John Kessel


science fiction awards database

<—     ↑     —>
<—           —>















2021
“The Dark Ride” • short fiction • F&SF Jan/Feb 2021
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2022 — finalist

2019
“Fix That House!”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2020 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2020

2017
The Moon and the Other • novel • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press
awards:
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2018 — finalist

2015
“Consolation” • Twelve Tomorrows
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2016
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-third Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin 2016

2012
Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology (James Patrick Kelly & JK, eds.) • anthology • Tachyon Publications
awards:
• Locus Awards 2013 — anthology — 15th place

2011
“Clean” • short fiction • Asimov's Mar 2011
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — novelette — 13th place

2010
“Iteration”
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2011

2009
The Secret History of Science Fiction (James Patrick Kelly & JK, eds.) • anthology • Tachyon Publications
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — anthology — 8th place
“The Motorman's Coat” • short fiction • F&SF Jun/Jul 2009
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — short story — 16th place
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2010
“Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance” • short fiction • The New Space Opera 2
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — novelette — 12th place
anthologies:
• The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin 2019
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin 2010
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2010
• The New Space Opera 2, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, Eos 2009

2008
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories • collection • Small Beer Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2009 — collection — 11th place
“Pride and Prometheus” • short fiction • F&SF Jan 2008
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2009 — novelette — nomination
• Nebula Awards 2009 — novelette — winner
• World Fantasy Awards 2009 — short story — nomination
• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2009 — honor list
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2009 — novelette — winner
• Locus Awards 2009 — novelette — 5th place
anthologies:
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2010, ed. Bill Fawcett, Roc 2010
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2009

2007
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (James Patrick Kelly & JK, eds.) • anthology • Tachyon Publications
awards:
• Locus Awards 2008 — anthology — 13th place
“The Last American” • short fiction • Foundation #100, Aug 2007
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2008 — shortlist
anthologies:
• Year’s Best SF 13, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2008

2006
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (James Patrick Kelly & JK, eds.) • anthology • Tachyon Publications
awards:
• Locus Awards 2007 — anthology — 9th place
“Sunlight or Rock” • short fiction • Asimov's Sep 2006
awards:
• Locus Awards 2007 — novelette — 34th place
Phoenix Award 2006 — winner

2004
“The Baum Plan for Financial Independence” • short fiction • Sci Fiction 24 Mar 2004
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2005 — shortlist
• Locus Awards 2005 — short story — 21st place
anthologies:
• Year’s Best Fantasy 5, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2005
• The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin’s Griffin 2005
As Judge — SLF Fountain Award 2004

2003
“Under the Lunchbox Tree” • short fiction • Asimov's Jul 2003
awards:
• Asimov's Reader Poll 2004 — short story — 6th place
“Of New Arrivals, Many Johns, and the Music of the Spheres” • short fiction • F&SF Jun 2003
awards:
• Locus Awards 2004 — short story — 25th place (tie)
“It's All True” • short fiction • Sci Fiction 5 Nov 2003
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2004 — third place
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-first Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin 2004

2002
“The Invisible Empire” • short fiction • Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists
awards:
• Locus Awards 2003 — short story — 24th place
• Ignotus Awards 2010 — foreign short story — winner
• Sidewise Awards 2003 — short form — nomination
“Stories for Men” • short fiction • Asimov's Oct/Nov 2002
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2004 — novella — nomination
• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2003 — winner (tie)
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2003 — shortlist
• Locus Awards 2003 — novella — 5th place
• Asimov's Reader Poll 2003 — novella — 5th place
anthologies:
• The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction, ed. Neil Clarke, Night Shade Books 2019
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin 2003

2000
“The Juniper Tree” • short fiction • Science Fiction Age Jan 2000
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2001 — shortlist
• Locus Awards 2001 — novelette — 19th place
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin 2001

1999
“Ninety Percent of Everything” (by Jonathan Lethem, James Patrick Kelly & JK) • short fiction • F&SF Sep 1999
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2001 — novella — nomination

1998
“Every Angel Is Terrifying” • short fiction • F&SF Oct/Nov 1998
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 1999 — short story — nomination
• Locus Awards 1999 — short story — 7th place
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Griffin 1999

1997
The Pure Product • collection • Tor
awards:
• Locus Awards 1998 — collection — 10th place
citations:
• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron
Corrupting Dr. Nice • novel • Tor
awards:
• Locus Awards 1998 — sf novel — 13th place
citations:
• 2009: The Science Fiction Handbook, M. Keith Booker & Anne-Marie Thomas
• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron
“Gulliver at Home” • short fiction • The Pure Product
awards:
• Locus Awards 1998 — short story — 14th place
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s 1998
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 1998

1996
Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (JK, Mark L. Van Name & Richard Butner, eds.) • anthology • Tor
awards:
• Locus Awards 1997 — anthology — 9th place
“The Miracle of Ivar Avenue” • short fiction • Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology; Asimov's Sep 1996
awards:
• Nebula Awards 1998 — novelette — nomination
• Asimov's Reader Poll 1997 — novelette — 10th place
• Sidewise Awards 1997 — short form — nomination
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s 1997

1995
“Some Like It Cold” • Omni Fll 1995
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s 1996

1993
“The Franchise” • short fiction • Asimov's Aug 1993
awards:
• Hugo Awards 1994 — novelette — nomination
• Nebula Awards 1994 — novelette — nomination
• Locus Awards 1994 — novelette — 9th place
anthologies:
• Nebula Awards 29, ed. Pamela Sargent, Harcourt Brace 1995
As Judge — James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 1993

1992
Meeting In Infinity • collection • Arkham House
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 1993 — collection — nomination
• Locus Awards 1993 — collection — 3rd place
citations:
• 1994: The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction: Second Edition, David Pringle

1991
“Buffalo” • short fiction • Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns; F&SF Jan 1991
awards:
• Hugo Awards 1992 — short story — nomination
• Nebula Awards 1992 — short story — nomination
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 1992 — winner
• Locus Awards 1992 — short story — winner
anthologies:
• Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction, ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman, Wildside 2011
• The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Gordon Van Gelder, Tachyon Publications 2009
• The Locus Awards, ed. Charles N. Brown & Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos 2004
• Nebula Awards 27, ed. James Morrow, Harcourt Brace 1993
As Judge — Philip K. Dick Award 1991

1990
“Reading Lesson” • short fiction • Asimov's mid-Dec 1990
awards:
• Asimov's Reader Poll 1991 — poem — 6th place (tie)
“Invaders” • short fiction • F&SF Oct 1990
awards:
• Locus Awards 1991 — novelette — 7th place
anthologies:
• The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, Arthur B. Evans et al, Wesleyan 2010
• The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin & Brian Attebery, Norton 1993
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, St. Martin’s 1991
“Buddha Nostril Bird” • IASFM Mar 1990
anthologies:
• The Secret History of Science Fiction, ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Tachyon Publications 2009
• Paragons, ed. Robin Wilson, St. Martin’s 1996

1989
Good News From Outer Space • novel • Tor
awards:
• Nebula Awards 1990 — novel — nomination
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award 1990 — third place
• Locus Awards 1990 — sf novel — 13th place
citations:
• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron
• 1996: Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, T. A. Shippey & A. J. Sobczak
• 1995: Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, John Clute
• 1994: The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction: Second Edition, David Pringle

1988
“Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner” • short fiction • Asimov's Jun 1988
awards:
• Nebula Awards 1989 — short story — nomination
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 1989 — honorable mention
• Locus Awards 1989 — short story — 17th place
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, St. Martin’s 1989

1987
“Judgment Call” • F&SF Oct 1987
anthologies:
• The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology, ed. Edward L. Ferman, St. Martin’s 1989
• Nebula Awards 23, ed. Michael Bishop, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989

1986
“The Pure Product” • short fiction • Asimov's Mar 1986
awards:
• Locus Awards 1987 — novelette — 23rd place (tie)
anthologies:
• The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin 2005
• The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, ed. Harry Turtledove & Martin H. Greenberg, Ballantine Del Rey 2005
• Future on Ice, ed. Orson Scott Card, Tor 1998
• Modern Classics of Science Fiction, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's 1992
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, St. Martin’s 1987

1985
Freedom Beach (by James Patrick Kelly & JK) • novel • Bluejay, 1985
citations:
• 1995: Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, John Clute
“A Clean Escape” • IASFM May 1985
anthologies:
• Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, ed. Orson Scott Card, Ace 2001

1984
“Friend” (by James Patrick Kelly & JK) • F&SF Jan 1984
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Second Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, Bluejay 1985
“Freedom Beach” (by JK & James Patrick Kelly) • short fiction • F&SF Aug 1984
awards:
• Locus Awards 1985 — novelette — 12th place

1983
“Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine” • IASFM Oct 1983
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, Bluejay 1984

1982
“Another Orphan” • short fiction • F&SF Sep 1982
awards:
• Hugo Awards 1983 — novella — nomination
• Nebula Awards 1983 — novella — winner
• Locus Awards 1983 — novella — 6th place
• Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1983 — novella — 3rd place
anthologies:
• Tor Doubles, ed. Anonymous, Tor 1991
• The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 9, ed. Arthur W. Saha, DAW 1983
• The Nebula Awards #18, ed. Robert Silverberg, Arbor House 1983

1980
“Last Things” • The Berkley Showcase Vol. 1
anthologies:
• The Berkley Showcase Vol. 1, ed. Victoria Schochet & John W. Silbersack, Berkley 1980
“Animals” • New Dimensions 10
anthologies:
• New Dimensions 10, ed. Robert Silverberg, Harper & Row 1980
“Spirit Level”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2021 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2022



Copyright 2012 - 2024 by Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. All rights reserved.
This page last updated Wednesday 28 Sep 2022 at 10:02 PT