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Pat Murphy

science fiction awards database

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2024

“A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts” • short fiction • Lightspeed Dec 2024

awards:

• WSFA Small Press Award 2025 — shortlist — nomination (pending)

As Judge — World Fantasy Awards 2024

2016

“Cold Comfort” • Bridging Infinity

anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fourth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin 2017

2012

“About Fairies” • short fiction • Tor.com May 2012

awards:

• Locus Awards 2013 — short story — 22nd place

anthologies:

• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2013

2007

“One Odd Shoe” • Coyote Road

anthologies:

• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2007

2004

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (Karen Joy Fowler, PM, Debbie Notkin & Jeffrey D. Smith, eds.) • anthology • Tachyon Publications, 2004

citations:

• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron

“Inappropriate Behavior” • short fiction • Sci Fiction 11 Feb 2004

awards:

• Locus Awards 2005 — novelette — 33rd place

anthologies:

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin 2005

2003

“Dragon's Gate” • short fiction • F&SF Aug 2003

awards:

• Locus Awards 2004 — novelette — 23rd place

anthologies:

• Year’s Best Fantasy 4, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2004

1999

There and Back Again, by Max Merriwell • novel • Tor

awards:

• Seiun Awards 2002 — translated novel — winner

“Green Fire” (by Andy Duncan, Eileen Gunn, PM & Michael Swanwick) • short fiction • Asimov's Apr 2000

awards:

• Asimov's Reader Poll 2001 — novella — 8th place

1998

“Attachments” • Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers

anthologies:

• Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, HarperPrism 1998

1997

“The True Story” • Black Swan, White Raven

anthologies:

• Black Swan, White Raven, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon 1997

1996

Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles • novel • Tor

awards:

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 1997 — short list

• Locus Awards 1997 — fantasy novel — 8th place

“A Flock of Lawn Flamingos” • Lethal Kisses

anthologies:

• Lethal Kisses, ed. Ellen Datlow, Orion/Millennium UK 1996

1995

“A Place of Honor” • short fiction • Asimov's May 1995

awards:

• Asimov's Reader Poll 1996 — short story — 8th place (tie)

As Judge — James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 1995

1993

“An American Childhood” • short fiction • Asimov's Apr 1993

awards:

• Hugo Awards 1994 — novella — nomination

• Locus Awards 1994 — novella — 7th place

• Asimov's Reader Poll 1994 — novella — 7th place

“A Cartographic Analysis of the Dream State” • OMNI Best Science Fiction Three

anthologies:

• Omni Best Science Fiction Three, ed. Ellen Datlow, Omni Books 1993

1991

Letters From Home (by Pat Cadigan, Karen Joy Fowler & PM, not&) • collection • The Women's Press, 1991

citations:

• 1994: The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction: Second Edition, David Pringle

“Traveling West” • short fiction • Asimov's Feb 1991

awards:

• Locus Awards 1992 — novelette — 14th place

“Peter” • Omni Feb 1991

anthologies:

• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 1992

“Desert Rain” (by Mark L. Van Name & PM) • short fiction • Full Spectrum 3

awards:

• Locus Awards 1992 — novella — 8th place

anthologies:

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s 1992

• Full Spectrum 3, ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Doubleday Foundation 1991

1990

Points Of Departure • collection • Bantam Spectra

awards:

• Philip K. Dick Award 1991 — winner

• Locus Awards 1991 — collection — 9th place

citations:

• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron

• 1994: The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction: Second Edition, David Pringle

“The Eradication of Romantic Love” • short fiction • Interzone #42 Dec 1990

awards:

• Interzone Readers Poll 1991 — fiction — 8th place

“Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates” • short fiction • Alien Sex

awards:

• Nebula Awards 1991 — short story — nomination

• Locus Awards 1991 — short story — 6th place

anthologies:

• Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, PM Press 2015

• Nebula Awards 26, ed. James Morrow, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, St. Martin’s 1991

“Bones” • short fiction • Asimov's May 1990

awards:

• Hugo Awards 1991 — novella — nomination

• Nebula Awards 1991 — novella — nomination

• World Fantasy Awards 1991 — novella — winner

• Locus Awards 1991 — novella — 4th place

• Asimov's Reader Poll 1991 — novella — 8th place (tie)

1989

The City, Not Long After • novel • Doubleday Foundation

awards:

• Arthur C. Clarke Award 1991 — shortlist

• Locus Awards 1990 — sf novel — 10th place

• Mythopoeic Awards 1990 — fantasy — nomination

citations:

• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron

• 1995: Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, John Clute

• 1994: Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Edward James

• 1994: The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction: Second Edition, David Pringle

“Prescience” • short fiction • Asimov's Jan 1989

awards:

• Locus Awards 1990 — short story — 20th place

1988

“Dead Men on TV” • short fiction • Full Spectrum

awards:

• Nebula Awards 1989 — short story — nomination

anthologies:

• Full Spectrum, ed. Lou Aronica & Shawna McCarthy, Bantam 1988

1987

“Rachel in Love” • short fiction • Asimov's Apr 1987

awards:

• Hugo Awards 1988 — novelette — nomination

• Nebula Awards 1988 — novelette — winner

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 1988 — winner

• Locus Awards 1988 — novelette — winner

• Asimov's Reader Poll 1988 — novelette — winner

• Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1988 — novelette — 2nd place

anthologies:

• The Big Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, Random House/Vintage 2016

• Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction, ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman, Wildside 2011

• The Locus Awards, ed. Charles N. Brown & Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos 2004

• A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women, ed. Connie Willis & Sheila Williams, Warner Aspect 2001

• Paragons, ed. Robin Wilson, St. Martin’s 1996

• Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years, ed. Pamela Sargent, Harcourt Brace 1995

• Future on Fire, ed. Orson Scott Card, Tor 1991

• Nebula Awards 23, ed. Michael Bishop, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989

• The 1988 Annual World’s Best SF, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, DAW 1988

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, St. Martin’s 1988

1986

The Falling Woman • novel • Tor

awards:

• Nebula Awards 1988 — novel — winner

• Locus Awards 1988 — fantasy novel — 24th place

• Locus Awards 1987 — fantasy novel — 16th place

• Mythopoeic Awards 1988 — fantasy — nomination

citations:

• 2019: Fantasy Masterworks, Gollancz

• 2012: Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985 - 2010, Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo

• 2006: 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels, Stephen E. Andrews & Nick Rennison

• 1999: Fantasy and Horror, 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: A Basic Science Fiction Library, James Gunn

“In the Abode of the Snows” • IASFM mid-Dec 1986

anthologies:

• Future Primitive, ed. Kim Stanley Robinson, Tor 1994

“His Vegetable Wife” • Interzone #16 1986

anthologies:

• The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin & Brian Attebery, Norton 1993

• Interzone: The 3rd Anthology, ed. John Clute, David Pringle & Simon Ounsley, Simon & Schuster UK 1988

1984

“Art in the War Zone” • Universe 14

anthologies:

• Universe 14, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday 1984

1983

“In the Islands” • Amazing Mar 1983

anthologies:

• Mermaids!, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Ace 1986

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, Bluejay 1984

1982

The Shadow Hunter • novel • Popular Library

awards:

• Locus Awards 1983 — first novel — 14th place

1981

“Sweetly the Waves Call to Me” • Elsewhere

anthologies:

• Mermaids!, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Ace 1986

1980

“Wish Hound” • Shadows

anthologies:

• Dogtales!, ed. Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois, Ace 1988

“Don't Look Back” • Other Worlds

anthologies:

• Fantasy Annual IV, ed. Terry Carr, Pocket 1981

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