2006 Hugo Awards that weren't

This is a list of works by women writers that could have or should have been included in the 2006 Hugo Awards -- but weren't. See the 2006 Hugo vacuum for discussion of the issue.

Key

Key to notes that appear in parentheses after works:

• (BSFA): Shortlisted for the 2006 BSFA awards.
• (Locus-finalist): 2007 Locus Award finalist. (If someone wants to add the rest of the works from Locus's recommended reading list, please use a separate notation, like Locus-recommended.)
• (Nebula): Appeared on the 2007 final Nebula ballot.
• (Norton): Appeared on the 2007 Andre Norton Award ballot.
• (Sidewise): Shortlisted for the 2007 Sidewise Awards.
• (Tiptree): Winner of the 2006 Tiptree Award. (Again, if you want to add the honored works, please use a separate notation, like Tiptree-honored.)
• (YB): Will be reprinted in a Year's Best anthology in 2007. A number, such as "(YBx2)," indicates a story that's appearing in multiple such anthologies.

Novels

Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (aka Temeraire) was the only novel by a woman nominated (historical fantasy / alternate history). Below are some of the other women who wrote well-regarded works:

• Elizabeth Bear, Carnival (Locus-finalist)
• L. Timmel Duchamp, Renegade
• Lynn Flewelling, The Oracle's Queen
• Andrea Hairston, Mindscape
• Shelley Jackson, Half Life (Tiptree)
• Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword (Nebula, Locus-finalist)
• Chris Moriarty, Spin Control (Philip K. Dick)
• Jan Morris, Hav
• Jo Walton, Farthing (Nebula, Locus-finalist, Sidewise)
• Kit Whitfield, Bareback
• Liz Williams, Darkland (BSFA)
• Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (Tiptree)

Novellas

• Kage Baker, "Where the Golden Apples Grow" (Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Science Fiction, August 2006) (YBx2)
• M. Rickert, "Map of Dreams" (Map of Dreams, Golden Gryphon) (Locus-finalist)
• Ysabeau Wilce, "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" (F&SF, July 2006) (YBx3)

Novelettes

• L. Timmel Duchamp, "The World and Alice" (Asimov's, July 2006)
• Carolyn Ives Gilman, "Okanoggan Falls" (F&SF, August 2006) (YB x2)
• Theodora Goss, "Lessons With Miss Gray" (Fantasy Magazine and _In the Forest of Forgetting_)
• Ellen Klages, "House of Seven Librarians" (YBx2)
• Vonda McIntyre, "Little Faces" (Strange Horizons) (on Nebula ballot 2007)
• M. Rickert, "The Christmas Witch" (F&SF, December 2006) (YB)
• M. Rickert, "Journey Into the Kingdom" (F&SF) (Nebula, YB x4)
• Delia Sherman, "La Fée Verte" (Salon Fantastique) (YBx2)

Short stories

• Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, "The Ile of Dogges" (YB)
• Elizabeth Bear, "Sounding" (Strange Horizons) (BSFA)
• A. M. Dellamonica, "The Town on Blighted Sea" (Strange Horizons) (YB)
• Greer Gilman, "Down the Wall" (Salon Fantastique, Thunder's Mouth Press)
• Frances Hardinge, "Halfway House" (YBx2)
• Kameron Hurley, "The Women of Our Occupation" (Strange Horizons) (YB)
• Nancy Kress, "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls" (YB, Locus-finalist)
• Ann Leckie, "Hesperia and Glory" (Subterranean #4) (YB)
• Heather Lindsley, "Just Do It" (F&SF, July 2006) (YB)
• Meghan McCarron, "The Flying Woman" (Strange Horizons) (YB)
• Sarah Monette, "Draco Campestris" (Strange Horizons) (YB)
• Ruth Nestvold, "Exit Without Saving" (Futurismic, August 2006) (YB)
• M. Rickert, "You Have Never Been Here" (Feeling Very Strange, Tachyon)
• Karina Sumner-Smith, "An End to All Things" (Children of Magic, DAW Books, Jun06) (Nebula)
• Catherine Zeidler, "Pregnant" (Hobart) (YB)

Unknown lengths

If you're sure which length category any of these go in, please move them -- eventually this section should be empty (and then removed).

• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, "O, Pioneer" (Paradox #8, Winter 2005-06) (Sidewise)
• Maile Chapman, "Bit Forgive" (A Public Space) (YB)
• Julia Elliott, "The Whipping" (The Georgia Review) (YB)
• Carol Emshwiller, "Quill" (YB)
• Eileen Gunn, "Speak, Geek" (YB)
• Elizabeth Hand, "The Saffron Gatherers" (YB x2)
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman, "Sea Air" (YB)
• Diana Wynne Jones, "I'll Give You My Word" (YB)
• Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, "The Big Ice" (YB)
• Margo Lanagan, "Under Hell, Over Heaven" (YB)
• Margo Lanagan, "A Fine Magic" (Eidolon 1) (YB)
• Margo Lanagan, "The Point of Roses" (Black Juice, Gollancz; original to UK edition, 2006) (BSFA)
• Kelly Link, "The Wizards Of Perfil" (YB)
• Elise Moser, "Citrine: A Fable" (Room of One's Own, July) (YB)
• Gina Ochsner, "Song of the Selkie" (Tin House) (YB)
• Mary Rosenblum, "Home Movies" (YB x2)
• Sharon Shinn, "The Double-Edged Sword" (YB)
• Ann Stapleton, "The Chinese Boy" (Alaska Quarterly Review) (YB)
• Sarah Totton, "A Fish Story" (Realms of Fantasy, October 2006) (YB)
• Martha Wells, "The Potter's Daughter" (YB)
• Liz Williams, "The Age of Ice" (YB)
• Connie Willis, "D.A." (YB)
• Melora Wolff, "Kiss" (The Southern Review) (YB)

YA

I wasn't sure whether to put these under the Novels category, but since this page focuses on Hugos and YA books are generally unlikely to get nominated for Hugos (Rowling notwithstanding), I figured a separate category was in order. Feel free to move these to novels if you prefer.

• Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Spirits That Walk in Shadow (Locus-finalist)
• Maureen Johnson, Devilish (Razorbill, Penguin Young Readers Group, Sep06) (Norton)
• Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea (Locus-finalist)
• Justine Larbalestier, Magic Lessons (Locus-finalist)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Voices (Locus-finalist)
• Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It (Harcourt, Oct06) (Norton)
• Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia (Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, 2006) (Norton)

Romantic fantasy

These works will all be reprinted in Best New Romantic Fantasy (2007 edition), but again I figured that's not a category that the Hugos normally go for (Asaro notwithstanding), so I'm putting them in a separate category (except for the ones that already appeared in other categories earlier on this list).

• Angela Boord, "Evergreen" (YB)
• Haddayr Copley-Woods, "The Desires of Houses" (Strange Horizons) (YB)
• Amanda Downum, "Smoke & Mirrors" (Strange Horizons) (YB)
• Eugie Foster, "The Wizard of Eternal Watch" (YB)
• Esther Freisner, "An Autumn Butterfly" (YB)
• Sandra McDonald, "The Mountains of Key West" (YB)
• Sarah Monette, "A Light in Troy" (YB)
• Vera Nazarian, "The Story of Love" (YB)
• Claudia O’Keefe, "Moment of Joy Before" (YB)
• Sarah Prineas, "Jane: A Story of Manners, Magic, and Romance" (YB)
• Sonya Taaffe, "The Depth Oracle" (YB)

Horror

And these ones will be reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, in the horror half, so I wasn't sure whether to list them above or not.

• Margo Lanagan, "A Pig's Whisper" (Agog! Ripping Reads) (YB)
• Margo Lanagan, "Winkie" (Red Spikes) (YB)
• Sarah Monette, "Drowning Palmer" (All Hallows 41) (YB)
• Joyce Carol Oates, "Landfill" (The New Yorker, 10/9) (YB)
• Kaaron Warren, "Dead Sea Fruit" (Fantasy Magazine Issue 4) (YB)

References and further reading

• Perkin Warbeck the Second LJ