Tiptree Award Winner

Posted by Niall Harrison

21 March 2011

The winner of this year's James Tiptree Jr Award has been announced, along with the Honor List and some more works of interest:

Winner

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, by Dubravka Ugresic (Canongate 2010)

Honor List
  • The Bone Palace by Amanda Downum (Orbit 2010)
  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit 2010)
  • “Diana Comet and the Disappearing Lover” by Sandra McDonald (published as “Diana Comet,” Strange Horizons, March 2 & March 9, 2009)
  • “Drag Queen Astronaut” by Sandra McDonald (Crossed Genres issue 24, November 2010)
  • The Secret Feminist Cabal by Helen Merrick (Aqueduct Press 2009)
  • Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW 2010)
  • Living with Ghosts by Kari Sperring (DAW 2009)
  • The Colony by Jillian Weise (Soft Skull Press 2010)
Other Works Worthy of Attention
  • Beth Bernobich, Passion Play (Tor 2010)
  • Stevie Carroll, “The Monitors” (Echoes of Possibilities, edited by Aleksandr Volnov, Noble Romance Publishing 2010)
  • Roxane Gay, “Things I Know About Fairy Tales” (Necessary Fiction, May 13, 2009)
  • Frances Hardinge, Gullstruck Island (MacMillan 2009)
  • Julia Holmes, Meeks (Small Beer Press 2010)
  • Malinda Lo, Ash (Little, Brown 2009)
  • Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone Books 2010)
  • Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching (Doubleday 2009)
  • Rachel Swirsky, “Eros, Philia, Agape” (Tor.com, March 3, 2009)

This year’s jurors were Penny Hill (chair), Euan Bear, Jessa Crispin, Alice Sola Kim, and Lawrence Schimel.

Congratulations to all the honorees, in particular to Sandra McDonald not just for her Strange Horizons story, but for having two stories on the honor list. The Tiptree is a touch more idiosyncratic in its process than I'd like -- for instance in the handling of non-fiction: why was Julie Phillips' biography of Alice Sheldon given a special award a few years ago, but Helen Merrick's work an Honor List appearance this year? -- but remains one of the most important awards in the field for me, with a very interesting list of winners.


           

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Comments (2)

Posted by Paul Kincaid on March 21, 2011 5:26 AM

In the year I was a judge there were two works of criticism I wanted to draw attention to, but we decided we couldn't mention them because they were not fiction. So it goes.

Posted by Niall on March 21, 2011 5:29 AM

I liked the Special Award solution best, I think -- seems a nice way to draw attention to related work without having an obligation to find such work every year, and without mixing up fiction and non-fiction.

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