List of Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees for best novel

The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards are given to works of science fiction, fantasy and horror that explore LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender) topics in a positive way. They were founded in 1998, first presented by the Gaylactic Network in 1999. In 2002 they were given their own organization, the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Foundation.

Since their inception, awards have been given in categories for novels, short fiction, and best other work. Other categories have also been added and removed in intervening years. Works produced before the inception of the awards are eligible to be inducted into the "Hall of Fame". The novels category is open to submissions of novels released during the prior calendar year in North America that includes "significant positive GLBT content". The results are decided by a panel of judges from the list of submitted nominees; the long list of nominees is reduced to a short list of finalists, and the results are generally announced and presented at Gaylaxicon, an annual convention devoted to LGBT-themed science fiction. This article lists all the "Best Novel" award nominees and winners and novels inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Each award consists of an etched image on lucite on a stand, using a spiral galaxy in a triangle logo, based on the logo the Gaylactic Network. The award winner's name, work title, award year, and award category are etched on a small plaque on the base or on the plexiglass itself. A small cash stipend is awarded to winners in the Best Novel category. The cost of the awards is met through individual donations and fundraising events.

Laurie J. Marks and Melissa Scott have both won the award twice. Elizabeth Bear holds the record for most nominations, with ten nominations and one win.

Novel winners and nominees In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the award ceremonies; the books were released is the preceding years. Entries with a lavender background have won the relevant award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. Superscript letters after the result indicate simultaneous nominations in other categories.

Year Author(s) Book title Publisher Result Ref. 1999 Accidental Creatures Tor Won (joint) 1999 Dark Water's Embrace Avon Eos Won (joint) 1999 Halfway Human Avon Eos Nominated 1999 Maximum Light Tor Nominated 1999 DAW BooksNominated 2000 Meisha Merlin Won (joint) 2000 Warner Aspect Won (joint) 2000 Avon EosNominated 2000 DAW BooksNominated 2000 DAW BooksNominated 2000 Traitor's Moon Bantam SpectraNominated 2001 Jumping Off the Planet Tor Won 2001 Random House Nominated 2001 Tor Nominated 2001 Design Image GroupNominated 2001 TorNominated 2001 Kirith Kirin Meisha MerlinNominated 2001 Teranesia Avon Harpercollins EosNominated 2002 Algonquin Books Won 2002 Bouncing Off the Moon TorNominated 2002 Dreamer RocNominated 2002 Bantam SpectraNominated 2002 Red Deer PressNominated 2002 Kushiel's Dart TorNominated 2002 TorNominated 2002 & Lisa A. Barnett Point of Dreams TorNominated 2003 Fire Logic Tor Won 2003 Dance for the Ivory Madonna Speed-of-CNominated 2003 & Delia Sherman Bantam SpectraNominated 2003 Hominids TorNominated 2003 Lorimal's Chalice Fortitude Press Nominated 2003 Nightmare: A Novel of the Silent Empire RocNominated 2003 Solitaire EosNominated 2004 Warner Won 2004 Bantam SpectraNominated 2004 Hybrids TorNominated 2004 Lust St. Martin's PressNominated 2004 Spin StateBantam DellNominated 2004 Storyteller AceNominated 2004 Trickster RocNominated 2004 Troll GroveNominated 2005 Earth Logic Tor Won 2005 Dog Warrior RocNominated 2005 Bantam SpectraNominated 2005 Murder of Angels RocNominated 2005 Offspring RocNominated 2005 TorNominated 2005 Reruns Yard DogNominated 2005 Smoke and ShadowsDAW BooksNominated 2006 Cagebird Warner Aspect Won 2006 Bite Club AlysonNominated 2006 Dragon's Eye AceNominated 2006 Smoke and MirrorsDAW BooksNominated 2006 Bantam SpectraNominated 2006 AioNominated 2006 ScribnerNominated 2007 Vellum Del Rey Won 2007 CarnivalBantam SpectraNominated 2007 Dragon's Teeth AceNominated 2007 & Okasha Skat'si P.D. PublishingNominated 2007 Bantam Spectra Nominated 2007 Smoke and AshesDAW BooksNominated 2007 Snow TorquereNominated 2007 Spin ControlBantam SpectraNominated 2007 The Virtu AceNominated 2008 Wicked Gentlemen Del Rey Won 2008 Lady Knight Bold Strokes BooksNominated 2008 Dust Bantam SpectraNominated 2008 New Amsterdam Far TerritoriesNominated 2008 Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age RocNominated 2008 Vintage: A Ghost Story Haworth PositronicNominated 2008 Ink Del ReyNominated 2008 Daughters of the North aka The Carhullan Army Faber & FaberNominated 2008 Hero DoubledayNominated 2008 Hex: A Novel of Love Spells Carroll & GrafNominated 2008 Spaceman Blues: A Love Song TorNominated 2008 Ha'penny TorNominated 2009 The Stratford Man (Hell and Earth/Ink and Steel) Roc Won 2009 All the Windwracked Stars TorNominated 2009 City of Ashes McElderryNominated 2009 & Havemercy Bantam SpectraNominated 2009 Shadow's Return Bantam SpectraNominated 2009 Turnskin Blind Eye BooksNominated 2010 The Steel Remains Del Rey Won 2010 Ash Little, Brown and CompanyNominated 2010 By the Mountain Bound TorNominated 2010 Centuries Ago and Very Fast Aqueduct PressNominated 2010 The Enchantment EmporiumDAW BooksNominated 2010 Naamah's Kiss Grand CentralNominated 2010 Palimpsest Del ReyNominated 2010 The Red Tree RocNominated 2010 Seven for a Secret Subterranean PressNominated 2010 Strange Fortune Blind EyeNominated 2011 Under the Poppy Small Beer Press Won 2011 Black Blade Blues TorNominated 2011 Bob the Book Chelsea Street EditionsNominated 2011 A Book of Tongues ChiZine PublicationsNominated 2011 Red Hood's Revenge DAW BooksNominated 2011 Stealing Fire OrbitNominated 2011 The White Road Bantam SpectraNominated 2011 The Wolf at the Door Chelsea Street EditionsNominated 2012 Honeyed Words Tor Won 2012 The Cold Commands Del ReyNominated 2012 God's War/Infidel Night ShadeNominated 2012 Grail Bantam SpectraNominated 2012 The Highest Frontier TorNominated 2012 Huntress Little, Brown and CompanyNominated 2012 A Rope of Thorns ChiZine PublicationsNominated 2012 Rule 34 AceNominated 2012 Static Amber Quill PressNominated 2012 The Wild Ways DAW BooksNominated 2013 The Song of Achilles Ecco Press Won 2013 Casket of Souls Bantam SpectraNominated 2013 Forged in Fire TorNominated 2013 Point of Knives Lethe PressNominated 2013 Rapture Night Shade BooksNominated 2014 & Amy Griswold Death By Silver Lethe Press Won 2014 Angel on the Ropes Self-publishedNominated 2014 Blood Oranges Roc BooksNominated 2014 Dead in the Desert Harper BooksNominated 2014 The Holy Road/His Sacred Bones Blind Eye BooksNominated 2014 Indexing 47NorthNominated 2014 The Left Hand of Justice Bold Strokes BooksNominated 2014 The Magpie Lord Samhain PublishingNominated 2014 Something More Than Night Tor BooksNominated 2014 The Summer Prince Arthur A. Levine BooksNominated 2014 The Violent Century Hodder & StoughtonNominated 2014 Widdershins / Threshold / Stormhaven Self-publishedNominated 2015 Fairs' Point Lethe Press Won 2015 A Case of Possession / Flight of Magpies Samhain PublishingNominated 2015 The Dark Defiles Del Rey BooksNominated 2015 Daughter of Mystery Bella BooksNominated 2015 & Amy Griswold A Death at the Dionysus Club Lethe PressNominated 2015 The Future Falls DAWNominated 2015 Heirs of Grace 47NorthNominated 2015 & Heidi Bellau King of Dublin Riptide PublishingNominated 2015 The Mercury Waltz Roadswell EditionsNominated 2015 Necropolis / Bloodline Widdershins PressNominated 2015 Red Delicious Penguin BooksNominated 2015 Pathfinder Tales: The Redemption Engine Paizo PublishingNominated 2015 Shards of Time Del Rey BooksNominated 2015 & Jo Graham Wind Raker Crossroad PressNominated 2016 Luna: New Moon Tor Books Won 2016 The Bastards' Paradise Roadswell EditionsNominated 2016 & Jenn Burke Chaos Station Carina PressNominated 2016 Cherry Bomb Roc/PenguinNominated 2016 Ebenezer Zumaya BoundlessNominated 2016 Karen Memory Tor BooksNominated 2016 My Real Children Tor BooksNominated 2016 The Mystic Marriage Bella BooksNominated 2016 Planetfall Ace/RocNominated 2016 The Watchmaker of Filigree Street BloomsburyNominated 2017 Mother of Souls Bella Books Won 2017 The Big Lie Candlewick PressNominated 2017 Cocktails at Seven, Apocalypse at Eight: The Derby Cavendish Stories ChiZine PublicationsNominated 2017 Fallow Widdershins PressNominated 2017 Hexbreaker / Hexmaker Widdershins PressNominated 2017 Lily Lethe PressNominated 2017 Malachite Bonecamp PressNominated 2017 Maze-Born Trouble Blind Eye BooksNominated 2017 Night Terrors WordFire PressNominated 2018 Passing Strange Tor.com Won 2018 The Adventures of the Incognita Countess Aqueduct PressNominated 2018 Amberlough Tor BooksNominated 2018 The Black Tides of Heaven Tor.comNominated 2018 The Cult of Ocasta Evil Jester PressNominated 2018 An Excess Male Harper VoyagerNominated 2018 Hexslayer JLH PublishingNominated 2018 The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic Duet Imprint / Interlude PressNominated 2018 et al. Tremontaine Season 1 Serial Box/Saga PressNominated 2018 An Unkindness of Ghosts Akashic BooksNominated Also won the People's Choice Award.

The awards for 2014 and 2015 were combined into a single ceremony and presented in 2015

Hall of Fame novels In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the award ceremonies; the books were all first published before the founding of the awards in 1998. No novels have been inducted into the Hall of Fame since 2003. Entries in bold and with a lavender background were inducted into the Hall of Fame that year; those that are neither highlighted nor in bold were not inducted that year (NI), but may be inducted later (IL). Superscript letters after the result indicate simultaneous nominations in other categories.

Year Author(s) Book title Publisher Result Ref. 1999 Maureen McHugh China Mountain Zhang Tor Inducted 1999 Lawrence Schimel Drag Queen of Elfland Ultra VioletNI 1999 Toby Johnson Secret Matter Peregrine Ventures NI 1999 Melissa Scott Shadow Man TorNI - IL 2000 Nicola Griffith Slow River Del Rey Inducted 2000 Ellen Kushner Swordspoint Tor Inducted 2000 Thomas Burnett Swann How Are The Mighty Fallen DAW BooksNI 2000 Diane Duane Tale of the Five series aka The Middle Kingdoms TorNI - IL 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Imperial Earth OrionInducted 2001 Mary Doria Russell & Children of God FawcettInducted 2001 Francesca Lia Block Dangerous Angels aka The Weetzie Bat books HarperCollinsInducted 2001 Tanya Huff DAW BooksNI 2001 Marion Zimmer Bradley DAW BooksNI 2001 Ursula Le Guin AceNI - IL 2002 Samuel R. Delany Dhalgren Bantam BooksInducted 2002 Joanna Russ Bantam BooksInducted 2002 Geoff Ryman Was HarperCollinsInducted 2003 Suzy McKee Charnas Ballantine / TorInducted 2003 Ursula Le Guin AceInducted 2003 Melissa Scott Shadow Man TorInducted 2003 Diane Duane Tale of the Five series aka The Middle Kingdoms TorInducted

Also won the People's Choice Award.

List of Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees for best novel

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