Fabulous news, Space Unicorns!  “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills is a Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist! Congratulations to Samantha and to all of the finalists!

Press release below:

LAWRENCE, KS – 5 June 2023
for immediate release

This year’s finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction
story have been selected.

2023 Finalists for the Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award

• “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills in Uncanny Magazine, Nov. 2022
• “In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird” by Maria Dong in Lightspeed Magazine,
Jan. 2022
• “Slow Communication” by Dominique Dickey in Fantasy Magazine, Feb. 2022
• “If We Make It Through This Alive” by A.T. Greenblatt in Slate/ Future Tense
Fiction, Jan 2022
• “Babang Luksa” by Nicasio Andres Reed in Reckoning Press, Feb. 2022.
• “Ten Steps for Effective Mold Removal” by Derrick Boden in Apex Magazine,
Sept. 2022
• “The City and the Thing Beneath It” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo in The Magazine
of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb. 2022
• “A Hole in the Light” by Annalee Newitz in Sunday Morning Transport, Oct. 2022
• “Toronto Isn’t Real and Other Metropolitan Anomalies” by A.D. Sui in Augur Magazine, Dec.
2022
• “Bonsai Starships” by Yoon Ha Lee in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Feb. 2022

The Sturgeon Award was established in 1987 by James Gunn, Founding Director of the Gunn Center for
the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon. The
winner will be announced later this summer and will be presented with their award and a cash prize
as a guest of honor at our second annual Sturgeon Symposium (9/20/23 – 9/22/23).

For media contact:

Sturgeon Award Administrator
Gunn Center for he Study of Science Fiction
[email protected]