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2010 Best Novel - Winner & Short List
2010 Best Novel Other Nominees
2010 Best Short Fiction - Winner & Short List
2010 Best Short Fiction Other Nominees
2010 Best Other Work Short List
2010 Best Novel Winner & Short List
WINNER:
The Steel Remains - Richard Morgan (Del Rey)
SHORT LIST:
Ash - Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
By the Mountain Bound - Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
Centuries Ago and Very Fast - Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct Press)
The Enchantment Emporium - Tanya Huff (DAW)
Naamah's Kiss - Jacqueline Carey (Grand Central)
Palimpsest - Catherynne Valente (Bantam Spectra)
The Red Tree - Caitlin Kiernan (Roc)
Seven for a Secret - Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean Press)
Strange Fortune - Josh Lanyon (Blind Eye)
2010 Best Short Fiction Winner & Short List
(includes items from both 2008 and 2009)
WINNERS (TIE):
The Behold of the Eye - Hal Duncan (Lone Star Stories/Wilde Stories 2009 - Lethe)
The Rocky Side of the Sky - Melissa Scott (Periphery - Lethe)
SHORT LIST:
Angels Alone - Carolyn Ives Gilman (Periphery - Lethe)
Behind the Curtain - Joel Lane (Dark Horizons Issue 52/Wilde Stories 2009 - Lethe)
The Bloomsbury Nudes - Jameson Currier (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
City of the Dead - Kaite Walsh (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Firooz and His Brother - Alex Jeffers (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2008/Wilde Stories - Lethe)
Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental in East Vancouver - Amber Dawn (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp Press)
I Am the Shadow That Walks There - Michelle Scalise (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
I'm Your Violence - Lee Thomas (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
In Circles - Aurelia T. Evans (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp Press)
In the Night Street Baths - Chaz Brenchley (Lace and Blade - Norilana Books/Wilde Stories 2009 - Lethe)
One Horse Town - Melissa Scott (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Parts - Kal Cobalt (Wired Hard 4 - Circlet Press)
Remember - Astrid Amara (Tangle - Blind Eye)
The Succession of Knoorikios Khnum - Zachary Jernigan (Wired Hard 4 - Circlet Press)
Waiting Tables and Time - Lyn McConchie (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
2010 Best Other Work Short List
(includes items from both 2008 and 2009)
Were the World Mine - film - by Tom Gustafson (SPEAKproductions)
Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories - anthology - edited by Catherine Lundoff (Lethe)
Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures - anthology - edited by Lynne Jamneck (Lethe)
Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet - anthology - edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder (Dark Scribe)
Wilde Stories 2009: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction - anthology - edited by Steve Berman (Lethe)
2010 Best Novel Other Nominees
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare (McElderry)
Corambis by Sarah Monette (Ace)
Hunter's Dawn: Laying the Ghosts by Meg Leigh (Torquere Press)
In Their Own Skins: Shifting Sands by Kiernan Kelly (Torquere Press)
The Vampire's Angel by Damian Serbu (Regal Crest Enterprises)
The Veil of Sorrow by Crystal Michallet-Romero (PD Publishing)
2010 Best Short Fiction Other Nominees
(includes items from both 2008 and 2009)
The Agathas by Sarah Langan (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Airtight by L C Jordan (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
aka St. Mark's Place by Richard Bowes (Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Del Rey/Wilde Stories 2009 - Lethe)
All You Can Be by Mette Bach (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Apache Eyes by Yeva Wiest (Phaze)
Authentic by Jean Roberta (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Beneath Sea and Sky by Shanna Germain (Wired Hard 4 - Circlet Press)
Black Annis by Joy Marchand (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Bluff by L. A. Fields (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
The Boys of Bald Cave by C. Michael Cook (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Cask by Jude Wright (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Catch Him By the Toe by Craig Gidney (Sea, Swallow Me - Lethe)
Come Join We by Craig Gidney (Sea, Swallow Me - Lethe)
The Coming of the Fourth Dawn by Jeremiah Job Levine (Tangle - Blind Eye)
Conspiracy of Fuckers by Nomy Lamm (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Crossing the Distance by Erin MacKay (Tangle - Blind Eye)
Devulban Dreams by Jean Stewart (Periphery - Lethe)
Dim Star Descried by Sven Davisson (Madder Love - Rebel Satori Press/Wilde Stories 2009 - Lethe)
Diplomacy by Catherine Lundoff (Periphery - Lethe)
Double Walker by Lisa Morton (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
The Dyke You Know by Selina Rosen (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Echo by Peter Dube (Madder Love - Rebel Satori Press/Wilde Stories 2009 - Lethe)
Emeline by C. J. Lines (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
The Engine of Desire by Livia Llewellyn (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Epistle of the Sleeping Beauty by Jan Vander Laenen (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Etiolate by Craig Gidney (Sea, Swallow Me - Lethe)
Fag Hag by Lawrence Schimel (Tangle - Blind Eye)
Feral Machines by Ginn Hale (Tangle - Blind Eye)
Focus of Desire by Elise Matthesen (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Further Postulation on the Violent Works of the Marquis de Sade by Elizabeth Bachinsky (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Halfway There by Fran Walker (Read These Lips)
Hidden in Central Asia by Steve Berman (Second Thoughts - Lethe)
The High Cost for Tamarind by Steve Berman (Second Thoughts - Lethe)
Homeland by Kristyn Dunnion (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
In Her Mirrors, Dimly by Maria Alexander (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
in your arms forever by Courtney Trouble (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Ishtartu by Lyda Morehouse (Periphery - Lethe)
Kinder by Steve Berman (Second Thoughts - Lethe)
A Letter from Phoenix by Kealan Patrick Burke (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Lord Ronan's Shoes by Astrid Amara (Tangle - Blind Eye)
Los Conversos by Jesse Sandoval (Tangle - Blind Eye)
The Lost Gentleman by Mark Allan Gunnells (Tangle - Blind Eye)
Meeting Mr. Krenshaw by Ka Vang (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Memento Mori by Elissa Malcohn (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Memory Box by Reesa Brown (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Midnight Confession by M E Cooper (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Mind Games by Tracey Shellito (Periphery - Lethe)
Monument by Steven Adamson (Tangle - Blind Eye)
Moons of Blood and Amber by Gene Mederos (Tangle - Blind Eye)
nascent fashion by Larissa Lai (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Nectar by Diane Kepler (Wired Hard 4 - Circlet Press)
The Next Big Thing by Christopher Fox (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
The Oath by Lynne Jamneck (Periphery - Lethe)
On Wings, Rising by Ann Somerville (Samhain)
The One I Left Behind by M Christian (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Opening the Box by Chad Helder (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Origins by Marianne de Pierres (Periphery - Lethe)
Ostraca by Brenta Blevins (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Paradise by Adam Lowe (Kaleidotrope)
A Path to the Woods by Marilyn Jaye Lewis (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
The Portico Angel by Kevin W. Reardon (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Postulation on the Violent Works of the Marquis de Sade by Elizabeth Bachinsky (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Prayers of the Living by Erin MacKay (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
A Quiet Love by Suzan Tessier (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Release in A Minor by Tenea Johnson (Tangle - Blind Eye)
Royal Catamite by Tom Cardamone (Wired Hard 4 - Circlet Press)
The Shallows by Gary McMahon (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
The Shaping by Scott Nicholson (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Shark by Kestrel Barns (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Sideways by Sharon Wachsler (Periphery - Lethe)
Sido by Suki Lee (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Silver Skin by Elspeth Potter (Periphery - Lethe)
Slavery By Degree by Gavin Atlas (Wired Hard 4 - Circlet Press)
Slug by Megan Milks (Fist of the Spider Woman - Arsenal Pulp)
Some Old Lover's Ghost by Dayle Dermatis (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
The Spark by Cecilia Tan (Periphery - Lethe)
Spirit Horse Ranch by Sacchi Green (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)
Strange Alphabets by Craig Gidney (Sea, Swallow Me - Lethe)
Sublet by Rick R. Reed (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
Tear Jerker by Steve Berman (Second Thoughts - Lethe)
They Came From Next Door by Kristyn Dunnion (Periphery - Lethe)
A Troll On a Mountain With a Girl by Steve Berman (Second Thoughts - Lethe)
Vourdalak by Michael Hacker (Unspeakable Horror - Dark Scribe)
The Voyage Out by Gwyneth Jones (Periphery - Lethe)
When the Angels Fall by Helen E. H. Madden (Wired Hard 4 - Circlet Press)
Words Like Candy Conversation Hearts by Kathleen Bradean (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades - Lethe)