TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Andy Duncan, assistant director of student media at The University of Alabama, was awarded the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction story of 2001. He was presented the award at the University of Kansas last month for “The Chief Designer.”
Presented annually since 1987 by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, the Sturgeon Award honors the memory of Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), one of science fiction’s most celebrated writers of short fiction.
This is the third major award in the field of science fiction and fantasy that Duncan has won in the past nine months. At the 2001 World Fantasy Convention in Montreal, he won two World Fantasy Awards, one for his story “The Pottawatomie Giant” and one for his collection “Beluthahatchie and Other Stories” (Urbana, Ill.: Golden Gryphon, 2000).
Duncan received his M.F.A. in fiction writing from UA in May 2000. As assistant director of student media, his duties include advising the University’s undergraduate literary magazine, the Marr’s Field Journal, and directing the Alabama Scholastic Press Association, which helps aspiring writers in high schools statewide.
For more information on Duncan’s fiction career or the Sturgeon Award visit his personal website, www.angelfire.com/al/andyduncan.
Contact
Kristen Smith or Linda Hill, Office of Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu