Spectacular news, Space Unicorns! “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia and “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer are Sturgeon Memorial Award finalists!!! Congratulations to Rhonda, Naomi, and to all of the finalists!

From Locus Magazine:

Established in 1987 by James Gunn and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne Engelhart Tannehill and Sturgeon’s children, the Sturgeon Award is “a memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a field distinguished by its short fiction.”

The winner, who will be announced later this summer, will receive a cash prize as guest of honor at the third annual Sturgeon Symposium, October 24-25, 2024. For more information, see the Gunn Center’s website.