2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists

The 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists for best short science fiction have been announced.

2020 Sturgeon Award Finalists

• "The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex," Tobias S. Buckell. New Suns, ed Nisi Shawl, Solaris Books, March 2019.
• "Omphalos," Ted Chiang. Exhalation, Knopf, May 2019.
• This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Saga Press, July 2019.
• "Give the Family My Love," A.T. Greenblatt. Clarkesworld, February 2019.
• "The Dead, in Their Uncontrollable Power," Karen Osborne. Uncanny Magazine, March 2019.
• "The Painter of Trees," Suzanne Palmer. Clarkesworld, June 2019.
• "Waterlines," Suzanne Palmer. Asimov's, June 2019.
• "Sisters of the Vast Black," Lina Rather. Tor.com Publishing, October 2019.
• "The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir," Karin Tidbek. Tor.com Publishing, January 2019.
• "New Atlantis," Lavie Tidhar. Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2019.
• "The Archronology of Love," Caroline M. Yoachim. Lightspeed Magazine, April 2019.

The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award recognizes the best science fiction short story of each year. It was established in 1987 by James Gunn, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at KU, and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne Engelhart Tannehill and Sturgeon's children, as an appropriate memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a field distinguished by its short fiction.

Winners will be presented at the Gunn Center Conference and Awards after university policy allows large gatherings of attendees.   --   http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/news.htm