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Carol Emshwiller

science fiction awards database

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2025

Moon Songs • collection • Third Man

awards:

• Locus Awards 2026 — collection — nomination (pending)

2018

Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award 2019 — winner

2012

“All I Know of Freedom”

anthologies:

• After, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Hyperion Books for Children 2012

2011

The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1 • collection • NonStop Press

awards:

• Locus Awards 2012 — collection — 4th place

2010

“The Lovely Ugly” • short fiction • Asimov's Aug 2010

awards:

• Asimov's Reader Poll 2011 — short story — winner (tie)

“The Abominable Child's Tale”

anthologies:

• The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2010

“No Time Like the Present”

anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2011

2009

“The Bird Painter in Time of War” • short fiction • Asimov's Feb 2009

awards:

• Asimov's Reader Poll 2010 — short story — 3rd place (tie)

2008

“All Washed Up While Looking for a Better World” • The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy

anthologies:

• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow, Ballantine Del Rey 2008

2007

The Secret City • collection • Tachyon Publications, 2007

citations:

• 2012: Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985 - 2010, Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo

“God Clown” • Coyote Road

anthologies:

• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2007

2006

“World of No Return” • short fiction • Asimov's Jan 2006

awards:

• Locus Awards 2007 — short story — 16th place

“Quill” • Firebirds Rising

anthologies:

• Year’s Best SF 12, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2007

“Killers” • short fiction • F&SF Oct/Nov 2006

awards:

• Locus Awards 2007 — short story — 12th place

anthologies:

• Wastelands, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2007

As Judge — SLF Fountain Award 2006

2005

Mister Boots • novel • Penguin/Viking

awards:

• Locus Awards 2006 — young adult book — 2nd place

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2006 — long list

I Live with You • collection • Tachyon Publications

awards:

• Locus Awards 2006 — collection — 11th place

“I Live with You” • short fiction • F&SF Mar 2005

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2006 — short story — winner

• Locus Awards 2006 — short story — 3rd place

anthologies:

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2007, ed. Mike Resnick, Penguin/Roc 2007

• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Seventeen, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 2006

2004

“Gliders Though They Be” • short fiction • Sci Fiction 2 Jun 2004

awards:

• Locus Awards 2005 — short story — 16th place

“All of Us Can Almost...” • short fiction • Sci Fiction 17 Nov 2004

awards:

• Locus Awards 2005 — short story — 12th place

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2005 — short list

anthologies:

• Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow, Prime Books 2010

• Science Fiction: The Best of 2004, ed. Karen Haber & Jonathan Strahan, ibooks 2005

• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2, ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin & Jeffrey D. Smith, Tachyon Publications 2006

World Fantasy Awards 2005 — life achievement — winner

2003

“Boys” • short fiction • Sci Fiction 28 Jan 2003

awards:

• Locus Awards 2004 — short story — 17th place

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2004 — short list

anthologies:

• Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, PM Press 2015

• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1, ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin & Jeffrey D. Smith, Tachyon Publications 2004

2002

The Mount • novel • Small Beer Press

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2004 — novel — nomination

• Philip K. Dick Award 2003 — winner

• Locus Awards 2003 — sf novel — 11th place

• SF Site Readers Poll 2003 — sf/fantasy book — 10th place

• Xatafi-Cyberdark 2010 — foreign book — nomination

citations:

• 2017: Critical Survey of Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, Third Edition, Paul Di Filippo

• 2009: The Science Fiction Handbook, M. Keith Booker & Anne-Marie Thomas

• 2009: 20 Best Science Fiction Books of the Decade, io9

• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron

Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories • collection • Small Beer Press

awards:

• Philip K. Dick Award 2003 — finalist

• Locus Awards 2003 — collection — 11th place

“Report to the Men's Club” • Report to the Men's Club and other stories

anthologies:

• Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka, ed. John Kessell & James Patrick Kelly, Tachyon Publications 2011

“Overlooking” • The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

anthologies:

• The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2002

“Grandma” • short fiction • F&SF Mar 2002

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2004 — short story — nomination

anthologies:

• Superheroes, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2013

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2005, ed. Jack Dann, Penguin/Roc 2005

• Year’s Best SF 8, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2003

2001

“The Project” • F&SF Aug 2001

anthologies:

• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 2002

“Creature” • short fiction • F&SF Nov 2001

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2003 — short story — winner

• Locus Awards 2002 — short story — 9th place

anthologies:

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2004, ed. Vonda N. McIntyre, Roc 2004

1998

I-CON Award 1999 — Gallun Award — winner

1993

“Mrs. Jones” • Omni Aug 1993

anthologies:

• Blood and Other Cravings, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2011

• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 1994

1992

Venus Rising • short fiction • Edgewood Press

awards:

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 1993 — short list

1991

The Start of the End of It All • collection • Mercury House

awards:

• Locus Awards 1992 — collection — 14th place

1990

The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories • collection • The Women's Press

awards:

• World Fantasy Awards 1991 — collection — winner

• Locus Awards 1991 — collection — 17th place

citations:

• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron

“Moon Songs” • The Start of the End of it All and Other Stories

anthologies:

• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 1992

“Looking Down” • Omni Jan 1990

anthologies:

• Future Primitive, ed. Kim Stanley Robinson, Tor 1994

“If the Word was to the Wise” • The Start of the End of it All and Other Stories

anthologies:

• Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, ed. A. Susan Williams & Richard Glyn Jones, Viking UK 1995

1988

Carmen Dog • novel • The Women's Press

awards:

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 1996 — retrospective Tiptree short list

citations:

• 1988: A Basic Science Fiction Library, James Gunn

1987

“The Circular Library of Stones” • short fiction • Omni Feb 1987

awards:

• Locus Awards 1988 — short story — 18th place

• Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1988 — short story — winner

anthologies:

• Omni Visions Two, ed. Ellen Datlow, Omni Books 1994

• The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 1988

1981

“The Start of the End of the World” • Universe 11

anthologies:

• The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin & Brian Attebery, Norton 1993

• Top Science Fiction, ed. Josh Pachter, Dent 1984

• Universe 11, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday 1981

1980

“Abominable” • Orbit 21

anthologies:

• The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, Arthur B. Evans et al, Wesleyan 2010

• Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years, ed. Pamela Sargent, Harcourt Brace 1995

• The Road to Science Fiction #4, ed. James E. Gunn, Mentor 1982

• Orbit 21, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row 1980

1973

“The Childhood of the Human Hero” • Showcase

anthologies:

• Nebula Award Stories 9, ed. Kate Wilhelm, Harper & Row 1974

• Showcase, ed. Roger Elwood, Harper & Row 1973

1972

“Al” • Orbit 10

anthologies:

• Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Tachyon Publications 2006

• The Best from Orbit, ed. Damon Knight, Berkley 1975

• Orbit 10, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s 1972

1971

“A Possible Episode in the Picaresque Adventures of Mr. J.H.B. Monstrosee” • Quark

anthologies:

• Quark #2, ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library 1971

1970

“Woman Waiting” • Orbit 7

anthologies:

• Orbit 7, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s 1970

“Debut” • Orbit 6

anthologies:

• The New Women of Wonder, ed. Pamela Sargent, Vintage 1978

• Orbit 6, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s 1970

1968

“Lib” • New Worlds Mar 1968

anthologies:

• Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6, ed. Michael Moorcock, Panther 1970

“Animal” • Orbit 4

anthologies:

• Orbit 4, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s 1968

1967

“Sex and/or Mr. Morrison” • Dangerous Visions

anthologies:

• Women of Wonder, ed. Pamela Sargent, Vintage 1975

• Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1967

1966

“Chicken Icarus” • Cavalier Oct 1966

anthologies:

• SF12, ed. Judith Merril, Delacorte 1968

“But Soft, What Light...” • F&SF Apr 1966

anthologies:

• SF: Authors’ Choice 4, ed. Harry Harrison, G.P. Putnam’s 1974

1959

“Day at the Beach” • F&SF Aug 1959

anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories: 21 (1959), ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1990

• Beyond Armageddon, ed. Walter M. Miller, Jr. & Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine 1985

• SF: The Best of the Best, ed. Judith Merril, Delacorte 1967

• The 5th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F, ed. Judith Merril, Simon & Schuster 1960

1958

“Pelt” • F&SF Nov 1958

anthologies:

• The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, ed. Lisa Yaszek, Library Of America 2018

• The Big Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, Random House/Vintage 2016

• A Pocket Full of Stars, ed. Damon Knight, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1971

• SF: The Best of the Best, ed. Judith Merril, Delacorte 1967

• SF:59, ed. Judith Merril, Gnome 1959

1957

“Hunting Machine” • Science Fiction Stories May 1957

anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories: 19 (1957), ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1989

• The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction, ed. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House 1980

• Science Fiction Inventions, ed. Damon Knight, Lancer 1967

• Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series, ed. T. E. Dikty, Advent:Publishers 1958

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