James Alan Gardner
Awards Summary
Major Awards: 1
Other Awards: 5
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 31
Times Served as Judge: 2
— Major Awards —
Hugo Awards — for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(2 nominations)
2009:
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” (Asimov's Feb 2008)
— novelette — nomination
1998:
“Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream” (Asimov's Feb 1997)
— novelette — nomination
Nebula Awards — for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(2 nominations)
2009:
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” (Asimov's Feb 2008)
— novelette — nomination
1998:
“Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream” (Asimov's Feb 1997)
— novelette — nomination
James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award — (renamed the Otherwise Award in 2020)
(1 nomination)
1999:
Commitment Hour (Avon Eos)
— long list
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award — for SF short fiction in English; juried
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2009:
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” (Asimov's Feb 2008)
— winner
— Locus Awards and Poll —
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(4 nominations)
2009:
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” (Asimov's Feb 2008)
— novelette — 18th place
2001:
Hunted (HarperCollins Eos)
— sf novel — 20th place
1998:
Expendable (AvoNova)
— first novel — 2nd place
1998:
“Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream” (Asimov's Feb 1997)
— novelette — 15th place
— Other Awards —
Asimov's Reader Poll — for stories, poems, and art published by Asimov's, polled by readers
(3 nominations; 2 wins)
2017:
“The Mutants Men Don't See” (Asimov's Aug 2016)
— short story — 1st place (tie)
2009:
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” (Asimov's Feb 2008)
— novelette — winner
1998:
“Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream” (Asimov's Feb 1997)
— novelette — 2nd place (tie)
Aurora Awards — for Canadian SF/F in English and in French, voted by members of annual convention
(11 nominations; 2 wins)
2019:
They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded (Tor)
— novel — nomination
2018:
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault (Tor)
— novel — nomination
2018:
Compostela: Tesseracts 20 (Spider Robinson & JAG, eds.) (EDGE)
— related work — nomination
2007:
“All the Cool Monsters at Once” (Mythspring)
— short-form work in English — nomination
2005:
Radiant (Eos)
— long-form work in English — nomination
2003:
“Rain, Ice, Steam” (Explorer: Tales from the Wonder Zone Trifolium Books)
— short-form work in English — nomination
2002:
Ascending (Eos)
— long-form work in English — nomination
2001:
Hunted (HarperCollins Eos)
— long-form work in English — nomination
1998:
“Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream” (Asimov's Feb 1997)
— short-form work in English — winner
1992:
“Reaper” (F&SF Feb 1991)
— short-form, English — nomination
1991:
“Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large” (On Spec Spring 1990)
— short-form, English — winner
Seiun Awards — for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2022:
“The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses”
— translated story — winner
2011:
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story”
— translated story — nomination
2000:
“Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream”
— overseas short fiction — nomination
Sunburst Award — for novel or book-length collection by a Canadian, juried
(2 nominations)
2017:
“The Dog and the Sleepwalker” (Strangers Among Us)
— Short Story — nomination
2006:
Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories (HarperCollins Canada)
— nomination
Writers and Illustrators of the Future — for stories and art by contest winners, juried
(2 nominations; 1 win)
1990:
“The Children of Crèche”
— Writers of the Future Grand Prize — winner
1990:
“The Children of Crèche”
— Writers of the Future 1st quarter — First Place
— As Judge —
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