Women eligible for 2008 SF Awards

droncn This is a list of women eligible for SF awards to be given out in 2008 based on works published from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2007. Awards that follow this eligibility format include the Hugo, the Campbell, the World Fantasy Award, the Tiptree, and the Phillip K. Dick. (The Nebulas have a rolling period of eligibility based on the specific date a work was published.) We're listing these women as a form of award activism: to bring them greater attention, to share information about them for ourselves, and to help avoid problems like the 2006 Hugo vacuum. See Eligibility and voting by award for a quick index of information about individual awards, and links to the individual award pages for more detail.

Please include here any eligible woman, along with the information about her eligible work: title, publication date, and format. For novels, it's useful to search Amazon for the author's name: the list of works has publication date and format right there.

Note: Some awards are based on first publication and other awards are based on first publication in the US, England, etc. If a work was first published outside of the time period but would be eligible for some awards, please add it and add in parentheses any restrictions or explanations about eligibility.

• See Eligibility and voting by award
• See Award activism
• See 2006 Hugo vacuum

Women eligible for Campbell Best New Writer

Authors who published their first work in 2006 or 2007

• Naomi Novik (second year of eligibility)
• Ysabeau S. Wilce (first year of eligibility)
• Kim Zimring (first year of eligibility)
• Marie Brennan (second year of eligibility)
• Andrea Kail (first year of eligibility)
• Aliette de Bodard (first year of eligibility)

Women eligible for work-specific awards

A Note on Categories

Each set of awards defines its categories in its own way. There is a lot of overlap, but inevitably differences arise. For example, some awards allow SF and fantasy, others only one, and others have 1000 separate categories. Different awards define the types of short fiction with different word lengths. And different awards have different eligibility rules as regards to where a work is published, when it is published, and the nationality of the author(s). Please refer to the award descriptions below for more details.

Novel

Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus and Campbell Memorial eligible: if published in paperback in the US, Philip K. Dick eligible

• Alma Alexander, Worldweavers #1: Gift of the Unmage (Hardcover - March 13, 2007)
• Catherine Asaro, The Fire Opal (Paperback - Jul 1, 2007)
• Kage Baker, Gods and Pawns (Hardcover - Jan 23, 2007)
• Kage Baker, Rude Mechanicals (Hardcover - April 25, 2007)
• Kage Baker, The Sons of Heaven (Hardcover - Jul 10, 2007)
• Kage Baker, New novel
• Sandra Barret, Face of the Enemy (Trade paperback - Nov 10, 2007)
• Elizabeth Bear, New Amsterdam (Hardcover - May 25, 2007)
• Elizabeth Bear, Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age (Paperback - Jul 3, 2007)
• Elizabeth Bear, Undertow (Mass Market Paperback - Jul 31, 2007)
• Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, A Companion to Wolves (Hardcover - October 2007)
• Anne Bishop, Belladonna (Hardcover - Mar 6, 2007)
• Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound (Paperback - Jan 30, 2007)
• Kathleen Bryan, The Serpent and the Rose (Trade paperback - Mar 6, 2007)
• Lois McMaster Bujold, Legacy (The Sharing Knife #2) (Hardcover - Jul 1, 2007)
• Emma Bull, Territory (Hardcover - July 7, 2007) ISBN 978-0-312-85735-6
• Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Justice (Imriel Trilogy #2) (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2007)
• Brenda Cooper, The Silver Ship and the Sea (Hardcover - Mar 20, 2007)
• Janine Cross, Forged By Fire: Book Three of the Dragon Temple Saga (Paperback - April 3, 2007)
• L. Timmel Duchamp, Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle (Trade Paperback - Jan 1, 2007)
• Carol Emshwiller, The Secret City: A Novel (Paperback - April 1, 2007)
• Nancy Farmer, The Land of the Silver Apples (Hardcover - August 28, 2007)
• Mary Gentle, Ilario: The Stone Golem: A Story of the First History, Book Two (Paperback - Sep 1, 2007)
• Kathleen Ann Goonan, "In War Times" (Hardback - May 15, 2007)
• Phyllis Gotlieb, Birthstones (Paperback - Jul 30, 2007)
• Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms (Hardcover - Feb 23, 2007)
• Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky: Entire and the Rose: Book 1 (Hardcover - April 17, 2007)
• Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis, By Slanderous Tongues (Hardcover - Feb 6, 2007)
• Mercedes Lackey, Fortune's Fool (Hardcover - Mar 1, 2007)
• Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, The Phoenix Unchained: Book One of The Enduring Flame (Hardcover - Sep 18, 2007)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Powers (Annals of the Western Shore) (Hardcover - Sep 1, 2007)
• Julianne Lee, Knight's Blood (Mass market paperback - Feb 27, 2007)
• Tanith Lee, No Flame But Mine
• Doris Lessing, The Cleft: A Novel (Hardcover - Aug 1, 2007)
• Jane Lindskold, Wolf's Blood (Hardcover - March, 2007)
• Laurie Marks, Water Logic (Paperback - June, 2007)
• Sandra McDonald, The Outback Stars (Hardcover - Apr 17, 2007)
• Sophia McDougall, Rome Burning
• Catriona McCloud, Growing Up Again
• Sarah Monette, The Bone Key (Paperback - Jun 25, 2007)
• Sarah Monette, The Mirador (Hardcover - Aug 7, 2007)
• Elizabeth Moon, Command Decision (Hardcover - Feb 27, 2007)
• Fuyumi Ono, The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (Hardcover - Mar 13, 2007) [first English-language publication 2007, originally published in Japanese 1991]
• Rebecca Ore, Time's Child

1000 (Trade paperback - 2007)

• Susan Palwick, Shelter (Paperback - Jun 12, 2007)
• Jennifer Roberson, Deepwood (Hardcover - Jul 3, 2007)
• Justina Robson, Keeping It Real (Paperback - Mar 14, 2007) [2006 UK publication - may not be eligible]
• Justina Robson, Selling Out (Trade paperback - May 17, 2007)
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Hardcover - Jul 21, 2007)
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Recovery Man (Paperback - Sep 4, 2007)
• Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World (Hardcover - Mar 13, 2007)
• Linnea Sinclair, Games of Command (Mass Market Paperback - Feb 27, 2007)
• Linnea Sinclair, The Down Home Zombie Blues (Mass Market Paperback - Nov 27, 2007)
• Kristine Smith, Endgame (Mass Market Paperback - November 2007)
• Sherwood Smith, Senrid (Hardcover - May 1, 2007)
• Sherwood Smith, The Fox (Hardcover - Aug 7, 2007)
• Wen Spencer, Endless Blue (Hardcover - Dec 4, 2007)
• Steph Swainston, The Modern World (Hardcover - May 17, 2007) also known as Dangerous Offspring in the USA (Trade paperback - Jun 26, 2007)
• Sheri S. Tepper, The Margarets (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2007)
• Karen Traviss, Ally (Mass Market Paperback - Mar 27, 2007)
• Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (Paperback - Oct 30, 2007)
• Jo Walton, Ha'penny (Hardcover - Oct 2, 2007)
• Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Segunda (Hardcover - Jan 1, 2007)
• Liz Williams, Bloodmind (Trade paperback - Feb 16, 2007)
• Susan Wright, A Pound of Flesh (Trade paperback - Feb 6, 2007)
• Sarah Zettel, Sword of the Deceiver (Hardcover - Mar 20, 2007)

Novella

Hugo, Locus and World Fantasy eligible; Hugo rules say a novella is roughly 17,500-40,000 words

• Kelley Eskridge, "Dangerous Space" (Kelley Eskridge, Dangerous Space, June 30, 2007)
• Nancy Kress, "Fountain of Age" (Asimov's, December 2007)
• Sue Lange, We, Robots (Small trade paperback - March 2007)
• Tanith Lee, Indigara (Paperback - Oct 18, 2007)
• C. Sanford Lowe & G. David Nordley, "The Small Pond" (Analog, March 2007)
• C. Sanford Lowe & G. David Nordley, "Loki's Realm" (Analog, July/August 2007)
• C. Sanford Lower & G. David Nordley, "Vertex" (Analog, September 2007)
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch, "Recovering Apollo 8" (Asimov's, February 2007)
• Kimberly Todd Wade, Making Love in Madrid (Small trade paperback - March 2007)

Novelette

Hugo eligible; Hugo rules say a novelette is roughly 7,500-17,500 words, which may count as a novella for the World Fantasy, or a short story for the World Fantasy or Sturgeon

• Amy Bechtel, "A Time for Lawsuits" (Analog, July/August 2007)
• Aliette de Bodard "Obsidian Shards" (Writers of the Future volume XXIII, September 2007)
• Sarah K. Castle, "Kukulkan" (Analog, December 2007)
• Model T. and Sara D(iamond), "Fur Manifesto" (re: skin ed. Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, MIT Press April 2007)
• L. Timmel Duchamp, "The Man Who Plugged In" (re: skin ed. Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, MIT Press April 2007)
• Lisa Goldstein, "Dark Rooms" (Asimov's, October/November 2007)
• Kathleen Ann Goonan, "The Bridge" (Asimov's, August 2007)
• Caitlín R. Kiernan, "Zero Summer" (Subterranean #6, 2007; Subterranean Press)
• Caitlín R. Kiernan, "In View of Nothing" (Sirenia Digest #16, March 2007)
• Nancy Kress, "Safeguard" (Asimov's, January 2007)
• A. R. Morlan, "The Hikikomori's: Cartoon Kimono" (Asimov's, January 2007)
• Jennifer Pelland, "Mercytanks" (Helix, April 2007)
• Cat Rambo and Jeff VanderMeer, "The Surgeon's Tale" (Subterrane

1000 an Online, March, 2007)

• Kit Reed, "What Wolves Know" (Asimov's, September 2007)
• Mary Rosenblum, "Breeze from the Stars" (Asimov's, March 2007)
• Martha Wells, "Holy Places" (Black Gate #11, August 2007)
• K. D. Wentworth, "Kaleidoscope" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2007)
• Andrea Kail, "The Sun God at Dawn, Rising from a Lotus Blossom" (Writers of the Future Volume XXIII, September 2007)

Short Story

Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon eligible

• Charlie Anders, "Horatius and Clodia" (Strange Horizons, 26 February 2007) http://www.strangehorizons.com/2007/20070226/horatius-f.shtml
• Elizabeth Bear, "Tideline" (Asimov's, June 2007)
• Elizabeth Bear, "Orm the Beautiful" (Clarkesworld, January 2007) http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_01_07.html
• Amy Bechtel, "Trucks" (Analog, March 2007)
• Aliette de Bodard "Deer Flight" (Interzone, July 2007)
• Aliette de Bodard, "Weepers and Ragers", (Abyss and Apex, issue 22, April 2007) http://www.abyssandapex.com/200704-weepersragers.html
• Marie Brennan, "Execution Morning" (Glorifying Terrorism, ed. Farah Mendlesohn, February 2007)
• Marie Brennan, "A Thousand Souls" (Aberrant Dreams, February 2007)
• Marie Brennan, "But Who Shall Lead the Dance?" (Talebones, February 2007)
• Stephanie Burgis, "Locked Doors" (Strange Horizons, 1 January 2007) http://strangehorizons.com/2007/20070101/doors-f.shtml
• Deborah Coates, "Chainsaw on Hand" (Asimov's, March 2007)
• P.E. Cunningham, "Car 17" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 2007)
• Carol Emshwiller, "At Sixes and Sevens" (Asimov's, October/November 2007)
• Mélanie Fazi (translated by Christopher Priest), "Elegy" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 2007)
• Sheila Finch, "First was the Word" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 2007)
• Susan Forest, "Paid in Full" (Asimov's, October/November 2007)
• Eugie Foster, "Beauty's Folly" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, July 2007)
• Eugie Foster, "Honor is a Game Mortals Play" (Heroes in Training, DAW Books, September 2007)
• Eugie Foster, "Year of the Fox" (So Fey, Haworth Positronic Press, September 2007)
• Karen Joy Fowler, "Always" (Asimov's, April/May 2007)
• Sara Genge, "Godtouched" (Strange Horizons, 15 January 2007 http://www.strangehorizons.com/2007/20070115/godtouched-f.shtml
• Sara Genge, "Pretty Little Thing" (Helix SF #4, 2007)http://www.helixsf.com/archives/Apr07/fiction/Q4_genge_prettylittlething.htm
• Sara Genge, "Family Values" (Cosmos, August 2007)
• Lisa Goldstein, "Lilyanna" (Asimov's, April/May 2007)
• R. Emrys Gordon, "Exposure Therapy" (Analog, January/February 2007)
• M.K. Hobson, "The Hotel Astarte" (Realms of Fantasy, June 2007)
• M.K. Hobson, "PowerSuit" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 2007)
• M.K. Hobson, "Votary" (Black Static, September 2007)
• Caitlín R. Kiernan, "A Season of Broken Dolls" (Subterranean Online, Spring 2007) http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-a-season-of-broken-dolls-part-one-by-caitlin-r-kiernan/
• Nance Kress, "By Fools Like Me" (Asimov's, September 2007)
• Nance Kress, "End Game" (Asimov's, April/May 2007)
• Nance Kress, "The Rules" (Asimov's, December 2007)
• Carrie Laben, "Something in the Mermaid Way" (Clarkesworld, March 2007) http://www.clarkesworld.com/magazine/laben_03_07.html
• Tanith Lee, "Cold Fire" (Asimov's, February 2007)
• Tanith Lee, "Zinder" (Wizards, ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois)
• Rosaleen Love, "No Man's Land" (The WisCon Chronicles: Volume 1, ed.

1000 L. Timmel Duchamp, August 2007)

• Maura McHugh, "Bone Mother" (Fantasy anthology, eds. Sean Wallace & Paul Tremblay, July 2007)
• Darja Malcolm-Clarke, "The Beacon" (Clarkesworld, August 2007) http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/malcolmclarke_08_07.html
• Lisa Mantchev, "Six Scents" (Weird Tales, April/May 2007) http://www.weirdtalesmagazine.com
• Lisa Mantchev, "The Girl With Blueberry Eyes" (Fantasy Magazine, Spring, 2007)
• Lisa Mantchev, "A Dance Across Embers" (Clarkesworld, October 2007) http://www.clarkesworld.com/magazine/mantchev_10_07.html
• Sharon Mock, "Attar of Roses" (Clarkesworld, February 2007) http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/mock_02_07.html
• Pati Nagle, "Draw" (Asimov's, September 2007)
• Vera Nazarian, "Three Names of the Hidden God" (Heroes in Training, DAW Books, September 2007)
• Jennifer Pelland, "Dazz" (Coyote Wild, April 2007)
• Holly Phillips, "Three Days of Rain" (Asimov's, June 2007)
• Cat Rambo, "Foam on the Water" (Strange Horizons, February 2007)
• Cat Rambo, "I'll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said" (Clarkesworld, July 2007)
• Cat Rambo, "Sugar", (FANTASY, Prime Books, 2007)
• Marta Randall, "The Dark Boy" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2007)
• Marta Randall, "Lazaro y Antonio" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 2007)
• M. Rickert, "Memoir of a Deer Woman" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 2007)
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch, "The Taste of Miracles" (Analog, January/February 2007)
• Erica L. Satifka, "Automatic" (Clarkesworld, January 2007) http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/satifka_01_07.html
• Ekaterina Sedia. "Virus Changes Skin" (Analog, October 2007)
• Lesley L. Smith, "Anything Would Be Worth It" (Analog, December 2007)
• Catherynne M. Valente, "A Dirge for Prester John" (Interfictions, April 2007)
• Carrie Vaughn, "Marrying In" (Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007)
• Martha Wells, "Reflections" (Black Gate #10, March 2007)
• Liz Williams, "Debatable LAnds" (Asimov's, October/November 2007)
• Liz Williams, "Wolves of the Spirit" Asimov's, April/May 2007)
• Kim Zimring, "My Heart as Dry as Dust" (Asimov's. September 2007)
• Kim Zimring, "Don't Kill the Messenger" (Analog, April 2007)
• Andrea Kail, "Soft, Like a Rabbit" (Fantasy Magazine, Spring 2007)http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/

Related Book

Hugo and Locus eligible

• Diana Pavlac Glyer, The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, (Hardcover, March 2007)

Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Hugo eligible

Written and/or directed by women, as indicated:

• Blood and Chocolate, directed by Katja von Garnier (based on the book by Annette Curtis Klause), released 26 January 2007 (USA)

Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Hugo eligible

Written and/or directed by women, as indicated:

• Torchwood episodes:
  • "Captain Jack Harkness", written by Cath Tregenna, aired 1 January 2007
• Battlestar Galactica episodes:
  • "Dirty Hands", written by Jane Espenson and Anne Cofell, aired February 25, 2007
• Supernatural episodes:
  • "Hunted", written by Raelle Tucker and directed by Rachel Talalay, aired January 11, 2007
  • "Houses of the Holy", written by Sera Gamble, aired 1 February 2007
  • "Born Under a Bad Sign", written by Cathryn Humphris, aired 8 February 2007
  • "Roadkill", written by Raelle Tucker, aired 15 March 2007
  • "Heart", written by Sera Gamble, aired 22 March 2007
• Doctor Who episodes:

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• • "Daleks in Manhattan" written by Helen Raynor, aired 21 April 2007
  • "Evolution of the Daleks", written by Helen Raynor, aired 28 April 2007
  • "Blink", directed by Hettie MacDonald, aired 9 June 2007
• Blood Ties episodes:
  • "Love Hurts", written by Shelley Eriksen, aired 8 April 2007
  • "Stone Cold", written by Tanya Huff, directed by Holly Dale, aired 29 April 2007
  • "Post Partum", written by Sarah Dodd, aired 13 May 2007
• Heroes episodes:
  • "The Fix", written by Natalie Chaidez, aired 19 January 2007
  • "Run!", co-written by Kay Foster, directed by Roxann Dawson, aired 12 February 2007
• Lost episodes:
  • "Stranger In A Strange Land", written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Christina M. Kim, aired 21 February 2007
  • "Par Avion", co-written by Christina M. Kim, aired 14 March 2007
  • "Left Behind", co-written by Elizabeth Sarnoff, directed by Karen Gaviola, aired 4 April 2007
• Jericho episodes:
  • "Black Jack", directed by Helen Shaver, aired 28 February 2007
  • "Heart of Winter", written by Nancy Won, aired 7 March 2007
  • "One Man's Terrorist", directed by Christine Moore, aired 4 April 2007
  • "Casus Belli", written by Karen Hall, aired 18 April 2007
  • "One If by Land", written by Joy Gregory, airing 25 April 2007
• Smallville episodes:
  • "Progeny", written by Genevieve Sparling, aired 19 April 2007
  • "Nemesis", written by Caroline Dries and directed by Mairzee Almas, to air 26 April 2007
• Stargate Atlantis episodes:
  • "The Game", co-written by Holly Henderson, aired 11 May 2007

Anthology

World Fantasy and Locus eligible

• Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling editor, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Summer 2007)
• Sharyn November, editor, Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy (Oct 18, 2007)
• Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, editor, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing (April, 2007)

Collection

World Fantasy and Locus eligible

• Kelley Eskridge, Dangerous Space, Aqueduct Press, March 23, 2007
• Ellen Klages, Portable Childhoods, Tachyon Press, April 1, 2007
• Tanith Lee, Tempting the Gods: The Selected Stories Of Tanith Lee Volume One (Hardcover - Jul 1, 2007)
• Susan Palwick, The Fate of Mice (Paperback - Feb 15, 2007)

Women eligible for multi-work awards

Editor, Long Form

Hugo eligible

• Stef Bierwerth (Pan Macmillan / Tor UK)
• Ginjer Buchanan (Ace)
• Claire Eddy (Tor)
• Jo Fletcher (Gollancz)
• Liz Gorinsky (Tor)
• Anne Groell (Bantam)
• Beth Meacham (Tor)
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Tor)
• Sharyn November (Firebird [Penguin/Puffin])
• Melissa Singer (Tor)
• Juliet Ulman (Bantam)
• Toni Weisskopf (Baen)

Editor, Short Form

Hugo eligible

• Ellen Datlow (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (first edited with Link and Grant, second edited with Terri Windling))
• Susan Marie Groppi (Strange Horizons)
• Deborah Layne (Wheatland Press anthologies and collections, some with Jay Lake)
• Kelly Link (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (both with Gavin Grant))
• Shawna McCarthy (Realms of Fantasy)
• Karen Meisner (Strange Horizons)
• Ann Vandermeer (Weird Tales)
• Sheila Williams (Asimov's Science Fiction)

Professional Artist

Hugo and World Fantasy eligible

• Kinuko Y. Craft [1]
• Catska Ench
  • "The Helper a

1000 nd His Hero" (cover of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February and March 2007, with Cory Ench)

Semiprozine

Hugo eligible

Fanzine

Hugo eligible

• Eugie Foster (Tangent Online)

Fan Writer

Hugo eligible

• Claire Brialey (mostly in Banana Wings)
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Making Light)
• Abigail Nussbaum (mostly at wrongquestions.blogspot.com)
• K. Tempest Bradford (ktempest.livejournal.com, theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com, blogs.feministsf.net)
• Cheryl Morgan (sfawardswatch.com)

Fan Artist

Hugo eligible

• Freddie Baer
• Sue Mason