Mary Robinette Kowal


science fiction awards database

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2024
“Marginalia” • short fiction • Uncanny Jan/Feb 2024
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2025 — short story — nomination

2022
The Spare Man • novel • Rebellion/Solaris UK
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2023 — novel — nomination
• Dragon Awards 2023 — sf novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2023 — sf novel — 5th place

2021
Skylark Award 2022 — winner

2020
The Lady Astronaut • Tor; Solaris; Audible; F&SF
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2021 — series — nomination
The Relentless Moon • novel • Tor
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2021 — novel — nomination
• Dragon Awards 2021 — alternate history novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2021 — sf novel — 2nd place
• Sidewise Awards 2021 — long form — nomination

2019
The Calculating Stars • novel • Tor
awards:
• Otherwise Award 2020 — honor list
Ignyte Awards 2020 — Community Award — nomination

2018
The Fated Sky • novel • Tor
awards:
• Seiun Awards 2022 — translated novel — nomination
The Calculating Stars • novel • Tor
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2019 — novel — winner
• Nebula Awards 2019 — novel — winner
• Dragon Awards 2019 — alternate history novel — nomination
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2019 — finalist
• Locus Awards 2019 — sf novel — winner
• Seiun Awards 2021 — translated novel — nomination
• Sidewise Awards 2019 — long form — winner
citations:
• 2021: NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade Of Great Sci-Fi And Fantasy, NPR
• 2020: 15 recent sci-fi books that forever shaped the genre, Andrew Liptak

2017
“The Worshipful Society of Glovers” • short fiction • Uncanny Jul/Aug 2017
awards:
• Locus Awards 2018 — novelette — 4th place
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 12, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris 2018

2016
Ghost Talkers • novel • Tor
awards:
• Mythopoeic Awards 2017 — adult literature — nomination

2015
“Doctor Faustus”
anthologies:
• The Doll Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2015

2013
Writing Excuses Season 8 (by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, MRK, Howard Tayler & Jordan Sanderson) • http://www.writingexcuses.com/
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2014 — related work — nomination
“The Lady Astronaut of Mars” • short fiction • Tor.com Sep 2013
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2014 — novelette — winner

2012
Writing Excuses, Season Seven (by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, MRK, Howard Tayler & Jordan Sanderson)
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2013 — related work — winner
Glamour in Glass • novel • Tor
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2013 — novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2013 — fantasy novel — 5th place
“The Lady Astronaut of Mars” • short fiction • Rip-Off!
awards:
• Locus Awards 2013 — novelette — 4th place

2011
Writing Excuses, Season 6 (by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, MRK, Howard Tayler & Jordan Sanderson)
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2012 — related work — nomination
“Kiss Me Twice” • short fiction • Asimov's Jun 2011
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2012 — novella — nomination
• Nebula Awards 2012 — novella — nomination
• Locus Awards 2012 — novella — 3rd place
• Asimov's Reader Poll 2012 — novella — 2nd place
anthologies:
• Robots: The Recent A.I., ed. Rich Horton & Sean Wallace, Prime Books 2012

2010
Shades of Milk and Honey • novel • Tor
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2011 — novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2011 — first novel — 4th place
“For Want of a Nail” • short fiction • Asimov's Sep 2010
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2011 — short story — winner
• Locus Awards 2011 — short story — 8th place
• Seiun Awards 2015 — translated story — nomination

2009
“The Consciousness Problem”
anthologies:
• Year's Best SF 15, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Eos 2010
“First Flight” • short fiction • Tor.com 25 Aug 2009
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — novelette — 4th place
anthologies:
• Time Travel: Recent Trips, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2014

2008
“Evil Robot Monkey” • short fiction • The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2009 — short story — nomination
• Locus Awards 2009 — short story — 10th place
anthologies:
• Twenty-First Century Science Fiction, ed. David G. Hartwell & Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 2013
• Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction, ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman, Wildside 2011
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2010
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-sixth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's 2009

2007
“For Solo Cello, op.12” • Cosmos Feb/Mar 2007
anthologies:
• Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2008 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2008
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer 2008 — winner

2006
“Bound Man” • Twenty Epics
anthologies:
• Epic: Legends of Fantasy, ed. John Joseph Adams, Tachyon Publications 2012

2005
“The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland”
anthologies:
• The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2009
“Rust and Bone”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2019



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