The Kappa Child
The Kappa Child is a novel by Hiromi Goto, published in 2001. Goto's novel focuses on a Japanese-Canadian woman and her family. The narrator believes herself to have immaculately conceived a kappa (folklore).[1]
The novel won the 2001 James Tiptree Jr. Award for Science Fiction and Commonwealth Writers.[2]
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| Retrospective Winners | |
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| 1991–2000 |
- A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason (1991, tie)
- White Queen by Gwyneth Jones (1991, tie)
- China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (1992)
- Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (1993)
- "The Matter of Seggri" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1994, tie)
- Larque on the Wing by Nancy Springer (1994, tie)
- Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (1995, tie)
- The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak (1995, tie)
- "Mountain Ways" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1996, tie)
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (1996, tie)
- Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey (1997, tie)
- "Travels With The Snow Queen" by Kelly Link (1997, tie)
- "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" by Raphael Carter (1998)
- The Conqueror's Child by Suzy McKee Charnas (1999)
- Wild Life by Molly Gloss (2000)
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| 2001–present |
- The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto (2001)
- Light by M. John Harrison (2002, tie)
- "Stories for Men" by John Kessel (2002, tie)
- Set This House In Order: A Romance Of Souls by Matt Ruff (2003)
- Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (2004, tie)
- Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo (2004, tie)
- Air by Geoff Ryman (2005)
- The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (2006, tie)
- Half Life by Shelley Jackson (2006, tie)
- James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (2006, special recognition)
- The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall (2007)
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (2008, tie)
- Filter House by Nisi Shawl (2008, tie)
- Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales by Greer Gilman (2009, tie)
- Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga (2009, tie)
- Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić (2010)
- Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston (2011)
- The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan (2012, tie)
- Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam (2012, tie)
- Rupetta by N. A. Sulway (2013)
- The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne (2014, tie)
- My Real Children by Jo Walton (2014, tie)
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