Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award All Nominees (original) (raw)

“The Spine Divers” — third place

“The Art of Space Travel” — finalist

“The Rainbow Ghosts” — finalist

“Rachel Is At a Protest” — finalist

“If You Take My Meaning” — finalist

“Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue” — winner

“Six Months, Three Days” — second place

“Mammoths of the Great Plains” — finalist

“Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance” — second place

“Things Greater Than Love” — finalist

“The Gambler” — shortlist

“Yellow Card Man” — shortlist

“The Calorie Man” — winner

“The Fluted Girl” — shortlist

“The Empress of Mars” — winner

“Things Undone” — second place (tie)

“My Advice to the Civilized” — shortlist

“Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe” — second place

“Off on a Starship” — shortlist

“Heart of Glass” — shortlist

“Age of Aquarius” — second place

“On the Orion Line” — shortlist

“Sheena 5” — second place

“Tideline” — winner (tie)

“Freezing Rain, A Chance of Falling” — finalist

“Lady With Fox” — finalist

“The Fear Gun” — shortlist

“The Window” — third place

“I, Iscariot” — shortlist

“Cri de Coeur” — third place

“Scout's Honor” — shortlist

“macs” — shortlist

“Bears Discover Fire” — winner

“Thirteen Phantasms” — shortlist

“Ten Steps for Effective Mold Removal” — finalist

The Only Harmless Great Thing — finalist

“And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” — finalist

“Echoes” — shortlist

“Ma Qui” — second place

“Under the Moons of Venus” — finalist

“This Wind Blowing, and this Tide” — second place (tie)

“The Fire that Scours” — shortlist

“The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex” — finalist

“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance” — finalist

“Reality Check” — shortlist

“Childfinder” — finalist

“The Evening and the Morning and the Night” — second place (tie)

“Paris In June” — shortlist

“Pretty Boy Crossover” — honorable mention

“An Important Failure” — winner

“Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin” — shortlist

“The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes” — shortlist

“To Eat Your Own Head” — finalist

“The Translator, at Low Tide” — finalist

“Beauty and the Op�ra or The Phantom Beast” — shortlist

“The Wellness Plague” — shortlist

“Omphalos” — finalist

“The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” — shortlist

“Liking What You See: A Documentary” — shortlist

“Hell Is the Absence of God” — shortlist

“Seventy-Two Letters” — shortlist

“Story of Your Life” — winner

“The City and the Thing Beneath It” — finalist

“Swarm X1048 � Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, '6'” — second place

“Bronte's Egg” — second place

“The Measure of All Things” — shortlist

“If the Martians Have Magic” — finalist

“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” — finalist

“Savant Songs” — shortlist

“Judas Iscariot Didn�t Kill Himself: A Story in Fragments” — finalist

“The Copenhagen Interpretation” — finalist

“Radio Praha” — shortlist

“Immersion” — finalist

“Scattered Along the River of Heaven” — finalist

“The Wildfires of Antarctica” — finalist

A Year in the Linear City — shortlist

“Slow Communication” — third place

“The Man Who Sold the Moon” — winner

“Craphound” — shortlist

“In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird” — finalist

“Dance at the Edge” — shortlist

“Herd Immunity” — finalist

“The Chief Designer” — winner

“Schr�dinger's Kitten” — winner

“The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” — finalist

“The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred” — finalist

“Singleton” — third place

“The Planck Dive” — shortlist

“Cocoon” — shortlist

“Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon” — finalist

“The Pill” — second place

This Is How You Lose the Time War (by AE & Max Gladstone) — second place

“Seasons of Glass and Iron” — finalist

“The Unpastured Sea” — finalist

“Arabian Wine” — shortlist

“Animae Celestes” — shortlist

“The Weighing of Ayre” — third place

“The Political Prisoner” — shortlist

“Milo and Sylvie” — shortlist

“Crane Fly” — shortlist

“The New Mother” — second place

“Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth” — shortlist

“House of Dreams” — winner

“Melodies of the Heart” — shortlist

“The Dreaming Wind” — shortlist

“The Empire of Ice Cream” — shortlist

“Erase/Record/Play” — shortlist

“The Gift” — honorable mention

“When it Ends, He Catches Her” — finalist

“Always” — shortlist

“The Elizabeth Complex” — shortlist

“Madonna of the Maquiladora” — shortlist

“How Meersh the Bedeviler Lost His Toes” — shortlist

“A Princess of Helium” — shortlist

“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” — winner

“Philia, Eros, Storge, Ag�pe, Pragma” — finalist

“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” — winner

“As Women Fight” — second place (tie)

“Dancer in the Dark” — shortlist

“The Martian Child” — shortlist

“Umbernight” — finalist

“Touring with the Alien” — second place

This Is How You Lose the Time War (by Amal El-Mohtar & MG) — second place

“The Grinnell Method” — winner

“The Two Domains” — special citation

“Memory Dog” — second place

“If We Make It Through This Alive” — finalist

“Give the Family My Love” — finalist

The Album of Dr. Moreau — finalist

“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” — finalist

We Are All Completely Fine — finalist

“Second Person, Present Tense” — shortlist

“The Maiden Flight of McCauley's _Bellerophon_” — second place

“Suicide Coast” — shortlist

“When We Were Starless” — finalist

“At the Shadow of a Dream” — second place (tie)

“Home for Christmas” — shortlist

“Five Days in April” — shortlist

“Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” — winner

“The State Street Robot Factory” — finalist

“Proof by Induction” — finalist

“Folding Beijing” — finalist

“They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass” — finalist

“The Man Who Bridged the Mist” — finalist

“Spar” — finalist

“The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the Change” — shortlist

“Fox Magic” — winner

“Hello! Hello! Hello!” — finalist

“Emergence” — finalist

“The Tomb Wife” — shortlist

“The Weight of the Sunrise” — finalist

“Wading River Dogs and More” — second place

“Grave Angels” — second place (tie)

“What It Means to Be a Car” — finalist

“Bernardo's House” — second place

“Undone” — third place

“Lovestory” — shortlist

“Itsy Bitsy Spider” — shortlist

“Dancing with the Chairs” — honorable mention

“Faith” — honorable mention

“Heroics” — honorable mention

“The Old Equations” — finalist

“The Dark Ride” — finalist

“The Last American” — shortlist

“The Baum Plan for Financial Independence” — shortlist

“It's All True” — third place

“Stories for Men” — shortlist

“The Juniper Tree” — shortlist

“Buffalo” — winner

“Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner” — honorable mention

“Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” — finalist

“Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!” — third place

Yesterday's Kin — finalist

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall — finalist

“Savior” — shortlist

“Marigold Outlet” — shortlist

“The Flowers of Aulit Prison” — winner

“Fault Lines” — shortlist

“The Year Without Sunshine” — third place

“Evan: A Remainder” — finalist

Episodes of the Argo — shortlist

“The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future” — finalist

“Singing My Sister Down” — shortlist

“A Hotel in Antarctica” — finalist

“The Sultan of the Clouds” — winner

The Ballad of Black Tom — finalist

“The Seasons of the Ansarac” — shortlist

“The Wild Girls” — shortlist

“The Birthday of the World” — shortlist

“Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea” — shortlist

“Forgiveness Day” — winner

“Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight” — second place (tie)

“Universal Grammar” — shortlist

“Bonsai Starships” — finalist

“The Mermaid Astronaut” — finalist

“The Starship and the Temple Cat” — finalist

“Ghostweight” — finalist

“Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” — finalist

“The Happy Man” — third place

“Damage” — finalist

“The Tale of the Golden Eagle” — shortlist

“Advantage, Bellarmine” — shortlist

“Loose Ends” — shortlist

“The Chronology Protection Case” — shortlist

“Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man” — second place

“The Game of Smash and Recovery” — winner

“Magic for Beginners” — third place

“Stone Animals” — shortlist

“50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” — finalist

“The Regular” — finalist

“Mono No Aware” — finalist

“The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” — finalist

“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” — finalist

“The Paper Menagerie” — third place

“The Carcosa Pattern” — winner

“The Lightness of the Movement” — finalist

“The Visitor from Taured” — finalist

“The Master Miller's Tale” — second place (tie)

“Breathmoss” — shortlist

“Isabel of the Fall” — shortlist

“New Light on the Drake Equation” — shortlist

“The Chop Girl” — shortlist

“The Summer Isles” — third place

“Understanding Entropy” — shortlist

“Symphony for Skyfall” (by Rick Cook & PLM) — shortlist

“The Wedding Album” — winner

“We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy” — shortlist

“The Choice” — winner

“Reef” — shortlist

“Once Upon a Matter Crushed” — shortlist

“Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two Manuals” — shortlist

“Jigoku no Mokushiroku (The Symbolic Revelation of the Apocalypse)” — winner

“Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan” — finalist

“The Fifth Dragon” — finalist

“The Tear” — third place

“The Djinn's Wife” — shortlist

“The Little Goddess” — second place

Tendel�o's Story — winner

“Yellow and the Perception of Reality” — third place

“Sidewalks” — finalist

“Special Economics” — shortlist

“Interview: On Any Given Day” — shortlist

“Nekropolis” — second place

“Little Faces” — shortlist

“The Walls of the Universe” — shortlist

“Things With Beards” — third place

“We Are the Cloud” — finalist

“The Metric” — finalist

“Finisterra” — winner (tie)

“A Mastery of German” — finalist

Shambling Towards Hiroshima — winner

“The Cat's Pajamas” — shortlist

“The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann” — shortlist

“Rachel in Love” — winner

“The Martian Obelisk” — finalist

“Nahiku West” — second place

“Looking Through Lace” — shortlist

“A Hole in the Light” — finalist

“When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” — winner

“The Irish Astronaut” — finalist

“The Magical Negro” — shortlist

“The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” — finalist

“Bots of the Lost Ark” — finalist

“The Painter of Trees” — finalist

“Waterlines” — winner

“The Secret Life of Bots” — finalist

“Shatterdown” — finalist

“Elephant” — second place (tie)

“Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance” — finalist

“Get a Grip” — shortlist

“Project Empathy” — finalist

“And Then There Were (N-One)” — finalist

“Our Lady of the Open Road” — finalist

“In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind” — winner

distinguished service — winner

“The Color Winter” — honorable mention

“A Guide for Working Breeds” — finalist

“A Series of Steaks” — finalist

“Fandom for Robots” — finalist

“Her Voice in a Bottle” — finalist

“His Master's Voice” — shortlist

Sisters of the Vast Black — finalist

“Babang Luksa” — second place

“The Cryptic Age” — finalist

“Mystic Falls” — finalist

Eater of Bone — third place

“Dead Man's Run” — finalist

“True Fame” — finalist

“A Billion Eves” — second place

Mere — third place

“Coelacanths” — shortlist

“Winemaster” — shortlist

“The 43 Antarean Dynasties” — shortlist

“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge” — shortlist

“You Have Never Been Here” — shortlist

“Love of the True God” — shortlist

“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM” — finalist

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach — finalist

“We Who Live in the Heart” — finalist

“The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” — finalist

“The House Beyond Your Sky” — shortlist

“Start the Clock” — shortlist

“Another Word for Map Is Faith” — shortlist

“The Voluntary State” — second place

“Have Not Have” — shortlist

“Everywhere” — shortlist

“Dry Bones” — shortlist

“Jennifer, Just Before Midnight” — shortlist

“The Undiscovered” — shortlist

“Venus Flowers at Night” — shortlist

“Danny Goes to Mars” — third place

“Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” — finalist

“On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog” — finalist

“Only Partly Here” — shortlist

“Over Yonder” — winner

“Eternity and Afterward” — shortlist

“Radiant Green Star” — third place

“The Death of Che Guevara” — finalist

“Inclination” — shortlist

“Slipping” — honorable mention

“This Year's Class Picture” — winner

“Notes From a Pyre” — finalist

“Dead Worlds” — shortlist

“Avery Cates: The Walled City” — finalist

“Diamonds Aren't Forever” — shortlist

“The Story So Far” — second place (tie)

“Coming to Grips with the Great Plague” — third place

“Mortimer Gray's _History of Death_” — shortlist

“The Age of Innocence” — second place

“�Where Angels Fear to Tread” — second place

“The Peak of Eternal Light” — finalist

“The Blemmye's Stratagem” — shortlist

“In Paradise” — shortlist

“Maneki Neko” — shortlist

“Dori Bangs” — third place

“Halo” — shortlist

“Lobsters” — second place

“Antibodies” — shortlist

“Toronto Isn't Real and Other Metropolitcan Anomalies” — finalist

“From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled” — shortlist

“Lord Weary's Empire” — third place

“The Dog Said Bow-Wow” — shortlist

“Radiant Doors” — shortlist

“Wild Minds” — shortlist

“Radio Waves” — shortlist

“The Edge of the World” — winner

“Eros, Philia, Agape” — finalist

“Death and the Lady” — second place

“A Letter from the Emperor” — finalist

“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir” — third place

“New Atlantis” — finalist

“The Night Train” — finalist

“The Gladiator's War: A Dialog” — shortlist

The Necessity of Stars — finalist

“(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky” — finalist

“The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed in Some Asian Subjects” — shortlist

“Invisible Kingdoms” — shortlist

“The Future is Blue” — winner

Silently and Very Fast — finalist

“The Inn at Mount Either” — shortlist

Dradin, In Love — shortlist

“An Infestation of Blue” — finalist

“Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?” — second place

“The Lions Are Asleep This Night” — honorable mention

“An Appeal to Adolf” — shortlist

“The Things” — third place

“The Island” — finalist

“Daddy's World” — shortlist

“Lethe” — shortlist

“Dinosaurs” — honorable mention

“Inside Job” — shortlist

“Even the Queen” — honorable mention

A Taste of Honey — finalist

Julian: A Christmas Story — shortlist

“The Cartesian Theater” — winner

“Memorare” — second place (tie)

“The Lost Pilgrim” — shortlist

“We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” — finalist

“The Archronology of Love” — finalist

“The Urashima Effect” — finalist