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About
The Astounding Award was previously the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
It is given to the best new science fiction or fantasy writer
whose first work of science fiction or fantasy was
published in a professional publication
in the previous two years.
For more information on the renaming, please
visit the announcement by Current Analog editor Trevor Quachri.
There will be a new eligibity website that will go live by the end of Jan 2020:
http://AstoundingAward.info
For now, please visit the
Rocket Stack Rank New Writers web page for their list of short fiction eligible
authors. We will supplement their list with longer form writers.
There can be confusion over the term "professional publication"
since the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), the World Science Fiction
Society (WSFS), and the award sponsor define it differently. For the purposes of the
Astounding Award, professional publications are works sold for more than a nominal amount
and published anywhere in the world.
Please refer to the
Eligibility F.A.Q.
for an explanation of qualifying publications and answers to common questions.
The Astounding Award is administered by the Worldcon, but the rules for awarding the Astounding are
determined by the award sponsor, Dell Magazine. Eligibility rules were changed in 2005.
Voting Procedure
The Astounding Award uses the same nomination and voting mechanism as
the Hugo, even though the Astounding Award is not a Hugo.
Like the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award voting takes place in two stages.
The first stage, nomination, is open to anyone who had a Supporting or Attending
membership in the previous, current, or following year's Worldcon as of January 31.
For 2020, this means members of Dublin 2019, Worldcon 78 (CoNZealand), or Worldcon 79 can nominate any eligible author. This web page helps identify eligible
authors for the Astounding Award.
Nominations are now open on the CoNZealand Hugo area. All nomination ballots
must be received by March 13, 2020 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Eligible Authors for 2020 Astounding Award
We are currently updating the site for the 2020 Award season.
2020 eligible authors should contact us
for inclusion in the list with (1) information about the work that first
satisfied an eligibility criterion (see Eligibility F.A.Q.),
(2) the web page you'd like linked to your name, and (3) a statement that you had no prior sales
that met eligibility.
A moderator can help you
determine your eligibility if you are stumped.
The following is the list of known eligible authors for the 2020 Award.
Authors marked with an asterisk*
are believed to be eligible, but we need to contact author to verify eligibility.
Authors marked with two asterisks** may not be eligible due to prior
publications, which will ultimately be determined by the Hugo committee.
The Rocket Stack website has posted a
list of eligible short story writers reviewed on their site.
Consider that list supplemental to the list below, which includes novelists and work not reviewed
by Rocket Stack.
2020 Award: Eligible Writers - Being Updated
Past Voting Results
2018 Astounding Award Finalists
| Author |
Year of Eligibility |
| Rebecca Roanhorse (winner) |
1st year |
| Katherine Arden |
1st year |
| Sarah Kuhn |
2nd year |
| Jeannette Ng |
1st year |
| Vina Jie-Min Prasad |
1st year |
| Rivers Solomon |
1st year |
2017 Astounding Award Finalists
| Author |
Year of Eligibility |
| Ada Palmer (winner) |
1st year |
| Malka Older |
2nd year |
| Sarah Gailey |
2nd year |
| Laurie Penny |
2nd year |
| Kelly Robson |
2nd year |
| J. Mulrooney |
1st year |
2016 Astounding Award Finalists
| Author |
Year of Eligibility |
| Andy Weir (winner) |
2nd year |
| Alyssa Wong |
|
| Brian Niemeier |
|
| Pierce Brown |
|
| Sebastien de Castell |
|
2015 Astounding Award Finalists
2014 Astounding Award Finalists
2013 Astounding Award Finalists
2012 Astounding Award Finalists
2011 Astounding Award Finalists
2010 Astounding Award Finalists
2009 Astounding Award Finalists
2008 Astounding Award Finalists
2007 Astounding Award Finalists
2006 Astounding Award Finalists
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