Works that have won the Otherwise Award (f.k.a. the Tiptree Award)
Otherwise Award Winners Public
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A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the …
Phil in SF says: Won in 1991.
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China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
4 stars
What if Chinese Marxism, not Western capitalism, came to dominate the globe? In this dazzling and insightful novel, Maureen F. …
Phil in SF says: Won in 1992.
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4 stars
Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP. The planet's deadly virus had killed most …
Phil in SF says: Won in 1993.
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Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
2 stars
Sweeney Cassidy is a freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine, where she meets the …
Phil in SF says: Won in 1995.
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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow, #1)
4 stars
In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing …
Phil in SF says: Won in 1996.
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5 stars
Charlotte Bridger Drummond is a free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing woman who pens popular women's adventure stories on the Northwest frontier in …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2000.
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2 stars
Comment from Jon Courtenay Grimwood:
Light is the kind of novel other writers read and think: "Why don't I …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2002.
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Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
4 stars
Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2003.
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Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of many different organisms. The …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2004.
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Air by Geoff Ryman (Orion fiction)
2 stars
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2005.
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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking, #1)
4 stars
Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2008.
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3 stars
Four hundred years ago, in a small town in rural France, a young woman creates the future in the shape …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2013.
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The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
3 stars
Stunningly original and wildly inventive, The Girl in the Road melds the influences of Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and Erin …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2014.
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Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
5 stars
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2021.
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Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 1 by Fumi Yoshinaga (Ōoku, #1)
In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. …
Phil in SF says: Won in 2009
