Price Theodore Sturgeon

The Prix Theodore Sturgeon is a literary prize allotted each year to best the Nouvelle of Science-fiction of the year.

The price bears the name of Theodore Sturgeon, great author of science fiction American. It was created in 1987 by James E. Gunn, which is director of Center for the Study off Science Fiction with the Université of Kansas where Sturgeon gave courses and conferences. The price was created in collaboration with the heirs to Sturgeon, in particular its widow Jayne Sturgeon and their children. The price is decreed each year in conjunction with the Prix John Wood Campbell Memorial of the best science-fiction novel, at the University of Kansas.

The official site of the price describes it like " a commemoration appropriate to the one of the great authors of news in a field which is characterized by its stories courtes".

Mode of attribution of the prices

The prizes winner are selected by a committee whose certain members are authors of science fiction. Since 1994 Tangent, American magazine dedicated to the news of science fiction, takes share with the process of nomination to the request express train of Jayne Sturgeon. With various editors of magazines and anthologies of science fiction, the chroniclers and readers of Tangent retain each year a selection of news for the price. The committee, including/understanding the authors James Gunn, Kij Johnson and Frederik Pohl, deliberates then to designate the prize winner.

Prizes winner

  • 2005 Sergeant Chip , Bradley Denton
  • 2004 The Empress off Mars , Kage Baker
  • 2003 Over Yonder , Lucius Shepard
  • 2002 The Chief Designer , Andy Duncan
  • 2001 Tendeleo' S Story , Ian McDonald
  • 2000 The Wedding Album , David Marusek
  • 1999 Story off Your Life , Ted Chiang
  • 1998 House off Dreams , Michael Flynn
  • 1997 The Flowers off Aulit Prison , Nancy Kress
  • 1996 Jigoku No Mokoshiroku , John G. McDaid
  • 1995 Forgiveness Day , Ursula K. Guin
  • 1994 Fox Magic , Kij Johnson
  • 1993 This Year' S Class Picture , daN Simmons
  • 1992 Buffalo , John Kessel
  • 1991 Bears Discover Fire , Terry Bison
  • 1990 The Edge off the World , Michael Swanwick
  • 1989 Schrodinger' S Kitten , George Alec Effinger
  • 1988 Rachel in Coils , Stalemate Murphy
  • 1987 Surviving , Judith Moffett

External bonds

  • Official site

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