Created by Phil in SF
An award encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender.
Works that have won the Otherwise Award (f.k.a. the Tiptree Award). Winners include short stories, novels, and manga. Not all were issued as standalone publications; those do not appear in this list.
An award encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender.
Works that have won the Otherwise Award (f.k.a. the Tiptree Award). Winners include short stories, novels, and manga. Not all were issued as standalone publications; those do not appear in this list.
2009 co-winner
Baba Yaga laid an egg by Dubravka Ugrešić
Baba Yaga is a witch-like character who flies around on a giant mortar, kidnapping (and presumably eating) small children. She …
2010 winner
Redwood and wildfire by Andrea Hairston
Winner of the 2011 James Tiptree Jr. Award, Redwood and Wildfire is a novel of what might have been. At …
The drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (duplicate)
5 stars
Imp, a struggling schizophrenic, fights to determine whether or not the strange mythological creatures she meets are due to her …
2012 co-winner
Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam
Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Ancient, Ancient, a collection of short fiction by Kiini Ibura Salaam, …
2012 co-winner
3 stars
It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. …
2014 co-winner
Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, …
Who Runs the World? by Virginia Bergin
Welcome to the Matriarchy.
Sixty years after a virus has wiped out almost all the men on the planet, …
2017 winner
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (duplicate)
4 stars
Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's …
2019 winner
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
4 stars
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San …
2021 co-winner
5 stars
A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction
Vern - seven months …
2021 co-winner
5 stars
For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel set in numerous universes, which …
2024 co-winner
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
5 stars
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace …
2024 co-winner
2024 co-winner
