Lasswitz Preis. My Real Children (Tor 2013) an alternate history story about a woman with dementia who remembers two different lives in two distinct worlds, neither of them ours, won the Tiptree Award (now Otherwise), the RUSA Award for Women's Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stonewall Award. Also in 2013 she published a collection of blog posts about older science fiction she had written for the website Tor.com between 2008 and 2011, with the serious grown up title What Makes This Book So Great (Tor) which won the Locus Award for Best Non Fiction in 2015, and also George R.R. Martin's "Alfie" award that same year. The Thessaly books, The Just City (Tor 2015) The Philosopher Kings (Tor 2015) and Necessity (Tor 2016) are a trilogy about Greek gods and time travellers setting up Plato's Republic. In 2017 she published the short story collection Starlings (Tachyon Press). Also in that year she was given the E.E. Doc Smith Award, with the giant lens, by NESFA for services to science fiction. In 2018 she brought out another essay collection, An Informal History of the Hugos (Tor). In 2019 she published Lent a fantasy novel about Savonarola, and in 2020 Or What You Will a fantasy novel about imaginary friends and the nature of creativity. In 2020 she also edited and self published a giant poetry collection Thought Against Tomorrow, as well as a travel memoir Visiting Friends and an ebook of Lifelode. In 2021 she wrote a play Heart's Home for Odyssey Theatre in Ottawa, which will be broadcast in April 2022, and began a podcast, with Ada Palmer, called "Ex Urbe Ad Astra". She is presently working on another essay collection, in collaboration with Ada Palmer, and two different novels. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year.