Tiptree Award: much progress has been made

[redbird]

At this point, we have a winner (we're waiting for Karen Joy Fowler to make the formal announcements, and I suspect she wants to notify the winner before sending out press releases or putting anything up on tiptree.org, but I don't think it's jumping the gun to say that we have a winner), and a shortlist. I just took the list of works we had and, as requested, emailed it to Karen with author names and publication information.

We still need to finish compiling the longlist, and write about why we selected the things we selected. So our work is not yet done, but I think we're entitled to a sense of accomplishment.

To celebrate, I'm going to either eat ice cream, reread the winner, or go back to reading Steve Brust's The Paths of the Dead. Okay, I will do all three, starting with the ice cream, but I'm not sure what order I'll read in. I should also go back and get out some of the books that got "read this later, it's good but not Tiptreeish" from my fellow jurors.

Comments

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Envy. I'm doing long list reading right now for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. It's not the longest list we've ever had but it's noticeably longer than last year. Fortunately, I keep getting halfway through things and saying, "I'm never voting for this" so I quit and go on to the next. The only things we absolutely positively cannot do that with is the short list when it comes out. We have to read, or re-read everything entire. And of course, ours doesn't get awarded until the first week of August.

MKK

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Send me what you have right away so I can start on markup for tiptree.org.

[redbird]

Ah. Our process is different from, as far as I can tell, every other sf award (and most if not all non-sf awards). The selection of the winner and creation of the shortlist are essentially parallel processes, and the longlist is still being compiled.

That is, rather than having a shortlist from which a winner is selected, we read all year, take notes and discuss as we go, and then make our choices. Details vary from year to year and jury to jury, but I think that much of the pattern is set. In particular, we don't announce a shortlist and then leave everyone to wait and/or argue while we select a winner from that shortlist.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Thank you and congratulations for a job well done (on the Tiptree stuff, that is).

I was just talking about lits of potential reading with maryread. We've both collected authors and titles here on LJ and (MR) from APA discussions. We agreed that the percentage of good books is so much higher than browsing the new-books section at the library. The Tiptree lists always feed into the ongoing queue, though those titles are generally harder to find at the libary.

[redbird]

Karen wants us to wait until she talks to the motherboard. I'll send you the info as soon as I get the okay, unless Karen tells me she's cc'ing you.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Hooray for you all!

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Our method is a bit idiosyncratic as well, but I guess each process has its quirks. Any Society member may nominate up until the end of Feb. After that the committee reads all nominees (the long list) and each member votes for their top 5. The chair tallies up and announces the top 5 vote getters. We all read and/or reread those and vote again. Top vote getter wins. We have a list for discussions and such as well.

MKK

[pameladean]

Congratulations on completing a monumental task. I'd rather win the Tiptree than anything. I'm never going to, I don't do the right stuff, but I value the winners and short-listers more because of that feeling.

Pamela

[redbird]

I suspect that Tiptree Awards have been given to people who thought the same of their own work. Raphael's story was obviously Tiptreeish as well as excellent; conversely, I had a long conversation with my friend L the year The Sparrow won, trying to tease out what had made it Tiptree-worthy.

Well done

[ksp24.livejournal.com]

That's great you're almost done with this--good for you. Wiscon has been highly recommended to me over the years, but I've not yet made it. One of these days.