Tiptree Award 2003 longlist

[redbird]

The kerfuffle I mentioned in my previous post was sparked by a fanfic being long-listed for the award this year. One of the odder assertions was that putting a "bad" work (whatever that means--I haven't read it, so have no opinion on its quality) somehow will make people take the award less seriously, or respect it less. And I'm wondering how many of the following works people who are worrying about that have read, and whether they read any of them because they were long-listed:

• The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson


• The Braided World


• "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet"


• The Lost Steersman, Rosemary Kirstein


• "Walking Contradiction"


• "Under the Lunchbox Tree"


• "Bernardo's House"


• "Poor Man's Wife"


• Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton


• Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost


• The Kanshou


• Wraiths of Will and Pleasure, Storm Constantine


• All Over Creation, Ruth L. Ozeki


• "The Wild Girls," Pat Murphy, Witpunk


• "Well-Moistened With Cheap Wine[...]" Ed Park, Trampoline


• Heredity, Jenny Davidson


• "Path of the Transgressor," Tom Purdom, Asimov's June 2003

Those are in no particular order, and half the author names are omitted because I'm tired, don't feel like digging out the ones that weren't in the email I was looking at and that I don't remember offhand, and don't want to postpone this post. A lot of my Tiptree reading material is not in easy view of my keyboard.

Note that this is a separate question from whether the story in question should have been long-listed: from what matt_ruff has posted, his jury's criteria/definition of the long-list differed from my year's. This is not a flaw in the award process: by policy, the Motherboard doesn't tell the jury how to do its job, except to the extent that they provide a deadline.

P.S. Yes, papersky, I'll do that panel.

Comments

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

My understanding was that the kerfluffle was more about the fact that the fanfic was a) unfinished, b) not very well-written, and c) not particularly original, even in the way that apparently the judge thought it was. Male characters trying to impregnate each other is not, I have been told, an unusual theme in fanfic.