Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

2021

1st  "An Important Failure" by Rebecca Campbell. Clarkesworld, August 2020.  

 

2020

1st  "Waterlines" by Suzanne Palmer. Asimov's Science Fiction, July/August 2019.

2019

1st  "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis," by Annalee Newitz. Slate, Dec 2018.

2nd  "On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog," by Adam Shannon. Apex, Dec 2018.

3rd  "Nine Last Days on Planet Earth," Daryl Gregory. Tor.com, Sept 2018.

2018

1st  "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue," by Charlie Jane Anders. Boston Review: Global Dystopias, Oct 2017.

2nd  "And Then There Were (N-One)," by Sarah Pinsker. Uncanny, March 2017.

3rd  "A Series of Steaks," by Vina Jie-Min Prasad. Clarkesworld, Jan 2017.

2017

1st  "The Future is Blue," by Catherynne M. Valente. Drowned Worlds, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2016.

2nd  "Touring with the Alien," by Carolyn Ives Gilman. Clarkesworld, April 2016.

3rd  "Things with Beards," by Sam J. Miller. Clarkesworld, June 2016.

2016

1st  "The Game of Smash and Recovery," by Kelly Link. Strange Horizons, 17 Oct 2015.

2nd  "The New Mother," by Eugene Fischer. Asimov's, Apr/May 2015.

3rd  "Gypsy," by Carter Scholz. Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015.

2015

1st  "The Man Who Sold the Moon," by Cory Doctorow. Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future,

    eds. Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer, Morrow, 2014.

2nd  "Shatterdown," by Suzanne Palmer. Asimov's Jun 2014.

3rd  ""We Are the Cloud," by Sam J. Miller. Lightspeed Sep 2014.

2014

1st  "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind," by Sarah Pinsker. Strange Horizons, July 2013.

2nd  "Mystic Falls," by Robert Reed. Clarkesworld, Nov 2013.

3rd  "The Weight of the Sunrise," by Vylar Kaftan. Asimov's, Feb 2013.

2013

1st  "The Grinnell Method," by Molly Gloss

2nd  "Nahiku West," by Linda Nagata

3rd  Eater-of-Bone, by Robert Reed

    A special Sturgeon Award for Distinguished Service was presented to Frederik Pohl this year.

2012

1st "The Choice," by Paul McAuley

2nd "Six Months Three Days," by Charlie Jane Anders

3rd "The Paper Menagerie," by Ken Liu

2011

1st  "The Sultan of the Clouds," by Geoffrey A. Landis

2nd  "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon," by Elizabeth Hand

3rd  "The Things," by Peter Watts

2010

1st  "Shambling Towards Hiroshima," by James Morrow

2nd (tie)  "Things Undone," by John Barnes

2nd (tie)  "This Wind Blowing, and This Tide," by Damien Broderick

2nd (tie)  "As Women Fight," by Sara Genge

2009

1st  "The Ray Gun: A Love Story," James Alan Gardner

2nd  "Memory Dog," Kathleen Ann Goonan

3rd  "The Tear," Ian McDonald

2008

1st (tie)  "Tideline," Elizabeth Bear

1st (tie)  "Finisterra," David R. Moles

2nd (tie)  "Memorare," Gene Wolfe

2nd (tie)  "The Master Miller's Tale," Ian R. MacLeod

2007

1st  "The Cartesian Theater," Robert Charles Wilson

2nd  "A Billion Eves," Robert Reed 

3rd  "Lord Weary's Empire," Michael Swanwick

2006

1st  "The Calorie Man," Paolo Bacigalupi 

2nd "The Little Goddess," Ian MacDonald 

3rd  "Magic for Beginners," Kelly Link

2005

1st  "Sergeant Chip," Bradley Denton

2nd "Voluntary State," Christopher Rowe

3rd  "Mere," Richard Reed

2004

1st  "The Empress of Mars," Kage Baker

2nd "Bernardos House," James Patrick Kelly

3rd  "It's All True," John Kessel

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 of Your Life," Ted Chiang

1998

"House of Dreams," Michael Flynn

1997

"The Flowers of Aulit Prison," Nancy Kress

1996

"Jigoku no Mokushiroku," John G. McDaid

1995

"Forgiveness Day," Ursula Le Guin

1994

"Fox Magic," Kij Johnson

1993

"This Year's Class Picture," Dan Simmons

1992

"Buffalo," John Kessel

1991

"Bears Discover Fire," Terry Bisson

1990

"The Edge of the World," Michael Swanwick

1989

"Schrodinger's Kitten," George Alec Effinger

1988

"Rachel in Love," Pat Murphy

1987

"Surviving," Judith Moffett

The award was established by James Gunn and by the children of science fiction great Theodore Sturgeon in 1987.

Full history of the award here.