Spectrum Award nominees announced (5032)

The Spectrum Awards, honoring science fiction works of special interest to the GLBT community, have announced their finalists for 2002. The awards will be presented at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, Calif., August 29 to September 2.

Here is a complete list of nominees:

Best Novel
Bouncing Off the Moon by David Gerrold (Tor)
Dreamer by Steven Harper (Roc)
The Ghost Sister by Liz Williams (Bantam)
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto (Red Deer Press)
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (Tor)
A Paradigm of Earth by Candas Jane Dorsey (Tor)
Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett (Tor)
The Song of the Earth by Hugh Nissenson (Algonquin Books)

Best Short Fiction
"The Anthvoke" by Steve Berman (from the collection Trysts and the magazine Strange Horizons)
"The Devil and Mrs. Faust" by Ian Phillips (from the anthology See Dick Deconstruct)
"If on a Moonlit Night" by M. Shayne Bell (from the magazine Realms of Fantasy)
"Kindred" by Alexis Glynn Latner (from the anthology Bending the Landscape: Horror)
"Love on a Stick" by Carrie Richerson (from the anthology Bending the Landscape: Horror)
"Passing" by Mark Tiedemann (from the anthology Bending the Landscape: Horror)
"Shiomah's Land" by Nisi Shawl (from the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction)
"Soul of Light" by Catherine Asaro (from the anthology Sextopia)
"Triangle" by Ellen Klages (from the anthology Bending the Landscape: Horror)

Best Other Work
Bending the Landscape: Horror, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (anthology) (Overlook)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon (TV) (UPN/WB/Fox)
Charm School (comic book) (Slave Labor)
Codename: Knockout #0-6 by Robert Rodi (comic book) (DC/Vertigo Comics)
Green Lantern #137 & #140 by Judd Winick (comic book) (DC Comics)
Sextopia edited by Cecilia Tan (anthology) (Circlet)
Trysts by Steve Berman (collection) (Lethe Press)
X-Force #117-118 (comic book) (Marvel Comics)