{"405301":{"#nid":"405301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yaszek Joins Major Science Fiction Award Committee","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek, professor of science fiction studies in LMC and past president of the Science Fiction Research Association, was recently invited to join the John W. Campbell Memorial Awards Committee. The Campbell Award, given for the best science-fiction novel of the year, is one of the three major annual awards for science fiction. Other committee members include science fiction authors Gregory Benford, Pamela Sargent, and Sheila Finch as well as science fiction scholars Betty Hull, Paul Kincaid, and Chris McKitterick.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECampbell was an American science fiction writer and editor. As editor of \u003Cem\u003EAstounding Science Fiction\u003C\/em\u003E (later called \u003Cem\u003EAnalog Science Fiction and Facts\u003C\/em\u003E) from 1937 to 1971, he is credited with shaping the Golden Age of Science Fiction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the Campbell Award, go to \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sfcenter.ku.edu\/campbell.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.sfcenter.ku.edu\/campbell.htm\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The John W. Campbell Memorial Award is given for the best science-fiction novel of the year,"}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2015-05-18 10:33:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:17","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405281":{"id":"405281","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1449254135","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:35","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"76078","name":"img_69.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_69.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_69.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10334,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_69.jpg?itok=310QRmDc"}}},"media_ids":["405281"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"167171","name":"science fiction"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa.yaszek@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elisa.yaszek@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}