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The Otherwise Award, originally known as the James Tiptree Jr. Award, is an American annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon, a feminist SF conference.

In addition to the award itself, the judges publish an Honor List, which they describe as "a strong part of the award's identity", "used by many readers as a recommended reading list".[1]

In 2024, the award administrators announced that they would be switching from a single winner each year to a shortlist of three to six winners.[2]

The award was originally named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr. Due to controversy over the appropriateness of naming an award after Tiptree, the committee administering the award announced on October 13, 2019, that the award would be renamed the Otherwise Award.[3]

Background

Choice of the Tiptree name

By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Alice Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female science fiction writing was illusory. Years after "Tiptree" first published science fiction, Sheldon wrote some work under the female pen name "Raccoona Sheldon"; later, the science fiction world discovered that "Tiptree" had been female all along. This discovery led to widespread discussion over which aspects of writing, if any, have an intrinsic gender. To remind audiences of the role gender plays in both reading and writing, the award was named in Sheldon's honor at the suggestion of Karen Joy Fowler.

Controversy and name change

In 2019, controversy arose over the appropriateness of naming an award after Tiptree. In 1987, Alice Sheldon shot and killed her ailing husband Huntington Sheldon before killing herself in the same manner. Although some have called the killing a "suicide pact" based on Sheldon's personal writings, others characterize the act as "caregiver murder"—i.e., the murder of a disabled person by the person responsible for caring for them. In light of these allegations, the Tiptree Motherboard received requests to change the name of the award. On September 2, 2019, in response to these requests, the Motherboard made a statement that "a change to the name of the Tiptree Award is [not] warranted now"; but nine days later, on September 11, they announced that the award "can't go on under its existing name".[4]

On October 13, 2019, the Tiptree Motherboard released an announcement stating that the Tiptree Award would become the Otherwise Award. The name refers to "the act of imagining gender otherwise" at the core of what the award has always honored, as well as being "wise to the experience of being the other". The title also draws from the Black queer scholarship of Ashon Crawley around what is termed "otherwise politics".[3] According to the statement, "Otherwise means finding different directions to move in—toward newly possible places, by means of emergent and multiple pathways and methods."[3]

Administration

The Tiptree award is administered by the Tiptree "Motherboard".[5]

Fundraising efforts for the Tiptree have included publications (two cookbooks), "feminist bake sales", and auctions. The Tiptree cookbook The Bakery Men Don't See, edited by WisCon co-founder Jeanne Gomoll, was nominated for a 1992 Hugo Award. Tiptree Award juries traditionally consist of four female and one male juror (the "token man").[6] The auctions were one of the keynote events of WisCon, and they were run by author Ellen Klages from their inception in 1994 until 2016.[7][8][9] A variety of items were auctioned, ranging from signed first editions of art or written works by SF luminaries and authors, such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Suzette Haden Elgin, Freddie Baer, and many others, to quirky items with some connection to feminism, science fiction, or fandom, such as a hand-knitted uteruses created by Klages, letters, photos, memorabilia, toys, and art.[9] Artist Freddie Baer produced an annual collage, which was printed on t-shirts and posters, in support of the organization.[10][8]

In 2011, the Tiptree Motherboard received the Science Fiction Research Association's Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service for its "outstanding service activities – promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations".[11]

Anthologies

Selections of the winners, various short-listed fiction, and essays have appeared in four Tiptree-related collections, Flying Cups and Saucers (1999) and a series of annual anthologies published by Tachyon Publications of San Francisco. These include:

  • Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by the Secret Feminist Cabal and Debbie Notkin (1999)
  • The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2005)
  • The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2006)
  • The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2007)

Winners

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1991 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". William Morrow
Script error: No such module "sort". White Queen Victor Gollancz Ltd
1992 Script error: No such module "sort". China Mountain Zhang Tor
1993 Script error: No such module "sort". Ammonite Del Rey Books
1994 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Broken Mirrors Press
Script error: No such module "sort". Larque on the Wing AvoNova
1995 Script error: No such module "sort". Waking the Moon HarperPrism
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Script error: No such module "sort". Motherlines Berkeley-Putnam
Script error: No such module "sort". Walk to the End of the World Ballantine
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1997 Script error: No such module "sort". Black Wine Tor
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1998 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Tor
1999 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Tor
2000 Script error: No such module "sort". Wild Life Simon & Schuster
2001 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Red Deer Press
2002 Script error: No such module "sort". Light Victor Gollancz Ltd
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2003 Script error: No such module "sort". Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls HarperCollins
2004 Script error: No such module "sort". Camouflage Ace
Script error: No such module "sort". Not Before Sundown (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
Published in the United States as Troll – a love story 		Peter Owen Publishers
2005 Script error: No such module "sort". Air St. Martin's Griffin
2006 Script error: No such module "sort". Half Life HarperCollins
Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Spectra Books
Script error: No such module "sort". James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon St. Martin's Press
2007 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Faber and Faber (UK 2007); HarperCollins (US 2008)
2008 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Walker & Co. (UK); Candlewick Press (US) [12]
Script error: No such module "sort". Filter House Aqueduct Press [12]
2009 Script error: No such module "sort". Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales Small Beer Press
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2010 Script error: No such module "sort". Baba Yaga Laid an Egg Canongate Books [13][14]
2011 Script error: No such module "sort". Redwood and Wildfire Aqueduct Press [15]
2012 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Roc Books [16]
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2013 Script error: No such module "sort". Rupetta Tartarus Press
2014 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Penguin Random House [17]
Script error: No such module "sort". My Real Children Tor [17]
2015 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Dell Magazines [1]
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2016 Script error: No such module "sort". When the Moon Was Ours Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Griffin [18]
2017 Script error: No such module "sort". Who Runs the World? Macmillan [19][20]
2018 Script error: No such module "sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Latin American Literature Today [21]
2019 Script error: No such module "sort". Freshwater Grove Press [22]
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon Aurelia Leo [23]
2021 Script error: No such module "sort". Light from Uncommon Stars Tor Books [24][25]
Script error: No such module "sort". Sorrowland MCD Books [24][25]
2022 On hold [26]
2023 On hold [27]
2024 Script error: No such module "sort". In Universes HarperCollins [28]
Script error: No such module "sort". "Kiss of Life" FIYAH [28]
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See also

References

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Further reading

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