Emperor Norton Award

The Emperor Norton Award was a literary prize that was awarded from 2003 to 2011 in the San Francisco Bay Area for "extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason", mainly to science fiction authors or their works. Two prizes were awarded annually by the publisher Tachyon Publications and the Borderlands Bookstore in San Francisco . The name of the award honors the memory of Joshua Norton , known as the "Emperor of the United States".

Prize winners were:

• 2011: Steven R. Boyett for Mortality Bridge / Rudy Rucker for Nested Scrolls
• 2010: Trina Robbins / Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett for Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel
• 2009: Charlie Jane Anders for the Writers with Drinks reading series and together with Annalee Newitz for the blog io9 / Doug Dorst for Alive in Necropolis
• 2008: Cory Doctorow for Little Brother / Jack Rems
• 2007: Nancy Farmer for The Land of the Silver Apples / Ray Nelson
• 2006: The Other Change of Hobbit (bookstore) / Tim Pratt for The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
• 2005: Grania Davis / Jack Vance for Lurulu
• 2004: Mark Budz for Clade / Frank M. Robinson
• 2003: Kage Baker for A Night on the Barbary Coast / Ron Turner

Web links

• Emperor Norton Award , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)