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History
Following John W. Campbell's death in 1971, the University of Kansas science fiction program (now the Gunn Centre for the Study of Science Fiction) established this annual award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The first recipient was Barry N. Malzberg (1973) for his novel Beyond Apollo.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1995
winner y
Permutation City
St Leonards
:
Allen and Unwin
,
1994
Z455855
1994
single work
novel
science fiction
(taught in 2 units)
'In
Permutation City
Egan has said that his main goal was "to
take the idea of conscious software - whether it's some kind
of scanned human duplicate, or some AI created from
scratch - and push it to its logical conclusion'." The story involves human identities being 'loaded into computer memory
banks where they become virtual people' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
