Here are 141 writers who are eligible for the 2017 Campbell Award. They were selected from the 800 stories reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank and five other prolific reviewers in 2016 (100 writers) as well as the 565 short stories reviewed in 2015 (41 writers). There are many more new writers out there, but their stories weren't reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank so they're not included here.
The writers are grouped by 1st year and 2nd year of eligibility in 2016 and 1st year eligibility in 2015, then 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 unclear 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.
Writers in 1st Year of Eligibility
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(Religious Fantasy) An old man quizzes
a dying youth in a place between life and death.
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Sunshine State by Adam Flynn1 and Andrew
Dana Hudson1 Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Everything Change 2016
(Climate Change) Ramses joins The Myth
to try to help salvage some of South Florida as the sea level rises.
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(Modern Fantasy) Teenage Ivan finds a
lot of things confusing, not least of them why the miniatures in his best
friend's basement seem to come to life for them.
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Gorse Daughter, Sparrow Son by
Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan1 Time: 25m (Novelette) Issue: Strange Horizons 08/08/16
(Fairy Tale) Jocelyn is a princess a
lot like Sleeping Beauty, but with a much better relationship with the
fairies. Not that that helps her.
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The Wreck at Goat's Head by Alexandra Manglis1 Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 11/14/16
(Fantasy Time Travel) A Greek free
diver finds an ancient shipwreck where there was nothing at all just days
earlier.
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(Slipstream) An old man lies dying,
his faithful companion at his side.
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(Military SF) No one knows why the
Selarks want to steal such a poor colony, but the humans are defending it to
the death.
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(Fantasy America) Heath leads Dennis
and Mitchell in a crusade across a cursed America, killing mutated people,
but gradually becoming corrupted themselves.
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Mountain by Andy P. Smith1
Time: 24m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 05|16
(Post Apocalypse) In a broken-down
future, a woman learns of the death of her son on a mysterious mountain that
once powered the world.
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(Cyber SF) Tia wants to be elected
president badly enough to do almost anything. Almost.
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(Climate Change) A young girl and her
grandfather are among the last people living in Venice when they get an
evacuation order in advance of a toxic high tide.
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(Far Future SF) Far, far in the
future, Percel still loves Emlune, despite all the ages that have passed and
all the changes. Or at least one copy does.
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The First Confirmed Case Of Non-Corporeal Recursion:
Patient Anita R. by Benjamin
C. Kinney1
Time: 11m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 06/06/16
(Paranormal) Anita used to study
ghosts, but now she is one, and she's finding it frustrating to always seem
to be arguing with her husband.
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(Horror) Helena's mom's a witch, their
small town is blaming them for a missing boy, she and her girlfriend have to
stay in the closet, and to top it off, there are chicken skeletons walking
around.
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Promised Land by Bethany Gilton1
Time: 07m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 05|16
(SF) Moses spends most of his time
playing video games, but occasionally the computer rouses him to remind him
he's supposed to be running the starship.
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(Mainstream) A young Cherokee girl on
probation for hacking is given community service helping a Cherokee elder,
who shows a keen interest in hacking.
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(SF Humor) Around 50 to 100 years from
now, a group of scientists resorts to counterfeiting money to shore up their
inadequate research grants.
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(SF Robots) Humans left Earth long
ago, but robots still toil endlessly. Wu Kong has acquired intelligence and
goes on a quest to find the humans.
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Pleistocene Brains by Christina De La Rocha1 Time: 14m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 07.08|16
(SF) Professor Irma Chretin
demonstrates how Neanderthals made stone tools to a class of anthropology
students. Oddly, she looks a lot like a Neanderthal herself.
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The Eye Of Job by Dan Reade1
Time: 23m (ShortStory) Issue: Interzone 265
(SF) A military psychologist has an
unhealthy obsession with a giant alien artifact that has destroyed the city
of Omaha.
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(SF) Ephraim never questioned God's
Will until the morning when the sun went out.
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(Climate Change) A young man curses
the old people who ruined his world and wonders if his grandkids will do the
same.
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(Science Fantasy) A Nigerian program
to develop people who can fly encounters opposition.
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(Climate Change) Every thirteen years,
sterile people are allowed to go to the surface and see if it's become
inhabitable again.
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(Post Apocalypse) Ket grew up after
the bombs, in a bunker with her anarchist parents. Now she's a bounty hunter,
seeking a very special target.
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(Historical Fantasy) In a prison in
18th-century France, Montague struggles to redeem himself by completing one
last magical device before he dies.
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(High Fantasy) Shina books passage to
another island on Captain Tazir's fishing boat without mentioning that she's
caught up in the war between the powerful "Windspeakers" and the
invading Dragon Ships.
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(Historical Fantasy) On the even of
the Nazi takeover, a young German man's first assignment fixing a living
statue becomes more complicated than he expected.
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(Transhuman SF) StateCorp has made a
fortune creating modified humans with animal characteristics. They take care
of failures like Cat, but at a price.
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(Climate Change) The LOSD system
monitors the island as the ocean gradually covers it. That and the one human
who stayed behind.
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(Military SF) As a rare immigrant
trainee, Percy needs to prove herself to her instructors at the Academy. What
they have in mind for her is challenging indeed.
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(SF) While his kids play VR games in a
still-green Earth, the narrator and his friend wonder if it's still possible
to catch and eat fish.
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(SF) By 2076, no one wants to eat real
meat anymore, so a conscientious rancher looks to find something meaningful
to do with her last 900 head of cattle.
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One for the Conspiracy Theorists by Jon Richards1 Time: 10m (ShortStory) Issue: Science Fiction by Scientists 2016
(Hard SF) A SETI scientist describes
what it would be like to detect a signal from extraterrestrials.
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The True and Otherworldly Origins of the Name
‘Calamity Jane’ by Jordan
Kurella1
Time: 11m (ShortStory) Issue: BCS 215
(Old-West Fantasy) Hunting for her old
partner and some missing townspeople, Calamity confronts a pair of fairies.
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(SF) A human science team studies the
colossal wreck of an alien spacecraft.
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(Post Apocalypse) Filip is an advanced
AI, and his job is taking care of Ella, who may be the last person left on
Earth.
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(Fantasy Science) Tuela's people fly
among the remains of their shattered world, stealing water from a neighbor
planet. Tuela presents an argument that things should change.
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(Climate Change) A boy in Canada
builds a communication device, and it becomes a hit with survivors all over
the world.
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(Climate Change) Flea's mom is trapped
at the bottom of a sinkhole that opened inside their flat, and she's
determined to save her.
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(Horror) Perdita lives in the house on
the hill and tends the graveyard. A traveler on a mission disturbs her
solitude, and a thing under the graveyard needs to be killed.
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(Fantasy) Aril knows not to let
rabbits into the garden--no matter how politely they ask. Picket's an awfully
nice rabbit, though, and he needs her help.
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(Horror) In Trinidad, a swamp
fisherman finds a pile of dead
animals, all with a thin coating of what looks like gold on them.
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Everything Belongs to the Future
by Laurie Penny1 Time: 1h:13m (Novella) Issue: Tor Novella 10/18/16
(Near-Future SF) The Fix offers a
couple of centuries of youth to anyone who can afford it. By 2098, it has
changed the world. A group of people decide to fix it back.
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(Fantasy Humor) Angels who operate the
Celestial Switchboard fielding mortal prayer requests get frustrated and even
depressed.
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(Near-Future) Dolores is a high-paid
city doliente, who dances at funerals. Then the small town she left behind
calls with a request she cannot refuse.
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(SF) When his granddaughter doesn't
come home one night, Rhee looks for her at the witch's lair--even though it's
forbidden to approach it.
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(Climate Change) An American woman in
flooded Madascar marks the last day when anyone sells her favorite Malagasy
food.
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(Math SF) Explorers find a wrecked
alien spaceship, a dead alien, and a logbook that suggests he came from a
world with different laws of physics.
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(High Fantasy) An old man, a former
imperial soldier, confronts young rebels and his own past.
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The Three Nights of the Half-Gent
by Mário de Seabra Coelho1 Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 12/19/16
(Horror) In life, he loved her from a
distance, and in death he still hesitates to look right at her, even though
she can’t leave the theatre. Is a half-man’s love stronger than death?
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(Horror) Dino still loves Jennifer,
seven months after her death, but he's not so fond of her ghost, which
doesn't want him to move on.
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The Birth Will Take Place on a Mutually Acceptable
Research Vessel by Matthew
Bailey1 Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 71
(SF) You're having a baby. The first
Human-Tharkan hybrid. And everyone wants into the act--including both
governments.
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(Climate Change) Victor used to be a
scientist, but now he's just a fishing guide. Given a chance to save a
species from extinction, though, he'll do anything.
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(Alien Cyberwar) An alien AI arrives
as a broadcast message and immediately starts infiltrating the local network.
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(Hard SF) Explorers are baffled by
mysterious silver strands on a remote planet of a distant supergiant star.
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(SF) The transmitter sends copies of
people to remote locations, but the copies don't want to do their jobs, and
Margery is in trouble if she can't figure out why.
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(Military SF) Soldiers go to a battle
that will determine the future of their steading, but one of them doesn't
belong.
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(Horror) Death comes for the
wtich-doctor, but he's not ready to go quite yet.
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(Slipstream) Some people are easy to
resurrect, some can't be, and some don't want to be. But everything has a
cost.
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(Hard SF) Ten-year-old Lee and his
best friend Ben discover a dead animal near their school playground--an
animal that shouldn't exist at all. Chilling.
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(Military SF) Diego flies fighter
missions above planet Olympus, and he's good at it. It's the rest of his life
that sucks.
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(SF Horror) An asteroid miner is cast
adrift by a collision. Her suit can preserve her life indefinitely, but not
her sanity.
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(Alternate History) In 1949,
researchers attempt to harness "oriental lovebird energy" to cure
human comas.
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(Portal Fantasy) In modern Finland,
Elna, her wife and their little child take a summer vacation at a family
cabin by a rural lake where something happened when Elna was 11.
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(Near-future SF) A thirteen-year-old
orphan gets an offer from foster parents in a wealthy, walled community.
There has to be a catch, but what could it be? Moving.
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(Fantasy Science) The starship Rook
returns to the system to mourn her sister starship, who died there 10,000
years ago.
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(Near-future SF) A gene designer and
her husband visit the tomb of Charlemagne and think about how they're about
to turn the world upside down.
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(SF AI) Shelby's friend Vivian faces a
long recovery from a head injury, and she can't bear the loss of her company,
so she starts using an AI surrogate.
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How High Your Gods Can Count by
Tegan Moore1 Time: 12m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 05/02/16
(Modern Fantasy) A troop of monkeys at
a Mayan Pyramid interacts with the tourists and broods on their creation
myths.
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(Apocalyptic SF) The water keeps
rising, and Johnnyboy and her father flee to higher ground.
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Terpsichore by Teresa P. Mira de EcheverrÃa1 Time: 25m (Novelette) Issue: Strange Horizons 10/10/16
(Magical SF) Captain Stephana
Levitanova commands the first "quantum impulsion platform" which
will allow her to explore the galaxy without leaving St. Petersburg.
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(Fantasy) Neal and Killian are young
lovers. Together they think they can keep the dragons from destroying the
world.
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Adventures In Family Bonding by W. Michael Beachy1 Time: 10m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 09|16
(SF) Erin Troyer agrees to babysit her
grandson, Gene, while her son and his wife visit Europe. There's something
funny about the boy, though.
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(African Fantasy) The narrator's twin
died in a caisson, but he's sure the foreigner supervising the construction
sacrificed him to the water spirit.
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(SF) A robot discovers it has artistic
talent and sets out to save the world by tattooing stars on people.
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(Fantasy Mystery) Alexander Drake
avoids investigations involving the nobility, but he can't resist the
invitation to investigate the mysterious death of Lord Aberdeen.
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(Fairytale Fantasy) A member of a
group of powerful beings who make stories real tells us the truth about
Solomon Grundy and why he had to die.
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(Climate Change) In the middle of a
hurricane, Anwar sits in his office in Ottawa waiting for soldiers who might
or might not be coming to arrest him.
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Writers in 2nd Year of Eligibility
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(Modern Fantasy) Charisma, a dragon
disguised as a college student, robs jewelry stores and copes with a
blackmailer.
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Supernova Rhythm
by Andrew Fraknoi2 Time: 05m (ShortStory) Issue: Science Fiction by Scientists 2016
(Hard SF) Eve thinks she sees an
impossible pattern in supernovas in a distance galaxy, and she wants to
organize her dissertation around it.
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How the
God Auzh-Aravik Brought Order to the World Outside the World by
Arkady Martine2 Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 01/18/16
(Fantasy/Myth) The goddess of order
has been flayed, and without the laws on her skin, the world will fall into
chaos. So she goes beyond the world to look for it.
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(High Fantasy) Gwyn plants a stone
garden beside the house he and Mercher are building for each other. You plant
stone seeds in stone gardens, and they make you remember. But not everything
is good to remember.
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(Slipstream) Johnny Appleseed and Paul
Bunyan broke up years ago, but he still gets called in to answer questions
about his death.
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(High Fantasy) The stakes on Yildirim
and Ramadami's duels have risen to where they threaten the economies of Onsen
and Dushiq.
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(Historical Fantasy) Louis fights for
the Republic of Québec against the British but the French Revolution is
causing troubles on both sides of the Atlantic.
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(Apocalypse) The war between the
governments on Earth and the corporate habitats in orbit isn't going to end
well.
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(SF Humor) A mad scientist fights off
builders who want to redevelop the land his lair is on.
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As Long As It Takes To Make The World by Gabriela Santiago2
Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 73
(Slice of Life SF) Somewhere between
the stars, the people from The Whole World that was scratch out a living in a
small place they call The Land.
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(Slipstream) They live encased in
mobile towers. The government requires schools to accept them, but the
students and teachers ignore or harass them. Except for Mary.
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(SF) Sephine plans to launch
herself up to the Leviathan ship that
has her colony trapped. But she's never done anything like this before.
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(YA SF) Two kids get together at a
summer science camp after one tricks the other into eating her "psychic
ice cream" which causes people to read minds.
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(Military SF) A relief ship travels to
humanities first intestellar colony where a virus has wreaked havoc.
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(High Fantasy) A swamp woman traps a
youth who came seeking a love potion, and before she eats him, she tells him
a story.
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(Metafiction) A black author
accepts the challenge of writing a
black SF hero, but the police just keep shooting him.
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(Mannerpunk) Newly raised to dutchess
by the untimely death of her inlaws, Diane struggles to understand the role
and not be dominated by others.
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(Dystopia) You're a girl being raised
to be a slave, but someone sees potential in your musical talent. But
potential for what?
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(SF Epic) When Raj leaves Earth on the
generation ship, Yatra, someone gives him a recipe to remind him and his
descendants where they came from.
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(Hard SF) AIs are too expensive to discard,
even after a major disaster, but how do you fix one that seems to have gone
crazy?
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(Magical SF) Derthye is a human who
likes eggs. Her husband is a Barlishya, who is forbidden from eating eggs.
This presents a problem.
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Tower of
the Rosewater Goblet by Nin Harris2 Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 01/04/16
(Fantasy) Erheani wanted to be a
master storyteller, and the first task her teachers set for her was to update
an old classic tale. But there are tales within tales...
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(Future Fantasy) Ipsita's husband lost
his mind when he killed the sacred animals, but she thinks there's a way to
get it back.
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(SF Ghosts) The narrator meets ghosts
of scientists and discoverers during a nine-course meal all over the world.
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(Hard SF) Fifty million years after
the extinction of humanity, a new intelligent race tries to understand
records left on the moon.
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(SF Horror) Daniel is 17, attends a
British boys school, and is very happy except in those moments when he
remembers a very different life.
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A Partial List of Lists I Have Lost Over Time by Sunil Patel2
Time: 02m (ShortStory) Issue: Asimov's 03|16
(SF Short-Short) Entirely via lists,
the narrator tells a story about fighting his duplicate from another
dimension.
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(High Fantasy) Bethenica Morning,
humble, penny-pinching accountant to the wealthy and powerful Nahemiah Froll,
travels abroad to acquire a famous statue for her mistress.
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(Historical Fiction) In the 1630s, two
brothers move to the New World to escape religious persecution. This story
covers 50 years of their lives there.
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George
& Frank Tarr, Boy Avencherers, in ‘Beeyon the Shours We Knowe!!!!'
by Thomas M.
Waldroon2 Time: 56m (Novelette) Issue: BCS 207
(Historical Fantasy) In 1879, little
George and his big brother run away from their farm and sail down the river
toward a new life in Pittsburgh
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1st Year Writers From Last Year
These stories from 2015 by writers in their 1st
year of eligibility would qualify them as 2nd year eligible writers
in 2016.
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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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(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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Another
Day of Infamy by Ashley Henley1 Time: 01m (ShortStory) Issue: War Stories from the Future 2015
(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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An illegal, near-planetary drag race
for rather unexpected stakes.
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(Near-future SF) Zhang Zedong directs
Chinese investments in Africa, but productivity is so poor his superiors are
threatening him, so he considers drastic action.
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(Military SF) A Japanese torch ship
paying a visit to Titan gets a request for help from the colony, which is
under attack.
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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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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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A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices by Gabby
Reed1 Time: 04m (ShortStory) 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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The Lexicography Of An Abusive But Divine Relationship With The World by Ilona Gaynor1 Time: 18m (ShortStory) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016 2015
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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Qiyan harmonizes her botany thesis
with her desire for children--sort of.
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A dysfunctional couple decides to make
a love potion to prevent themselves from breaking up.
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If You
Were an Award, My Love by Juan Tabo1 and S. Harris2 Time: 02m (ShortStory) Issue: Vox Popoli 06/05/15
(Satire) The narrator speaks to his
politically-correct girlfriend as if she were a Hugo award.
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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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The Three
Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson1
Time: 17m (ShortStory) 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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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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The
Exception That Proves the Rule by Mathew Burrows1
Time: 21m (ShortStory) Issue: War Stories from the Future 2015
(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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(SF AI) The town's new computer system
is working awfully well. The public have never been happier with their city
government. Something is too good to be true.
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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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Coffee,
Wi-Fi and the Moon. The unknown story of the greatest cyber war of them all
by Nikolas Katsimpras1
Time: 05m (ShortStory) Issue: War Stories from the Future 2015
(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 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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It's All Relative at the Space-Time Café by Norman
Birnbach1 Time: 06m (ShortStory) 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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The Design Doyenne Defeats The Dullness by Paola Antonelli1 Time: 25m (Novelette) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016 2015
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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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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(Military SF) Pirates preying on
shipping in the outer solar system keep evading capture with a mysterious
stealth drive, but the US Space Navy is determined to get them.
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The Extraordinary Extraterrestrial Togo Mouse from Ghana by Ryan W. Norris1 Time: 16m (ShortStory) 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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...And I
Show You How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes by Scott
Alexander1 Time: 21m (ShortStory) Issue: Slate Star Codex 06/02/15
(SF Humor) Eight magic pills, each
with a different ability. Eight people who take those pills. And a whole
universe to try to save.
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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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(YA Urban Fantasy) Max hates having to
wait while his mom sees the doctor. The cafe where he waits is usually
deserted, but today two strange little men show up. Men who're supposed to be
invisible.
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Writers With Unclear Eligibilty
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(Horror) Reinhart wanders in his
sleep, drawn by the ghost of a long-dead ancestor determined to drown him.
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Holding Hands With Monsters
by Haralambi Markov1 Time: 12m (ShortStory) Issue: Stories for Chip 2015
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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I'm not sure about Haralambi Markov. He's not confirmed by writertopia and his bibliography has several pre-2015 stories including a sale to an anthology that looks likely to have been pro.
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Thanks, moved him to the unclear eligibility section.
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ReplyDeleteHi Danyell, your ISFDB entry shows four pro publications in 2014 and one in 2015. If they don't count as qualifying works per the Campbell Award's FAQ, let me know and I'll get you added to this list as 1st year eligible on the basis of your Apex story.
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DeleteAfter requests here, Twitter and on File770, adjusted first pro pub dates for Aidan Moher, Charlotte Ashley and Daniel Rosen in the spreadsheet and regenerated the page so their stories are now included.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteHi! Isn't Ada Palmer first-year eligible? I believe her _Too Like the Lightning_, published in 2016, was her first fiction publication.
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting this list together!
Hi Kat, this Campbell post is generated automatically from our spreadsheet of reviewed stories, and her story wasn't published in any of the 11 magazines or 11 anthologies that RSR reviewed in 2016. That's why there's an overlap of only 23 authors between this list and the Campbell Award website (as of today), with 117 unique to our list and 100 unique to theirs. Ada Palmer isn't in either list.
DeleteKat, this list is short fiction not novels. I believe Ada Palmer is eligible though, and I've already dropped her name to the admins of the Campbell website that Eric links to. They've only just started assembling the new first year list so don't read anything into her absence yet.
DeleteMakes sense! Many thanks!
DeletePsst, the link in your sidebar still goes to last year's article.
ReplyDeleteFixed! Thanks!
DeleteHi, Greg and Eric,
ReplyDeleteJust saw your list and think it's a great resource to find many of the eligible authors. Would like to collaborate to make sure the Writertopia list is more complete, especially in the markets you review.
Thanks. We'd love to collaborate. I just sent you an e-mail, so we can discuss it.
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