The 2005 James Tiptree, Jr. Award

Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award

Geoff Ryman, Air: Or, Have Not Have (St. Martin's/Griffin)

Short List

Note: This is not the list from which the judges picked the winners. Rather, it is a list of books that the judges found interesting, relevant to the award, and worthy of note.

Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures (Doubleday, 2005)
Margo Lanagan, "Wooden Bride" (in Black Juice, Eos 2005)
Vonda N. McIntyre, "Little Faces" (SciFiction 02.23.05)
Wen Spencer, A Brother's Price (Roc 2005)
Wesley Stace, Misfortune (Little, Brown 2005)
Mark W. Tiedemann, Remains (Benbella Books 2005)

Long List

Note: this year, the long list includes both works that were well-liked but that didn't meet the basic award criteria, and works on which the judges' opinions were mixed.

Emily Brunson, "Arcana"
Janine Cross, Touched by Venom
Ronlyn Domingue, The Mercy of Thin Air
L. Timmel Duchamp, Alanya to Alanya
L. Timmel Duchamp, The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding)
Carol Emshwiller, Mister Boots
Adam Gopnik, The King in the Window
Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, editors, Tesseracts Nine
Rosaleen Love, "In the Shadow of the Stones" from The Traveling Tide
Meghan McCarron, "Close to You"
David Moles, "Planet of the Amazon Women"
Sarah Monette, Melusine
Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl
Julie Anne Peters, Luna
Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
Gabrielle Zevin Margarettown

Special Mention

Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, Writing the Other
Ka-Ping Yee, Regender website

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