{"id":20190,"date":"2016-05-22T18:56:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T23:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=20190"},"modified":"2016-05-22T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T23:57:04","slug":"a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-list\/","title":{"rendered":"A list"},"content":{"rendered":"

While pondering a reply to Robin’s comment on the previous post<\/a>, I thought it would be useful to compile a list of the Nebula award winners<\/a> for novel, novella, novelette and short story from 2000 on and note the sex of the writers:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

2000
\nOctavia E. Butler: Parable of the Talents<\/b><\/i>; Ted Chiang: “Story of Your Life”; Mary A. Turzillo: “Mars Is No Place for Children”; Leslie What: “The Cost of Doing Business”
\nfmff<\/p>\n

2001
\nGreg Bear: Darwin’s Radio<\/b><\/i>; Linda Nagata: “Goddesses”; Walter Jon Williams: “Daddy’s World”; Terry Bisson: “Macs”
\nmfmm<\/p>\n

2002
\nCatherine Asaro: The Quantum Rose<\/b><\/i>; Jack Williamson: “The Ultimate Earth”; Kelly Link: “Louise’s Ghost”; Severna Park: “The Cure for Everything”
\nfmff<\/p>\n

2003
\nNeil Gaiman: American Gods<\/b><\/i>; Richard Chwedyk: “Bronte’s Egg”; Ted Chiang: “Hell Is the Absence of God”; Carol Emshwiller: “Creature”
\nmmmf<\/p>\n

2004
\nElizabeth Moon: The Speed of Dark<\/b><\/i>; Neil Gaiman: “Coraline”; Jeffrey Ford: “The Empire of Ice Cream”; Karen Joy Fowler: “What I Didn’t See”
\nfmmf<\/p>\n

2005
\nLois McMaster Bujold: Paladin of Souls<\/b><\/i>; Walter Jon Williams: “The Green Leopard Plague”; Ellen Klages: “Basement Magic”; Eileen Gunn: “Coming to Terms”
\nfmff<\/p>\n

2006
\nJoe Haldeman: Camouflage<\/b><\/i>; Kelly Link: “Magic for Beginners”; Kelly Link: “The Faery Handbag”; Carol Emshwiller: “I Live With You”
\nmfff<\/p>\n

2007
\nJack McDevitt: Seeker<\/b><\/i>; James Patrick Kelly: “Burn”; Peter S. Beagle: “Two Hearts”; Elizabeth Hand: “Echo”
\nmmmf<\/p>\n

2008
\nMichael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union<\/b><\/i>; Nancy Kress: “Fountain of Age”; Ted Chiang: “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”; Karen Joy Fowler: “Always”
\nmfmf<\/p>\n

2009
\nUrsula K. Le Guin: Powers<\/b><\/i>; Catherine Asaro: “The Spacetime Pool”; John Kessel: “Pride and Prometheus”; Nina Kiriki Hoffman: “Trophy Wives”
\nffmf<\/p>\n

2010
\nPaolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl<\/b><\/i>; Kage Baker: “The Women of Nell Gwynne’s”; Eugie Foster: “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast”; Kij Johnson: “Spar”
\nmfff<\/p>\n

2011
\nConnie Willis: Blackout\/All Clear<\/b><\/i>; Rachel Swirsky: “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window”; Eric James Stone: “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made”; Harlan Ellison: “How Interesting: A Tiny Man” and Kij Johnson: “Ponies”
\nffmmf<\/p>\n

2012
\nJo Walton: Among Others<\/b><\/i>; Kij Johnson: “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”; Geoff Ryman: “What We Found”; Ken Liu: “The Paper Menagerie”
\nffmm<\/p>\n

2013
\nKim Stanley Robinson: 2312<\/b><\/i>; Nancy Kress: “After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall”; Andy Duncan: “Close Encounters”; Aliette de Bodard: “Immersion”
\nmfmf<\/p>\n

2014
\nAnn Leckie: Ancillary Justice<\/b><\/i>; Vylar Kaftan: “The Weight of the Sunrise”; Aliette de Bodard: “The Waiting Stars”; Rachel Swirsky: “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love”
\nffff<\/p>\n

2015
\nJeff VanderMeer: Annihilation<\/b><\/i>; Nancy Kress: “Yesterday’s Kin”; Alaya Dawn Johnson: “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i”; Ursula Vernon: “Jackalope Wives”
\nmfff<\/p>\n

2016
\nNaomi Novik: Uprooted<\/b><\/i>; Nnedi Okorafor: “Binti”; Sarah Pinsker: “Our Lady of the Open Road”; Alyssa Wong: “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”
\nffff<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

A few observations:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Until 2013, the awards were roughly split evenly between male and female writers. If three of the four winners one year were female, as in 2000, 2002 or 2006, usually the following year three of the four would be male, as in 2001, 2003 or 2007.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Of the twelve winning stories from 2014 through 2016, eleven were by women. It’s possible that these were really the best stories of their years \u2014 the only writer listed there I’ve read is Nancy Kress, and she is pretty good \u2014 but I think it’s unlikely.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2014, if I have my dates right, is the year that puppy-related sadness first became a topic of discussion in certain obscure corners of popular culture. <\/p>\n

\u2022 2014 was the first time this century that female writers shut out males in the four Nebula award categories under consideration. It happened again in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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