Sapphire Award

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The Sapphire Award is a literary award launched in 1995 by the editors of the Science Fiction Romance Newsletter . It is awarded annually for works that combine the two genres of speculative fiction and romance .

The newsletter has now been renamed Speculative Romance Online Magazine . All of the prizes awarded by this magazine are called Speculative Romance Awards, or Specrom Awards for short . These are, on the one hand, the Sapphire Award for works that have already been published and, on the other hand, the Zircon Award for works that have not yet been published.

The Sapphire Award is given in the categories Novel (novel) and Short Fiction (all short forms, only since 1999). The works available for election are nominated by the readers of the magazine. The winners will be determined by a jury. Works published in the previous year may be nominated. The year of the award corresponds to the nomination period, that is, the 1995 Sapphire Award was presented in 1996.

Lois McMaster Bujold , Catherine Asaro , Laurell K. Hamilton and Charlaine Harris are among the winners, who are also known in the “ordinary” SF / Fantasy / Horror sector .

All previously nominated authors are women.

Sapphire Award for Best Speculative Romance Novel

2000s
year author Original title
2005 JR Ward Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
2004 Charlaine Harris Dead to the World
2003 Wen Spencer Tinker
2002 Susan Grant Contact
2001 Linnea Sinclair Finders Keepers
2000 Saira Ramasastry He to Govandhara
1990s
year author Original title
1999 Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
1998 Patricia White A Wizard Scorned
1997 Catherine Asaro Catch the Lightning
1996 Laurell K. Hamilton Bloody Bones
1995 Dara Joy Knight of a Trillion Stars

Sapphire Award for Best Speculative Romance Short Fiction

2000s
year author Original title
2005 Linda Winstead Jones "Forever Mine"
2004 Jo Beverly "The Trouble with Heroes"
2003 Catherine Asaro "Moonglow"
2002 Susan Grant "The Day Her Heart Stood Still"
2001 Susan Krinard "Kinsman"
2000 MaryJanice Davidson "Love's Prisoner"
1990s
year author Original title
1999 Catherine Asaro "Aurora in Four Voices"

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