The finalists for the 2014 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel of 2013 have been announced.
The award will be presented on June 13 during the Campbell Conference at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
| Max Barry | Lexicon | Penguin |
| Stephen Baxter | Proxima | Gollancz |
| Dave Eggers | The Circle | Knopf |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Marian Wood / Putnam |
| Nicola Griffith | Hild | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
| Wolfgang Jeschke | The Cusanus Game | Tor (1st English edition) |
| Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | Orbit |
| Phillip Mann | The Disestablishment of Paradise | Gollancz |
| Paul McAuley | Evening’s Empires | Gollancz |
| Linda Nagata | The Red: First Light | Mythic Island Press |
| Christopher Priest | The Adjacent | Gollancz |
| Alastair Reynolds | On the Steel Breeze | Gollancz |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Shaman | Orbit |
| Charles Stross | Neptune’s Brood | Ace |
| Marcel Theroux | Strange Bodies | Faber & Faber / Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
The selections were made by the Award jury of Gregory Benford, Paul Di Filippo, Sheila Finch, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Paul Kincaid, Christopher McKitterick, Pamela Sargent, and T.A. Shippey.
The Campbell Award was created to honor the late editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, now Analog.