N.A. Sulway’s imaginative and highly original novel tells the story of Rupetta, an artificial intelligence created 400 years ago from cloth, leather, and metal, brought to life by the touch of her creator’s hand on her clockwork heart. Although Rupetta is a constructed being, she is not a robot. Her consciousness is neither digital nor mechanical. Nor is she an android, a creature that is, etymologically, male. (The word is not gyndroid). Rupetta’s power does not come from her brain, but from her heart. Sulway has placed her construct not in the future, but the past, and made her female, created with traditionally feminine technology: sewing and weaving. Rupetta is a woman, made by a woman in the image of a woman, and the world changes to accommodate her existence.
The Honor List is
Eleanor Arnason, Big Mama Stories
Aliette de Bodard, “Heaven Under Earth”
Nicola Griffith, Hild
Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
Bennett Madison, September Girls
Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs
Janelle Monae, Electric Lady
Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
S. M. Wheeler, Sea Change
Award Total F M F/T
Winner 1 1 1
Honor List 10 10 1
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