Вручение 15 июня 2014 г.

Жюри:
Грегори Бенфорд (Gregory Benford) — известный писатель-фантаст, профессор кафедры физики и астрономии.
Пол Ди Филиппо (Paul Di Filippo) — писатель-фантаст, журналист.
Шейла Финч (Sheila Finch) — автор научной фантастики, лингвист.
Джеймс Ганн (James Gunn) — известный писатель-фантаст, экс-президент Ассоциации исследователей научной фантастики (SFRA).
Элизабет Энн Халл (Elizabeth Anne Hull) — литературовед и критик, экс-президент Ассоциации исследователей научной фантастики (SFRA), профессор английского языка.
Пол Кинкейд (Paul Kincaid) — британский критик и редактор.
Кристофер Маккитрик (Chris McKitterick) — писатель, директор Центра по изучению научной фантастики при Канзасском университете.
Памела Сарджент (Pamela Sargent) — писательница, редактор и исследователь фантастики, магистр философии.
Томас Шиппи (Thomas A. Shippey) — британский литературовед, специалист по древнеанглийской литературе, исследователь творчества Дж.Р.Р. Толкина.

Страна: США Место проведения: Канзасский университет, Лоуренс, Канзас Дата проведения: 15 июня 2014 г.

Мемориальная премия Джона В. Кэмпбелла

Лауреат
Marcel Theroux 5.0
Whatever this is, it started when Nicky Slopen came back from the dead.

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive.

Yet nothing can make him change his story.

From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth – a metaphysical conspiracy that lies on the other side of madness and death.

With echoes of Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, Mary Shelley,
Dostoevsky’s Double, and George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil, Strange
Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.
Paul McAuley 0.0

2-е место

In the far future, a young man stands on a barren asteroid. His ship has been stolen, his family kidnapped or worse, and all he has on his side is a semi-intelligent spacesuit. The only member of the crew to escape, Hari has barely been off his ship before. It was his birthplace, his home and his future.

He's going to get it back.

McAuley's latest novel is set in the same far-flung future as his last few novels (The Quiet War, Gardens of the Sun, In the Mouth of the Whale), but this time he takes on a much more personal story.

This is a tale of revenge, of murder and morality, of growing up and discovering the world around you. Throughout the novel we follow Hari's viewpoint, and as he unravels the mysteries that led to his stranding, we discover them alongside him. But throughout his journeys, Hari must always bear one thing in mind.

Nobody is to be trusted.
Linda Nagata 0.0

3-е место

There Needs To Be A War Going On Somewhere: Lieutenant James Shelley commands a high-tech squad of soldiers in a rural district within the African Sahel. They hunt insurgents each night on a harrowing patrol, guided by three simple goals: protect civilians, kill the enemy, and stay alive-because in a for-profit war manufactured by the defense industry there can be no cause worth dying for. To keep his soldiers safe, Shelley uses every high-tech asset available to him-but his best weapon is a flawless sense of imminent danger . . . as if God is with him, whispering warnings in his ear.
Christopher Priest 3.7

Финалист

Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's wife are somehow connected.
A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets the visionary who believes that this will be the war to end all wars.
In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF technician of her escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home.
In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his English garden and creates the first adjacency.

THE ADJACENT is a novel where nothing is quite as it seems. Where fiction and history intersect, where every version of reality is suspect, where truth and falsehood lie closely adjacent to one another.
It shows why Christopher Priest is one of our greatest writers.
Энн Леки 3.8

Финалист

Когда-то она была огромным космическим кораблем и управляла тысячами солдат, которые служили непобедимой Империи Радча, завоевавшей всю галактику. Однако коварное предательство лишило ее всего. Теперь, девятнадцать лет спустя, она просто Брэк, одинокая странница, обладающая хрупким человеческим телом и движимая непреодолимым желанием отомстить. Отправившись на далекую заснеженную планету в поисках орудия для своей мести, Брэк неожиданно встречает человека, которого знала тысячу лет назад. Она спасает его от гибели и берет с собой, но, возможно, это большая ошибка…
Дэйв Эггерс 3.8

Финалист

Роман лидера новой волны американской литературы, жестокая сатира на современный мир социальных сетей и сплошного белого шума. СФЕРА - корпорация добра: она совершенствует мир, делая его абсолютно прозрачным и постижимым, ибо все люди имеют право знать всё. То, что начинается крестовым походом ясноглазых идеалистов, поборников свободы информации, превращается в "1984" - реалистичный ад, где ты никогда не остаешься один, а коллективный Старший Брат неотступно следит за тобой с любовью во взоре.
"Корпорация добра", социальные медиа, девальвация общения, повальная и неукротимая жажда признания, готовность жертвовать приватностью ради иллюзии массовой любви, только чтобы не остаться наедине с собственными мыслями, - все это наша сетевая повседневность, и до реальности СФЕРЫ нам осталось каких-то полшага. Человечество уже вполне готово к СФЕРЕ и по большей части опасности не чует. Информация, как известно, хочет быть свободной; мало кто догадывается, что, освободившись, она способна пожрать своих прекраснодушных освободителей. Когда Мэй Холланд приняли на работу в компанию «Circle», самую могущественную интернет-компанию в мире, она почувствовала, что ей выпал уникальный шанс, который бывает только раз в жизни.
Компания «Circle», корни которой ведут в облепившие всю Калифорнию университетские кампусы, занимается большим проектом по агрегации персональных данных пользователей в единую универсальную систему. Теперь адреса электронной почты, записи в социальных сетях, банковские транзакции и данные о покупках будут формировать единый уникальный профиль человека, доступный для изучения и контроля, что повлечет за собой выход на новый этап общественного развития и прозрачности человеческих отношений.
По мере того, как Мэй открывала для себя просторы офисов со свободной планировкой, без каких-либо стен и перегородок, стеклянные башни столовых, уютные общежития для тех, кто работает по ночам, она была все больше и больше восхищена увиденным. Компания выглядела в её глазах активной, деятельной и идущей в ногу со временем. Там были и вечеринки, длившиеся всю ночь напролет, с известными музыкантами, игравшими на лужайках кампуса компании, там были и спортивные мероприятия, и клубы, и бранчи, и даже аквариум с редкими рыбами, выловленными генеральным директором в Марианской впадине.
Мэй все никак не могла поверить своему счастью, такой большой удаче работать на самую влиятельную корпорацию в мире — даже несмотря на то, что жизнь пределами кампуса компании стала казаться далекой и нереальной, даже несмотря на то, что встреча со странным коллегой встревожила её, даже несмотря на то, что её роль в компании становилась все более пугающе публичной.
То, что начиналось как занимательное описание карьеры амбициозной молодой идеалистки, быстро превратилось в напряженную и драматическую историю, поднимающую вопросы о памяти, истории, частной жизни, демократии и пределах человеческого знания
Wolfgang Jeschke 0.0

Финалист

Biologist Domenica Ligrina fears her planet is dying. She might be right.

An atomic disaster in Germany has contaminated Northern Europe with radioactivity. Economic and political calamities are destroying the whole planet. Human DNA is mutating, plant species are going extinct, and scientists are feverishly working on possible solutions. It becomes increasingly apparent that the key to future salvation lies in the past. In 2052 a secret research facility in the Vatican is recruiting scientists for a mission to restore the flora of the irradiated territories. The institute claims to have time travel. When Domenica’s sometime-lover tells her that he knows her future but that she must decide her own fate, she enlists despite his ambiguous warning.

The Middle Ages hold Domenica spellbound. She immerses herself in the mysteries, puzzles, and peculiarities of a culture foreign to her, though she risks changing the past with effects far more disastrous than radiation poisoning. Perhaps there is more than one Domenica, and more than one catastrophe.
Phillip Mann 0.0

Финалист

Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise.

The human settlers - farmers and scientists - are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous plant life - never entirely safe - is changing in unpredictable ways, and the imported plantings wither and die. And so the order is given - Paradise will be abandoned. All personnel will be removed and reassigned. And all human presence on the planet will be disestablished.

Not all agree with the decision. There are some who believe that Paradise has more to offer the human race. That the planet is not finished with the intruders, and that the risks of staying are outweighed by the possible rewards. And so the leader of the research team and one of the demolition workers set off on a journey across the planet. Along the way they will encounter the last of the near-mythical Dendron, the vicious Reapers and the deadly Tattersall Weeds as they embark on an adventure which will bring them closer to nature, to each other and, eventually, to Paradise.
Nicola Griffith 0.0

Финалист

A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild

In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king’s youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority. She will become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby.

But now she has only the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world—of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing her surroundings closely and predicting what will happen next—that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her.

Her uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild establishes a place for herself at his side as the king’s seer. And she is indispensable—unless she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future.

Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early Middle Ages—all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith’s luminous prose. Working from what little historical record is extant, Griffith has brought a beautiful, brutal world to vivid, absorbing life.
Макс Барри 3.8

Финалист

Эмили – обычная девушка с улицы, раскручивающая праздную публику на заведомо проигрышную игру в карты. Она не претендует ни на что большее. Но однажды незнакомые люди приглашают ее в особую школу для особенных учеников. Это потому, что Эмили хорошо обращается со словами, говорят они. Девушку учат управлять сознанием других людей с помощью необычных звукосочетаний. Постепенно Эмили понимает: существует такое слово, с помощью которого она сможет заставить кого угодно совершить что угодно. Им можно убедить, а можно и убить. Это слово сделает его владельца равным Богу. Но дело в том, что Богом хочет быть не только Эмили…
Charles Stross 4.5

Финалист

Krina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys.

In a universe with no faster-than-light travel that's a dangerous journey, made all the more perilous by the arrival of an assassin on Krina's tail, by the 'privateers' chasing her sister's life insurance policy and by growing signs that the disappearance is linked to one of the biggest financial scams in the known universe.

This is set in the same universe as Saturn's Children, 5000 years later.
Alastair Reynolds 5.0

Финалист

It is a thousand years in the future. Mankind is making its way out into the universe on massive generation ships.

On the Steel Breeze is the follow-up to Blue Remembered Earth. It is both a sequel and a standalone novel, which just happens to be set in the same universe and revolves around members of the Akinya family.

The central character, Chiku, is totally new, although she is closely related to characters in the first book. The action involves a 220-year expedition to an extrasolar planet aboard a caravan of huge iceteroid 'holoships', the tension between human and artificial intelligence... and, of course, elephants.

Lots of elephants.
Stephen Baxter 2.5

Финалист

The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light... The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun. How would it be to live on such a world?
Kim Stanley Robinson 5.0

Финалист

There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow in his footsteps.

There is Heather, the healer who, in many ways, holds the clan together.

There is Elga, an outsider and the bringer of change.

And then there is Loon, the next shaman, who is determined to find his own path. But in a world so treacherous, that journey is never simple -- and where it may lead is never certain.

SHAMAN is a powerful, thrilling and heartbreaking story of one young man's journey into adulthood -- and an awe-inspiring vision of how we lived thirty thousand years ago.
Karen Joy Fowler 3.7

Финалист

Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind.

Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man.

And Fern, Rosemary’s beloved sister, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief? Fern’s is a fate the family, in all their innocence, could never have imagined.