-W Staff Reports

Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Several writers received awards last weekend during Kansas University's annual science fiction writing conference.

Lucius Shepard won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for best short science fiction writing for the story "Over Yonder." It was published on SciFi.com. Second place went to Richard Chwedyk for "Bronte's Egg," which was published in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, and third place went to Greg Egan for "Singleton," published in the British Interzone magazine.

The John W. Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year went to Nancy Kress for "Probability Space." Second place was David Brin's "Kiln People," and third place was Robert J. Sawyer's "Hominids."

The awards presentation was part of the annual Campbell Conference at KU.