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An award encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender.
Works that have won the Otherwise Award (f.k.a. the Tiptree Award). Winners include short stories, novels, and manga. Not all were issued as standalone publications; those do not appear in this list.
An award encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender.
Works that have won the Otherwise Award (f.k.a. the Tiptree Award). Winners include short stories, novels, and manga. Not all were issued as standalone publications; those do not appear in this list.
Waking the moon by Elizabeth Hand
5 stars
Sweeney Cassidy is a freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine, where she meets the …
1995 co-winner
A woman of the iron people by Eleanor Arnason
Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the …
1991 co-winner
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones (The Aleutian Trilogy, #1)
It's 2038 and the earth has been devastated by tectonic shifts accompanied by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The U.S. has …
1991 co-winner
Larque on the wing by Nancy Springer
4 stars
Going through a messy mid-life crisis, forty-year-old wife and mother Larque Harootunian gets carried away with her latest doppelganger--herself at …
1994 co-winner
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak
In The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, Theodore Rozsak offers us a subversive, erotically charged counterpart to Mary Shelley's classic, …
1995 co-winner
Black wine by Candas Jane Dorsey
An old woman hangs in a cage; a young woman slaves on a rich lord's estate. How does a woman …
1997 co-winner
The Conqueror's Child by Suzy McKee Charnas (Holdfast Chronicles, #4)
The Ferns were slaves of the men in the Holdfast, until Alldera Conqueror led a band of rebels to overthrow …
1999 winner
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto
From the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the …
2001 winner
Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo
Mikael, a young gay photographer, finds in the courtyard of his apartment block a small, man-like creature. It is a …
2004 co-winner
Nora and Blanche are cojoined twins. Nora, the dominant twin, thirsts for love and adventure, while Blanche has been asleep …
2006 co-winner
The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne M. Valente (The Orphan's Tales, #1)
2 stars
A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up Readers
Every once in a great while a book comes along that reminds …
2006 co-winner
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
England is in a state of environmental and economic crisis. Under the repressive regime of The Authority, citizens have been …
2007 winner
Filter House by Nisi Shawl (duplicate)
Filter House is a collection of short fiction by Nisi Shawl, with an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable …
2008 co-winner
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 1 by Fumi Yoshinaga (Ōoku, #1)
In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. …
2009 co-winner
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 2 by Fumi Yoshinaga (Ōoku, #2)
Curious about why female lords must take on male names, the shogun Yoshimune seeks out the ancient scribe Murase and …
2009 co-winner
