As nomination and voting deadlines get closer for the Hugo Awards (nominate by March 19th!) and other honors, we bring to your attention books and short stories published in 2020 by past Otherwise Award winners.

• Eleanor Arnason, 1991 winner for A Woman of the Iron People, published the short story “Tunnels” in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine on May 1, 2020. You can buy that issue on Magzter.
• Maureen McHugh, 1992 winner for China Mountain Zhang, published the short story Yellow and the Perception of Reality in July 2020. You can read it for free on Tor.com.
• Elizabeth Hand, 1995 winner for Waking the Moon, published The Books of Lamps and Banners on September 29, 2020. You can order it from Room of One’s Own Bookstore or from several other vendors.
• Candas Jane Dorsey, 1997 winner for Black Wine, published The Adventures of Isabel on October 20, 2020. You can buy it from Room Of One’s Own Bookstore or from several other vendors.
• Kelly Link, 1997 winner for Travels With The Snow Queen, published a tarot card in the 20th anniversary anthology of Diagram, available for sale from New Michigan Press. Link also published the short story “The White Road” in A Public Space # 28, published 28 January 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own or from the publisher.
• Hiromi Goto, 2001 winner for The Kappa Child, published “The Last Time I Saw You” in the literary journal Brick in the winter of 2020. You can buy a digital subscription to get the issue or order a paper copy from the magazine’s site.
• M. John Harrison, 2002 winner for Light, published The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again in June of 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own or from several other vendors. Also, Harrison published Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 in August of 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own or from several other vendors.
• Matt Ruff, 2003 winner for Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, published 88 Names on March 17, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own, or from several other vendors. Also, the HBO series based on Ruff’s novel Lovecraft Country was released August 16, 2020.
• Johanna Sinisalo, 2004 winner for Not Before Sundown, published Strangers Inside (original title: Vieraat) in 2020. It is currently available in Finnish but (it seems) not yet in English.
• Geoff Ryman, 2005 winner for Air: Or, Have Not Have, published the short story “Something Went Wrong in Heaven” on October 27, 2020, as part of the in book London Centric: Tales of Future London. You can buy the book from Room of One’s Own or from several other vendors.
• Catherynne M. Valente, 2006 winner for The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, published a short story, “This is No Cave,” in the book From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on November 10, 2020. You can order it from Room of One’s Own or order it from several other vendors.
• Sarah Hall, 2007 winner for The Carhullan Army, published a short story in The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 on March 10, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own or buy it from several other vendors.
• Patrick Ness, 2008 winner for The Knife of Never Letting Go, published Burn on June 2, 2020. You can read a sample chapter and order from several vendors — and it’s available through Room of One’s Own.
• Fumi Yoshinaga, 2009 winner for Ooku: The Inner Chambers, volumes 1 & 2, published Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 17 on August 18, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own or order from other several vendors.
• Dubravka Ugresic, 2010 winner for Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, published The Age of Skin on November 27, 2020. You can order it from Room of One’s Own or order it from several other vendors.
• Andrea Hairston, 2011 winner for Redwood and Wildfire, published Master of Poisons on September 8, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own or order from several other vendors.
• Caitlin R. Kiernan, 2012 winner for The Drowning Girl, published The Tindalos Asset on October 13, 2020. You can order it from Room of One’s Own or buy it on several other platforms. Also, Kiernan published Comes a Pale Rider on November 30, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own, or from Subterranean Press as ebook or signed, limited edition hardcover.
• Jo Walton, 2014 winner for My Real Children, published Or What You Will on July 7, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own, or order it from several other vendors.
• Anna-Marie McLemore, 2016 winner for When the Moon Was Ours, published Dark and Deepest Red on January 14, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own, or from several other vendors. Also, McLemore published Miss Meteor on September 22, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own or from several other vendors.
• Akwaeke Emezi, 2019 winner for Freshwater, published The Death of Vivek Oji on August 4, 2020. You can buy it from Room of One’s Own (where it is backordered), or from several other vendors.

Also, past Otherwise winners have forthcoming books you can preorder now to read in 2021, including:

• Gwyneth Jones, 1991 winner for White Queen, has Grasshopper’s Child forthcoming for publication on March 2, 2021. It’s available for pre-order on Google Play.
• Nancy Springer, 1994 winner for Larque on the Wing, has Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche forthcoming for publication on August 31, 2021. You can preorder it from several vendors now. Also, a Netflix film based on the Enola Holmes books was released on September 23rd, 2020.

 

Happy reading and nominating!