E-mail Locus

Eligibility Year: 1998
Judges: Ray Davis, Candas Jane Dorsey, Sylvia Kelso, Kate Schaefer (chair), Lisa Tuttle

WINNER

"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin", Raphael Carter (Starlight 2)

SHORT LIST

"Accelerated Grimace", Rebecca Ore (F&SF Feb 1998)

Black Glass, Karen Joy Fowler (Henry Holt)

"Bride of Bigfoot", Kit Reed (Weird Women, Wired Women)

Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner Aspect)

"La Cenerentola", Gwyneth Jones (Interzone #136 Oct 1998)

The Children Star, Joan Slonczewski (Tor)

Dragon's Winter, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Ace)

"The Eye of God", Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's Mar 1998)

Flesh and Gold, Phyllis Gotlieb (Tor)

"The Gauze Banner", Eleanor Arnason (More Amazing Stories)

Ghost Country, Sara Paretsky (Delacorte)

Halfway Human, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Avon Eos)

Hand of Prophecy, Severna Park (Avon Eos)

"The Hetairai Turncoat", Karl-Rene Moore (Wired Hard 2 1997)

"The House of Expectations", Martha Soukup (Starlight 2)

The Ice People, Maggie Gee (Richard Cohen Books)

"Lovestory", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 1998)

Mission Child, Maureen F. McHugh (Avon Eos)

Mockingbird, Sean Stewart (Ace)

Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler (Seven Stories Press)

Playing God, Sarah Zettel (Warner Aspect)

Singling Out the Couples, Stella Duffy (Sceptre)

"Story of Your Life", Ted Chiang (Starlight 2)

"Unchosen Love", Ursula K. Le Guin (Amazing Stories Fall 1994; More Amazing Stories)

Weird Women, Wired Women, Kit Reed (Wesleyan University Press)

"Whiptail", Robert Reed (Asimov's Oct 1998)

LONG LIST

"The Body Politic", Tess Williams (Dreaming Down-Under)

Children of God, Mary Doria Russell (Villard)

Commitment Hour, James Alan Gardner (Avon Eos)

Dark Waters Embrace, Stephen Leigh (Avon Eos)

"Datableed", Pat Cadigan (Asimov's Mar 1998)

The Drag Queen of Elfland: Short Stories, Lawrence Schimel (Circlet/Ultra Violet Library 1997)

"The Eye of the Storm", Kelley Eskridge (Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers)

House of Sleep, Jonathan Coe (Knopf)

"In the Realms of Dragons", Esther M. Friesner (Asimov's Feb 1998)

Killing Darcy, Melissa Lucashenko (University of Queensland Press)

Nameless Magery, Delia Marshall Turner (Ballantine Del Rey)

"Oceanic", Greg Egan (Asimov's Aug 1998)

Pig Tales, Marie Darrieusecq (New Press 1997)

The Plague Saint, Rita Donovan (Tesseract Books)

Quintessence: Realizing The Archaic Future, Mary Daly (Beacon Press)

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (HarperPrism)

Six Moon Dance, Sheri S. Tepper (Avon Eos)

"Snow", Geoffrey A. Landis (Starlight 2)

"Time Gypsy", Ellen Klages (Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction)

"Transit", Stephen Dedman (Asimov's Mar 1998)