2006 Hugo Awards that weren't

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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:

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:

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.


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

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