Here are some awards my work has won. From left to right: Christopher Award for Wild Girls, Philip K. Dick Award for Points of Departure, Nebula Award for Rachel in Love, Seiun Award for There and Back Again, World Fantasy Award for Bones, Nebula Award for The Falling Woman, and Theodore Sturgeon Award for Rachel in Love.
The World Fantasy Award, a bust of H.P. Lovecraft, wears a batter’s helmet in the spring and summer and a Santa hat in the fall and winter. Nothing like a well-dressed award to put a smile on my face.
For those who like lists, here’s a list of all my awards and nominations for both fiction and nonfiction:
Award-Winning Fiction
(in alphabetical order by title)
Bones (novella first published in Asimov’s magazine, May 1990)
- Winner of the World Fantasy Award
- Nominated for Hugo Award and Nebula Award
The Falling Woman (novel, first published by Tor, 1987)
- Winner of the Nebula Award
- Nominated for the Mythopoeic Award
Points of Departure (short story collection, first published by Bantam Spectra, 1990)
- Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback original
Rachel in Love (novelette published in Asimov’s magazine, Apr 1987)
- Winner of the Nebula Award
- Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
- Winner of the Locus Awards
- Winner of the Asimov’s magazine reader poll
- Nominated for the Hugo Award
There and Back Again, by Max Merriwell (novel, Tor, 1999)
- Winner of the Seiun Award for Japanese translation
The Wild Girls (novel, Viking, 2007)
- Winner of the Christopher Award in the category of “Books for Young People”
- Winner of the Book of the Year Award in Children’s Literature (presented by the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association)
- Selected as one of thirty 2008 Notable Children’s Book in the Language Arts
- Recommended by the Amelia Bloomer Project (a list of feminist works selected by a task force of the American Library Association)
- Finalist for the Cybils Awards for Middle Grade novel.
Fiction nominated for awards
(in alphabetical order by title)
An American Childhood (novella published in Asimov’s magazine, Apr 1993)
- Hugo Award Nominee
The City, Not Long After (novel, Doubleday Foundation, 1990)
- Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Mythopoeic Award Nominee
Dead Men on TV (story in Full Spectrum, edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy, Bantam Books, 1988)
- Nebula Award Nominee
Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates (story in Alien Sex, edited by Ellen Datlow, Dutton, 1990)
- Nebula Award Nominee
Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles (novel, Tor, 1996)
- On the honor list for the James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award
Award-Winning Nonfiction
(in alphabetical order by title)
Book of Impossible Objects (Klutz, 2012)
- Winner of a Parents’ Choice Gold Award
Winner of a Family Fun Magazine Boredom Buster Award
Exploratopia (Little, Brown, 2008)
- Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books and Films Prize for Excellence in Science Books
Global Climate Change Research Explorer (Website, 2004)
Winner of the Pirelli Award for best environmental education website
Klutz Guide to the Galaxy (Klutz, 2011)
- Winner of the American Institute of Physics Award for Science Writing
- Winner of the Dr. Toy’s 100 Best Children’s Products Award
- Winner of the National Parenting Publications Gold Award
- Winner of the Good Housekeeping magazine’s Best Toys of the Year
- Winner of the Great Schools Golden Apple Award
Make A Mummy, Shrink a Head, and Other Useful Skills (Klutz, 2011)
Chosen for the Parent’s Choice Recommended Seal
Star Wars Folded Flyers (Klutz, 2012)
- Winner of the Parent’s Choice FunStuff Award
- Winner of the Tillywig Toy Top Fun Award
The World According to Klutz (Klutz, 2013)
- Winner of a National Parenting Publications Silver Award
Featured as one of top-ten holiday gifts in Family Fun Magazine
