The Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas has announced the finalists for the 2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Here’s the full slate:

• The Hydrogen Sonata, by Iain M. Banks (US | UK | ANZ)
• Any Day Now, by Terry Bisson
• Existence, by David Brin (UK | ANZ)
• The Rapture of the Nerds, by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
• Empty Space, by M. John Harrison
• Intrusion, by Ken MacLeod (UK | ANZ)
• Railsea, by China Miéville
• The Fractal Prince, by Hannu Rajaniemi
• Blue Remembered Earth, by Alastair Reynolds
• Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer, by Adam Roberts
• 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson (US | UK | ANZ)
• Slow Apocalypse, by John Varley
• Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson

Congratulations to Orbit authors Iain M. Banks, David Brin, Ken MacLeod, and Kim Stanley Robinson, as well as to the rest of the finalists! The winner will be announced during the Campbell Conference in Lawrence Kansas on June 14th.