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24
2019
2018 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Winner
The 2018 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, for works of speculative fiction which explore and expand gender, has been announced.
Winner:
- “They Will Dream In the Garden” by Gabriela Damián Miravete, translated by Adrian Demopulos (Latin American Literature Today, May 2018)
Honor List:
- Capricious Magazine: The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue by A. C. Buchanan, ed. (January 2018)
- Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press, Canada, 2018)
- Chercher La Femme by L. Timmel Duchamp (Aqueduct Press, USA, 2108)
- “Big Girl” by Meg Elison (Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December 2017)
- Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology by Joamette Gil, ed. (P & M Press, USA, 2017)
- GlitterShip Year Two by Keffy R M Kehrli, ed. (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2018)
- The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai (Arsenal Pulp Press, Canada, 2019)
- Dirty Computer [visual album] by Janelle Monáe (Wondaland/Bad Boy/Atlantic, 2018)
- “Sandals Full of Rainwater” by E. Prevost (Capricious Magazine: The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue January 2018)
- Maresi: The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff, translation by A. A. Prime (Amulet Books, USA, 2017)
- “Me, Waiting for Me, Hoping for Something More” by Dee Warrick (Shimmer Magazine #41, January 2018)
Our congrats to Gabriela Damián Miravete and all the Honor List members. You can read more details about each selection on the official Tiptree website.
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05
2019
The Kitschies: 2018 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Finalists
The finalists for the 2018 Kitschies Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle awards have been announced!
The Kitschies reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic published in the UK.
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager)
- The Smoke by Simon Ings (Titan)
- Circe by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury)
- Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
- Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt)
- Semiosis by Sue Burke (Harper Voyager)
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
- Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley (Sandstone)
- Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Oneworld)
Our congrats to all the finalists! What do you think of this crop of books? Anything stand out to you?
