Peter Watts
Awards Summary
Major Awards: 2
Other Awards: 4
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 35
— Major Awards —
Hugo Awards — for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2011:
“The Things” (Clarkesworld Jan 2010)
short story — nomination
2010:
“The Island” (The New Space Opera 2)
novelette — winner
2007:
Blindsight (Tor)
novel — nomination
British SF Association Awards — for SF works published in the UK, voted by British SF Association members
(1 nomination)
2011:
“The Things” (Clarkesworld Jan 2010)
short fiction — nomination
Shirley Jackson Awards — for works of psychological horror and dark fantastic, juried
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2011:
“The Things” (Clarkesworlds Jan 2010)
short story — winner
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award — for SF short fiction in English; juried
(2 nominations)
2011:
“The Things” (Clarkesworld Jan 2010)
third place
2010:
“The Island” (The New Space Opera 2)
finalist
— Locus Awards and Poll —
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(11 nominations)
2026:
“The Twenty-One Second God” (Lightspeed Jun 2025)
novelette — nomination (pending)
2019:
The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Tachyon)
novella — 9th place
2015:
Echopraxia (Tor)
sf novel — 12th place
2015:
“Collateral” (Upgraded)
novelette — 21st place
2015:
“The Colonel” (Tor.com 29 Jul 2014)
novelette — 12th place
2014:
Beyond the Rift (Tachyon)
collection — 17th place
2011:
“The Things” (Clarkesworld Jan 2010)
short story — 2nd place
2010:
“The Island” (The New Space Opera 2)
novelette — 3rd place
2007:
Blindsight (Tor)
sf novel — 3rd place
2002:
Maelstrom (Tor)
sf novel — 24th place
2000:
Starfish (Tor)
first novel — 3rd place
— Other Awards —
Aurora Awards — for Canadian SF/F in English and in French, voted by members of annual convention
(9 nominations; 2 wins)
2015:
Echopraxia (Tor)
novel — nomination
2013:
— fan related work — nomination
2012:
— fan other — winner
2007:
Blindsight (Tor)
long-form work in English — nomination
2006:
“Mayfly” (by PW & Derryl Murphy) (Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction)
short-form work in English — nomination
2002:
Maelstrom (Tor)
long-form work in English — nomination
2000:
Starfish (Tor)
long-form work in English — nomination
1997:
“Bethlehem” (Tesseracts5)
short-form work in English — nomination
1992:
“A Niche” (Tesseracts3)
short-form, English — winner (tie)
John W. Campbell Memorial Award — for SF novel published in US or UK; juried
(4 nominations)
2019:
The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Tachyon)
finalist
2015:
Echopraxia (Tor)
finalist
2007:
Blindsight (Tor)
third place
2000:
Starfish (Tor)
honorable mention
Seiun Awards — for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2014:
Blindsight
translated long form — winner
SF Site Readers Poll — for SF/F books, voted by readers of SF Site website
(1 nomination)
2007:
Blindsight (Tor)
sf/fantasy book — 4th place
Sunburst Award — for novel or book-length collection by a Canadian, juried
(1 nomination)
2007:
Blindsight (Tor)
Xatafi-Cyberdark — for SF works published in Spain, juried by critics
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2010:
Blindsight
foreign book — winner
Copyright 2012 - 2026 by Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. All rights reserved.