Otherwise Award Winners Public

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Works that have won the Otherwise Award (f.k.a. the Tiptree Award). Winners include short stories, novels, graphic novels and music albums. Not all were issued as standalone publications; those do not appear in this list.

  1. A Woman of the Iron People by 

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    Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the …

    Phil in SF says:

    1991 co-winner

  2. White Queen by  (The Aleutian Trilogy, #1)

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    It's 2038 and the earth has been devastated by tectonic shifts accompanied by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The U.S. has …

    Phil in SF says:

    1991 co-winner

  3. China Mountain Zhang by 

    What if Chinese Marxism, not Western capitalism, came to dominate the globe? In this dazzling and insightful novel, Maureen F. …

    Phil in SF says:

    1992 winner

  4. Ammonite by 

    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:

    1993 winner

  5. Larque on the Wing by 

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    Guitar-shaped, forty-year-old wife, mother and successful crafter of home decoration products Larque Harootunian is going through a very messy mid-life …

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    1994 co-winner

  6. Waking the Moon by 

    Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, …

    Phil in SF says:

    1995 co-winner

  7. The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein by 

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    In The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, Theodore Rozsak offers us a subversive, erotically charged counterpart to Mary Shelley's classic, …

    Phil in SF says:

    1995 co-winner

  8. The Sparrow by  (The Sparrow, #1)

    The Sparrow, an astonishing literary debut, takes you on a journey to a distant planet and to the center …

    Phil in SF says:

    1996 co-winner

  9. Black Wine by 

    No rating

    As they struggle to survive in a barbarous fantasy land, a mother and daughter attempt to shake off the bonds …

    Phil in SF says:

    1997 co-winner

  10. The Conqueror's Child by  (Holdfast Chronicles, #4)

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    The Ferns were slaves of the men in the Holdfast, until Alldera Conqueror led a band of rebels to overthrow …

    Phil in SF says:

    1999 winner

  11. Wild Life by 

    It is the early 1900s and Charlotte Bridger Drummond is a thoroughly modern woman. The sole provider for her five …

    Phil in SF says:

    2000 winner

  12. The Kappa Child by 

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    The Kappa Child is the tale of four Japanese Canadian sisters struggling to escape the bonds of a family and …

    Phil in SF says:

    2001 winner

  13. Light by 

    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.

  14. Set This House in Order by 

    Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no …

    Phil in SF says:

    Won in 2003.

  15. Camouflage by 

    No rating

    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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