The 2025 finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been selected.
- “Rachel Is At a Protest,” Esther Alter, Deadlands, July 2024
- “To Eat Your Own Head,” Nkone Chaka, Asimov’s Jan/Feb 2024
- “Swarm X1048 – Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, ‘6’,” F.E. Choe, Clarkesworld, March 2024
- “Judas Iscariot Didn’t Kill Himself: A Story in Fragments,” James S.A. Corey, The Last Dangerous Visions, Oct 2024
- “Hello! Hello! Hello!,” Fiona Jones, Clarkesworld, March 2024
- “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole,” Isabel J. Kim, Clarkesworld, Feb 2024
- “Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!,” TJ Klune, Reactor, June 2014
- “Evan: A Remainder,” Jordan Kurella, Reactor, Jan 2024
- “The Carcosa Pattern,” Conrad Loyer, Fiyah, Oct 2024
- “We Will Teach You How to Read,” Caroline M. Yoachim, Lightspeed, May 2024
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 annual Sturgeon Symposium this October.
[Based on a press release.]
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I just don’t understand the popularity of the new Omelas story, “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”. It seems like it’s just about killing children, and according to the original Omelas story, the only thing needed to break the sacrifice of the suffering child is a kind word.
“The terms are strict and absolute; there my not even be a kind word spoken to the child” page 12.
I figure I’m missing some parallel or allegory that’s being drawn?