Otherwise Award
The Otherwise Award (until 2019 James Tiptree, Jr. Award , often simply Tiptree Award ) is a literary award given every year for works of science fiction or fantasy that examine and expand gender roles . The prize includes $ 1,000 each and an original work of art. It takes into account novels and short stories published for the first time in the USA in the previous year. In 1996, a Retrospective Award was also given for works published before 1991.
history
The Tiptree Award was launched in 1991 by the science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler as part of the science fiction convention WisCon. When the award was announced, Pat Murphy justified its necessity with the continuing marginalization of science fiction authors and female characters in science fiction.
The organizers have emphasized several times that they are not interested in works that meet a narrow definition of political correctness, but rather works that stimulate thought, are imaginative and possibly angry. The Tiptree Award should be a prize that recognizes women and men who are brave enough to reflect on changes in gender roles that are fundamental to any society.
The award is named after the science fiction author , Jr. James Tiptree named. There was much speculation about the identity (and gender in particular) of Tiptree in the 1970s. The name was male, but “his” stories had a strong feminist character (e.g. The Women Men Don't See , German The inconspicuous women ). When the writer Alice B. Sheldon announced in 1977 that she was the author behind the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr., this was seen by many as "genderfuck". After a variety of science fiction awards named after men (e.g. Hugo Award , Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award , Campbell Award , Philip K. Dick Award ), the Tiptree was the first science fiction award to be named after a woman. Preis, expressly using her male pseudonym.
In 2019 - also in connection with the renaming of the John W. Campbell Award to Astounding Award - there was a discussion on various social media against the background of the death of the Sheldon couple as to whether the Tiptree Award should also be renamed . Alice Sheldon shot her then 84-year-old severely ill husband Huntington Sheldon and then herself in 1987. According to her biographer and relative, it was a consensual double suicide, but this was questioned during the course of the discussion and demands were made to rename the award. After some hesitation, the organizing committee decided on October 13, 2019 to change the name of the award to Otherwise Award . The first prize under the new name will be awarded in 2020.
Award
Every year a new five-person jury is determined to present the Otherwise Award. In addition to the award-winning works, the jury annually publishes a short list of works that are interesting, relevant and noteworthy from the jury's point of view (this list should not be confused with the list of nominations, this is not published).
To this day, the Otherwise Award is inextricably linked to the WisCon, where most of the campaigns to finance the award take place. Most of the time, the prize is also awarded at the WisCon (the award ceremony is also “loaned” to other Cons in order to increase the awareness of the Otherwise Award).
Excellent works
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Eleanor Arnason | A Woman of the Iron People (Roman) | - |
| 1992 | Gwyneth Jones | White Queen (novel) | White queen |
| 1993 | Maureen F. McHugh | China Mountain Zhang (novel) | ABC Zhang |
| 1994 | Nicola Griffith | Ammonite (novel) | Ammonite |
| 1995 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Matter of Seggri ( short story) | - |
| 1995 | Nancy Springer | Larque on the Wing (novel) | - |
| 1996 | Elizabeth hand | Waking the Moon (novel) | The moon goddess awakens |
| 1996 | Theodore Roszak | The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (novel) | The memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein |
| 1997 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Mountain Ways (narration) | - |
| 1997 | Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow (novel) | sparrow |
| 1998 | Candas Jane Dorsey | Black Wine (novel) | - |
| 1998 | Kelly Link | Travels With The Snow Queen (short story) | - |
| 1999 | Raphael Carter | Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by KN Sirsi and Sandra Botkin ( short story) | - |
| 2000 | Suzy McKee Charnas | The Conqueror's Child (novel) | - |
| 2001 | Molly Gloss | Wild Life (novel) | - |
| 2002 | Hiromi Goto | The Kappa Child (novel) | - |
| 2003 | M. John Harrison | Light (novel) | light |
| 2003 | John Kessel | Stories for Men (narration) | - |
| 2004 | Matt Ruff | Set This House In Order: A Romance Of Souls (Roman) | Me and the others |
| 2005 | Joe Haldeman | Camouflage (novel) | camouflage |
| 2005 | Johanna Sinisalo | Not Before Sundown (novel) | Troll: a love story |
| 2006 | Geoff Ryman | Air: Or, Have Not Have (Roman) | - |
| 2007 | Shelley Jackson | Half Life (novel) | - |
| 2007 | Catherynne M. Valente | The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (Narrative Collection) | - |
| 2008 | Sarah Hall | The Carhullan Army (novel) | - |
| 2009 | Patrick Ness | The Knife of Never Letting Go (Roman) | New World - The Escape |
| 2009 | Nisi Shawl | Filter House (Narrative Collection) | - |
| 2010 | Greer Gilman | Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales (novel) | - |
| 2010 | Fumi Yoshinaga | Ōoku: The Inner Chambers volumes 1 & 2 (Manga) | - |
| 2011 | Dubravka Ugrešić | Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (novel) | Baba Jaga lays an egg |
| 2012 | Andrea Hairston | Redwood and Wildfire (novel) | - |
| 2013 | Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Drowning Girl (novel) | - |
| 2013 | Kiini Ibura Salaam | Ancient, Ancient (narrative collection) | - |
| 2014 | NA Sulway | Rupetta (novel) | - |
| 2015 | Monica Byrne | The Girl in the Road (Roman) | The bridge |
| 2015 | Jo Walton | My Real Children (novel) | - |
| 2016 | Eugene Fischer | The New Mother (short story) | - |
| 2016 | Pat Schmatz | Lizard Radio (novel) | - |
| 2017 | Anna-Marie McLemore | When the Moon Was Ours (novel) | - |
| 2018 | Virginia Bergin | Who Runs the World? (Novel) | - |
| 2019 | Gabriela Damián Miravete | They Will Dream in the Garden (short story) | - |
| 2020 | Akwaeke Emezi | Freshwater (novel) | Freshwater |
Further awards
Retrospective Award
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the announcement of the Tiptree Award , the Retrospective Award was presented in 1996 . This prize was awarded to works that had already been published before 1991 and, in the opinion of the jurors , would have received the Tiptree Award if it had already existed at the time.
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | Ursula K. Le Guin | Left Hand of Darkness (novel) | Winter Planet / The Left Hand of Darkness (*) |
| - | Joanna Russ | The Female Man (novel) | Planet of Women / A while away (*) |
| - | Joanna Russ | When It Changed (narration) | When everything changed / change (*) |
| - | Suzy McKee Charnas | Walk to the End of the World (novel) | Daughter of the apocalypse |
| - | Suzy McKee Charnas | Motherlines (novel) | Alldera and the Amazons |
(*) The German translation of the works has been published under several titles.
Special Recognition Award
In 2007 the jury also awarded the Special Recognition Award . Julie Phillips received the award for her biography on the life of Alice B. Sheldon.
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | Julie Phillips | James Tiptree, Jr .: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon | James Tiptree Jr .: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon |
literature
- Karen Joy Fowler: On James Tiptree, Alice Sheldon and bake sales. In Science Fiction Weekly. 1996 ( Memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (former website via Wayback Machine . Retrieved September 23, 2012)
- Petra Mayerhofer: Ten Thousand Light Years from the SF of 1970 - The Tiptree Award and today's feminist science fiction. In: Petra Mayerhofer and Christoph Spehr (eds.): Out of this world! Articles on science fiction, politics & utopia. Argument, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-88619-288-1 , pp. 33-59.
Web links
- Official website for the James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award
- WisCon
- James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
- James Tiptree, Jr. Award , indexed in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Tiptree Award information page of the website Feminist Fantastic-Utopian Literature ( Memento from August 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (former website via Wayback Machine . Accessed September 23, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexis Lothian: Alice Sheldon and the name of the Tiptree Award , article from September 2, 2019 on Tiptree.org, accessed on October 19, 2019.
- ↑ From Tiptree to Otherwise , article on Tiptree.org of October 13, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019.
- ↑ Mike Glyer: The Tiptree Award's New Name Is The Otherwise Award , article on File770.com of October 13, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019.
- ↑ James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council and Pat Murphy: James Tiptree, Jr. Award Retrospective Note