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Chronology
“All the Cool Monsters at Once”
 short fiction 
Mythspring
, 2006
awards:
Aurora Awards 2007
 short-form work in English  nomination
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault
 novel  Tor, 2017
awards:
Aurora Awards 2018
 novel  nomination
“Ars longa, vita brevis”
Nature
Nov 9 2000
anthologies:
Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction
, ed. Robert J. Sawyer, Robert J. Sawyer Books 2009
Ascending
 novel  HarperCollins/Eos, 2001
awards:
Aurora Awards 2002
 long-form work in English  nomination
“The Children of Crèche”
 short fiction
awards:
Writers and Illustrators of the Future 1990
 Writers of the Future 1st quarter  First Place
Writers and Illustrators of the Future 1990
 Writers of the Future Grand Prize 
winner
Commitment Hour
 novel  Avon Eos, 1998
awards:
James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 1999
 long list
Compostela: Tesseracts 20
(
Spider Robinson
& JAG, eds.)  anthology  EDGE, 2017
awards:
Aurora Awards 2018
 related work  nomination
“The Dog and the Sleepwalker”
 short fiction 
Strangers Among Us
, 2016
awards:
Sunburst Award 2017
 Short Story  nomination
Expendable
 novel  AvoNova, 1997
awards:
Locus Awards 1998
 first novel  2nd place
Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories
 collection  HarperCollins Canada, 2005
awards:
Sunburst Award 2006
 nomination
Hunted
 novel  HarperCollins/Eos, 2000
awards:
Locus Awards 2001
 sf novel  20th place
Aurora Awards 2001
 long-form work in English  nomination
“Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large”
 short fiction 
On Spec
Spring 1990
awards:
Aurora Awards 1991
 short-form, English 
winner
“The Mutants Men Don't See”
 short fiction 
Asimov's
Aug 2016
awards:
Asimov's Reader Poll 2017
 short story  1st place (tie)
“The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses”
 short fiction
awards:
Seiun Awards 2022
 translated story 
winner
Radiant
 novel  Eos, 2004
awards:
Aurora Awards 2005
 long-form work in English  nomination
“Rain, Ice, Steam”
 short fiction 
Explorer: Tales from the Wonder Zone
Trifolium Books, 2002
awards:
Aurora Awards 2003
 short-form work in English  nomination
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story”
 short fiction 
Asimov's
Feb 2008
awards:
Hugo Awards 2009
 novelette  nomination
Nebula Awards 2009
 novelette  nomination
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2009
winner
Locus Awards 2009
 novelette  18th place
Asimov's Reader Poll 2009
 novelette 
winner
Seiun Awards 2011
 translated story  nomination
anthologies:
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 Edition
, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2010
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-sixth Annual Collection
, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's 2009
Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction
, ed. Robert J. Sawyer, Robert J. Sawyer Books 2009
“Reaper”
 short fiction 
F&SF
Feb 1991
awards:
Aurora Awards 1992
 short-form, English  nomination
“The Reckoning of Gifts”
Tesseracts 4
, 1992
anthologies:
Northern Stars
, ed. David G. Hartwell & Glenn Grant, Tor 1994
They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded
 novel  Tor, 2018
awards:
Aurora Awards 2019
 novel  nomination
“Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream”
 short fiction 
Asimov's
Feb 1997
awards:
Hugo Awards 1998
 novelette  nomination
Nebula Awards 1998
 novelette  nomination
Locus Awards 1998
 novelette  15th place
Asimov's Reader Poll 1998
 novelette  2nd place (tie)
Aurora Awards 1998
 short-form work in English 
winner
Seiun Awards 2000
 overseas short fiction  nomination
anthologies:
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
, ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman, Wildside 2011
Galileos Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition
, ed. Gardner Dozois, Prometheus/Pyr 2005
Nebula Awards 33
, ed. Connie Willis, Harvest 1999
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