James Tiptree Award

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The James Tiptree Award is awarded annually for science fiction and fantasy that explores and expands gender. It is named in honor of Alice B. Sheldon who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr.

	2010 Dubravka Ugresic. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg Three modern variations on the Slavic Baba Yaga legend.
	2009 Greer Gilman. Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales Cloud & Ashes collects three Winter's Tales ("Jack Daw's Pack," "A Crowd of Bone," and the longest, "Unleaving") centering on folk traditions, harvest rites, the seasons, gods, and trickster figures.
	2009 Fumi Yoshinaga. Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Volumes 1 & 2
	2008 Patrick Ness. The Knife of Never Letting Go Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
	2008 Nisi Shawl. Filter House
	2007 Sarah Hall. Daughters of the North
	2006 Shelley Jackson. Half Life In the tradition of Middlesex and Geek Love comes a stylish, fascinating, and sometimes disturbing first novel about one Siamese twin's plot to kill the other, written by a spectacularly cool and well-connected author.
	2005 Geoff Ryman. Air: Or, Have Not Have
	2004 Joe Haldeman. Camouflage The artifact is found seven miles below the surface of the sea and beneath forty more feet of sand. The Navy's efforts to raise a wrecked submarine uncover it - and set in motion a scientific race to retrieve it, to discover just what it is and where it came from. Denser than any substance known to man, it has broken every drill bit they've tried on it and will not budge an inch. It resists every effort to breach it - or communicate with it. So the governmenet turns to marine biologist Russell Sutton for help.
	2004 Johanna Sinisalo. Not Before Sundown
	2003 Matt Ruff. Set This House In Order: a Romance of Souls Andrew Gage, 28, is trying to live a normal, stable life as a multiple personality. One day Andrew meets Penny Driver, who is also multiple, but doesn't know it yet. When a couple of Penny's other personalities try to enlist Andrew's aid, they set in motion a chain of events that threatens to bring Andrew's "house" crashing down.
	2002 M. John Harrison. Light
	2002 John Kessel. "Stories for Men" in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
	2001 Hiromi Goto. The Kappa Child
	2000 Molly Gloss Wild Life A free-thinking, fiercely independent writer of women's adventure stories finds herself in a mysterious world that challenges her concept of reality, after she agrees to join a search party for a missing child who has disappeared in the Great Northwest Woods.
	1999 Suzy McKee Charnas. The Conqueror's Child
	1998 Raphael Carter. "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" in Starlight 2
	1997 Candas Jane Dorsey. Black Wine Why is there an old woman, in a hanging cage for punishment, keeping a journal written in blood? Candas Jane Dorsey has written an ambitious, feminist novel about women coming to terms with their identity in a barbarous fantasy world. Dorsey's women travel across the world, from the slave dens to the merchant cities, across seas by ship and by dirigible, to isolated mountain villages and back again.
	1997 Kelly Link. "Travels with the Snow Queen" in Stranger Things Have Happened
	1995 Ursula K. Le Guin. "Mountain Ways" in The Birthday of the World and Other Stories Mountain Ways is about a society which is based on complex marriage relationships comprising four people.
	1996 Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow Father Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit linguist whose messianic virtues hide his occasional doubt about his calling. The mystery is the climactic turn of events that has left him the sole survivor of a secret Jesuit expedition to the planet Rakhat and, upon his return, made him a disgrace to his faith.
	1995 Elizabeth Hand Waking the Moon A college student discovers that every institution in the world is controlled by an evil clandestine order called the Benandanti. Now, after thousands of years of patriarchal rule, the time of the Benandanti is over. The vengeful Moon Goodess has awakened, and she wants her world back.
	1995 Theodore Roszak. The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein The story of Victor Frankenstein, his quest for forbidden knowledge, and his creation of the Creature is told through the voice of Elizabeth, Victor's doomed fiancee, in a candid, passionate retelling of Shelley's classic.
	1994 Ursula K. Le Guin. "The Matter of Seggri" in The Birthday of the World and Other Storie "The Matter of Seggri" takes place on a planet where women greatly outnumber men.
	1994 Nancy Springer. "Larque on the Wing"
	1993 Nicola Griffith. Ammonite
	1992 Maureen F. McHugh. China Mountain Zhang
	1991 Eleanor Arnason. A Woman of the Iron People Li Lixia is one of eight field anthropologists set down on Sigma Draconis II after the first starship from Earth detects pre-industrial intelligent life there. She experiences several of the cultures of the humanoid people of the planet as she travels with Nia, a female exile of the Iron People.
	1991 Gwyneth Jones. White Queen When humanoid aliens invade Earth early in the twenty-first century, they claim to desire only a peaceful settlement, but their presence changes the world in disturbing ways.
	Retrospective Winner Suzy McKee Charnas. Motherlines & Walk to the End of the World in The Slave and the Free
	Retrospective Winner Ursula K. Le Guin. The Left Hand of Darkness The story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender.
	Retrospective Winner Joanna Russ. "When It Changed" in Again, Dangerous Visions
	Retrospective Winner Joanna Russ. "When It Changed" in The Female Man