Comments: In 2008, Kathleen Ann Goonan became only the third woman to ever win the Campbell Award. I know that I may sound like a broken record at times, but this track record is kind of ridiculous. Here we are, in the twenty-first century, and the list of nominees for this year only had four nominees written by female authors out of fourteen total nominees. Not only that, the slate of nominees is ridiculously white - there were only two works nominated whose author was not white. The end result is a ballot that is very male and very white. And in 2008, this is simply embarrassing.
Best Novel
In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Second Place:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Third Place:
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
Finalists:
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
Bad Monkeys by Matt RuffBrasyl by Ian McDonald
Deadstock by Jeffrey Thomas
HARM by Brian W. Aldiss
Mainspring by Jay Lake
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer
Time's Child by Rebecca Ore
Zig Zag by Jose Carlos Somoza
Go to previous year's nominees: 2007
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2009
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