SPECIAL AWARD

• Angela Carter

WINNER

• "Mountain Ways", Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's Aug 1996)
• The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell (Villard)

SHORT LIST

• "And She Was the Word", Tess Williams (Eidolon #22/23 Spring 1996)
• "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast", Suzy McKee Charnas (Asimov's Mar 1996)
• "Five Fucks", Jonathan Lethem (The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye)
• Godmother Night, Rachel Pollack (St. Martin's)
• A History Maker, Alasdair Gray (Canongate; Harcourt Brace/Harvest 1996)
• Leaning Towards Infinity, Sue Woolfe (Vintage)
• Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles, Pat Murphy (Tor)
• The Pillow Friend, Lisa Tuttle (White Wolf)
• "The Silent Woman", Fred Chappell (Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You)
• "Welcome, Kid, to the Real World", L. Timmel Duchamp (Tales of the Unanticipated #16 Spring/Summer/Fall 1996)

LONG LIST

• Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)
• "Bicycle Repairman", Bruce Sterling (Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology)
• "Blue", Francesca Lia Block (Girl Goddess #9)
• Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam Spectra)
• The Bones of Time, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
• "Boy's Night Out", Lori Selke (Genderflex)
• Clouds End, Sean Stewart (Ace)
• "The Dead", Michael Swanwick (Starlight 1)
• Dead Things, Richard Calder (HarperCollins Voyager)
• Desmodus, Melanie Tem (Headline)
• Distress, Greg Egan (Millennium)
• Excession, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
• Fair Peril, Nancy Springer (Avon)
• "Fetish", Martha Soukup (Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex)
• "Firecat", Tiresias (Genderflex)
• Foragers, Charles Oberndorf (Bantam Spectra)
• The Frequency of Souls, Mary Kay Zuravleff (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra)
• "Girl Goddess #9", Francesca Lia Block (Girl Goddess #9)
• "The Hermaphrodite", Edmund White (The Review of Contemporary Fiction Fall 1996)
• Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling (Bantam Spectra)
• Into the Forest, Jean Hegland (Calyx Books)
• The Jigsaw Woman, Kim Antieau (Penguin/Roc)
• Looking for the Mahdi, N. Lee Wood (Ace)
• "The Lucifer of Blue", Sherry Coldsmith (Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex)
• The Lunatic Café, Laurell K. Hamilton (Ace)
• Lunatics, Bradley Denton (St. Martin's)
• Manchu Palaces, Jeanne Larsen (Henry Holt)
• Map of Power, Tess Williams (Random House Australia/Arrow)
• The Memory Palace, Gill Alderman (HarperCollins Voyager)
• "Natural Permanent Boy", Laurel Winter (F&SF Feb 1996)
• Nearly Roadkill, Caitlin Sullivan & Kate Bornstein (High Risk Books)
• No Quarter, Tanya Huff (DAW)
• Pussy, King of the Pirates, Kathy Acker (Grove Press)
• "The Reason for Not Going to the Ball", Tanith Lee (F&SF Oct/Nov 1996)
• "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland", Gwyneth Jones (Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex)
• Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon (Baen)
• The Scarlet Rider, Lucy Sussex (Tor/Forge)
• Serial Killer Days, David Prill (St. Martin's)
• "Sleepy People", Jonathan Lethem (The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye)
• "The Splendor and the Misery of Bodies, of Cities (excerpt)", Samuel R. Delany (The Review of Contemporary Fiction Fall 1996)
• "The Stupefaction", Diane Williams (The Stupefaction: Stories and a Novella)
• The Tale of One Bad Rat, Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse)
• "Utensile Strength", Patricia Wrede (Book of Enchantments)
• "Y Chromosome", Donald Antrim (The New Yorker 18 Nov 1996)