The shortlist and winners of the 2007 James Tiptree Jr Award have been announced:
Winners:
Half Life by Shelley Jackson (HarperCollins)
The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (Spectra)Special recognition award:
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips. (St. Martin’s 2006)Shortlist:
Mindscape by Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct Press)
Listening at the Gate by Betsy James (Atheneum)
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner (Spectra)
The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow (Morrow)
“Horse-Year Women” by Michaela Roessner (F&SF, January 2006)
“Ava Wrestles the Alligator” by Karen Russell (Granta 93, April 2006 and St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Knopf)
“St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell (St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Knopf)
Matriarch by Karen Traviss (Eos)
Venusia by Mark von Schlegell (Semiotext(e), 2005)
Catherynne Valente’s reaction is here. There’s an (unrelated) conversation with Julie Phillips here. Time to bump In The Night Garden up the TBR pile, I think.
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Glad to see the judges felt Philips’ biography deserved recognition.
I never know what to make when the Tiptree Award Short List is announced, except that there will be a bunch of outstanding novels and short stories which I’m completely unfamiliar with. I own Ellen Kushner’s The Privilege of the Sword and James Morrow’s The Last Witchfinder (both of which I still need to read). Liked Andrea Hairston’s novel quite a bit. And, of course, have already read and devoured Julie Phillip’s biography of Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr. And now I get to discover Shelley Jackson, Catherynne M. Valente, Betsy James, Michaela Roessner (who I have read before), Karen Russell, Karen Traviss, Mark von Schlegell. Quite a treasure trove of books and authors to track down.