2001 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Westercon in Portland, Oregon.

Comments: 2001 was yet another good year for Ursula K. Le Guin, who not only had two works win Locus Awards, but had two more nominated. It is no secret how much I love Le Guin and her work, because there are few authors who have demonstrated the consistent brilliance that she has over a prolonged period of time. There is a danger, however, of Le Guin's manifest greatness drowning out the other female voices in science fiction. This isn't Le Guin's fault, but rather the fault of every editor who, when compiling an anthology, throws in a Le Guin story and figures that he's checked off the "story by a woman" box. It is the fault of every aficionado who, when assembling a list of "great" science fiction novels, picks a Le Guin novel and figures he's got female written science fiction covered. Le Guin is a powerful female voice in the field of science fiction, but she's not the only one. There are so many excellent female science fiction writers both past and present that should be listened to as well.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
2.   Eater by Gregory Benford
3.   Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling
4.   The Coming by Joe Haldeman
5.   In Green's Jungles by Gene Wolfe
6.   The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod
7.   Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
8.   Space: Manifold 2 (aka Manifold: Space) by Stephen Baxter
9.   Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
10. Probability Moon by Nancy Kress
11. Crescent City Rhapsody by Kathleen Ann Goonan
12. The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
13. Marrow by Robert Reed
14. The Fountains of Youth by Brian Stableford
15. Genesis by Poul Anderson
16. The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper
17. Shrine of Stars by Paul J. McAuley
18. Ventus by Karl Schroeder
19. Candle by John Barnes
20. Hunted by James Alan Gardner
21. Colony Fleet by Susan R. Matthews
22. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
23. (tie) The Jazz by Melissa Scott
      (tie) The Miocene Arrow by Sean McMullen
25. Outlaw School by Rebecca Ore
26. Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis
27. Distance Haze by Jamil Nasir
28. Ashes of Victory by David Weber
29. Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

Other Nominees:
2.   Declare by Tim Powers
3.   The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
4.   Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
5.   Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
6.   Galveston by Sean Stewart
7.   Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
8.   Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
9.   The Truth by Terry Pratchett
10. Fortress of Dragons by C.J. Cherryh
11. The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
12. Daemonomania by John Crowley
13. A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
14. Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan
15. White as Snow by Tanith Lee
16. Prophecy by Elizabeth Haydon
17. Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
18. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
19. (tie) Canyons by P.D. Cacek
      (tie) King Kelson's Bride by Katherine Kurtz
21. Empire of Unreason by J. Gregory Keyes
22. (tie) Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
      (tie) Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
24. Knight of the Demon Queen by Barbara Hambly
25. The Gate of Fire by Thomas Harlan
26. The Grand Ellipse by Paula Volsky

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.    Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis

Other Nominees:
2.   Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
3.   Ceres Storm by David Herter
4.   Wheelers by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
5.   House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
6.   Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
7.   The King's Peace by Jo Walton
8.   Salt by Adam Roberts
9.   The Glasswright's Apprentice by Mindy L. Klasky
10. Soulsaver by James Stevens-Arce
11. Growing Wings by Laurel Winter

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   Radiant Green Star by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:

2.   Oracle by Greg Egan

3.   Path of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin
4.   Seventy-Two Letters by Ted Chiang
5.   Blue Kansas Sky by Michael Bishop
6.   Savior by Nancy Kress
7.   Fly-by-Night by Larry Niven
8.   The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson
9.   Reality Dust by Stephen Baxter
10. One-Eyed Jacks and Suicide Kings by R. Garcia y Robertson
11. Making History by Paul J. McAuley
12. Watching Trees Grow by Peter F. Hamilton
13. The Retrieval Artist by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
14. Great Wall of Mars by Alastair Reynolds
15. The Forest Between the Worlds by G. David Nordley
16. Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol by Elizabeth Hand
17. Heart of Glass by William Barton
18. Crux by Albert E. Cowdrey
19. Tendeléo's Story by Ian McDonald
20. The Suspect Genome by Peter F. Hamilton
21. A Place So Foreign by Cory Doctorow
22. Naming of Parts by Tim Lebbon
23. The Enclave by Lois Tilton
24. To Leuchars by Rick Wilber

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
2.   On the Orion Line by Stephen Baxter
3.   Snowball in Hell by Brian Stableford
4.   Bloody Bunnies by Bradley Denton
5.   The Elephants of Poznan by Orson Scott Card
6.   The Other Side by James P. Blaylock
7.   Lincoln in Frogmore by Andy Duncan
8.   Merlin's Gun by Alastair Reynolds
9.   The Rift by Paul J. McAuley
10. Primes by Lewis Shiner
11. Millennium Babies by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
12. Chitty Bang Bang by Ian R. MacLeod
13. The Pottawatomie Giant by Andy Duncan
14. Feel the Zaz by James Patrick Kelly
15. Auspicious Eggs by James Morrow
16. Wetlands Preserve by Nancy Kress
17. The Cloud Man by Eleanor Arnason
18. Bird Herding by R. Garcia y Robertson
19. The Juniper Tree by John Kessel
20. (tie) The Gulf by Robert Reed
      (tie) Open Loops by Stephen Baxter
22. In Shock by Joyce Carol Oates
23. Hideaway by Alastair Reynolds
24. The Prophet Ugly by Robert Reed
25. Hybrid by Robert Reed
26. The Dryad's Wedding by Robert Charles Wilson
27. Reef by Paul J. McAuley
28. Tenebrio by Brian Stableford
29. Chanterelle by Brian Stableford
30. The Alien Abduction by James L. Cambias

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   The Missing Mass by Larry Niven

Other Nominees:

2.   Moon Dogs by Michael Swanwick

3.   Silver Ghost by Stephen Baxter
4.   The Royals of Hegn by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.   Sheena 5 by Stephen Baxter
6.   The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O by Michael Swanwick
7.   Interstitial by Paul J. McAuley
8.   Winter Quarters by Howard Waldrop
9.   The Fantasy Writer's Assistant by Jeffrey Ford
10. Lucy by Terry Bisson
11. (tie) The Art of Fugue by Charles Sheffield
      (tie) Fenneman's Mouth by Andy Duncan
13. Patient Zero by Tananarive Due
14. Our Mortal Span by Howard Waldrop
15. The War of the Worlds by James P. Blaylock
16. (tie) The Mandrake Garden by Brian Stableford
      (tie) Partial Eclipse by Graham Joyce
18. The Eye in the Heart by Tanith Lee
19. (tie) The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanetary Tale by Ursula K. Le Guin
      (tie) Greedy Choke Puppy by Nalo Hopkinson
21. Under the Hill by Jane Yolen
22. Reality Check by David Brin
23. Madame Bovary, c'est moi by Dan Simmons
24. The Neon Heart Murders by M. John Harrison
25. The Reluctant Book by Paul Di Filippo
26. Malthusian's Zombie by Jeffrey Ford
27. (tie) Catching Crumbs from the Table by Ted Chiang
      (tie) Fidelity: A Primer by Michael Blumlein
29. Snow in Summer by Jane Yolen
30. How Beautiful With Banners by Michael Bishop
31. The Foster Child by William Browning Spencer
32. The Millennial Express by Robert Silverberg
33. Steppenpferd by Brian W. Aldiss
34. Colours of the Soul by Sean McMullen

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Tales of Old Earth by Michael Swanwick

Other Nominees:

2.   Saucer of Loneliness: Volume VII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon by Theodore Sturgeon

3.   Telzey Amberdon by James H. Schmitz
4.   Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan
5.   Strange Travelers by Gene Wolfe

6.   Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell by Eric Frank Russell

7.   Blue Kansas Sky by Michael Bishop
8.   Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories by Jane Yolen
9.   Worlds Vast and Various by Gregory Benford
10. High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale
11. The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 2: Music of Many Spheres by Hal Clement
12. Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
13. Triskell Tales by Charles de Lint
14. Moon Dogs by Michael Swanwick
15. The Perseids and Other Stories by Robert Charles Wilson
16. In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories by Terry Bisson
17. Selected Stories by Theodore Sturgeon
18. Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories by Neal Barrett, Jr.
19. In the Stone House by Barry N. Malzberg
20. Magic Terror: Seven Tales by Peter Straub
21. Mixed Magics: The Worlds of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones
22. Terminal Visions by Richard Paul Russo
23. The Death Artist by Dennis Etchison
24. Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas
25. Travel Arrangements by M. John Harrison
26. Kafka Americana by Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz

Best Anthology
Winner:

1.   The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:

2.   The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

3.   Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
4.   Vanishing Acts edited by Ellen Datlow

5.   Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree R. Thomas

6.   Black Heart, Ivory Bones edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
7.   The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume Two edited by Frederik Pohl
8.   Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 edited by Gregory Benford
9.   The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future edited by Gardner Dozois
10. Arkham's Masters of Horror edited by Peter Ruber
11. Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons edited by Gardner Dozois

12. October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish

13. Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science edited by Gregory Benford and George Zebrowski

14. Dark Terrors 5 edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton
15. Star Colonies edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers

16. Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction edited by Nalo Hopkinson

17. A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

18. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eleven edited by Stephen Jones
19. Foursight edited by Peter Crowther

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   On Writing by Stephen King

Other Nominees:

2.   Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion by James Gifford

3.   Algernon, Charlie and I by Daniel Keyes
4.   Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography by A.E. Cunningham
5.   Science Fiction Culture by Camille Bacon-Smith
6.   J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey

7.   Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics by Julius Schwartz, with Brian M. Thomsen

8.   Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters by H.P. Lovecraft, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz

9.   Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James, and Farah Mendlesohn

10. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales edited by Jack Zipes
11. The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux
12. Critical Theory and Science Fiction by Carl Freedman

13. French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier

14. American Science Fiction and the Cold War by David Seed

15. Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science by Damien Broderick

16. At the Foot of the Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub by Bill Sheehan

17. Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake by G. Peter Winnington

Best Art Book
Winner:

1.   Spectrum 7: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner

Other Nominees:

2.   Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It by Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Freas

3.   Greetings from Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleton by Bob Eggleton and Nigel Suckling

4.   Horror of the 20^th Century: An Illustrated History by Robert Weinberg
5.   Comic Book Culture by Ron Goulart

6.   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

7.   Inner Visions: The Art of Ron Walotsky by Ron Walotsky
8.   The Art of Rowena by Doris Vallejo and Rowena Morrill
9.   Dreams: The Art of Boris Vallejo by Boris Vallejo

10. The Frank Collection: A Showcase of the World's Finest Fantastic Art by Jane Frank and Howard Frank

11. Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics by Alisa Kwitney
12. Josh Kirby: A Cosmic Cornucopia by David Langford; artist Josh Kirby
13. Journeyman: The Art of Chris Moore by Chris Moore and Stephen Gallagher

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
2.   Ellen Datlow
3.   Gordon van Gelder
4.   David G. Hartwell
5.   Stanley Schmidt
6.   David Pringle
7.   Terri Windling
8.   Patrick Nielsen Hayden
9.   Martin H. Greenberg
10. Scott Edelman
11. Stephen Jones
12. Shawna McCarthy

Best Magazine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

Other Nominees:
2.   Fantasy & Science Fiction
3.   Analog
4.   Interzone
5.   Realms of Fantasy
6.   The New York Review of Science Fiction
7.   Cemetery Dance
8.   Science Fiction Chronicle
9.   Science Fiction Age
10. Weird Tales
11. Science Fiction Weekly
12. Spectrum SF
13. Ansible
14. Century
15. Sci Fiction
16. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
17. Amazing Stories
18. Aboriginal SF

Best Book Publisher or Imprint
Winner:
1.   Tor

Other Nominees:
2.   HarperCollins/Eos Prism
3.   Bantam Spectra
4.   Baen
5.   Del Rey
6.   Ace
7.   DAW
8.   Golden Gryphon Press
9.   NESFA Press
10. Subterranean Press
11. Voyager
12. Gollancz/Millennium
13. St. Martin's
14. Warner Aspect
15. Roc
16. Science Fiction Book Club
17. (tie) Cemetery Dance Publications
      (tie) Meisha Merlin
19. Pocket
20. Wildside Press

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Bob Eggleton

Other Nominees:
2.   Michael Whelan
3.   Frank Kelly Freas
4.   Jim Burns
5.   Thomas Canty
6.   Don Maitz
7.   Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
8.   Boris Vallejo
9.   Ron Walotsky
10. Donato Giancola
11. Vincent Di Fate
12. David Cherry
13. J.K. Potter
14. Luis Royo
15. Alan M. Clark
16. (tie) Rowena Morrill
      (tie) Frank Frazetta
18. Stephen Youll

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2001 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California.

Comments: In the second year in a row that the Nebula Award for Best Script was given out, the movie Galaxy Quest won the prize. It is perhaps a mark of how influential the Star Trek franchise is that a parody that pokes fun at it would win a Nebula award. What is really interesting about the selection of Galaxy Quest as the Nebula winner is that the original source material that inspired it was never even nominated for a Nebula Award. Not the original show, not the Next Generation spin-off. Not the Deep Space Nine or Voyager spin-offs. Certainly not the often overlooked but still quite good animated series. And not any of the movies, either featuring the classic cast or cast members of more recent vintage. Star Trek, it seems, is strong enough to engender a Nebula-winning parody, but not strong enough on its own to even get a nomination.

As is typical in many Nebula years, the Best Novel category was fairly uninteresting, as a good book won the award over a collection of other good books. In the Best Novella category, the most interesting thing for me wasn't the winner, but rather the story Ninety Percent of Everything, a title that was clearly an homage to Theodore Sturgeon who famously opined that "Ninety percent of everything is crud". The thing that I wonder about the story is why it took three authors to write a single novella. It seems like a little bit of overkill to have three authors on a story that, by definition, is less than 40,000 words. Then again, I'm not a published author, so maybe there was a good reason they needed to do that.

Best Novel

Winner:
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

Other Nominees:
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Crescent City Rhapsody by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

Best Novella

Winner:

Goddesses by Linda Nagata

Other Nominees:
Argonautica by Walter Jon Williams
Crocodile Rock by Lucius Shepard
Fortitude by Andy Duncan
Hunting the Snark by Mike Resnick

Ninety Percent of Everything by Jonathan Lethem, James Patrick Kelly, and John Kessel

Best Novelette

Winner:

Daddy's World by Walter Jon Williams

Other Nominees:
A Day's Work on the Moon by Mike Moscoe
Generation Gap by Stanley Schmidt
How the Highland People Came to Be by Bruce Holland Rogers
Jack Daw's Pack by Greer Gilman
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by Gardner Dozois
Stellar Harvest by Eleanor Arnason

Best Short Story

Winner:
macs by Terry Bisson

Other Nominees:
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant by Jeffrey Ford
Flying Over Water by Ellen Klages
The Golem by Severna Park
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick

You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine by Pat York

Best Script

Winner:
Galaxy Quest by David Howard and Robert Gordon

Other Nominees:
Being John Malkovich by Charlie Kaufman
Dogma by Kevin Smith
The Green Mile by Frank Darabont
Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki and Neil Gaiman
Unbreakable by M. Night Shyamalan

Ray Bradbury Award

Winner:
2000X - Tales of the Next Millennia

Other Nominees:
None

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2000 Campbell Award Nominees

Location: Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Comments: After four years of "normal" (or what passes for normal for the Campbell Awards), the judges decided they were not content with just reporting the first, second, and third place finishers, but that they needed to throw yet another procedural curveball and add a category of "honorable mentions". Why? I have no idea. The two novels that appear in this reinstated category are both decent, but neither is compelling enough that it's existence would demand a change to how the award results are reported. I can only chalk this change up to the judges deciding that it is yet again time to screw with everyone's head.

Best Novel

Winner:

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Second Place:

Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

Third Place:

Greenhouse Summer by Norman Spinrad

Honorable Mention:

The Silicon Dagger by Jack Williamson

Starfish by Peter Watts

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2000 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 2000 the Mythopoeic Awards reached a new height in incestuous self-referential nominations when not one, but two works by J.R.R. Tolkien were nominated in the Inklings Studies category. Granted, the Mythopoeic Society exists to honor the members of the Inklings and to award scholarship about their work and their lives, but it always seems to me like a massive conflict of interest when they nominate works that are actually written by members of the Inklings, even if they include some amount of scholarly commentary by other authors.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle

Other Nominees:

The Book of Knights by Yves Meynard

Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt
The Wild Swans by Peg Kerr

Best Children's Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley

Other Nominees:

The Circle of Magic (Sandry's Book, Tris's Book, Daja's Book, and Briar's Book) by Tamora Pierce

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Kingdom (Jackaroo, On Fortune's Wheel, The Wings of a Falcon, and Elske) by Cynthia Voigt

Skellig by David Almond

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

Other Nominees:
C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor by Lionel Adey

Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

Tolkien: Man and Myth - A Literary Life by Joseph Pearce

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Winner:

Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Carole G. Silver

Other Nominees:

King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack

Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum by Michael O. Riley
The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840-1920 by Christine Poulson
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition by Jack Zipes

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2000 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Comments: Gender equity is a slippery thing. An array of nominees can look, at first glance, to be somewhat equitable, but as we've been conditioned to see actual equality as domination by women, appearances can be deceiving. The 2000 World Fantasy Award ballot is a case in point. Twenty-nine different people were nominated for fiction awards in this year, but only eight of those people were women. Granted, Terry Windling and Ellen Datlow were nominated twice, so one might argue that the proper ratio of women nominees to total nominees is actually ten and thirty-one. Either way, this ratio should have embarrassed the World Fantasy Awards. There had certainly been improvement from the dark days of the 1970s when the entire female sex would often be represented by a single nomination, but when women only make up one-quarter to one-third of your nominees in the year 2000, you still have a way to go.

Best Novel

Winner:
Thraxas by Martin Scott

Other Nominees:
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
The Rainy Season by James P. Blaylock
A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
A Witness to Life by Terence M. Green

Best Novella

Winner:
(tie) Sky Eyes by Laurel Winter
(tie) The Transformation of Martin Lake by Jeff VanderMeer

Other Nominees:
Crocodile Rock by Lucius Shepard
Scarlet and Gold by Tanith Lee
The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis
The Wizard Retires by Michael Meddor

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
The Chop Girl by Ian R. MacLeod

Other Nominees:
Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue by Kim Newman
The Dynasters Vol. 1: On the Downs by Howard Waldrop
The Grammarian's Five Daughters by Eleanor Arnason
Human Bay by Robert Reed
Naming the Dead by Paul J. McAuley
The Parwat Ruby by Delia Sherman

Best Anthology

Winner:

Silver Birch, Blood Moon edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Other Nominees:
999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense edited by Al Sarrantonio
Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths edited by Stephen Jones
Northern Frights 5 edited by Don Hutchison

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Best Collection

Winner:

(tie) Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint

(tie) Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson

Other Nominees:
Deep Into That Darkness Peering by Tom Piccirilli
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason van Hollander

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Michael Moorcock

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
Jason van Hollander

Other Nominees:
Les Edwards
Bob Eggleton
Stephen E. Fabian

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Gordon van Gelder

Other Nominees:
John Betancourt
Seamus Heaney
Stephen Jones
Warren Lapine
Kim Newman

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
The British Fantasy Society

Other Nominees:
Ken Abner
Rosemary Pardoe
Philip J. Rahman and Dennis E. Weiler
R.B. Russell
William K. Schafer

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2000 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: United Kingdom.

Comments: One interesting thing about the Clarke Awards is how much the nominees lists seem to favor hard science fiction. Stephen Baxter, one of the hardest of hard science fiction authors, holds the record for the most nominations. This year's nominee's include Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, a hard science fiction story about code breakers, and Vernor Vinge's hard science fiction space opera A Deepness in the Sky. This year's winner - Bruce Sterling's Distraction - is also an example of hard science fiction. I suppose this is fitting, as much of Clarke's work can best be described as being part of this subgenre.

Winner
Distraction by Bruce Sterling

Shortlist
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
Time: Manifold 1 by Stephen Baxter

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2000 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 2000 the Libertarian Futurist Society reached further back than it ever had before and inducted the Hans Christian Andersen story The Emperor's New Clothes into its Hall of Fame. The oddity here is that, due to its longevity, Andersen's story has been subjected to so many different interpretations that asserting that it supports a libertarian view is not particularly illuminating - as the story has, for example, been cited as an example of the labor theory of value, a basic underpinning of Marxism. When a story is open to numerous different interpretations, it seems like something of a desperate stretch to try and formally claim it as supporting one's own.

Best Novel

Winner:

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Other Nominees:

The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod

Cradle of Saturn by James P. Hogan
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Martian Race by Gregory Benford

Hall of Fame

Winner:

The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen

Other Nominees:
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The Mirror Maze by James P. Hogan
Orion Shall Rise by Poul Anderson
The Wardove by L. Neil Smith

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2000 Hugo Award Finalists

Location: Chicon 2000 in Chicago, Illinois.

Comments: 2000 was a great year for science fiction. Just look at the list of nominees for Best Novel: A Deepness in the Sky, A Civil Campaign, Cryptonmicon, and Darwin's Radio would all have been clear winners in most other years. The only book that sticks out as misplaced on this list is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and that's not because it is a bad book, but rather because it just isn't nearly as good as the rest of the field.

The other categories were similarly strong, most notably the Best Dramatic Presentation field, in which the hilarious Star Trek spoof Galaxy Quest beat out a field that included The Matrix and The Iron Giant. It does, however, seem somewhat ironic that at this point Star Trek parody movies have won more Hugo awards than actual Star Trek movies have.

The other noteworthy thing about the 2000 Hugo Awards is Michael Swanwick's win for his short story Scherzo with Tyrannosaur, which was his second win in and many years, and the middle of four year run in which he won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story three times.

Best Novel

Winner:
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Other Finalists:
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Best Novella

Winner:

The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis

Other Finalists:
The Astronaut from Wyoming by Adam-Troy Castro and Jerry Oltion
Forty, Counting Down by Harry Turtledove
Hunting the Snark by Mike Resnick
Son Observe the Time by Kage Baker

Best Novelette

Winner:

10¹⁶ to 1 by James Patrick Kelly

Other Finalists:
Border Guards by Greg Egan
The Chop Girl by Ian R. MacLeod

Fossil Games by Tom Purdom (reviewed in Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons)

The Secret History of the Ornithopter by Jan Lars Jensen
Stellar Harvest by Eleanor Arnason

Best Short Story

Winner:

Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick

Other Finalists:
Ancient Engines by Michael Swanwick
Hothouse Flowers by Mike Resnick
macs by Terry Bisson
Sarajevo by Nick DiChario

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

Science Fiction of the 20^th Century by Frank M. Robinson

Other Finalists:
Minicon 34 Restaurant Guide by Karen Cooper and Bruce Schneier
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen
Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Galaxy Quest

Other Finalists:
Being John Malkovich
The Iron Giant
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Gardner Dozois

Other Finalists:
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
David G. Hartwell
Stanley Schmidt
Gordon van Gelder

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Michael Whelan

Other Finalists:
Jim Burns
Bob Eggleton
Donato Giancola
Don Maitz

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

Other Finalists:
Interzone edited by David Pringle

The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Ariel Haméon, David G. Hartwell, and Kevin J. Maroney

Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
Speculations edited by Kent Brewster

Best Fanzine

Winner:

File 770 edited by Mike Glyer

Other Finalists:
Ansible edited by Dave Langford
Challenger edited by Guy H. Lillian III
Mimosa edited by Nicki Lynch and Richard Lynch
Plokta edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies, and Mike Scott

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Dave Langford

Other Finalists:
Bob Devney
Mike Glyer
Evelyn C. Leeper
Steven H. Silver

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Joe Mayhew

Other Finalists:
Freddie Baer
Brad W. Foster
Teddy Harvia
Taral Wayne

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Cory Doctorow

Other Finalists:
Thomas Harlan
Ellen Klages
Kristine Smith
Shane Tourtellotte

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2000 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Westercon in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Comments: There are some authors who are so prolific over such a prolonged period of time that they seem almost inhuman. As examples of this phenomenon I point to Robert Silverberg and Ursula K. Le Guin. Silverberg started his career in the 1950s, Le Guin in the 1960s. Both became dominant voices in the science fiction world in the 1970s, and have continued to turn out fantastic work to this day. In the 2000 Locus Awards ballot, Silverberg's name appears three times, while Le Guin's appears twice. Unlike many authors who turned increasingly towards exclusively writing novels in their later careers, both Silverberg and Le Guin have continued to produce works of all lengths throughout theirs. How they produce such a vast amount of brilliant fiction is a mystery to me, but I'm certainly glad that they do.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Other Nominees:
2.   Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
3.   A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
4.   A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
5.   Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
6.   Forever Free by Joe Haldeman
7.   Precursor by C.J. Cherryh
8.   On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
9.   The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton
10. Teranesia by Greg Egan
11. The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
12. The Martian Race by Gregory Benford
13. Waiting by Frank M. Robinson
14. Time: Manifold 1 (aka Manifold: Time) by Stephen Baxter
15. All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
16. Bios by Robert Charles Wilson
17. The Far Shore of Time by Frederik Pohl
18. Greenhouse Summer by Norman Spinrad
19. Finity by John Barnes
20. (tie) Ancients of Days by Paul J. McAuley
      (tie) Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen
22. Singer from the Sea by Sheri S. Tepper
23. The Extremes by Christopher Priest
24. (tie) The Conqueror's Child by Suzy McKee Charnas
      (tie) Tower of Dreams by Jamil Nasir

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Other Nominees:
2.   The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
3.   Fortress of Owls by C.J. Cherryh
4.   Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein
5.   Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
6.   The Eternal Footman by James Morrow
7.   Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
8.   Mr. X by Peter Straub
9.   A Calculus of Angels by J. Gregory Keyes
10. The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll
11. Dragonshadow by Barbara Hambly
12. A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
13. The Rainy Season by James P. Blaylock
14. Black Light by Elizabeth Hand
15. The Stars Compel by Michaela Roessner
16. The Sub by Thomas M. Disch
17. Saint Fire by Tanith Lee
18. The Wild Swans by Peg Kerr
19. Sea Dragon Heir by Storm Constantine
20. Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.    The Silk Code by Paul Levinson

Other Nominees:
2.   The Shadow of Ararat by Thomas Harlan
3.   Starfish by Peter Watts
4.   Code of Conduct by Kristine Smith
5.   The Thief's Gamble by Juliet E. McKenna
6.   King Rat by China Miéville
7.   Shiva 3000 by Jan Lars Jensen
8.   Prospero's Children by Jan Siegel
9.   Time Future by Maxine McArthur
10. Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon
11. Nocturne for a Dangerous Man by Marc Matz
12. Silver Screen by Justina Robson
13. The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco
14. The Chosen by Ricardo Pinto
15. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   Orphans of the Helix by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:

2.   Crocodile Rock by Lucius Shepard

3.   The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis
4.   Old Music and the Slave Women by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.   The Way of All Ghosts by Greg Bear
6.   Hunting the Snark by Mike Resnick
7.   The Actors by Eleanor Arnason
8.   Argonautica by Walter Jon Williams
9.   The Executioners' Guild by Andy Duncan
10. Baby's Fire by Robert Reed
11. (tie) Forty, Counting Down by Harry Turtledove
      (tie) The Wedding Album by David Marusek
13. Son Observe the Time by Kage Baker
14. The Exile of Evening Star by Allen M. Steele
15. The Astronaut from Wyoming by Adam-Troy Castro and Jerry Oltion
16. Twenty-One, Counting Up by Harry Turtledove
17. Hatching the Phoenix by Frederik Pohl
18. Andy Warhol's Dracula by Kim Newman
19. The Gateway of Eternity by Brian Stableford
20. Leningrad Nights by Graham Joyce
21. Once Upon a Matter Crushed by Wil McCarthy

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   (tie) Border Guards by Greg Egan
      (tie) Huddle by Stephen Baxter

Other Nominees:
3.   A Hunger for the Infinite by Gregory Benford
4.   Sleeping Dogs by Nancy Kress
5.   Mount Olympus by Ben Bova
6.   A Martian Romance by Kim Stanley Robinson
7.   (tie) The Chop Girl by Ian R. MacLeod
      (tie) Darkrose and Diamond by Ursula K. Le Guin
      (tie) A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by Gardner Dozois
10. Vessel by Orson Scott Card
11. A Hero of the Empire by Robert Silverberg
12. Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance by Eleanor Arnason
13. Stellar Harvest by Eleanor Arnason
14. How to Make Unicorn Pie by Esther M. Friesner
15. The Secret History of the Ornithopter by Jan Lars Jensen
16. Green Acres by Allen M. Steele
17. 1016 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly
18. Smart Alec by Kage Baker
19. Game of the Century by Robert Reed
20. Nodaway by Robert Reed
21. The Last Man on the Moon by Scott Edelman
22. Getting to Know the Dragon by Robert Silverberg
23. Pocketful of Dharma by Paolo Bacigalupi
24. Daddy's World by Walter Jon Williams
25. Vultures by Stephen L. Burns

26. Fossil Games by Tom Purdom (reviewed in Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons)

27. The Queen of Erewhon by Lucy Sussex

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   macs by Terry Bisson

Other Nominees:

2.   Ancient Engines by Michael Swanwick

3.   Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick
4.   Spindrift by Stephen Baxter
5.   Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
6.   People Came from Earth by Stephen Baxter
7.   The Dynasters Vol. 1: On the Downs by Howard Waldrop
8.   Fish in a Barrel by Jonathan Carroll
9.   Sexual Dimorphism by Kim Stanley Robinson
10. Jennifer, Just Before Midnight by William Sanders
11. Yurek Rutz, Yurek Rutz, Yurek Rutz by David Marusek
12. (tie) Everywhere by Geoff Ryman
      (tie) Her Own Private Sitcom by Allen M. Steele
14. Human Bay by Robert Reed
15. Smoother by Terry Bisson
16. Shiva by Barry N. Malzberg
17. Ashes and Tombstones by Brian Stableford
18. (tie) An Apollo Asteroid by Brian W. Aldiss
      (tie) Into the Blue Abyss by Geoffrey A. Landis
20. Suicide Coast by M. John Harrison
21. Alien TV by Paul J. McAuley

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Nominees:

2.   A Good Old-Fashioned Future by Bruce Sterling

3.   Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis
4.   The Compleat Boucher by Anthony Boucher
5.   Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

6.   (tie) Baby is Three: Volume VI: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon by Theodore Sturgeon, edited by Paul Williams

      (tie) Rainbow Mars by Larry Niven
8.   Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint
9.   The Dragons of Springplace by Robert Reed
10. Apostrophes and Apocalypses by John Barnes

11. The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume One: The Metal Man and Others by Jack Williamson

12. Sex and Violence in Zero-G by Allen M. Steele
13. What Ho, Magic! by Tanya Huff
14. Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson
15. The Robot's Twilight Companion by Tony Daniel
16. Are You Loathsome Tonight? (aka Self-Made Man) by Poppy Z. Brite
17. Really, Really, Really, Really, Weird Stories by John Shirley
18. Dragon's Fin Soup by S.P. Somtow

Best Anthology
Winner:

1.   Far Horizons edited by Robert Silverberg

Other Nominees:

2.   The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

3.   Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell

4.   The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

5.   The Good New Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois
6.   Moon Shots edited by Peter Crowther and Martin H. Greenberg
7.   999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense edited by Al Sarrantonio
8.   Silver Birch, Blood Moon edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
9.   The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume One edited by Frederik Pohl

10. The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology edited by Edward L. Ferman and Gordon van Gelder

11. My Favorite Science Fiction Story edited by Martin H. Greenberg
12. Nebula Awards 33 edited by Connie Willis

13. Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick

14. Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths edited by Stephen Jones
15. Not of Woman Born edited by Constance Ash
16. Northern Suns edited by David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant
17. Northern Frights 5 edited by Don Hutchison
18. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Ten edited by Stephen Jones

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Sixty Years of Arkham House by S.T. Joshi

Other Nominees:

2.   The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman by Brian W. Aldiss

3.   Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations with the Founders of Science Fiction by Eric Leif Davin

4.   Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality by Gwyneth Jones

5.   Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet by Neil Barron

6.   When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition by Jack Zipes

7.   The Road to Castle Mount: The Science Fiction of Robert Silverberg by Edgar L. Chapman

8.   Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction by Russell Blackford, Van Ikin, and Sean McMullen

9.   The Fantasy Literature of England by C.N. Manlove
10. The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana by J. Neil Schulman
11. A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology by Melvin H. Schuetz
12. Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ/Feminism/Science Fiction by Jeanne Cortiel

Best Art Book
Winner:

1.   Science Fiction of the 20^th Century by Frank M. Robinson

Other Nominees:

2.   Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner

3.   Legacy by Frank Frazetta
4.   Transluminal: The Paintings of Jim Burns by Jim Burns

5.   The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.

6.   Maxfield Parrish, Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966 by Sylvia Yount; art by Maxfield Parrish

7.   Fantasy Art of the New Millennium (aka Fantasy Art Masters) by Dick Jude
8.   Soft as Steel: The Art of Julie Bell by Nigel Suckling; art by Julie Bell

9.   The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard, illustrated by Gary Gianni

10. Wind Child by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
11. The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
2.   David G. Hartwell
3.   Gordon van Gelder
4.   Stanley Schmidt
5.   Ellen Datlow
6.   David Pringle
7.   Patrick Nielsen Hayden
8.   Robert Silverberg
9.   Scott Edelman
10. Martin H. Greenberg
11. Terri Windling
12. Shawna McCarthy

Best Magazine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

Other Nominees:
2.   Fantasy & Science Fiction
3.   Analog
4.   Interzone
5.   Science Fiction Age
6.   Realms of Fantasy
7.   The New York Review of Science Fiction
8.   Amazing Stories
9.   Science Fiction Chronicle
10. Cemetery Dance

Best Book Publisher or Imprint
Winner:
1.   Tor

Other Nominees:
2.   Avon Eos
3.   Del Rey
4.   Bantam Spectra
5.   Baen
6.   DAW
7.   Ace
8.   HarperPrism
9.   St. Martin's
10. NESFA Press
11. Warner Aspect
12. Science Fiction Book Club
13. Gollancz/Millennium
14. Voyager
15. Golden Gryphon Press
16. Meisha Merlin
17. Roc

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Bob Eggleton
3.   Jim Burns
4.   Don Maitz
5.   Thomas Canty
6.   Frank Frazetta
7.   Donato Giancola
8.   Julie Bell
9.   Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

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