Comments: Sometimes modern science fiction fans forget just what an abundance of riches they have access to. Some people hearken back to older years when a dedicated science fiction fan could basically read everything noteworthy that was published every year, and as a result, fandom had a single common language that bound them tightly together. These people mourn the fact that the genre has expanded and splintered to such an extent that this simply isn't possible now. But what such people forget is that having such a focused genre comes at the price of having a substantially constricted range of voices available to be read. What the list of nominees for the 2006 Campbell Award demonstrates is that science fiction readers now have an overflowing cup of good fiction to enjoy, and that this cup is very slowly (very, very slowly) being expanded by including more viewpoints into its mixture.
Best Novel
Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer
Second Place:
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Third Place:
The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod
Finalists:
Accelerando by Charles Stross
Child of Earth by David GerroldCounting Heads by David Marusek
Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
The Meq by Steve Cash
Mind's Eye by Paul J. McAuley
Seeker by Jack McDevitt
Transcendent by Stephen Baxter
The World Before by Karen Traviss
Go to previous year's nominees: 2005
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2007
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