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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