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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Annotated 2018 Sturgeon Award Finalists

Update 11/3/19: Tagged 3 🏆World Fantasy Award winners (click link to highlight). (More)

Here is the annotated 2018 Sturgeon Award finalists list, merged with RSR's 2018 Best SF/F list (aka our aggregated list of "outstanding" stories) for the first time, with the finalists highlighted in red, and sorted by score.

The combination lets us analyze the Sturgeon finalists to see which stories that were broadly recognized as outstanding were left out, which magazines were over- or under-represented, how many were Campbell-eligible, and how RSR's own recommendations stack up with the Sturgeon Award jurors in general. As with every RSR annotated list, there are links galore to the stories, their authors, the magazines, any award nominations/wins or "year's best" anthology inclusions, and search-links to find other reviews.

If you want to skip the analysis and just start reading, click here (to highlight free stories).

Sturgeon Award Finalists Versus Other Top Stories of 2017

All 11 Sturgeon Award finalists were in the top 10 in their respective categories in Rocket Stack Rank's Best SF/F of 2017 (228 stories out of 810 reviewed).

Novella

The one Sturgeon finalist in this category is #1 out of 31 stories.
It was tied with fellow Nebula & Hugo finalist "All Systems Red" prior to getting the Sturgeon recognition.

Novelette

The four Sturgeon finalists in this category are in the top 10 out of 80 stories.
Notable stories that missed the Sturgeon include "Wind Will Rove" (Nebula & Hugo finalist, NClarke year's best) and "Extracurricular Activities" (Hugo finalist, NClarke and RHorton year's best).

Short Story

The six Sturgeon finalists in this category are in the top 10 out of 117 stories.
Notable stories that missed the Sturgeon include "An Evening with Severyn Grimes" (GDozois, JStrahan, NClarke year's best) and "Carnival Nine" (Nebula & Hugo finalist, JStrahan year's best).

New Writers

The three Sturgeon finalists whose authors were Year 1-eligible for the Campbell Award are in the top 4 out of 13 stories. There were no Sturgeon finalists among the five Year 2-eligible stories.
Notable stories that missed the Sturgeon include "My English Name" (GDozois & JStrahan year's best) and "The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon" (GDozois & NClarke year's best).

Monday, June 5, 2017

Annotated 2017 Sturgeon Award Finalists

Here are the annotated 2017 and 2016 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists for short fiction.

Annotations include time estimates, links to the story on the author’s website (if available), author links with Campbell Award-eligibility marked (superscript for year 1 or 2), blurbs for RSR-reviewed stories, links to reviews, and links to digital back issues (of print magazines) at eBookstores and library websites.

There are also the RSR annotated Locus Reading List, Nebula Award Nominees, and Hugo Award Finalists for short fiction.