Campbell Award (best novel)

A juried award for best science fiction novel of the year.

Between 1973 and 2006, first place was given to a woman three times. Of the approximately hundred novels awarded first, second, or third prize, ten have been women authors.

Female writers

1975

• 2nd The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

1977

• 3rd Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

1987

• 1st A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski

1988

• 1st Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

1989

• 3rd Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

1992

• 3rd A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason (tied with two other novels)

1993

• 2nd Sideshow by Sheri S. Tepper

1994

• 2nd Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

1997

• 3rd The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

2002

• 3rd Probability Sun by Nancy Kress

2003

• 1st Probability Space by Nancy Kress

2004

• 2nd Natural History by Justina Robson

2005

• 3rd The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

External Links

• http://www.ku.edu/~sfcenter/campbell.htm