The results of this year’s Otherwise (formery Tiptree) Award have been announced. The winner is Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. The Honor List is as follows:

• “Dreamborn” by Kylie Ariel Bemis
• The Book of Flora by Meg Elison
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley
• “Of Warps and Wefts” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo
• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks
• The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon

I’m not familiar with Emezi’s work at all, but clearly I should be. Nor do I know much about the short fiction (the Hurley and Motoya are both collections). I have reviewed The Calculating Stars and The Deep. I reviewed Fire Logic and Earth Logic back in Emerald City and loved them both. Both books won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Now that all four books are out I have been meaning to re-read the entire series, but of course I have no time. Meg Elison won the Philip K Dick Award with The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, the first volume in the trilogy that The Book of Flora concludes. I have The Book of Flora on my TBR pile, and it has just got a boost up towards the top.

I am, of course, delighted to see so many works with trans themes on the list.