The stories are sorted by the author's first name. The superscript indicates the year of eligibility (1 or 2). Eligibility was determined by looking up the author on ISFDB.org and doing web searches for those without an ISFDB entry. ISFDB data may be incomplete so it's best to check the author's website for a bibliography before nominating. (Writers with uncertain eligibility identified since this article was published were moved to the bottom of the article.)
A good way to use this list is to jog your memory about stories you've already read. You can click on the "RSR Mini-review" link to read more if you're having trouble remembering a story. This only includes short fiction; there's no information here about novels.
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(Military SF) Thrilling story set ~100
years from now where a young woman flies orbital combat missions for a
"nation" that only exists on the Internet.
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(Horror) Meimei dates really bad guys.
Who want to use her. Who don't know what they're in for.
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(Hard SF) Bruno has finished his work
on a merleta, an airship in the Venusian stratosphere, and today he's going
home to Brazil. Except there seems to be a problem with his transportation.
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(Military SF) In 2041, the U.S.
President issues a declaration of war.
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Maggie, a former champion gymnast,
coaches a 16-year-old Uzbek, Sabina, who seems inhumanly focused on winning.
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(Military SF) In the mid-21st Century,
Captain Aaron Fung flies sorties in support of ground troops in a war in
Yemen. His own AI and crowd-sourced support is more problematic.
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(Urban Fantasy) A moving story about a
man who lives alone in the woods discovers a goblin has been stealing his
firewood. But why?
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(Hard SF) A team of astronauts trains
for a one-way mission to set up a Mars colony.
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An illegal, near-planetary drag race
for rather unexpected stakes.
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In France in 1699, a magical fighter
comes to Caen to duel with creatures from faery.
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(SF) Agnes interviews Reeves, one of the "sensitives," whose
uncontrollable psionic abilities have nearly destroyed civilization.
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Micheline, a 15-year-old
monster-fighter, wants to prove herself by taking down a scissorclaw that has
already killed more senior fighters.
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(Hard SF) Kenna works ten-day shifts
on the space elevator. When she ends up trapped outside, she has to find a
way back in before a solar flare hits.
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Mama is vast, belt-born, seven feet
long, and she's a legend from Luna Park to Styx Landing.
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In an alternate Cold War, Marya works
on a secret genetics project for Stalin, but her goals aren't quite what the
Russians think they are.
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The government has taken away
everyone's ability to read, but Alice misses her books and wants to do
something about it.
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Rick has returned to the Titan colony
from the Tethys war, but he and his family are having trouble adjusting.
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Gabby
Reed1: A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon
Ancient Practices Time: 04m (1K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
Learn all about whales in space.
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In space, no one should hear a dog
barking--especially not outside your spaceship.
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An AI in charge of an interstellar
junk yard dreams of better things.
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Ilona Gaynor1: The Lexicography Of An Abusive But Divine
Relationship With The World Time: 18m (5K words) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016
From the story itself: "This text
relays the thoughts of an unremarkable woman, whose un-profound influence has
ceased to effect the slighted of causes."
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Bilit is exploring Joon, an earthlike
planet 24 light-years from Earth.
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(Steampunk) Phineas used a mysterious
machine to predict that Halley's Comet would wreck the Earth in 1910. Now
he's trapped in his underground bunker. Can the machine help him get out?
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(Military SF) A soldier on an isolated
drone base chats with a psychologist about his online love affair.
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Bev and her son Benj are among the
last people left in town when bad news arrives.
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Qiyan harmonizes her botany thesis
with her desire for children--sort of.
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In a near-future NYC, 14-year-old Paul
Jr. keeps running away from home, and Paul Sr. is willing to go to great
lengths to stop him.
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A dysfunctional couple decides to make
a love potion to prevent themselves from breaking up.
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Heartwarming story of a man in
near-future Seattle who learns he had a son with a woman he knew nine years
ago--except that he never had sex with her.
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Narrator desperately takes one of her
androids apart in a race with time to save her lover's life.
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Two Turkish sisters struggle to
survive in an Alaska ravaged by giant mutant worms.
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Kelly Robson1: The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill
Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101
In 2001, just before the attacks, a
girl out West has a very close encounter with space aliens.
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Mikkel isn't very bright, but he
cleverly supplements his janitorial job by scavenging useful items his
superiors discard and bringing them home to his wife--then one day he brings
home a mutant baby.
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Sylvain de Guilherand secretly uses a
captive water spirit to provide indoor plumbing to Louis XV's Versailles, but
the spirit is childish, playful, and getting bored.
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The church of the Goddess plans to
sacrifice the engineers who recreated the "seeds of the goddess"
for them, but Madhav plans to escape.
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A unit of an intelligent alien
parasite in a human brain finds evidence that the host's immune system is on
to them.
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In a fantasy empire, Vera tries to
bring down the criminal underworld in the capital.
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Bunchess Taylor, a black musician in
Detroit, learns that someone or something is poisoning Detroit's music when
his assistant, "the white boy," buys an extra-sensitive piece of
equipment.
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(SF) Flur leads humanity's first
mission to an alien race, the Cyclopes, with both scientific and diplomatic
objectives.
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Expedition to another planet is
trapped in a snow storm and a crewman starts seeing hallucinations.
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Short-short. When Congress shuts down
NASA, a couple of former astronauts think of a way to get it back.
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Mathew Burrows1: The Exception That Proves the Rule
Time: 21m (6K words) Issue: War Stories from the Future
(Military SF) Fresh from school,
Alastair joins a near-future British intelligence unit that's trying to
identify people before they become terrorists.
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Two disabled veterans of a near-future
war meet in a virtual-reality world.
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Fun fantasy tale in which Rose, a
middle-aged general store owner, agrees to be "warden and
postmaster" for the new government--even though other locals aren't
reconciled to having lost the war.
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A woman reporter in a dictatorship
investigates an old third-world massacre with help from a female android
designed for other purposes.
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On colony 13, citizen 79867 is about
to have a very bad day, owning to an unauthorized transaction.
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Nikolas Katsimpras1: Coffee, Wi-Fi and the Moon. The unknown story of the
greatest cyber war of them all Time: 05m (2K words) Issue: War Stories from the Future
(Military SF) Newspaper article
describes the events that led to a cyberwar between the US and Russia.
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On a spaceship in the far future,
Rasakhi tells the story of how the last human died.
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The narrator's uses the family time
machine to try to reach some closure with mother who abandoned him in 1963.
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The last curator of a decrepit museum
mourns his lost love and obsesses over the music box that might bring them
back together.
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Norman
Birnbach1: It's All Relative at the Space-Time Café
Time: 06m (2K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15
Bohr meets his ex, Jenny, at the café,
where they reminisce about love and science in terms of puns.
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Paola Antonelli1: The Design Doyenne
Defeats The Dullness Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016
Laetitia is a designer in a 2060s
world that found science and technology to be dull. She urges people to take
more risks.
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A "heisen implant" allows
Detective O'Harren to explore alternate universes to help solve crimes in
1930s Chicago.
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The sole survivor of a colony ship
nevertheless raises a host of rather strange children, and today he hosts a
special ceremony at "the worm farm."
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Ryan W. Norris1: The Extraordinary Extraterrestrial Togo Mouse from
Ghana
Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Analog 03|15
Brett, a reporter, investigates Dr.
Alex Jordan's claim to have discovered extraterrestrial life in Africa.
Creatures so similar to mice that no one noticed how strange they were
before.
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Deeply disturbing story about Piedra,
a young woman whose body has been twisted into a work of art called a
"bone knot."
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Headwater Bottled Refreshments sells
bottled water with literally magical properties. Yoko works in the home
office and knows that the mythical, aquatic, Kappa on the logo isn't so
mythical.
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Harry and Aiden have more problems
than most couples, and it has nothing to do with them being gay.
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A small-town librarian has to host
aliens from Epsilon Cygni who for unknown reasons have asked permission to
visit his library.
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Kim and Alana are two bodies sharing a
single mind, which makes them world-class gymnasts--as long as they keep it a
secret.
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The eligibility of the writers below is uncertain. Their ISFDB entries show SF/F works published before 2014 in publications with print runs that might exceed 10,000 and/or have a nominal pay rate, but they are listed as eligible authors for the 2016 Campbell Award. It will be up to the MidAmeriCon II Hugo administrators to sort this out, assuming any of them ends up in the top five.
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A Philippine-American girl in
California is unsettled by the reappearance of a long-lost
"friend."
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In a near-future Philippines, Marty
takes his family to his hometown to see a miracle that transforms artificial
food into real food.
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JY
Yang2: Letter From an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions
of Her Wife
Time: 04m (1K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
A woman's message to her wife chases
her spaceship at the speed of light.
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In 2139 Beiruit, Suraya sends a
sequence of e-mails that summarize her team's progress saving as many people
in Lebanon as possible from a coming global catastrophe.
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An old woman hazards crossing a
drowning future Beirut to make an apology to an old friend she had wronged
thirty years before.
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A horror story, in which the narrator
meets the monster under the bed, and things go from bad to worse.
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A man butchers the corpse of his
husband to cook a meal for the gods, as required by his culture's funeral
rites.
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Haralambi Markov may not be eligible – his bibliography lists **“Hurricane Drunk” sold to ARCANE VOLUME II edited by Nathan Shumate, Cold Fusion Media, February 2012** which sounds very much like it would be a pro sale.
ReplyDeletehttp://haralambimarkov.com/blog/bibliography-2/
Thanks. I've moved him to a new section at the bottom of the post.
DeleteHmm. I'm not a prolific reviewer, but I have read and reviewed stuff by two potentially eligible authors who aren't on that list: Jo Zebedee (author of "Abendau's Heir" and the self-published "Inish Carraig") and Pamala Brondos (author of "Gateway to Fourline" and sequels comprising the "Fourline Trilogy"). Neither of them even has an ISFDB entry... but they're both newly published authors, with (at least) a certain amount of potential - and it always seems to me that potential, the start of a promising career, is what the Campbell Award is about. So, well, I just thought I might mention them. ("Inish Carraig", especially, was remarkably good for a self-pubbed novel. Jo Zebedee could very well be one to watch.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment! Unfortunately we're a short-fiction site, and for 2015 we only covered fiction from the six biggest magazines and nine key original anthologies.
DeleteDid you check to see if they registered on the Campbell Awards web site? If not, you should encourage them to do so, assuming you are in contact with them.
http://www.writertopia.com/awards/campbell
Oh, that makes sense. The three names I was going to mention all came from novels. Hey, it wouldn't hurt to put a reminder to that effect somewhere at the top of this page, if you haven't already and I missed it.
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