The good folk at the University of Kansas have also announced the nominees for the 2008 John W Campbell Memorial Award. They are:

• Brian Aldiss, HARM
• Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
• Kathleen Ann Goonan, In War Times
• Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon’s Arms
• Jay Lake, Mainspring
• Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel
• Ian McDonald, Brasyl
• Rebecca Ore, Time’s Child
• Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys
• Robert J. Sawyer, Rollback
• Jose Carlos Somoza, Zig Zag
• Sheri S. Tepper, The Margarets
• Jeffrey Thomas, Deadstock
• Robert Charles Wilson, Axis