Morning Child

2004 collection (publ. ibooks Inc)

"Morning Child" (1984) is a science fiction short story written by Gardner Dozois. It was reprinted in Best SF of the Year 14 (edited by Terry Carr), Nebula Awards 20 (edited by George Zebrowski) and in Dozois's own collection, Geodesic Dreams (1992). More recently, it was republished as the title story for Dozois's short fiction collection, Morning Child and Other Stories (2004 and 2012).

## Awards

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It won the Nebula Award in 1984 for Best Short Story,[1] and was nominated for the Locus Poll Award and SF Chronicle Award.[citation needed]

## References

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1. ^ "Morning Child". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved 2021-02-18.

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Nebula Award for Best Short Story

1966–1980|

* ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison (1966)
* "The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna (1967)
* "Aye, and Gomorrah" by Samuel R. Delany (1968)
* "The Planners" by Kate Wilhelm (1969)
* "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg (1970)
* "Good News from the Vatican" by Robert Silverberg (1972)
* "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ (1973)
* "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" by James Tiptree Jr. (1974)
* "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975)
* "Catch That Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber (1976)
* "A Crowd of Shadows" by Charles L. Grant (1977)
* "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison (1978)
* "Stone" by Edward Bryant (1979)
* "giANTS" by Edward Bryant (1980)

1981–2000|

* "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak (1981)
* "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle (refused, 1982)
* "A Letter from the Clearys" by Connie Willis (1983)
* "The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois (1984)
* "Morning Child" by Gardner Dozois (1985)
* "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress (1986)
* "Tangents" by Greg Bear (1987)
* "Forever Yours, Anna" by Kate Wilhelm (1988)
* "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James K. Morrow (1989)
* "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey A. Landis (1990)
* "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1991)
* "Ma Qui" by Alan Brennert (1992)
* "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (1993)
* "Graves" by Joe Haldeman (1994)
* "A Defense of the Social Contracts" by Martha Soukup (1995)
* "Death and the Librarian" by Esther Friesner (1996)
* "A Birthday" by Esther Friesner (1997)
* "Sister Emily's Lightship" by Jane Yolen (1998)
* "Thirteen Ways to Water" by Bruce Holland Rogers (1999)
* "The Cost of Doing Business" by Leslie What (2000)

2001–2020|

* "macs" by Terry Bisson (2001)
* "The Cure for Everything" by Severna Park (2002)
* "Creature" by Carol Emshwiller (2003)
* "What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler (2004)
* "Coming to Terms" by Eileen Gunn (2005)
* "I Live With You" by Carol Emshwiller (2006)
* "Echo" by Elizabeth Hand (2007)
* "Always" by Karen Joy Fowler (2008)
* "Trophy Wives" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (2009)
* "Spar" by Kij Johnson (2010)
* "How Interesting: A Tiny Man" by Harlan Ellison / "Ponies" by Kij Johnson (2011)
* "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu (2012)
* "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (2013)
* "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" by Rachel Swirsky (2014)
* "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon (2015)
* "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong (2016)
* "Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar (2017)
* "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" by Rebecca Roanhorse (2018)
* "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" by P. Djèlí Clark (2019)
* "Give the Family My Love" by A. T. Greenblatt (2020)

2021–present|

* "Open House on Haunted Hill" by John Wiswell (2021)
* "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" by Sarah Pinsker (2022)
* "Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills (2023)
* "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" by R. S. A. Garcia (2024)

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