Hugo awards 2012 - short stories: Nominees & my rankings
Official announcement.
Covers short stories originally published during 2011.
One of the stories is a novel excerpt rather than an independent story. I didn't read it. I was not even aware novel excerpts are eligible.
5 May 2012: OK - I now understand it's mean to an April Fool's joke - the prologue to an imaginary novel series.
Three of the stories were also on Nebula list this year.
List below is in order of my preference - best first, unread last. Where I have a separate post on a story, link on title goes there. All stories are online, & I've included the links. Links on author or publisher fetch more matching fiction.
Covers short stories originally published during 2011.
One of the stories is a novel excerpt rather than an independent story. I didn't read it. I was not even aware novel excerpts are eligible.
5 May 2012: OK - I now understand it's mean to an April Fool's joke - the prologue to an imaginary novel series.
Three of the stories were also on Nebula list this year.
List below is in order of my preference - best first, unread last. Where I have a separate post on a story, link on title goes there. All stories are online, & I've included the links. Links on author or publisher fetch more matching fiction.
- Mike Resnick's "The Homecoming" (B); download; Asimov's, April/May: Son is visiting parents after being away for over a decade, & he's a very changed man. Dad is very angry, mom is now amnesic. How will the reunion go?
Decent read, if you are in the right mood. It's an emotional story. - Nancy Fulda's "Movement" (B); download text & audio; Asimov's, March: Life of a girl inflicted with "temporal autism".
Nominated for Nebula award 2011 in short story category. - E Lily Yu's "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" (B); download text/audio; Clarkesworld, April: Wasps colonize bees territory. Imaginative but with lousy ending.
Colorful, but I was very disappointed with the ending.
Nominated for Nebula award 2011 in short story category. Collected in Rich Horton (ed)'s "The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012". - Ken Liu's "The Paper Menagerie" (B); download; F&SF, March/April: Emotional & sad story of a Chinese peasant girl - losing her parents, being sold as a slave to a Hong Kong household, being sold as a "wife" to an American man, & finally being rejected by her American son who disliked his Chinese origins.
Nominated for Nebula award 2011 in short story category. - John Scalzi's "Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue"; download; Tor.com: Not read.
Related.
- All Hugo award winners & nominees.
- Other awards for short fiction originally published during 2011: Nebula, BSFA.
- Fiction originally published during 2011.
- My "best of 2011".
- "Best of" lists.
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