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Christopher Barzak

science fiction awards database

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2024

A Voice Calling • novella • Psychopomp

awards:

• Shirley Jackson Awards 2025 — novella — nomination

2018

The Gone Away Place • novel • Knopf

awards:

• Locus Awards 2019 — young adult book — 6th place

2013

Before and Afterlives • collection • Lethe Press

awards:

• Shirley Jackson Awards 2014 — collection — winner (tie)

• Locus Awards 2014 — collection — 18th place

“Paranormal Romance” • short fiction • Lightspeed Jun 2013

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2014 — novelette — nomination

• Locus Awards 2014 — novelette — 13th place

anthologies:

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2015, ed. Greg Bear, Pyr 2015

• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2014

• Magic City: Recent Spells, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2014

“A Beginner's Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse”

anthologies:

• Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse, ed. John Joseph Adams, Titan US 2015

2012

Birds and Birthdays • collection • Aqueduct Press

awards:

• Locus Awards 2013 — collection — 27th place

“Invisible Men” • Eclipse Online Dec 2012

anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin 2013

2011

“We Do Not Come in Peace”

anthologies:

• Wilde Stories 2012: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction, ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press 2012

“Smoke City” • short fiction • Asimov's Apr/May 2011

awards:

• Locus Awards 2012 — short story — 21st place

• Asimov's Reader Poll 2012 — short story — 3rd place (tie)

anthologies:

• Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, ed. Ann VanderMeer, Tachyon Publications 2012

“Gap Year”

anthologies:

• Teeth: Vampire Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Harper 2011

2010

“Map of Seventeen” • short fiction • The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2011 — novelette — nomination

• Locus Awards 2011 — novelette — 10th place

anthologies:

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2012, ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Pyr 2012

• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2011

• Wilde Stories 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction, ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press 2011

• The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2010

2008

The Love We Share Without Knowing • novel • Bantam

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2010 — novel — nomination

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2009 — honor list

• Locus Awards 2009 — fantasy novel — 13th place

2007

One for Sorrow • novel • Bantam Spectra

awards:

• Locus Awards 2008 — first novel — 4th place

• William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award 2008 — winner

“Realer Than You” • Coyote Road

anthologies:

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

2006

“The Guardian of the Egg” • Salon Fantastique

anthologies:

• Salon Fantastique, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Thunder's Mouth Press 2006

2005

“The Language of Moths” • short fiction • Realms of Fantasy Apr 2005

awards:

• Nebula Awards 2007 — novelette — nomination

• Locus Awards 2006 — novelette — 19th place

• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2007 — short fiction — winner (tie)

anthologies:

• Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Locus Press 2006

2004

“The Other Angelas” • short fiction • Pindeldyboz 6 Dec 2004

awards:

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2005 — long list

2003

“The Drowned Mermaid” • Realms of Fantasy Jun 2003

anthologies:

• Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep by Paula Guran, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2015

“Dead Boy Found” • Trampoline

anthologies:

• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Fifteen, ed. Stephen Jones, Carroll & Graf 2004

2001

“Plenty” • Strange Horizons (online) May 28 2001

anthologies:

• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 2002

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