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“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” • short fiction • Exhalation, 2019

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2020 — novella — nomination

• Nebula Awards 2020 — novella — nomination

• Locus Awards 2020 — novella — 4th place

• Seiun Awards 2020 — translated story — nomination

“Catching crumbs from the table” • short fiction • Nature 1 Jun 2000

awards:

• Locus Awards 2001 — short story — 27th place (tie)

“Division by Zero” • short fiction • Full Spectrum 3, 1991

awards:

• Locus Awards 1992 — short story — 7th place

anthologies:

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

“Exhalation” • short fiction • Eclipse Two, 2008

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2009 — short story — winner

• British SF Association Awards 2009 — short fiction — winner

• Locus Awards 2009 — short story — winner

• Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2010 — Translated Short Story or Collection — winner

• Ignotus Awards 2021 — foreign short story — winner

anthologies:

• The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, Arthur B. Evans et al, Wesleyan 2010

• Year's Best SF 14, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Eos 2009

• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2009

• Eclipse Two, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2008

Exhalation • collection • Knopf, 2019

awards:

• Bram Stoker Awards 2020 — collection — nomination

• Locus Awards 2020 — collection — winner

• Seiun Awards 2011 — translated story — nomination

citations:

• 2021: NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade Of Great Sci-Fi And Fantasy, NPR

“The Great Silence”

anthologies:

• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, ed. Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 2016

“Hell Is the Absence of God” • short fiction • Starlight 3, 2001

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2002 — novelette — winner

• Nebula Awards 2003 — novelette — winner

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2002 — shortlist

• Locus Awards 2002 — novelette — winner

• Seiun Awards 2004 — translated short story — winner

anthologies:

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

• Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Tachyon Publications 2006

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2004, ed. Vonda N. McIntyre, Roc 2004

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

• Year’s Best Fantasy 2, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2002

• Fantasy: The Best of 2001, ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, Pocket/ibooks 2002

• Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 2001

Hell Is the Absence of God • collection

awards:

• Kurd Lasswitz Preis 2013 — foreign novel — winner

“It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning” • short fiction • New York Times 27 May 2019

awards:

• Locus Awards 2020 — short story — 2nd place

anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 1, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 2020

The Lifecycle of Software Objects • novella • Subterranean Press, 2010

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2011 — novella — winner

• Nebula Awards 2011 — novella — nomination

• Locus Awards 2011 — novella — winner

• Italia Awards 2012 — international novel — winner

• Seiun Awards 2012 — translated short form — winner

“Liking What You See: A Documentary” • short fiction • Stories of Your Life and Others Tor, 2002

awards:

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2003 — short list

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2003 — shortlist

• Locus Awards 2003 — novelette — 2nd place

• Seiun Awards 2004 — translated short story — nomination

anthologies:

• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3, ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin & Jeffrey D. Smith, Tachyon Publications 2007

• Science Fiction: The Best of 2002, ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, ibooks 2003

“The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” • short fiction • F&SF Sep 2007

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2008 — novelette — winner

• Nebula Awards 2008 — novelette — winner

• British SF Association Awards 2008 — short fiction — nomination

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2008 — shortlist

• Locus Awards 2008 — novelette — 2nd place

• Seiun Awards 2009 — translated short form — winner

anthologies:

• The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Gordon Van Gelder, Tachyon Publications 2009

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, ed. Ellen Datlow, Roc 2009

• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Two, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2008

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fifth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s 2008

• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin’s 2008

“Omphalos” • short fiction • Exhalation, 2019

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2020 — novelette — nomination

• Ignyte Awards 2020 — novelette — nomination

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2020 — finalist

• Locus Awards 2020 — novelette — winner

• Seiun Awards 2020 — translated story — nomination

“Seventy-two Letters” • short fiction • Vanishing Acts, 2000

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2001 — novella — nomination

• World Fantasy Awards 2001 — novella — nomination

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2001 — shortlist

• Locus Awards 2001 — novella — 4th place

• Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award 2002 — foreign short story — winner

• Seiun Awards 2003 — translated short story — nomination

• Sidewise Awards 2001 — short form — winner

anthologies:

• Steampunk, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, Tachyon Publications 2008

• Year’s Best SF 6, ed. David G. Hartwell, HarperCollins/Eos 2001

• Vanishing Acts, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2000

Stories of Your Life and Others • collection • Tor, 2002

awards:

• Locus Awards 2003 — collection — winner

• Mythopoeic Awards 2003 — adult literature — nomination

citations:

• 2015: 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime, Amazon Editors

• 2012: The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn

• 2009: 20 Best Science Fiction Books of the Decade, io9

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

“Story of Your Life” • short fiction • Starlight 2, 1998

awards:

• Hugo Awards 1999 — novella — nomination

• Nebula Awards 2000 — novella — winner

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 1999 — short list

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 1999 — winner

• Locus Awards 1999 — novella — 10th place (tie)

• Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award 2001 — foreign short story — winner

• HOMer Awards 1999 — novella — nomination

• Seiun Awards 2002 — translated short story — winner (tie)

anthologies:

• Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth, ed. Neil Clarke, Night Shade Books 2018

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

• Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts, ed. Heather Masari, St. Martin's/Bedford 2009

• A Science Fiction Omnibus, ed. Brian W. Aldiss, Penguin 2007

• The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin 2005

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2001, ed. Robert Silverberg, Harcourt 2001

• Year’s Best SF 4, ed. David G. Hartwell, HarperPrism 1999

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin 1999

• Starlight 2, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 1998

“Tower of Babylon” • short fiction • Omni Nov 1990

awards:

• Hugo Awards 1991 — novelette — nomination

• Nebula Awards 1991 — novelette — winner

• Locus Awards 1991 — novelette — 4th place

• Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1991 — novelette — 2nd place

anthologies:

• The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, ed. Mike Ashley, Running Press 2008

• The Fantasy Hall of Fame, ed. Robert Silverberg, HarperPrism 1998

• 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

“The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” • short fiction • Subterranean Fall 2013

awards:

• Hugo Awards 2014 — novelette — nomination

• Locus Awards 2014 — novelette — 2nd place

anthologies:

• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eight, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris 2014

“Understand” • short fiction • Asimov's Aug 1991

awards:

• Hugo Awards 1992 — novelette — nomination

• Locus Awards 1992 — novelette — 13th place

• Asimov's Reader Poll 1992 — novelette — winner

• Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award 1994 — foreign short story — winner

• Seiun Awards 1995 — foreign short story — nomination

anthologies:

• The Hard SF Renaissance, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tor 2002

• Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin 2002

“What's Expected of Us” • Nature Jul 7 2005

anthologies:

• Year’s Best SF 11, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Eos 2006

“Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art” • short fiction • The New Yorker 31 Aug 2024

awards:

• British SF Association Awards 2025 — nonfiction (short) — winner

• Ignyte Awards 2025 — creative nonfiction — nomination

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