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History
Founded in 1991 by American science-fiction novelists Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler and named for James Tiptree, Jr (pen-name for Alice B. Sheldon), the James Tiptree, Jr Award celebrates science-fiction and fantasy novels that expand the understanding of gender.
Note: the award's 'honour list' is the equivalent to a shortlist.
In 2019, the award announced that it was changing its name to the Otherwise Award, after the science fiction community expressed concern about the end of Sheldon's life (which may have been a suicide pact or may have been a murder-suicide)
For details, see the Tiptree Award website: https://tiptree.org/2019/10/from-tiptree-to-otherwise
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2013
winner y
Rupetta
Leyburn
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Tartarus Press
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2013
Z1927828
2013
single work
novel
fantasy
'Four hundred years ago, in a small town in rural France, a young woman creates the future in the shape of Rupetta. Part mechanical, part human, Rupetta's consciousness is tied to the women who wind her. In the years that follow she is bought and sold, borrowed, forgotten and revered. By the twentieth century, the Rupettan four-fold law rules everyone's lives, but Rupetta—the immortal being on whose existence and history those laws are based—is the keeper of a secret that will tear apart the world her followers have built in her name.'
Source: Publisher's blurb
First Australian work to win the James Tiptree, Jr Award.
Works About this Award
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Rolling Column : The Virtual Juryroom 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 171 1995; (p. 70)
