AWARDS AND AWARD NOMINATIONS!
These are listed starting with the most recent. The happy most recent update was 26 February 2024.
Many but not all of these works are available on-line, as on-line text, podcasts or E-books, through the Bibliography Page.
Keep checking that page for updates and links.
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“To Fight the Colossus”
Nominated, Best Novella, Analytical Laboratory
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“Unfamiliar Gods” (with Judi B. Castro)
Nominated, Best Short Story, Seiun
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“Burning The Ladder”
Second Place, 2023 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award (Novella)
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“A Tableau of Things That Are”
Nominated, 2022 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction
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EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD and THE THIRD CLAW OF GOD with Associated Short Fiction
(FRENCH OMNIBUS EDITIONS)
Jointly Nominated, Grand Prix De L’Imaginaire
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“The Last Science Fiction Story”
Third Place, 2022 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Short Story
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“The Silence Before I Sleep”
Third Place, 2022 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“Draiken Dies”
Winner, 2021 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“Sacrid’s Pod”
Included, BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2020
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“The Savannah Problem”
Second Prize, 2020 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
Included, YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2020
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“The Gorilla in a Tutu Principle, or, Pecan Pie at Minnie and Earl’s”
First Prize, 2020 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“Pitcher Plant”
Included, BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2019
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“The Ten Things She Said While Dying”
Nominated, 2019 World Fantasy Award, Short Fiction
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“Blurred Lives”
Second Place, 2018 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“A Stab of the Knife”
Third Place, 2018 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“The Unnecessary Parts of the Story”
Included, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2019
WINNER, 2018 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Short Story
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“Red Rain”
Included, Best Horror of the Year, Vol 11
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“The Narrow Escape of Zipper-Girl”
Included, The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5
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“The Coward’s Option”
WINNER, 2016 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“The Soul Behind The Face”
Third Place, 2016 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“Sleeping Dogs”
Third Place, 2015 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“Down, Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain’s Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent”
Second Place, 2015 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Short Story
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“The Thing About Shapes To Come”
Nominated, Best Translated Short Fiction, 2017 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (French)
Included, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
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“Hiding Place”
FOURTH PLACE, 2012 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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“With Unclean Hands”
2011 Nebula Award Nomination, Novella
WINNER, 2012 Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, Novella
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Z IS FOR ZOMBIE: AN ILLUSTRATED ALPHABET OF THE UNDEAD (with illustrator Johnny Atomic)
WINNER, 2011 Best Non-Fiction Book About Vampires, John Polidori Award
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“Her Husband’s Hands”
Nominated, Best Translated Fiction, 2014 Ignotus Award (Spanish)
Nominated, Best Translated Short Fiction, 2013 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (French)
Nominated, Best Translated Short Fiction, 2013 Seiun Award (Japanese)
Nominated, Best Long Fiction, 2011 Bram Stoker Award
Nominated, Best Short Story, 2011 Nebula Award
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“Arvies”
Included, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011
Nominated, Best Short Story, 2010 Nebula Award
WINNER, 2011 storySouth Million Writers Award
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“Gunfight On Farside”
3rd Place, 2010 Analytical Laboratory Award, Best Novella
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WAR OF THE MARIONETTES
Nominated, Best Foreign Novel, Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2011 (German).
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EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD
WINNER, 2008 Phillip K. Dick Award
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“The Shallow End of the Pool”
Nominated, 2009 Black Quill Award
Nominated, Best Long Fiction, 2009 Stoker Award
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“The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes”
Shortlisted, 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards
Nominated, Best Novella, 2004 Nebula Award
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“Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs”
2003 Nebula Nomination, Novelette
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“Unseen Demons”
23rd Place, 2003 Locus Poll
3rd Place, 2003 Analytical Laboratory
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“Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl’s”
14th Place, 2002 Locus Poll
2002 Analytical Laboratory, Best Novella WINNER
2003 Nebula Nomination, Novella
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“The Astronaut from Wyoming” (with Jerry Oltion)
2000 Hugo Nomination, Novella
2000 Nebula Nomination, Novella
15th Place, 2000 Locus Poll
2000 Analytical Laboratory, Best Novella WINNER
2000 Homer Nomination
2007 Seiun (Japanese Hugo) WINNER, Short Fiction
Included, Commemorative Stories of ANALOG’s 90th Anniversary Issues
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“The Funeral March of the Marionettes”
1998 Hugo Nomination, Novella
1998 Nebula Nomination, Novella
16th Place, 1998 Locus Poll
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“Baby Girl Diamond”
1996 Stoker Award Nomination, Best Novelette
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“The Last Robot”
4th Place, 1993 Locus Poll
1st Place, Science Fiction Age Poll