Tiptree winner and shortlist

[redbird]

I can now tell you all that we selected Matt Ruff's Set This House in Order as the winner of the 2003 Tiptree Award. The press release, including comments on Ruff's book and our shortlist, is at http://www.tiptree.org/press/20040330.html.

We're still finishing the long list, and we need to write a bit about why we picked what we did for the shortlist. brisingamen, I'd be happy to write about Fudoki, and could probably at least help with several of the others.

Comments

This one I can answer

[redbird]

Basically, the recommendation came in too late for our excellent procurer to get the book in time. Thus, I'm the only person on the jury who read it (the one I live with is a big Pratchett fan, and bought a copy). We're passing the recommendation on to next year's jury (standard Tiptree procedure for things published very late in the year that the jury doesn't have time/opportunity to look at).

Had we discussed it, I'd be hesitant to say anything about those discussions, because they're confidential--as it is, I can say that I think it's definitely doing Tiptreeish things with gender-as-performance. Also, I think a lot of people underestimate Pratchett, because they read early Discworld books, deemed them lightweight (a reasonable judgment: if you don't like the style of humor in the first books, there's not much else there for you), and assumed that he's still doing the same sort of thing, since it's the same setting and some of the same characters.