WINNER

• The Conqueror's Child, Suzy McKee Charnas (Tor)

SHORT LIST

• "5001 Nights", Penelope Lively (The Five Thousand and One Nights 1997)
• If I Told You Once, Judy Budnitz (Picador USA/St. Martin's)
• "In the Second Person", Sally Caves (Terra Incognita Winter 1999/2000)
• The Iron Bridge, David Morse (Harcourt Brace 1998)
• "Pinkland", Graham Joyce (Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity 1998)
• "Sexual Dimorphism", Kim Stanley Robinson (Asimov's Jun 1999)
• The Woman with the Flying Head : And Other Stories, Yumiko Kurahashi (M.E. Sharpe 1998)

LONG LIST

• "The Actors", Eleanor Arnason (F&SF Dec 1999)
• A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
• "Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance", Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's Sep 1999)
• "Dragonfly", Ursula K. Le Guin (Legends 1998)
• The Fathergod Experiment, L. A. Taylor (Allau Press)
• "Remailer", Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald (Not of Woman Born)
• Silver Birch, Blood Moon, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Avon)
• Singer from the Sea, Sheri S. Tepper (Avon Eos)
• The Speaking Stones, Stephen Leigh (Avon Eos)
• Teranesia, Greg Egan (HarperPrism)
• The Terrorists of Irustan, Louise Marley (Ace)
• The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998)