Science Fiction Awards Watch

The winner of this year’s James Tiptree Jr. Award is Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, by Dubravka Ugresic (Canongate, 2010). The Honour List is as follows: The Bone Palace, Amanda Downum (Orbit 2010) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit 2010) “Diana Comet and the Disappearing Lover”, Sandra McDonald (published as “Diana Comet,” Strange Horizons, [...]

The James Tiptree Award has announced the winner for 2010, and once again two works have been chosen. The winners are: Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales, Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press) Ooku: The Inner Chambers (volumes 1 & 2), Fumi Yoshinaga (Viz Media) The press release includes the following notes: Cloud & Ashes contains [...]

Yes, we have two. This year’s Tiptree Award is a tie. The winners are: The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness (Walker 2008) Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press, 2008) The honor list is as follows: Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing (Bantam, 2008) Jenny Davidson, The Explosionist (HarperTeen, 2008) Gregory Frost, [...]

Some interesting reactions around the blogosphere with regard to the Tiptree. The Fantasy Times, in amongst commenting on the “vote for me” debate, speculates that perhaps awards should be divided into those intended to give publicity to authors and their works, and those intended to give publicity to an organization or cause. Meanwhile Jonathan Strahan [...]

The results of this year’s Tiptree Award have been announced. The winner is: The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall and the honor list is as follows: “Dangerous Space”, Kelley Eskridge, (Dangerous Space, Aqueduct Press, 2007) Water Logic, Laurie Marks (Small Beer Press, 2007) Empress of Mijak and The Riven Kingdom, Karen Miller (HarperCollins, Australia, 2007) [...]

The Tiptree jury is asking for recommendations over at the Whileaway LiveJournal community. (Apparently they too are having difficulty getting books from publishers, and I’m pretty sure that, unlike the Lambdas, they don’t charge entry fees.)

[Retyped from the Nippon 2007 newsletter.] The Sense of Gender Award, a sister award to the Tiptree, was founded in 2001 by the Japanese Association for Gender Fantasy and Science in order to celebrate works that invite us to reconsider gender in various fields, including literature, movies, and manga. The award has two divisions: the [...]

Japan has its own equivalent of the Tiptree Award, the Sense of Gender Award. There is a brief report on some of the panels at Nippon 2007 devoted to women’s writing from Spike here. The Sense of Gender ceremony takes place on Sunday. The Tiptree winners have already been announced.