James Morrow's "Shambling Towards Hiroshima"
LAWRENCE, KANS. — Sometime San Antonian Damien Broderick’s short story “This Wind Blowing, and this Tide” tied for second place for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His story was neck-and-neck in voting with Sara Genge’s “As Women Fight” and John Barnes’ “Things Undone.”
The first-place Sturgeon went to James Morrow’s novella “Shambling Towards Hiroshima.” The award recognizes the year’s best science fiction short fiction.
At the same award ceremony, Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. The book already has won the Nebula Award and the Locus Award (for best first novel).
Both the Sturgeon and Campbell Award are presented annually at the Campbell Conference at Kansas University in conjunction with a pair of SF writing workshops and an intensive course on teaching science fiction. Other events included a discussion of Theodore Sturgeon’s impact on short fiction and a series of readings of Sturgeon’s work.
