. SHIPPEY, editor of THE OXFORD BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
MINDSCAN is Sawyer's sixteenth novel. It was published in hardcover in April 2005 by Tor Books, New York, and was a selection of Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club; the paperback appeared in January 2006. Film rights to MINDSCAN have been optioned by Toronto producer Scott Calbeck.
The novel tells the story of Jacob Sullivan, a young man who copies his consciousness into an artificial body, since he believes his biological body is about to die due to a congenital illness. But shortly after this, a cure is found for his condition, and the biological version must battle the copy for the right to be considered the real Jake Sullivan.
Sawyer's next novel, ROLLBACK, will be published by Tor in April 2007, following full-text serialization beginning in the October 2006 issue of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT - the magazine John W. Campbell himself edited for so many years.
More over at http://www.sfwriter.com 
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