2008 Hugo Award Nominees for Best Short Story, Novelette and Novella

The nominees for the 2008 Hugo Awards for Best Short Story, Best Novelette and Best Novella have finally been announced. You can check out the official page at denvention.org (the site of the scifi convention that will announce the winners, held in Denver, Colorado August 6 – 10, 2008), or read an article on SF Signal that has a lot of links to the actual nominated works.

There are loads of good stuff on the list, but I am mostly interested in the short fiction categories. I got lucky and have already reviewed one short story, but I plan on reviewing as many as I can in the next few weeks, so check back often if you are interested in my opinions about them (And who isn’t!) Usually the magazines that published these stories will post a free version for people to read, so if I come across those links I’ll share them too.

Anyway, here is the list of 2008 Hugo Award nominees for Best Short Story, Best Novelette and Best Novella – along with the title and where they were originally published:

Best Short Story (less than 7,500 words)

• “Last Contact” by Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed. by George Mann, Solaris Books)
• “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s June 2007)
• “Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359?” by Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera, ed. by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
• “Distant Replay” by Mike Resnick (Asimov’s April/May 2007)
• “A Small Room in Koboldtown” by Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s April/May 2007; The Dog Said Bow-Wow,Tachyon Publications)

Best Novelette (7,500 – 17,500 words)

• “The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham (Logorrhea ed. by John Klima, Bantam)
• “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang (Subterranean Press; F&SF Sept. 2007)
• “Dark Integers” by Greg Egan (Asimov’s Oct./Nov. 2007)
• “Glory” by Greg Egan (The New Space Opera, ed. by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
• “Finisterra” by David Moles (F&SF Dec. 2007)

Best Novella (17,500 – 40,000 words)

• “Fountain of Age” by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s July 2007)
• “Recovering Apollo 8″ by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov’s Feb. 2007)
• “Stars Seen Through Stone” by Lucius Shepard (F&SF July 2007)
• “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis (Asimov’s Dec. 2007; Subterranean Press)
• “Memorare” by Gene Wolfe (F&SF April 2007)

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