← Back

The Ice Owl

Carolyn Ives Gilman

First published November 2011
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series The Twenty Planets

Synopsis

Set in the same universe as Arkfall (although a totally independent story), The Ice Owl tells a tale capturing that moment when we start to lose our childhood... when we start to realize that our parents and the "grown-ups" are just as flawed as we are... everyone struggling to deal with their own demons. It is also a story about past crimes and the haunting echo of ghosts long dead, of a life-long quest for redemption and, for some, the final revenge for crimes lost in the stellar dust...

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2012 Hugo Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
2012 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
2012 Nebula Award Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (16)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 2011 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November-December 2011 Spilogale, Inc. MAGAZINE 207
May 2012 Year's Best SF 17 Harper Voyager Anthology
June 2012 Year's Best SF 17 Harper Voyager Anthology 438
July 2012 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 139
July 2012 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 139
July 2012 The Ice Owl Phoenix Pick Chapbook 5
July 2012 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology
September 2012 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25 Robinson Anthology 153
September 2012 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25 Robinson Anthology |100
November 2012 The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 Infinivox Anthology |1
November 2012 The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 Infinivox Anthology |1
May 2013 Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 Pyr Anthology 43
May 2013 Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 Pyr Anthology
November 2013 The Ice Owl Phoenix Pick Chapbook
October 2020 The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book Infinivox Anthology 338
October 2020 The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book Infinivox Anthology |15