Awards Summary
 
Major Awards: 3
Locus Awards: 2
Other Awards: 4
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 64
Times Served as Judge: 2
 
 
 
 
 
Hugo Awards  
for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention 
 
 (5 nominations; 1 win)
 
“Presence”   (F&SF Mar 2002)
  novelette  nomination
 
“The Cost to Be Wise”   (Starlight 1)
  novella  nomination
 
“The Lincoln Train”   (F&SF Apr 1995)
  short story  winner
 
China Mountain Zhang   (Tor)
  novel  nomination
 
“Protection”   (Asimov's Apr 1992)
  novella  nomination
 
Nebula Awards  
for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership 
 
 (7 nominations)
 
Mission Child   (Avon Eos)
  novel  nomination
 
“The Cost to Be Wise”   (Starlight 1)
  novella  nomination
 
“The Lincoln Train”   (F&SF Apr 1995)
  short story  nomination
 
“Nekropolis”   (Asimov's Apr 1994)
  novelette  nomination
 
“Virtual Love”   (F&SF Jan 1994)
  short story  nomination
 
China Mountain Zhang   (Tor)
  novel  nomination
 
“Protection”   (Asimov's Apr 1992)
  novella  nomination
 
 
 (2 nominations)
 
After the Apocalypse: Stories   (Small Beer)
  collection  nomination
 
“Ancestor Money”   (Sci Fiction 1 Oct 2003)
  short fiction  nomination
 
 
 
 
 (4 nominations; 1 win)
 
“After the Apocalypse”   (After the Apocalypse)
  honor list
 
“Useless Things”   (Eclipse Three)
  honor list
 
Mission Child   (Avon Eos)
  short list
 
China Mountain Zhang   (Tor)
   winner
 
 
 
 
 (1 nomination)
 
Nekropolis   (Eos)
  finalist
 
 
 
 
 (1 nomination)
 
After the Apocalypse: Stories   (Small Beer)
  finalist
 
 
 
 
 (2 nominations; 1 win)
 
“The Memory Book”   (Queen Victoria's Book of Spells)
  short fiction  nomination
 
After the Apocalypse: Stories   (Small Beer Press)
  collection  winner
 
 
 
 
 (5 nominations)
 
“Yellow and the Perception of Reality”   (Tor.com Jul 2020)
  third place
 
“Sidewalks”   (Omni Nov 2017)
  finalist
 
“Special Economics”   (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
  shortlist
 
“Interview: On Any Given Day”   (Starlight 3)
  shortlist
 
“Nekropolis”   (Asimov's Apr 1994)
  second place
 
 
 
 
Locus Awards  
for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine 
 
 (22 nominations; 2 wins)
 
“The Goldfish Man”   (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2022)
  short story  8th place (tie)
 
“After the Apocalypse”   (After the Apocalypse)
  short story  11th place
 
After the Apocalypse: Stories   (Small Beer)
  collection  2nd place
 
“The Naturalist”   (Subterranean Spr 2010)
  novelette  7th place
 
“Useless Things”   (Eclipse Three)
  short story  3rd place
 
“Special Economics”   (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
  novelette  24th place
 
“The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large”   (Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction)
  short story  28th place (tie)
 
Mothers & Other Monsters   (Small Beer)
  collection  15th place
 
“Oversite”   (Asimov's Sep 2004)
  short story  23rd place
 
“Ancestor Money”   (Sci Fiction 1 Oct 2003)
  short story  16th place
 
“Presence”   (F&SF Mar 2002)
  novelette  16th place
 
Nekropolis   (Eos)
  sf novel  7th place
 
Mission Child   (Avon Eos)
  sf novel  16th place
 
“The Cost to Be Wise”   (Starlight 1)
  novella  10th place
 
“Strings”   (Science Fiction Age Nov 1996)
  short story  9th place
 
“The Lincoln Train”   (F&SF Apr 1995)
  short story  winner
 
Half the Day Is Night   (Tor)
  sf novel  20th place
 
“Nekropolis”   (Asimov's Apr 1994)
  novelette  5th place
 
“Virtual Love”   (F&SF Jan 1994)
  short story  5th place
 
China Mountain Zhang   (Tor)
  sf novel  24th place
 
China Mountain Zhang   (Tor)
  first novel  winner
 
“Protection”   (Asimov's Apr 1992)
  novella  11th place
 
 
 (4 nominations; 1 win)
 
“Alternate History”   (Asimov's Aug 2003)
  poem  winner
 
“Nekropolis”   (Asimov's Apr 1994)
  novelette  10th place
 
“Protection”   (Asimov's Apr 1992)
  novella  8th place
 
“Render unto Caesar”   (Asimov's mid-Dec 1992)
  novelette  7th place
 
 
 
 
 (1 nomination; 1 win)
 
China Mountain Zhang   (Tor)
  hall of fame  winner (tie)
 
 
 
HOMer Awards  
for SF/F works, voted by members of SF/F forum on CompuServe 
 
 (4 nominations; 1 win)
 
“The Lincoln Train”   (F&SF Apr 1995)
  short story  nomination
 
“Nekropolis”   (Asimov's Apr 1994)
  novelette  nomination
 
“Virtual Love”   (F&SF Jan 1994)
  short story  nomination
 
“Protection”   (Asimov's Apr 1992)
  novella  winner
 
Italia Awards  
for SF/F works published in Italy, voted by members of annual Italcon 
 
 (1 nomination)
 
China Mountain Zhang  
  international novel  3rd place
 
 
 (1 nomination; 1 win)
 
China Mountain Zhang   (Tor)
  gay men's sf/fantasy  winner
 
 
 
 
 (2 nominations)
 
“The Lincoln Train”   (F&SF Apr 1995)
  short story  2nd place
 
“Protection”   (Asimov's Apr 1992)
  novella  3rd place
 
 
 
 
 (1 nomination)
 
Nekropolis   (Eos)
  sf/fantasy book  4th place
 
 
 
 
 (1 nomination)
 
“The Lincoln Train”   (F&SF Apr 1995)
  short form  nomination