2015 Otherwise Award Recommendations

Most of the books and stories that Otherwise Award jurors read to pick a winner are nominated by authors and readers. We need your suggestions. If you’ve read a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our notions of gender, please tell us about it by filling out the recommendation form below. If you have more than one, just fill out the form again with a new recommendation and submit it until you’ve told us about them all.

Recommendations close on the 1st of December, 2015.

The 2015 Otherwise Award will be given at WisCon 40, May 27-30, 2016.

To let us know something related to recommendations that doesn’t fit in the form, please email recommendations@otherwiseaward.org.

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The 2015 Otherwise Award Recommendations

Author	Title	Publisher	Comments	Sub Date
Rose Lemberg	Stalemate	Lackington's	A far future story about friendship and memory, with a binary-gendered protagonist in a world where people conceptualize gender differently.lackingtons.com/2014/10/28/stalemate-by-…	2015-11-30 09:47:38
Vida Cruz	How the Jungle Got Its Spirit Guardian	FableCroft Publishing	Short story in the anthology Phantazein by FableCroft. A story about gender expectations and roles, and breaking them.fablecroft.com.au/publications/phantazei…	2015-11-30 21:27:55
Genevieve Valentine	Catwoman starting with issue #35	DC Comics	Selena Kyle and her foil Eiko Hasigawa explore different ways women wield power, love each other, fight each other, and choose their paths.	2015-11-30 19:35:34
Mary Robinette Kowal	Of Noble Family	Tor	Examines intersectionality, gendered family ties, complicity with oppressive power, and different views on magic as performed by people of different cultures.maryrobinettekowal.com/novel/noble-famil…	2015-11-30 19:31:13
Kelly ThompsonCampbellSophie (Art)	Jem and the Holograms	IDW	A retooling of the original '80s cartoon about an all girl band with a modern twist. Also features a budding romance between Kimber (The Holograms) and Stormer (The Misfits). The SHOWTIME trade paperback collects issues 1-6.(Artist Sophie Campbell came out as trans during the first part of the comic run)idwpublishing.com/jem-and-the-holograms/	2015-11-30 17:50:56
L.S. Johnson	Julie	Strange Tales V / Tartarus Press	A woman named Julie gets rewritten by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and fights back.	2015-11-30 17:43:42
Bogi Takács	The Need for Overwhelming Sensation	Capricious	Space opera with nonsexual kinky elements and many, many trans characters.capricioussf.org/current-issue/	2015-11-30 09:43:52
Bogi Takács	Forestspirit, Forestspirit	Wyrm Publishing / Clarkesworld	A far-future story about nonviolence with a nonbinary trans war veteran as the main character.clarkesworldmagazine.com/takacs_06_15/	2015-11-30 09:41:18
Bogi Takács	This Shall Serve As a Demarcation	Scigentasy	A story about the devastating effects of colonialist invasion on the environment, with a nonbinary trans couple in a D/s relationship as the protagonists.scigentasy.com/demarcation/	2015-11-30 09:39:55
Dara NaraghiBrent Bowman (illustrator)	Persia Blues, volume 2 - "Love and War"	NBM Publishing	Minoo Shirazi is a rebellious young Iranian woman struggling to define herself amid the strict social conventions of an oppressive regime and the wishes of an overbearing father. She is also a free-spirited adventurer in a fantasy world. Blending Eastern and Western civilization with elements of ancient Persian mythology, Persia Blues explores the intersections of guilt and freedom, family and self, ancient myths and modern enigmas.persiablues.com	2015-11-29 15:53:31
Garth Reasby	Awakened: The Children of Divinity, Book 1	Talaria Press	Jordan Law is the finest sniper MI-6 has ever seen; due in part to her super-human abilities. When she's recruited by a shadowy organization to work with others like her, she discovers the world is far more dangerous than she ever expected. As she works with them, she realizes she wants more than to be a living weapon and finds herself wanting to be more; to be a hero.amzn.to/1nc2c2z	2015-11-28 20:36:48
Malcolm Schmitz	The Captain's Sphere	Crossed Genres Press	A SF/F story about a character who doesn't settle (won't settle) into any one sphere of identity. Wonderful and refreshing.	2015-11-28 15:33:56
Naru Sundar	Infinite Skeins	Crossed Genres Press	An intricate tale of grief and the inability to accept that grief. Heartbreaking, and perfect.crossedgenres.com/magazine/032-infinite-…	2015-11-28 15:30:16
Sarah Johnson	Loud as a Murder	Crossed Genres Press	A wonderfully plotted, wonderfully written short story, with one of the best endings I've ever read.crossedgenres.com/magazine/028-loud-as-a…	2015-11-28 15:26:27
Emily St. John Mandel	Station Eleven	Knopf	This book will make you think about all the things. From the banal existence we tend to live, to the beauty in the world, to what it would be like to live in a post apocalyptic world.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station…	2015-11-28 12:09:03
Mads Sukalikar	Do Virgins Taste Better? And Other Tales of Whimsy	Createspace	This series of short stories explores several traditional gender roles in traditional fairy tale, science fiction, and fantasy settings.amazon.in/do-virgins-taste-better-whimsy…	2015-11-28 11:13:19
Helena Bell	When We Were Giants	Lightspeed	A touching--and very believable--look at the ways girls teach each other conformity.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/when-we-w…	2015-11-25 14:56:35
Efe Okogu	An Indigo Song for Paradise	StoryTime	amazon.com/dp/b017knk8gu	2015-11-25 04:25:37
Andrew Dakalira	VIII	StoryTime	amazon.com/dp/b017knk8gu	2015-11-25 04:24:48
Dliman Dila	The Flying Man of Stone	StoryTime	amazon.com/dp/b017knk8gu	2015-11-25 04:23:47
Mame Diene	Hell Freezes Over	StoryTime	amazon.com/dp/b017knk8gu	2015-11-25 04:22:31
Tade ThompsonNick Wood	The Last Panteon	StoryTime	amazon.com/dp/b017knk8gu	2015-11-25 04:20:42
Laura Madeline Wiseman	American Galactic	Martian Lit Books	martianlit.com/books/9/american-galactic…	2015-11-24 06:38:56
Karen Heuler	The Alien Came Over the Hill	Daily Science Fiction	The alien invader seems to be female.dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/…	2015-11-23 14:15:45
Sfé MonsterTaneka Stotts	Beyond: the QUEER Sci-Fi & Fantasy comic anthology	Sfé R. Monster & Taneka Stotts		2015-11-23 08:42:48
KM Szpara	Nothing is Pixels Here	Lightspeed Magazine	Ash and Zane are a long-time couple in a simulated world. Ash wants to experience the "real" world, but what is real? Great exploration of self identity in an SFnal setting.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/nothing-i…	2015-11-22 08:57:07
Jason A. Holt	The Bladesman of Darcliff	Jason A. Holt	A manly hero must draw his blade to fight against an evil temple. His wife thinks it would be fun to come along. How many times will she have to rescue him before he acknowledges that she might be competent? The book also explores two fictional cultures' differing perspectives on gender roles in marriage and religion, while presenting marriage and religion in a positive light.	2015-11-20 13:46:48
Kelly Jennings	What Happened to Lord Elomar during the Revolution	The Sockdolager	Takes a well-worn trope -- of a disguised witch who grants wishes as reward for generosity, and in doing so teaches a privileged landowner how to better herself -- and brings it to places one might not expect, with a depth and deftness that are both absorbing and affecting. A story about responsibility, inheritance, and revolutions both political and internal.sockdolager.net/fall-2015/elomar	2015-11-20 12:27:48
John SandfordCtein	SATURN RUN	G.P. Putnam's Sons	Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford joins internationally known photographer and author Ctein to create a stunning new thriller of the future: SATURN RUN.	2015-11-20 12:18:48
micha cardenas	Redshift and Portalmetal		This is a work of speculative poetry in the form of an interactive game made using text, performance, sound, and video. micharoja.itch.io/redshift-and-portalmet…	2015-11-20 05:52:36
Amanda Downum	DREAMS OF SHREDS AND TATTERS	Solaris	An excellent modern horror/fantasy with a diverse cast.	2015-11-19 17:23:41
Jim Butcher	The Aeronaut's Windlass	Roc (imprint of Penguin Random House US)	Jim Butcher's thrilling new steampunk fantasy novel features a diverse roster of characters including two young women, Gwendolyn and Bridget, who have joined the Spirearch's Guard. In a society where gender roles are varied and complex, Gwendolyn and Bridget are swept up in an action-filled narrative, discovering their strengths along the way.	2015-11-19 13:59:31
Julie E. Czerneda	This Gulf of Time and Stars (Reunification #1)	Daw Books, Inc.	Julie E. Czerneda's powerful sci-fi novel features a diverse cast of characters; protagonist Sira, a Clan leader, explores the meanings of female empowerment and gender roles in a society that is on the brink of civil war.	2015-11-18 12:34:31
Kathryn Hinds	The Healer's Choice	Dark Oak Press	This book raises important questions about gender roles and ethical ways of being, but not at the expense of a good story! It's compelling and well-written, even poetic in many passages. I'm anxiously awaiting a sequel!	2015-11-18 07:32:52
Jei D. Marcade	Sounding the Fall	Escape Pod	escapepod.org/2015/07/20/ep499-sounding-…	2015-11-16 10:13:14
Elizabeth Watasin	Monster Stalker: A Darquepunk Novel	A-Girl Studio	A dazzlingly inventive and moving Gothic-Space-Opera tale, featuring an array of fluid gender identities and sexualities. Has a marvellous, funny, vulnerable and tough heroine in Nico, the lesbian vampire transported - suffering partial amnesia - to the strange and wondrous Darqueworld, a spaceport where humans, aliens and supernatural beings all coexist (some more peacefully than others).	2015-11-16 09:53:56
Lisa Goldstein	Weighing Shadows	Night Shade		2015-11-15 15:52:33
Mark Pantoja	The Body Corporate	Giganotosaurus	The main character, Ro, is a farmer on a world where the colonists have adapted, socially and genetically, to the extreme flora of their world only to find it under siege by corporate interests. Ro ends up having to deal with a corporate body; a soldier who starts out one way and ends up another. Sinister purposes, a bit of body horror. Ro having to face how her sexuality and feelings dovetail with what the corporation is trying to sell her.giganotosaurus.org/2015/09/01/the-body-c…	2015-11-10 13:51:18
Lila Bowen	Wake of Vultures	Orbit	Nettie is an amazingly interesting character who explores gender, sexuality and race.	2015-11-10 12:19:16
Louise O'Neill	Only Ever Yours	Quercus	Sixteen-year-old frieda narrates this story, set in a school for 'eves,' engineered females grown for use by the dominant male class in the decaying Euro-Zone after the natural birth of female children becomes undesirable and then impossible. This novel takes struggles common to childhood - eating disorders, bullying, questioning sexuality, finding one's purpose, and fitting in - and amplifies them, sculpting a grotesque version of girlhood that is both despicable and familiar.	2015-11-10 09:56:28
Nike Sulway	The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club	Lightspeed Magazine	lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-karen…	2015-11-08 18:29:08
Jane Kindred	Idol of Bone, Idol of Blood, Idol of Glass	Samhain Publishing	samhainpublishing.com/search?q=jane+kind…	2015-11-08 11:58:12
Daryl Gregory	Afterparty	Tor Books	A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, was one of the original scientists who developed the drug. Lyda sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.	2015-11-04 14:03:59
Carolyn Ives Gilman	Dark Orbit	Tor Books	When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate a new planet, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species.	2015-11-04 13:03:35
Catherynne M. Valente	Radiance	Tor Books	A decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood--and solar system--very different from our own.	2015-11-04 12:57:24
Elizabeth BearSarah Monette	An Apprentice to Elves	Tor Books	The warrior culture of Iskryne forbids many things to women--and most especially bonding to one of the giant telepathic trellwolves. But as her father was no ordinary boy, Alfgyfa is no ordinary girl.	2015-11-04 12:45:20
E.E. Ottoman	The Mechanical Universe	Less Than Three Press	The Mechanical Universe is a set of steampunk stories about scholars and artists falling in love. It has a diverse cast, including characters who are trans, non-white, and/or have disabilities, and I loved the characters' interactions.	2015-11-03 14:19:36
AmarA kopakova	AWAKE: A Vampire Tale	self published - available on Kindle, Nook, ibook, Kobo, Tolino, Oyster, Page Foundry, Scribd & (author's preferred edition) Gumroad.com/AmarAjk	gum.co/awakenovel/gift	2015-11-01 09:41:22
Eden S French	Reintegration	Queer Omen	This novel is set after widespread societal collapse and stars diverse queer protagonists (prominently trans and non-binary ones). Its characters explore interconnected gender identities while fighting post-apocalyptic gangs, a cyborg hunter, and a technologically-advanced cabal with the power to obliterate minds. queeromen.com	2015-10-31 17:14:49
Kelly Haworth	Y Negative	Riptide Publishing	Somehow it's a post-apocalyptic world where everyone is a man, but one of the main characters is trans! Look, I hesitate to describe it because I don't think I'd do it justice, and it might ruin the discovery experience for the jurors. Suffice it to say that you need to read this and consider it. I do think you'll be discussing it heavily.	2015-10-24 09:22:47
Louise Katz	The Orchid Nursery	Lacuna Publishing	The Orchid Nursery presents a chilling dystopian future in which the concept of form following function and perceptions of female purity are literally and destructively intertwined. The novel examines culture disintegrated through the abandonment of critical thinking and the embrace and exaltation of ignorance. The horror manifested when female minds and bodies are stripped down to the literal by glorification of the emotional and irrational and a putrid blend of anti-intellectualism, dogma, fear and tribalism. lacunapublishing.com/index.php/authors/k…	2015-10-23 13:37:08
Andrea Hairston	Saltwater Railroad	Lightspeed Magazine	lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/saltwater…	2015-10-21 13:57:50
Sabrina Vourvoulias	The Way of Walls and Words	Tor.com	tor.com/2015/04/15/the-ways-of-walls-and…	2015-10-21 13:55:54
Shveta Thakrar	The Rainbow Flame	Uncanny Magazine	uncannymagazine.com/article/the-rainbow-…	2015-10-21 13:55:07
Chesya Burke	Please, Momma	Nightmare Magazine	nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/please-mo…	2015-10-21 13:54:17
Amal El-Mohtar	Madeleine	Lightspeed Magazine	lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/madeleine…	2015-10-21 13:53:33
Sofia Samatar	The Closest Thing to Animals	Fireside Fiction	firesidefiction.com/issue27/chapter/the-…	2015-10-21 13:52:44
Kai Ashante Wilson	Sorcerer of the Wild Deeps	Tor.com		2015-10-21 13:51:43
Nnedi Okorafor	Binti	Tor.com		2015-10-21 13:51:01
Ann Leckie	Ancillary Mercy	Orbit	The conclusion of Leckie's space opera trilogy probes the question of what it means to be a person in a time when technology has made the question mutable.amazon.com/ancillary-mercy-imperial-radc…	2015-10-21 05:15:33
Rachel Hartman	Shadow Scale	Random House	In the sequel to Seraphina, the uneasy truce between humans and dragons has broken down. Seraphina goes on a mission to find other half-human half-dragons like herself. In doing so, she discovers that the world and the people in it are vaster than she knew.amazon.com/shadow-scale-seraphina-rachel…	2015-10-21 01:31:14
Seth Dickinson	The Traitor Baru Cormorant	Tor Books	A colonial power takes over an island nation and imposes draconian laws dictating that only properly "hygienic" sexuality is allowed. A young islander vows to bring the conquering power down from the inside -- but doing so will cost her more than she imagines.amazon.com/traitor-baru-cormorant-seth-d…	2015-10-21 01:22:41
Kirsty Logan	The Gracekeepers	Crown Pub Incorporated	A book set in a world where all that is left of the land is small islands. A traveling circus troupe attempts to navigate through troubled waters. A book that explores the notion of moving past binaries -- binaries of gender, sexuality, and the arbitrary divisions of society.amazon.com/the-gracekeepers-novel-kirsty…	2015-10-21 01:16:30
Nikki Vogel	The Past, of Course	One Throne	About a female sex worker in the future. Was named "notable" by the anthology Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (John Joseph Adams, Joe Hill). Writer is female too.onethrone.com/#!the-past-of-course/c1c3a	2015-10-20 13:24:31
S.L. Huang	Fighting Demons	Book Smugglers Publishing	thebooksmugglers.com/2015/09/fighting-de…	2015-10-19 03:14:20
Roshani Chokshi	The Vishakanya's Choice	Book Smugglers Publishing	thebooksmugglers.com/2015/08/the-vishaka…	2015-10-19 03:13:23
Natasha Pulley	The Watchmaker of Filigree Street	Bloomsbury	This phenomenal book examines race, immigrantion, queerness, and female agency in a lightly steampunked Victorian England. The main characters are a queer male British telegraph operator, a straight female British scientist, and a queer male Japanese inventor with precognitive powers. It's splendidly written and incisive and beautiful and has a happy ending.	2015-10-14 13:41:55
Rose Lemberg	Geometries of Belonging	Beneath Ceaseless Skies	A wonderful portrayal of a society with trans and non-binary people, polyamory, fluid sexuality, and dom-sub relationships. beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/geom…	2015-10-13 18:34:25
MCA Hogarth	Thief of Songs	De La Torre Books	A secondary world fantasy where queer relationships and non-binary individuals are normalised. The main character is a hermaphrodite in a commited asexual romantic relationship with an agender person, and the two form a polyamorous relationship with a CIS man over the course of the book.	2015-10-12 00:37:40
Silvia Moreno-Garcia	She Walks in Shadows	Innsmouth Free Press	First all-woman Lovecraft anthology.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/books/she-wa…	2015-10-11 19:29:14
Michel Daber	The Book of Strange New Things	Hogarth	Amazing. And yes, shades of the left hand of darkness in his construction of (are they?) non-gendered aliens ... whom he becomes closer to than the alienated lover he leaves behind. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_book_of_strang…	2015-10-07 21:09:06
rose michael	The Asking Game	Transit Lounge	An unexpected treasure. A well-written book filled with originality and a story that keeps you wanting more.amazon.com/the-asking-game-rose-michael/…	2015-10-07 20:54:24
Constance Burris	Black Beauty	B.E. Publications	http://www.amazon.com/Black-Beauty-Everleaf-Constance-Burris/dp/1515275892/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8amazon.com/black-beauty-everleaf-constan…	2015-09-27 17:33:05
Cherie Priest	Maplecroft	Roc		2015-09-26 21:49:04
Camille Griep	Letters to Zell	47North	Everything is going according to story for CeCi (Cinderella), Bianca (Snow White), and Rory (Sleeping Beauty)—until the day that Zell (Rapunzel) decides to leave Grimmland and pursue her life. Now, Zell’s best friends are left to wonder whether their own passions are worth risking their predetermined “happily ever afters,” regardless of the consequences. amazon.com/letters-zell-camille-griep-eb…	2015-09-25 14:55:17
Anne Charnock	Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind	47North	In fifteenth-century Italy, Paolo Uccello recognizes the artistic talent of his young daughter, Antonia, and teaches her how to create a masterpiece. The girl composes a painting of her mother and inadvertently sparks an enduring mystery.amazon.com/sleeping-embers-ordinary-mind…	2015-09-25 14:52:37
Lise MacTague	Depths of Blue	Bella Books	Lesbian scifi novel. One of the main characters has been living as a man in her nation's segregated armed forces. Her native gender isn't of much consequence to her, until the arrival of another woman forces her to confront the isolation her deception has brought upon her. http://www.bellabooks.com/9781594934339-prod.html	2015-09-25 06:34:48
Rebecca Sugar	Steven Universe		Please see especially the episodes "Fusion Cuisine"(Episode 32), "Alone Together"(Episode 37), "Jail Break"(Episode 52), "We Need To Talk"(Episode 61), "Cry for Help"(Episode 63), "Keystone Motel"(Episode 64). The way that this show handles gender is unprecedented on television, particularly in the range of gender expressions portrayed and the exploration of expression and identity through the heightened lens of science fiction. cartoonnetwork.com/video/steven-universe…	2015-09-25 05:23:18
Vonda McIntyre		Book View Cafe	rape from an different view/commodification	2015-09-19 16:12:27
Genevieve Valentine	Given the Advantage of the Blade	Lightspeed Magazine	A barbed look at the way fairy tales pit female characters against each other.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/given-the…	2015-09-18 12:00:22
M. Darusha Wehm	Children of Arkadia	Bundoran Press Publishing House	Set on a space ship orbiting Jupiter, Children of Arkadia features non-gendered AIs, same sex couples and many non-traditional gender roles.bundoranpress.com/product/1/children-of-…	2015-09-16 13:37:26
J.M. Frey	The Untold Tale	Reuts Publications	In this story, the characters slowly become self-aware and question the accepted reality of their gender roles, their sexuality, their appearance, and their own in-written biases. Things come to a head when a mythical "Reader" arrives in the world and helps the hero come to terms with his own feelings for his sidekick, helps the intellectual character who has always been bullied by the jock empower himself, and challenges the Damsel In Distress / Rape-As-Backstory narrative. reuts.com/store/books/the-untold-tale-by…	2015-09-16 08:46:54
Merry Shannon	Prayer of the Handmaiden	Bold Strokes Books	A lesbian fantasy romance in which celibate priestess Kadrian must choose between her duty to the Goddess and the love of her childhood sweetheart, Erinda.boldstrokesbooks.com/9781626393738e.html	2015-09-14 12:48:18
Alexis A. Hunter	Gold Dress, No Eyes	Flash Fiction Online	A chilling but lovely science fiction story. This is a story told in the aftermath, in the flotsam and jetsam of deep space. A woman in a gold dress, an open purse, a luxury cruise ship, the Titanic of the stars. Involves a same sex couple, non-traditional gender roles.flashfictiononline.com/main/article/gold…	2015-09-09 09:50:30
Kelly Sandoval	Mirror Skinned	Flash Fiction Online	A short story. An exploration of the galaxy as revealed through one woman's developing sexuality and sensuality.flashfictiononline.com/main/article/mirr…	2015-09-09 09:46:32
Samantha Murray	Portrait of My Wife as a Boat	Flash Fiction Online	A haunting tale of love, loss, and longing between a same-sex couple as they explore the physical and spiritual transformation of their relationship.flashfictiononline.com/main/article/port…	2015-09-09 09:42:26
Jane Rawson	Formaldehyde	Seizure	Looks at questions of identity - which parts of us must we hold onto to stay ourselves - including our gender identity.seizureonline.com/shop/formaldehyde/	2015-09-08 16:17:08
Heather Morris	Probably Definitely	Strange Horizons	strangehorizons.com/2015/20150803/morris…	2015-09-08 15:55:49
Indrapramit Das	A Moon for the Unborn	Strange Horizons	strangehorizons.com/2014/20141110/unborn…	2015-09-07 02:12:14
A. Merc Rustad	How to Become a Robot In 12 Easy Steps	Scigentasy	scigentasy.com/how-to-become-a-robot/	2015-09-06 15:48:20
Rose Lemberg	“Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds”	Beneath Ceaseless Skies	Beautiful telling of many gendered wordings and relationships, with great tenderness.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/gran…	2015-09-06 15:39:35
Shira Lipkin	Never Chose This Way	Apex	A fantastic story about what it means to conform if you're perceived as female, and what we (societally) often do to people who do not conform.apex-magazine.com/never-chose-this-way/	2015-09-06 04:55:07
Traci Castleberry	Poor Girl	Lethe Press	Story is in the anthology "Daughters of Frankenstein." Tale of a genderqueer alchemist in 1800's Whitby, England.lethepressbooks.com/	2015-09-06 03:42:27
Laura Price	Hauntings	Penumbra	Literal ghosts and the cycle of abuse blur together, and ridding oneself of one may or may not serve attempts to escape the other.	2015-09-03 09:36:50
Eugene Fischer	The New Mother	Asimov's Science Fiction	Deeply unsettling novella about a world with a new STD which renders men infertile and women to spontaneously become pregnant with their own clone-daughters.medium.com/@glorioushubris/the-new-mothe…	2015-09-02 21:14:46
Maggie Eighteen	Cyborg Memoirs		cyborgmemoirs.com/left/	2015-09-02 10:41:48
Maggie Eighteen	All That's Left	Metropolarity	Great shorts about the emotional work of sci-fi, who does it, and why. Explosive ideas about bodies, love, and resistance in postapocalyptia. I wrote more about it here: http://www.hazelandwren.com/2015/what-were-reading-more-summer-lists/cyborgmemoirs.com/left/	2015-09-02 10:01:07
Gayle LyndsJohn Sheldon	"Time and Tide"	IDW	"Time and Tide" is a short story in X-FILES: TRUST NO ONE, edited by Jonathan Maberry.	2015-09-01 11:29:23
Lucy A. Snyder	While The Black Stars Burn	Raw Dog Screaming Press		2015-08-30 19:03:34
Iona Sharma	Archana and Chandni	Betwixt	http://betwixtmagazine.com/betwixt-issue-8-summer-2015/ - published July 2015. This is a super sweet story about an intercultural same-sex couple about to have a Hindu-style Indian wedding, and how one bride feels bad at performing femininity, but her sister is a spaceship who saves the day.betwixtmagazine.com/archana-and-chandni-…	2015-08-29 17:28:30
L. L. Phelps	Daddy Who	Mad Scientist Journal (Def Con One)	madscientistjournal.org/2015/05/daddy-wh…	2015-08-28 09:31:17
J. A. Grier	Living Blue	Mad Scientist Journal (Def Con One)	madscientistjournal.org/2015/03/living-b…	2015-08-28 09:30:09
Penny Stirling	Kin, Painted	Lackington's Magazine	A beautiful exploration of fluid gender, family, art, and characters finding their place in the world. lackingtons.com/2015/07/29/kin-painted-b…	2015-08-28 04:45:35
John Hartness	From the Stone	Falstaff Books	This is a YA fantasy retelling the story of King Arthur in a contemporary high school. Rex Golden is our reincarnated and oblivious King Arthur, and his best friends are Lance (elot) and Gwen, a transgender teen girl who is the reincarnation of Sir Gawain the Green Knight. amazon.com/gp/product/b013xhh2km?*versio…	2015-08-27 15:58:55
Jasmine Fahmy	Zofta	The Sockdolager	Short story. A reimagining of the Cinderella tale which pleasantly upends reader expectations.sockdolager.net/summer-2015/zofta	2015-08-27 06:18:34
Charlotte Ashley	Sigrid Under the Mountain	The Sockdolager	Short story. While sorceresses and warriors and princes fight their battles, someone has to make sure the cow's taken care of. A story about "women's work" and finding a place for oneself in a world that's only half paying attention to you.sockdolager.net/summer-2015/sigrid	2015-08-27 06:13:57
Jamie Lackey	The Sour Thread of Doubt	The Sockdolager	Short story. Explores themes of responsibility, the connectivity between generations, the relationship between fear and faith.sockdolager.net/spring-2015/sour-thread-…	2015-08-27 06:08:40
Nancy Jane Moore	The Weave	Aqueduct Press		2015-08-26 13:10:41
Zen Cho	Sorcerer To The Crown	Ace Books		2015-08-26 12:45:46
Nnedi Okorafor	THE BOOK OF PHOENIX	DAW	A prequel to WHO FEARS DEATH.	2015-08-26 12:35:39
Kathryn AllanDjibril al-Ayad	Accessing the Future	Futurefire.net Publishing	Wonderful short story anthology full of disabled, QUILTBAG, non-binary, and socially and ethnically diverse characters.	2015-08-26 05:13:29
Alexis Wright	The Swan Book	Constable (UK)	Ecological aboriginal dystopian sf, focus on gendered being-in-the-world. Good review here: http://www.sydneyreviewofbooks.com/going-viral/amazon.co.uk/swan-book-alexis-wright/dp/…	2015-08-26 03:03:43
Alexandra PierceAlisa Krasnostein	Letters to Tiptree	Twelfth Planet Press	Non fiction work aimed at celebrating the life and influence of Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr, and published on Sheldon's 100th birthday. twelfthplanetpress.com/products/ebooks/l…	2015-08-26 01:01:18
Molly Tanzer	Vermilion	Word Horde		2015-08-25 21:23:19
Nalo Hopkinson	Falling in Love with Hominids	Tachyon Publications	A fantastic collection of short stories that made me check a lot of my assumptions about race, gender, sexuality, and reality.	2015-08-25 21:13:50
Seanan McGuire	Each To Each	Lightspeed Magazine	Haunting speculative short story about patriarchy, environmentalism, colonization, bureaucratic stupidity, the military. And mermaids, created via science. From the Women Destroy Science Fiction edition of Lightspeed Magazine. lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/each-to-e…	2015-08-25 19:40:13
Alice Sola Kim	A Residence for Friendless Ladies	F&SF	Kim's fiercely written story has a transgender hero, a creepy she-ghost, and a houseful of angry women, but even without those features it would qualify by virtue of its savage satire of institutionalized femininity. It's ferocious and funny and made me jump out of my subway seat. Forget about "exploring" notions of gender--this story grabs those notions and beats them bloody.	2015-08-25 17:16:20
Chris Garrison	Trans Continental. Girl in the gears	silly hat books	This book is steampunk, action packed fun! The main character, Ida, is a trans woman living in a world that is not friendly to her gender choice. She meets up with a tomboy and the two have adventures together. Seeing the story told through Ida' s eyes gives great insight into her mind and feelings as a trans woman. amazon.com/girl-gears-trans-continental-…	2015-08-25 16:54:18
Irakli Kobiashvili	September 1 in Tbilisi	One Throne Magazine	Very professional and well written. Explores gender roles in a wholly surprising, original way (revealing exactly how, etc., would spoil the plot).onethrone.com/#!september-1-in-tbilisi/c…	2015-08-25 16:03:13
Kyle Miller	Eddy	Betwixt Magazine	betwixtmagazine.com/eddy-by-kyle-e-mille…	2015-08-25 15:48:00
Mira Grant	Symbiont	Orbit		2015-08-25 15:19:35
Pat Schmatz	Lizard Radio	Candlewick Press		2015-08-25 15:18:14
Zoe Marriott	Storm Clouds Fleeing From the Wind	Candlewick Press	Short story in the anthology Things I'll Never Say	2015-08-25 15:16:43
Hannah Moskowitz	A History of Glitter and Blood	Chronicle		2015-08-25 15:12:57
Rasheedah Phillips	Recurrence Plot and Other Time Travel Tales	House of Future Sciences	interlinked stories written with the Black Quantum Futurist concept of time as multidirectional, exploring among other things the ways that power structures attempt to use gender to determine the fates of black peopleafrofuturistaffair.com/#!book/c21ny	2015-08-25 14:07:51
Toby MacNutt	Morphic Resonance	Accessing the Future (Futurefire.net Publishing)		2015-08-25 14:00:13
Kate O'Connor	Better To Have Loved and Lost	Accessing the Future (Futurefire.net Publishing)		2015-08-25 13:58:16
Rimi Chatterjee	The Cleanup	Muse India	Women laborers in a world where men are dying off and increasing their stranglehold on powermuseindia.com/featurecontent.asp?issid=6…	2015-08-25 13:55:48
Sean R. Robinson	Rustsong	The Future Fire	futurefire.net/2015.32/fiction/rustsong.…	2015-08-25 13:55:42
Kate Schapira	Alternate Histories		Not a single story, an ongoing project - link is to the tag. Each post is a story starting from something people said to Schapira at her "climate anxiety counseling" booth. Many of the stories deal in part with people's relationship to gender and through it the world.climateanxietycounseling.wordpress.com/c…	2015-08-25 13:54:33
Jo Thomas	An Invisible Tide	The Future Fire	futurefire.net/2015.32/fiction/invisible…	2015-08-25 13:53:40
Lesley Smith	The Changing of the Sun (The Changing of the Sun #1)	Tenth Muse Publishing	An epic focusing on various alien characters as they confront the end of their world and try, led by their blind seer, to survive impossible odds. The book includes characters in relationships with members of the same gender, as well as a love triangle between two transcendental beings and a mortal woman who was never supposed to find her soulmate. amazon.com/changing-sun-1-lesley-smith/d…	2015-08-25 11:32:12
John Scalzi	Lock In	Tor	Scalzi never states the gender of the POV character Chris. I was amused by at least one review that assumed Chris was male. tor.com/features/series/john-scalzi-lock…	2015-08-25 10:30:51
Carola Dibbel	The Only Ones	Two-Dollar Radio	An almost-feral teenager who's outlived several mom-figures in a post-pandemic Brooklyn. She is resistance to most plagues, so she sells bits of herself to survive. She encounters scientists who're working on engineering a plague cure; she provides the essential genetics to begin a super-immune line of babies are decanted from jars. Unexpectedly, our teenager ends up with the baby, on the run. As she narrates her completely unescorted voyage through motherhood, she tells reassures herself at the end of each day with "Still alive."caroladibbell.com	2015-08-25 09:52:54
Scott Lynch	A Year and A Day in Old Theradane, in the anthology ROGUES, edited by George R.R. Martin Sarah	Del Rey		2015-08-25 09:04:51
Becky Chambers	The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet	Hodder & Stoughton	Brilliant and joyous space opera that features a diverse cast of beautifully-developed characters. Uses the background of far future space travel (complete with AI, alien worlds, wormhole tunnelling, etc) as a means of exploring cultures, societies, and interpersonal relationships. hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781…	2015-08-25 08:50:14
Elena Ferrante	My Brilliant Friend	Europa Editions	wonderful, detailed, in-depth study of the childhood, adolescence and move towards adulthood of a young Sicilian girl, her activities, thoughts, feelings, and her lifelong friendship with another Sicilian girl.elenaferrante.com/works/my-brilliant-fri…	2015-08-25 06:54:22
Marlee Jane Ward	Welcome To Orphancorp	Seizure Online	A sharp-edged semi-futuristic riff about a rebellious teenager’s last week at an industrial orphanage. Sex-positive, queer friendly, inclusive, diverse.seizureonline.com/shop/welcome-to-orphan…	2015-08-24 18:30:13
BR Sanders	Ariah		Very interesting exploration of sexuality and family in a Bildungsroman sort of way.	2015-08-01 08:49:43
Obie Scott Wade	SheZow	SheZow Productions	When Guy Hamdon discovers an awesome power ring that transforms him into a mighty superhero, he starts living the dream of every rough-and-tumble guy! It seems pretty cool but there's just one tiny catch - the ring that gives Guy his amazing super powers is only meant to be worn by a girl and the result is absolutely 'she-larious!' When Guy wears the ring he becomes the legendary super-heroine SheZow. A kids show featuring a … queer main character that plays around with gender stereotypes around cartoon heroes in children's programs.abc.net.au/abc3/shows/15151.htm	2015-07-31 01:59:18
Jack Hollis Marr	Always Left Behind	The Future Fire	Elderly transsexual male priest ministering to those left on earth after the supposedly 'best' part of humanity leaves for the stars. Explores gender (binary and non-binary, cis and trans alike) and "normative" versus "deviant" bodies, minds and lives - sick, disabled, trans, of colour, post-surgical, fat, mentally ill; also society's priorities now and in the future, and the priorities of science fiction likewise.futurefire.net/2014.29/fiction/alwayslef…	2015-07-29 08:56:17
Jack Hollis Marr	into the waters i rode down	Futurefire.net Publishing	Viewpoint is a disabled lesbian or bi trans woman military scientist who is also a mother, and through technological bonding with an alien animal shares experiences of mothering with it. Explores the nature of gender, work, war and motherhood as well as disability, empathy and resistance.	2015-07-29 08:50:53
Susan Jane Bigelow	Sarah's Child	Strange Horizons	A transgender woman dreams of the child she can never have, and her grief tears a rip in the boundaries between worlds and possibilities. She must come face to face with who she could have been, and make peace with who she is now.strangehorizons.com/2014/20140519/sheldo…	2015-07-29 06:14:56
Ruthanna Emrys	The Litany of Earth	Tor.com	The state took Aphra away from Innsmouth. They took her history, her home, her family, her god. They tried to take the sea. Now, years later, when she is just beginning to rebuild a life, an agent of that government intrudes on her life again, with an offer she wishes she could refuse. “The Litany of Earth” is a dark fantasy story inspired by the Lovecraft mythos.tor.com/2014/05/14/the-litany-of-earth-r…	2015-07-28 08:02:46
Shira Glassman	A Harvest of Ripe Figs	Prizm Books	The series features characters who don't fit gender norms, this book in particular includes an homeless trans teenager who gets a happy ending.	2015-07-25 03:20:08
A.E. Ash	Luminous	Book Smugglers Publishing	thebooksmugglers.com/2015/07/luminous-by…	2015-07-21 04:50:01
Henry Hallan	Europa's Crossing	Leabhar Cnoc Mhuilinn	Imagine a future where 90% of births are girls: where female is the default gender and male is the minority. For Don and Karen Harding, awoken from cryonic sleep in 2208, it is the new reality they have to learn to live with. As they make their new lives in the 23rd Century, they discover how far one person might go to be accepted in an inherently sexist society.amazon.com/europas-crossing-henry-hallan…	2015-07-12 02:36:51
Dominica Phetteplace	There Is Nothing In The Universe That Is Not Me	Terraform	A feminist take on the story of Buddha, as told through video games.motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-nothi…	2015-07-09 17:52:44
Chikodili Emelumadu	Soup	One Throne Magazine	Set in Nigeria, told by a wonderful Nigerian writer, this is a story of a young woman rebelling -- in an expected, deeply unsettling way -- against the traditional expectations and pressures that her all-male family lays on her. This is a work of dark fantasy. A modern fable with a very dark edge to it.onethrone.com/#!soup/ckas	2015-07-09 15:09:52
Nikki Vogel	The Past, of Course	One Throne Magazine	The main character is a sex worker in a dystopian future. Charles Payseur ("Quick Sip Reviews") put it well: "The story is very dark, a twisted mirror help up to our own world (as many such science fictional futures are). It shows the picture of farther down the path that we could all go..."onethrone.com/#!the-past-of-course/c1c3a	2015-07-09 14:59:22
Olivia A. Cole	Panther in the Hive	Fletchero Publishing	"Tasha Lockett, orphan, oddball, and former fashion addict, is alone in a Chicago overrun with citizens-turned-weapons, the result of the cybertronic disaster that brought the country to its knees four days ago. When Tasha receives a letter from her estranged sister warning her of the catastrophe and urging her to travel to the South Side where there is rumored to be a safe zone, Tasha must face what the world has become." Draws comparisons to Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butleroliviaacole.com/shop/	2015-06-30 14:24:06
Samantha Bryant	Going Through the Change: A Menopausal Superhero Novel	Curiosity Quills Press	When the character of Linda Alvarez is transformed into a man, it turns her world upside down. Gender identity is suddenly an issue, as is sexuality for her and her husband of many years. Their journey is about the idea that biology is only one part of who a person is. bitly.com/face-the-change	2015-06-29 05:20:41
Andrea Host	The Pyramids of London	Andrea K Hosth	Although the sheer number of women in this story is delightful, it was the arc of the main character that makes me recommend the book. She has been taught that she is unworthy of the things she really wants, and fools everyone including herself that this doesn't hurt her.smashwords.com/books/view/523383	2015-06-28 18:37:10
G.G. Lucas	The Emperor's Dragon: Book 1	Amazon Kindle	An often black humored, satirical piece blending comedy in science fiction with pointed criticism of gender dynamics in the form of the analogous "species rolls” put upon its main character, Ito. Through the twists and turns of a quickly moving narrative, the protagonist is thrown into a part of the universe ready to assign him the designation of “Avarian,” the rare, mythical and most highly desired species in existence, a designation Ito finds both ridiculous and unrelenting. What transpires is his bull-headed attempt to navigate this tricky new situation with as much nuance as a tank without its breaks. ggdonnahue.com	2015-06-27 20:21:30
Marguerite Reed	Archangel	Resurrection House	On one hand, a moving book filled with incisive observations of a society using a woman as a screen onto which to project anxieties about decorum, parenting, violence, and all the rest. On the other, an unsettling question about what society really wants out of masculinity, made literal in the bodies of the male-gendered, engineered Beasts.	2015-06-11 14:48:28
Sarah Wanenchak	eyes I dare not meet in dreams	cyborgology	Dead girls climb out of refrigerators. We just... have to get used to it. Amazing.thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2015/06/…	2015-06-05 09:07:43
Megan Derr	The Broken Forest	Less Than Three Press	This wonderfully gender positive and sexually diverse tale doesn't make a big deal about its topics. Adamina is transgender, but it's neither a problem nor an issue worthy of note. It's simply part of her character. Similarly, the budding romance between Adamina and Grete is neither celebrated for being unique nor condemned for being unusual. It's just a friendship with sexual undertones that brings the two women together, and drives a happily ever after.bibrary.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-broken-…	2015-05-29 10:41:07
Peggy Barnett	Lips Like Ice	Circlet Press, Inc.	The Prince, when we meet him, is a smooth, hairless, genderless being, on the cusp of maturity . . . at which time he will choose a gender. The very idea of being able to choose a gender is an attractive one, but the author doesn’t play it safe or easy. Anybody who has ever stepped outside the gender binary will immediately appreciate the dilemma he faces.bibrary.blogspot.ca/2015/02/lips-like-ic…	2015-05-29 10:38:11
Sharon Joss	Stars That Make Dark Heaven Light	Galaxy Press	Seventeen year-old Hettie cares for the children of the Dominion Colony on the planet Hesperidee. A genetic virus has allowed subsequent generations of the colony to evolve at an accelerated pace. But when the children discover an intelligent life form, the adults are leery; and as Hettie evolves into something more than human, she is faced with an impossible choice.	2015-05-28 12:44:42
Ian Sales	All That Outer Space Allows	Whippleshield Books	Posits an alternate history of science fiction in which the genre is chiefly written by women, as experienced by a science fiction writer who is married to a test pilot selected by NASA for the Apollo program.	2015-05-28 01:00:57
Kuzhali Manickavel	Things We Found During the Autopsy	Blaft Publications, Chennai	A collection of mostly very short fiction that includes any numbers of experiments with form, tone, POV, and genre. The overall collection looks at gender issues as linked to a huge number of other concerns: India, immigration, sex work, class, caste, family dynamics, post-colonialism, and a lot else. There's a core of anger to this book.	2015-05-27 10:16:16
Bonnie Stufflebeam	Everything Beneath You	Beneath Ceaseless Skies	This imaginative take on a Chinese myth explores the idea of a woman who's journey affords her the opportunity to change sex and back again in her quest for freedom and love. Ultimately she must choose between having what she's always wanted and what she knows her people want. All this plus dragons, giant sparrows and walking trees! You can't go wrong.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/ever…	2015-05-20 13:23:56
Kazuki SakurabaJocelyne Allen (Translator)	Red Girls	Haikasoru		2015-05-20 10:36:48
Derek Vaughn	Hover Car: How far into the future would you go for love.	Amazon Kindle	Very compelling.amazon.com/hover-car-into-future-travel-…	2015-05-13 16:39:19
Karin Slaughter	Go Deep	Random House	(NOTE: SPOILERS AHEAD!) It's 1974 in Atlanta, where Charlie Lam is having a very bad day. After being cursed by a homeless man, he finds himself slowly being transformed into what he hates and fears the most - a woman. Once an aggressor towards women, he finds that the tables have turned. Darkly humorous, and not for the squeamish, with a fair amount of body horror scenes, Go Deep is like "Metamorphosis" through a feminist lens, and satirically examines the source of harassment and oppression women face, every day. http://www.karinslaughter.com/other-writings/go-deep/	2015-05-05 13:47:21
Justina Robson	THE GLORIOUS ANGELS	Gollancz		2015-04-29 12:15:06
Marleen Barr	Oy Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir	NeoPoesis Press	"Joyce Carol Oates defines “the bibliomemoir” as “a subspecies of literature combining criticism and biography with the intimate, confessional tone of autobiography… [It] . . . fearlessly casts the memoirist’s shadow over the text.” With this juxtaposition in mind, Barr describes her forays into fiction as SF/memoir. I combine science fiction with the facts of her life. This combination results in a newness: an imaginary shadow text version of my real life. Oates, Joyce Carol. “Deep Reader.” The New York Times Book Review. January 26, 2014, 1, 22-23. http://www.neopoiesispress.com/12401/12…	2015-04-28 21:19:45
Roz Kaveney	Tiny Pieces of Skull Or, A Lesson in Manners	Team Angelica Publishing	Based on the review here here http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/04/16/tiny-pieces-of-skull-by-roz-kaveney/#sthash.06Fg4ZSw.dpuf this certainly seems like something for the Tiptree jury to consider.	2015-04-18 15:18:33
Catherine King	The Ninety-Ninth Bride	Book Smugglers	thebooksmugglers.com/2014/12/the-ninety-…	2015-04-16 06:09:55
Molly SwainChelsea Vowel	Metis in Space	Indian and Cowboy	It's the world's first -- and perhaps only -- indigenous feminist science fiction podcast. Molly and Chelsea cover everything from animated robot horses to That Episode of Star Trek to ominous flutes to decolonizing one's feelings about how Daniel Craig looks in those pants. indianandcowboy.com/metis-in-space-podca…	2015-04-10 20:51:22
Cat Rambo	Beasts of Tabat	Wordfire Press	Beasts of Tabat features Bella Kanto, an older, bisexual female gladiator whose steady success has led to a situation where she's being pressured to throw the annual fight that makes her champion of the city of Tabat. At the same time, she's drawn into the struggle of the Beasts, intelligent magical creatures on whose labor and sometimes material bodies the economy of Tabat depends upon. (http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/tabat/) amazon.com/beasts-tabat-quartet-book-ebo…	2015-04-09 16:24:33
Terry Jackman	Ashamet, Desert Born	Dragonwell Publishing	A desert world. A population of 100 males to every female. And for Ashamet, its prince, a suddenly uncertain future… All Ashamet wants is the warrior life he already has. But then a divine symbol appears on his arm, closely followed by an attempt on his life. Now nothing’s simple any longer, even less so when a new and very foreign slave seems shocked by both his new surroundings – and his master’s amorous attentions. amazon.com/ashamet-desert-born-terry-jac…	2015-04-09 06:08:54
Elizabeth McCoy	Crucible	Terran Alchemy	This book is the most interesting exploration of gender I've read in ages. It's a little hard to go into why without being spoilery, but suffice it to say that there are characters who change their assigned birth sex, and their assigned gender, and THEIR SOCIETAL GENDER, and all of this is happening in a faintly-renaissance world where gender ROLES are pretty firmly defined.	2015-04-08 06:27:21
Naomi Novik	Uprooted	Del Rey / Tor UK	A magical, thrilling fairytale about the coming of age of a young witch who must understand her own powers in order to save her best friend and her home. The novel explores female magic, mentorship and friendship.naominovik.com/uprooted/	2015-04-07 04:53:34
Benjanun Sriduangkaew	Scale-Bright	Immersion Press	A stunningly written, refreshingly queer-centric novella about love, kinship and self-realisation, Scale-Bright gives readers a wide and complex range of characters who challenge gender expectations in different ways. The short stories also contained in the ebook provide plenty of backstory, including the gender-changed retelling of the Chinese tale of Houyi.amazon.com/scale-bright-benjanun-sriduan…	2015-04-07 03:21:38
Alex Dally MacFarlane	Pocket Atlas of Planets	Interfictions	Fabulist astrophysics science fiction with a focus on non-binary gender identity.interfictions.com/pocket-atlas-of-planet…	2015-04-07 03:21:10
Benjanun Sriduangkaew	And the Burned Moths Remain	Tor.com	tor.com/stories/2015/01/and-the-burned-m…	2015-04-07 02:44:53
Nina Allan	The Race	Newcon Press	A meta-textual novel steeped in queer women, normalizing bisexuality.amazon.com/the-race-nina-allan-ebook/dp/…	2015-04-07 02:40:44
Alex Dally McFarlane	Because I Prayed This Word	Strange Horizons	Magical realism historical story revolving around Sappho's poetry; explores queer women building a space of their own.strangehorizons.com/2014/20141027/prayed…	2015-04-07 02:37:05
Heather Rose Jones	The Mystic Marriage	Bella Books	In an alternate nineteenth-century country called Alpennia, Antuniet Chazillen seeks to redeem her family's honor by creating an alchemical jewel (the "mystic marriage" of the title). She finds that her best hope of success is to build ties of friendship and community with other women. She slowly falls in love with her flirtatious patron, Jeanne de Cherdillac. Very thoughtful depiction of the way women construct friendship and love with other women in a restrictive society.bellabooks.com/9781594934414-prod.html	2015-04-06 10:51:59
N.K. Jemisin	Fifth Season	Orbit		2015-04-06 09:32:45
Kieron GillenJamie McKelvie	Wicked + Divine	Image		2015-04-06 09:32:13
Walidah Imarishaadrienne maree brown	Octavia's Brood	AK Press		2015-04-06 09:29:53
Eleanor Lerman	Voices in the Night	Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy	The transgender psychic in this speculative fiction tale is the key to the story's theme about time and transformation. aphelion-webzine.com/serials/2015/04/voi…	2015-04-06 05:02:33
Michael Dante DiMartinoBryan Konietzko	The Legend of Korra/Season 4, Episode 2: "Korra Alone" & Episode 13: "The Last Stand".	Nickelodeon	For Korra herself as a young, bisexual woman of colour, her struggle with PTSD and depression (esp. in Ep. 3), the diversity of the Avatar world, in particular the number of main female characters and their interactions, and the beginning of Korra's romantic relationship with Asami at the end of Ep. 13, and for the effect of DiMatino's and Konietzko's story-telling on a wide audience, seeing themselves represented in these characters.	2015-04-05 04:06:49
Elizabeth Bear	"The Heart's Filthy Lesson"	Bantam	In Dozois and Martin, eds, OLD VENUS.	2015-04-02 09:55:08
Katherine Addison	The Goblin Emperor	Tor Books	This is a subtly feminist take on high fantasy, with a great deal of discussion of gender roles, social evolution, and patriarchal expectations hidden in the cracks. Highly recommended.	2015-04-02 09:49:43
William Gibson	The Peripheral	Putnam	The gender-relevant elements of this novel may not be immediately apparent, but a careful reading reveals that Gibson is slyly presenting a post-gender society, one where the physical body is malleable to the point where sexism and gender assignment are literally irrelevant. The speaking-part cast is almost evenly divided, and there's at least one trans character who is treated in a very matter of fact fashion.	2015-04-02 09:44:47
Laura Bradley Rede	Beast in the Mirror	indie published	This YA contemporary fantasy re-imagines Beauty and the Beast through a queer, feminist lens, interweaving issues of body image and gender to reclaim the "tale as old as time" in fresh and unexpected ways. amazon.com/beast-mirror-laura-bradley-re…	2015-03-18 12:37:05
Joyce Chng	The Path of Kindness	Self	amazon.com/path-kindness-oysters-pearls-…	2015-03-17 21:50:51
Joyce Chng	Dragon Physician	Self	patreon.com/jolantru?ty=c	2015-03-17 21:26:27
Joyce Chng	Oysters, Pearls and Magic	Self	amazon.com/oysters-pearls-magic-joyce-ch…	2015-03-17 21:24:36
Joyce Chng	Birth of A Child	Luna Station Quarterly	lunastationquarterly.com/story/the-birth…	2015-03-17 21:20:15
Joyce Chng	Heart of Fire	Fox Spirit Books	amazon.com/heart-fire-jan-xu-book-ebook/…	2015-03-17 21:17:23
Deborah Kalin	Cherry Crow Children	Twelfth Planet Press		2015-03-15 19:13:08
Tehani Wessely (ed.)Tansy Rayner Roberts (ed.)	Cranky Ladies of History	FableCroft Publishing	I would particularly like to commend the stories "Mary, Mary" by Kirstyn McDermott and "Another Week in the Future, an excerpt" by Kaaron Warren from this collection. Cranky Ladies of History is a celebration of 22 women who challenged conventional wisdom about appropriate female behaviour, from the ancient world all the way through to the twentieth century. fablecroft.com.au/about/publications/cra…	2015-03-15 00:28:14
Alexis A. Hunter	Be Not Unequally Yoked	Shimmer	A beautiful story that explores gender, sexuality, transformation, and self-acceptance. shimmerzine.com/be-not-unequally-yoked-b…	2015-03-13 18:16:19
Kelly Sue DeConnickValentine De Landro	Bitch Planet	Image Comics		2015-03-13 17:32:31
Sarah McCarry	Dirty Wings	St. Martin's Griffin	Sarah McCarry's absolutely amazing Metamorphoses trilogy recreates and reimagines Greek myth, flipping and toying with gender as well as sexuality in entirely new and exciting ways. These texts take us to the underworld and beyond -- through the lens of the Seattle grunge scene and so much more. indiebound.org/book/9781250049384	2015-03-13 16:38:10
Sarah McCarry	About a Girl	St. Martin's Griffin		2015-03-13 16:30:56
Sarah Pinsker	No Lonely Seafarer	Lightspeed Magazine	A lovely story drawing on mythological elements, featuring an intersex main character. Exploration of gender identity ties into the story's resolution in an interesting way. lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/lonely-se…	2015-03-13 07:02:24
J.S. Breukelaar	American Monster	Lazy Fascist Press	American Monster is an epic feminist post-apocalyptic SF novel and the debut of Australian author J.S. (Jenny) Breukelaar.amazon.com/american-monster-j-s-breukela…	2015-03-12 14:49:24
Alexandra Seidel	A Quest for Fire	Lackington's	lackingtons.com/2014/08/18/a-quest-for-f…	2015-03-12 13:16:16
Ursula Vernon	Jackalope Wives	Apex Magazine	apex-magazine.com/jackalope-wives/	2015-03-12 11:32:09
Yukimi Ogawa	The Colorless Thief	Ideomancer	A story exploring notions of beauty and cultural appropriation. ideomancer.com/?p=2706	2015-03-12 10:54:52
Yoon Ha Lee	The Contemporary Foxwife	Clarkesworld Magazine	A gender-flipped animal bride story looking at what the notion of "wife" means, and the ideas of servitude and freedom. clarkesworldmagazine.com/lee_07_14/	2015-03-12 10:53:28
Carmen Maria Machado	The Husband Stitch	Granta Magazine	A story exploring gender roles within a marriage, trust, ownership of a woman's body, and the idea of privacy.granta.com/new-writing/the-husband-stitc…	2015-03-12 10:51:32
Yuya Satotranslators: Edwin HakesNathan A. Collins	DENDERA	Haikasoru	Some reviews: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/02/yuya-satos-dendera-is-speculative-fiction-at-its-most-vibrant/ http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/dendera-is-the-smart-fast-paced-vaguely-feminist-horror-fantasy-youve-always-wanted/haikasoru.com/dendera/	2015-03-11 21:44:09
Nino Cipri	The Shape of My Name		Phenomenal. I think this story hits every Tiptree requirement and then some.tor.com/stories/2015/03/the-shape-of-my-…	2015-03-11 11:08:56
Caren Gussoff	Three Songs for Roxy	Aqueduct	aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-61976-073-…	2015-03-09 17:30:30
Ilima Todd	Remake	Shadow Mountain	At the age of 17 everyone is Remade...they choose their name, trade, appearance, and gender. amazon.com/remake-ilima-todd/dp/16090792…	2015-02-13 23:23:30
Ashley Harper	VisionWalker	Hunt Press	This first novel in Ashley Harper's VisionWalker series contains powerful female protagonists and explores same-sex love in the context of temporal, martial, and spiritual power and magical initiation. Similar to the tiptree tiara-crowning (though on the other side of the gender aisle) all monarchs in Harpers world are kings, regardless of their biological sex.ashleyjharper.com/books.php	2015-02-11 11:32:00
T.L. Rese	Spirit of A Kyrie		Amazing novel that creates an entire world I feel immersed in when I am reading.	2015-01-28 10:27:51
Anita Sarkeesian	Tropes vs. Women in Video Games	Feminist Frequency	Anita Sarkeesian's work as a pop culture critic focusing on gender in video games made headlines in 2014 for the backlash it has garnered, but her work itself is entirely worthy of special recognition from the Tiptree jury. Although not itself a work of science fiction or fantasy, Sarkeesian's creative criticism masterfully exposes and indicts the gender-based tropes of a medium which has spawned some of the most beloved SFF-nal narratives of the past 40 years. youtube.com/user/feministfrequency	2015-01-23 23:13:40
Nicole Quinn	It's a Nightmare, (The Gold Stone Girl, book 1)	BlueBarnProductions	This novel is beautifully written, thoroughly enjoyable and stayed with me long after I finished reading. Gender identities are absolutely central to the impact of the novel, weaved elegantly and profoundly.amazon.com/its-nightmare-gold-stone-girl…	2015-01-19 09:28:13
Raina Telgemeier	Sisters	Scholastic (Graphix Books)		2014-12-10 14:08:46
Karen Heuler	The Mechanical Nature of Love	Buzzy Mag	After all the men die from Weak Y Syndrome, androids are developed to take their place. Women discuss what it is about men they miss, and what they would choose to reinstatebuzzymag.com	2014-12-01 08:03:38
Ysabeau S. Wilce	Prophecies, Libels & Dreams	Small Beer Press	Awesome collection of short stories, and the fourth book of Wilce' set in the Republic of Califa!	2014-11-30 14:56:32