Sturgeon Award finalists

Finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Award have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. The Sturgeon Award is for the best short science fiction of the previous year. The juried awards will be presented on July 11th. And the finalists are (drum roll, please):

• Laird Barron "The Forest"
  
• Elizabeth Bear "Tideline"
  
• Ted Chiang "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate"
  
• Jeffrey Ford, "The Dreaming Wind"
  
• Karen Joy Fowler "Always"
  
• Kij Johnson "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the Change"
  
• Gwynneth Jones "The Tomb Wife"
  
• John Kessel "The Last American"
  
• Ian R. McLeod "The Master Miller's Wife"
  
• David Moles "Finistera"
  
• Johanna Sinisalo "Baby Doll"
  
• Gene Wolfe "Memorare"

Congratulations to all the nominees!

And read more about the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas in my 2007 Electric Spec Interview of James E. Gunn. :)