These are the finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year. The Award is presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
2012 Campbell Award Finalists
| Ernest Cline | Ready Player One | Crown (Random House) |
| Kathleen Ann Goonan | This Shared Dream | Tor Books |
| Will McIntosh | Soft Apocalypse | Night Shade Books |
| China Miéville | Embassytown | Ballantine Books / Del Rey |
| Christopher Priest | The Islanders | Gollancz |
| Joan Slonczewski | The Highest Frontier | Tor Books |
| Michael Swanwick | Dancing with Bears | Night Shade Books |
| Lavie Tidhar | Osama | PS Publishing |
| Daniel H. Wilson | Robopocalypse | Simon & Schuster |
| Gene Wolfe | Home Fires | Tor Books |
| Rob Ziegler | Seed | Night Shade Books |
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