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Jo Walton

science fiction awards database

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2020

Or What You Will • novel • Tor

awards:

• Mythopoeic Awards 2022 — adult literature — winner

“Nidhog” • short fiction • The Book of Dragons

awards:

• Aurora Awards 2021 — poem/song — winner

“Books In Which No Bad Things Happen” • short fiction • Tor.com 20 Mar 2020

awards:

• British SF Association Awards 2021 — nonfiction — nomination

2019

Lent: A Novel of Many Returns • novel • Tor

awards:

• Mythopoeic Awards 2020 — adult literature — nomination

2018

Starlings • collection • Tachyon Publications

awards:

• Locus Awards 2019 — collection — 6th place

An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000 • nonfiction • Tor

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2019 — related work — nomination

• Locus Awards 2019 — nonfiction — 3rd place

2016

Thessaly Trilogy • novel • Tor

awards:

• Mythopoeic Awards 2017 — adult literature — nomination

Necessity • novel • Tor

awards:

• Locus Awards 2017 — fantasy novel — 9th place

• Sunburst Award 2017 — Adult — nomination

Skylark Award 2017 — winner

2015

The Just City • novel • Tor

awards:

• Prometheus Awards 2016 — novel — nomination

citations:

• 2021: NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade Of Great Sci-Fi And Fantasy, NPR

2014

What Makes This Book So Great • nonfiction • Tor

awards:

• Locus Awards 2015 — non-fiction — winner

My Real Children • novel • Tor

awards:

• World Fantasy Awards 2015 — novel — nomination

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2015 — winner (tie)

• Locus Awards 2015 — sf novel — 6th place

• Aurora Awards 2015 — novel — nomination

• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2016 — novel — nomination

• Seiun Awards 2018 — translated novel — nomination

• Sidewise Awards 2015 — long form — nomination

• Sunburst Award 2015 — Adult — nomination

“Sleeper”

anthologies:

• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, ed. Joe Hill & John Joseph Adams, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 2015

• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2015

2011

Among Others • novel • Tor

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2012 — novel — winner

• Nebula Awards 2012 — novel — winner

• World Fantasy Awards 2012 — novel — nomination

• British Fantasy Awards 2012 — Robert Holdstock Award (fantasy novel) — winner

• Locus Awards 2012 — fantasy novel — 2nd place

• Copper Cylinder Awards 2012 — adult award — winner

• Kurd Lasswitz Preis 2014 — foreign novel — winner

• Mythopoeic Awards 2012 — adult literature — nomination

• Phantastik Preis 2014 — foreign novel — nomination

• Seiun Awards 2015 — translated novel — nomination

• SF Site Readers Poll 2012 — sf/fantasy book — 8th place

citations:

• 2018: 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List, James Mustich

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

• 2015: 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime, Amazon Editors

“The Panda Coin”

anthologies:

• Eclipse Four, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2011

As Judge — Endeavour Award 2011

2009

Lifelode • novel • NESFA Press

awards:

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2010 — honor list

• Locus Awards 2010 — fantasy novel — 10th place

• Mythopoeic Awards 2010 — adult literature — winner

“Three Twilight Tales” • short fiction • Firebirds Soaring

awards:

• Locus Awards 2010 — short story — 13th place

anthologies:

• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2010

• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2010

“Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction” • short fiction • Tor.com 6 Feb 2009

awards:

• Locus Awards 2010 — short story — 15th place

anthologies:

• Twenty-First Century Science Fiction, ed. David G. Hartwell & Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 2013

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin 2010

2008

Small Change trilogy

awards:

• Seiun Awards 2011 — translated novel — nomination

Half a Crown • novel • Tor

awards:

• Locus Awards 2009 — sf novel — 6th place

• Prometheus Awards 2009 — novel — nomination

• Sidewise Awards 2009 — long form — nomination

• Sunburst Award 2009 — Adult — nomination

2007

Ha'Penny • novel • Tor

awards:

• Locus Awards 2008 — sf novel — 9th place

• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2008 — novel — nomination

• Lambda Award 2008 — sf/fantasy/horror — nomination

• Prometheus Awards 2008 — novel — winner (tie)

• Sidewise Awards 2008 — long form — nomination

“Cendrillon at Sunrise” • short fiction • Asimov's Sep 2007

awards:

• Asimov's Reader Poll 2008 — poem — 4th place

2006

Farthing • novel • Tor

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2007 — novel — nomination

• John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2007 — third place

• Locus Awards 2007 — sf novel — 5th place

• Quill Award 2007 — sf/fantasy/horror — nomination

• Sidewise Awards 2007 — long form — nomination

2003

Tooth and Claw • novel • Tor

awards:

• World Fantasy Awards 2004 — novel — winner

citations:

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

2001

“On the Wall” • Strange Horizons (online) Sep 3 2001

anthologies:

• Year’s Best Fantasy 2, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2002

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer 2002 — winner

2000

The King's Peace • novel • Tor

awards:

• Locus Awards 2001 — first novel — 7th place

• Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2001 — finalist

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer 2001 — finalist

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