Free Speculative Fiction Online: Awards 2010-2019

Awards 2010-2019

Seanan McGuire: In Sea-Salt Tears
Alternate link. Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Paul Cornell: One of Our Bastards is Missing (Solaris Book of New SF Anthology #3, 2009)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 15’.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Peter Watts: The Island (The New Space Opera Anthology #3, 2009)
Available as part of this anthology.
Hugo for Best Novelette 2010.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 15’.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Four.
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Nicola Griffith: It Takes Two (Eclipse Anthology #3, 2009)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Four.
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Lawrence M. Schoen: The Moment (Footprints Anthology, 2009)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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Will McIntosh: Bridesicle (Asimov's, January 2009)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2010.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
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Eugie Foster: Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast (Interzone #220, February 2009)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2009.
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Rachel Swirsky: Eros, Philia, Agape (Tor.com, March 2009)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Four.
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Helen Keeble: A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc; or, A Lullaby (Strange Horizons, June 2009)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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N. K. Jemisin: Non-Zero Probabilities (Clarkesworld #36, September 2009)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
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Kij Johnson: Spar (Clarkesworld #37, October 2009)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2009.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Four.
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Genevieve Valentine: Light on the Water (Fantasy Magazine, October 2009)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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Mike Resnick: The Bride of Frankenstein (Asimov's, December 2009)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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Charles Stross: Overtime (Tor.com, December 2009)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
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Chris Barzak: Map of Seventeen (Beastly Bride Anthology, 2010)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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Rachel Swirsky: Available as part of this magazine (Subterranean Online, Summer 2010)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
Nebula for Best Novella 2010.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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A serialized podcast. Part 2. Part 3.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Jennifer Pelland: Ghosts of New York (Dark Faith Anthology, 2010)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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Peter Watts: The Things (Clarkesworld #40, January 2010)
Alternate link. A sample from this anthology.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Eighth Edition.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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Felicity Shoulders: Conditional Love (Asimov's, January 2010)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Harlan Ellison: How Interesting: A Tiny Man (Realms of Fantasy, February 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2010.
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Tied winner of the Nebula award.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Caroline M. Yoachim: Stone Wall Truth (Asimov's, February 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Christopher Kastensmidt: The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara (Realms of Fantasy, April 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
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Allen Steele: The Emperor of Mars (Asimov's, June 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Novelette 2011.
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Vylar Kaftan: I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno (Lightspeed #1, June 2010)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
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Carrie Vaughn: Amaryllis (Lightspeed, June 2010)
Alternate link. Available as part of this anthology.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Eighth Edition.
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Aliette de Bodard: The Jaguar House, in Shadow (Asimov's, July 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
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Adam-Troy Castro: Arvies (Lightspeed, August 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011’.
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Sean McMullen: Eight Miles (Analog, September 2010)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 16’.
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Eric James Stone: That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made (Analog, September 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2010.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Geoffrey A. Landis: The Sultan of the Clouds (Asimov's, September 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2010.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Eighth Edition.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2010’ list.
Audio version serialized. Part 2. Part 3.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Mary Robinette Kowal: For Want of a Nail (Asimov's, September 2010)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 2011.
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Kij Johnson: Ponies (Tor.com, November 2010)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2010.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
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Tied winner of the Nebula award.

Amal El-Mohtar: The Green Book (Apex Magazine #18, November 2010)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2010.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011’.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2010’ list.

James Patrick Kelly: Plus or Minus (Asimov's, December 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2010.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Ken Liu: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (Panverse Anthology #3, 2011)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2011’ list.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Rachel Swirsky: Fields of Gold (Eclipse Anthology #4, 2011)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012’.
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David W. Goldman: The Axiom of Choice (New Haven Review, Winter 2011)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie (F & SF, March 2011)
Available as part of this magazine. Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2012.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2011.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2012.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Six.
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Nancy Fulda: Movement (Asimov's, March 2011)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2011’ list.

Tom Crosshill: Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son (Lightspeed, April 2011)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
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John Scalzi: The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City (Tor.com, April 2011)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
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Prologue of an imaginary novel, written as an April Fool’s prank.

Mike Resnick: The Homecoming (Asimov's, April 2011)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
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E. Lily Yu: The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees (Clarkesworld #55, April 2011)
Alternate link. Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Six.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2011’ list.
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Charlie Jane Anders: Six Months, Three Days (Tor.com, June 2011)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 17’.
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Mary Robinette Kowal: Kiss Me Twice (Asimov's, June 2011)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
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Jake Kerr: The Old Equations (Lightspeed, July 2011)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
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Katherine Sparrow: The Migratory Pattern of Dancers (GigaNotoSaurus, July 2011)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
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Adam-Troy Castro: Her Husband’s Hands (Lightspeed, October 2011)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2011.
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Catherynne M. Valente: Silently and Very Fast (Clarkesworld #62, October 2011)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2012.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Ninth Edition.
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A serial. Part 2. Part 3.

Ferrett Steinmetz: Sauerkraut Station (GigaNotoSaurus, November 2011)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
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Brad R. Torgersen: Ray of Light (Analog, December 2011)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2011.
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Cat Rambo: Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain (Near and Far Collection, 2012)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
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Ken Liu: Mono no Aware (The Future Is Japanese Anthology, 2012)
Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2013.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Seven.
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Pat Cadigan: The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi (Edge of Infinity Anthology, 2012)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2013.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirtieth Edition.
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Andy Duncan: Close Encounters (The Pottawatomie Giant Collection, 2012)
Nebula for Best Novelette 2012.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirtieth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Seven.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2012’ list.

Catherine Asaro: The Pyre of New Day (The Mammoth Books of SF Wars Anthology, 2012)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2012.
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Mary Robinette Kowal: The Lady Astronaut of Mars (Rip-Off! Anthology, 2012)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2014.
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Emily Gilman: The Castle That Jack Built (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #87, January 2012)
Available as part of this magazine.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013’.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2012’ list.

Meghan McCarron: Swift, Brutal Retaliation (Tor.com, January 2012)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2012.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Seven.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2012’ list.

Ken Liu: All the Flavors (GigaNotoSaurus, February 2012)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2012.
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Tom Crosshill: Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes (Clarkesworld #67, April 2012)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
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Lee Mandelo: The Finite Canvas (Tor.com, May 2012)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2012.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirtieth Edition.
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Originally as by ‘Brit Mandelo’.

Aliette de Bodard: Immersion (Clarkesworld #69, June 2012)
Alternate link. Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2012.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Seven.
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Jeffrey Ford: A Natural History of Autumn (F & SF, July 2012)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
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Maria Dahvana Headley: Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream (Lightspeed, July 2012)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013’.
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Kat Howard: Breaking the Frame (Lightspeed, August 2012)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
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Ken Liu: The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species (Lightspeed, August 2012)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
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Kij Johnson: Mantis Wives (Clarkesworld #71, August 2012)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Seven.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2012’ list.

Catherynne M. Valente: Fade to White (Clarkesworld #71, August 2012)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2012.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Seven.
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Helena Bell: Robot (Clarkesworld #72, September 2012)
Alternate link. Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2012.
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Gregory Norman Bossert: The Telling (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #109, November 2012)
Available as part of this magazine. Alternate link.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2013.
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Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam: The Orangery (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #214, December 2012)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2016.
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Sarah Pinsker: In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind (Strange Horizons, July 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
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Sofia Samatar: Selkie Stories Are for Losers (Strange Horizons, January 2013)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
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To be featured in Strahan’s "Year’s Best SF & F", Volume Eight.

Aliette de Bodard: The Waiting Stars (The Other Half of the Sky Anthology, 2013)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2014.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2013.
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To be featured in Gardner Dozois’s "Year’s Best SF", Thirty-First Edition.

Kenneth Schneyer: Selected Program Notes From the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer (Clockwork Phoenix Anthology #4, 2013)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
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Brad R. Torgersen: The Exchange Officers (Analog, January 2013)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2014.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Matthew Kressel: The Sounds of Old Earth (Lightspeed, January 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
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Yoon Ha Lee: Effigy Nights (Clarkesworld #76, January 2013)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2013’ list.
To be featured in Strahan’s Year’s Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

Recommended!

Alaya Dawn Johnson: They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass (Asimov's, January 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
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John Chu: The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (Tor.com, February 2013)
Available as part of this magazine. Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2014.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2013’ list.

Vylar Kaftan: The Weight of the Sunrise (Asimov's, February 2013)
Nebula for Best Novella 2013.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Rachel Swirsky: If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love (Apex Magazine #46, March 2013)
Alternate link. Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2013.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
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Three Stars on Tangent Online’s ‘2013 recommended reading’ list.

Thomas Olde Heuvelt: The Ink Readers of Doi Saket (Tor.com, April 2013)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2013’ list.
To be featured in Strahan’s Year’s Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

Chris Barzak: Paranormal Romance (Lightspeed, June 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
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Sylvia Spruck Wrigley: Alive, Alive Oh (Lightspeed, June 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
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Ken Liu: The Litigation Master and the Monkey King (Lightspeed, August 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
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Charles Stross: Equoid (Tor.com, September 2013)
Hugo for Best Novella 2014.
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Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages: Wakulla Springs (Tor.com, October 2013)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2014.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2013.
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 2014.
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Henry Lien: Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters (Asimov's, December 2013)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
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A serial. Part 2.

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Ken Liu: The Regular (Upgraded Anthology, 2014)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2014.
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Kelly Link: I Can See Right Through You (McSweeney's #48, Fall 2014)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2015.
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Kaaron Warren: Death’s Door Café (Shadows & Tall Trees, 2014)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2015.
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Usman T. Malik: The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family (Qualia Nous Anthology, 2014)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
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Ursula Vernon: Jackalope Wives (Apex Magazine, January 2014)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2015.
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Sarah Pinsker: A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide (F & SF, March 2014)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
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Aliette de Bodard: The Breath of War (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #142, March 2014)
Available as part of this magazine. Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
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M. Rickert: The Mothers of Voorhisville (Tor.com, April 2014)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2014.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2015.
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Thomas Olde Heuvelt: The Day the World Turned Upside Down (Lightspeed, April 2014)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2015.
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Kai Ashante Wilson: The Devil in America (Tor.com, April 2014)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2014.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2015.
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Matthew Kressel: The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye (Clarkesworld #92, May 2014)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2014.
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Richard Bowes: Sleep Walking Now and Then (Tor.com, July 2014)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2014.
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Alaya Dawn Johnson: A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i (F & SF, July 2014)
Nebula for Best Novelette 2014.
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Sam J. Miller: We Are the Cloud (Lightspeed, September 2014)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2014.
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Carmen Maria Machado: The Husband Stitch (Granta, October 2014)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2014.
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Pasi Jääskeläinen: Where the Trains Turn (Tor.com, November 2014)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2015.
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Tom Crosshill: The Magician and Laplace’s Demon (Clarkesworld #99, December 2014)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2014.
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C. S. E. Cooney: The Bone Swans of Amandale (Bone Swans Collection, 2015)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2015.
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Amal El-Mohtar: Pockets (Uncanny Magazine #2, January 2015)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2016.
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D. D. Levine: Damage (Tor.com, January 2015)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2015.
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Naomi Kritzer: Cat Pictures Please (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2015.
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Sam J. Miller: The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History (Uncanny Magazine #2, January 2015)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2016.
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Brooke Bolander: And You Shall Know Her By The Trail Of Dead (Lightspeed, February 2015)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2015.
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Eugene Fischer: The New Mother (Asimov's, April 2015)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2015.
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Usman T. Malik: The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn (Tor.com, April 2015)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2015.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2016.
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Amal El-Mohtar: Madeleine (Lightspeed, June 2015)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2015.
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Rose Lemberg: Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175, June 2015)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2015.
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Henry Lien: The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society (Asimov's, June 2015)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2015.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Kelly Robson: Waters of Versailles (Tor.com, June 2015)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2015.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2016.
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Sarah Pinsker: Our Lady of the Open Road (Asimov's, June 2015)
Nebula for Best Novelette 2015.
Reviews: Isfdb:

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Sam J. Miller: When Your Child Strays From God (Clarkesworld #106, July 2015)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2015.
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Martin L. Shoemaker: Today I Am Paul (Clarkesworld #107, August 2015)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2015.
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Alyssa Wong: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Nightmare Magazine #37, October 2015)
Nebula for Best Short Story 2015.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2016.
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Amal El-Mohtar: Seasons of Glass and Iron (The Starlit Wood Anthology, 2016)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2017.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2016.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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Barbara Krasnoff: Sabbath Wine (Clockwork Phoenix Anthology #5, 2016)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2016.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Rachael K. Jones: The Fall Shall Further the Flight In Me (Clockwork Phoenix Anthology #5, 2016)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Ursula Vernon: The Tomato Thief (Apex Magazine, January 2016)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2017.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor: This Is Not a Wardrobe Door (Fireside Magazine #29, January 2016)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2016.
As by ‘A. Merc Rustad’.

Sarah Pinsker: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Lightspeed, February 2016)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2016.
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Jason Sanford: Blood Grains Speak Through Memories (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #195, March 2016)
Available as part of this magazine. Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2016.
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Alyssa Wong: A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Tor.com, March 2016)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2016.
Review: Isfdb:

Carrie Vaughn: That Game We Played During the War (Tor.com, March 2016)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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Caroline M. Yoachim: Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 (Lightspeed, March 2016)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2016.
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Carolyn Ives Gilman: Touring with the Alien (Clarkesworld #115, April 2016)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2017.
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Alyssa Wong: You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay (Uncanny Magazine #10, May 2016)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2017.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2016.
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Sam J. Miller: Things With Beards (Clarkesworld #117, June 2016)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2016.
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Nina Allan: The Art of Space Travel (Tor.com, July 2016)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2017.
Review: Isfdb:

N. K. Jemisin: The City Born Great (Tor.com, September 2016)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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Maria Dahvana Headley: Little Widow (Nightmare Magazine #48, September 2016)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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Brooke Bolander: Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies (Uncanny Magazine #13, November 2016)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2016.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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G. V. Anderson: Das Steingeschöpf (Strange Horizons, December 2016)
Alternate link.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2017.
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Kelly Robson: A Human Stain (Tor.com, January 2017)
Nebula for Best Novelette 2017.
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Vina Jie-Min Prasad: A Series of Steaks (Clarkesworld, January 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2017.
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Yoon Ha Lee: Extracurricular Activities (Tor.com, February 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
Review: Isfdb:

Sarah Pinsker: And Then There Were (N-One) (Uncanny Magazine #15, March 2017)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2018.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2017.
Reviews:

Matthew Kressel: The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) (Tor.com, March 2017)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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K. M. Szpara: Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time (Uncanny Magazine #16, May 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2017.
Review: Isfdb:

Ursula Vernon: Sun, Moon, Dust (Uncanny Magazine #16, May 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
Review: Isfdb:

Caroline M. Yoachim: Carnival Nine (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #225, May 2017)
Available as part of this magazine. Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
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Jamie Wahls: Utopia, LOL? (Strange Horizons, June 2017)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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Linda Nagata: The Martian Obelisk (Tor.com, July 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
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Aliette de Bodard: Children of Thorns, Children of Water (Uncanny Magazine #17, July 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Rebecca Roanhorse: Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ (Apex Magazine, August 2017)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2018.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2017.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
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Fran Wilde: Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand (Uncanny Magazine #18, September 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
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Sarah Pinsker: Wind Will Rove (Asimov's, September 2017)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2017.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Suzanne Palmer: The Secret Life of Bots (Clarkesworld #132, September 2017)
Alternate link. A sample from this anthology.
Hugo for Best Novelette 2018.
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Vina Jie-Min Prasad: Fandom for Robots (Uncanny Magazine #18, September 2017)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2017.
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Natalia Theodoridou: The Birding: A Fairy Tale (Strange Horizons, December 2017)
Alternate link.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2018.
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Sarah Pinsker: The Court Magician (Lightspeed, January 2018)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
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José Pablo Iriarte: The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births (Lightspeed, January 2018)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Alix E. Harrow: A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies (Apex Magazine, February 2018)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2019.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
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P. Djèlí Clark: The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington (Fireside Magazine, February 2018)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2018.
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Emma Törzs: Like a River Loves the Sky (Uncanny Magazine, March 2018)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
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A. T. Greenblatt: And Yet (Uncanny Magazine #21, March 2018)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2018.
Review: Isfdb:

Tina Connolly: The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections (Tor.com, July 2018)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2019.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
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Brooke Bolander: The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat (Uncanny Magazine #23, July 2018)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Reviews:

Kij Johnson: The Privilege of the Happy Ending (Clarkesworld #143, August 2018)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2019.
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Daryl Gregory: Nine Last Days on Planet Earth (Tor.com, September 2018)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2019.
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Mel Kassel: Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake (Lightspeed, October 2018)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Sarah Gailey: STET (Fireside Magazine, October 2018)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
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Simone Heller: When We Were Starless (Clarkesworld #145, October 2018)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2019.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Naomi Kritzer: The Thing About Ghost Stories (Uncanny Magazine #25, November 2018)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2019.
Review: Isfdb:

Ursula Vernon: The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society (Uncanny Magazine #25, November 2018)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Review: Isfdb:
As by ‘T. Kingfisher’.

Adam-Troy Castro: The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation (Nightmare Magazine #75, December 2018)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Review: Isfdb:

Lawrence M. Schoen: The Rule of Three (Future SF Digest, December 2018)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2018.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Fran Wilde: A Catalog of Storms (Uncanny Magazine #26, January 2019)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2020.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
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Mimi Mondal: His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light (Tor.com, January 2019)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2019.
Review: Isfdb:

A. T. Greenblatt: Give the Family My Love (Clarkesworld #149, February 2019)
Alternate link.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2019.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Karen Osborne: The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power (Uncanny Magazine #27, March 2019)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Review: Isfdb:

Caroline M. Yoachim: The Archronology of Love (Lightspeed, April 2019)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2020.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2019.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Nibedita Sen: Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island (Nightmare Magazine #80, May 2019)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2020.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Reviews: Isfdb:

A. C. Wise: How the Trick Is Done (Uncanny Magazine #29, July 2019)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
Review: Isfdb:

Sarah Pinsker: The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye (Uncanny Magazine, July 2019)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2020.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2019.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2020.
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Siobhan Carroll: For He Can Creep (Tor.com, July 2019)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2020.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2019.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2020.
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Shiv Ramdas: And Now His Lordship Is Laughing (Strange Horizons, September 2019)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2020.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2019.
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Free Speculative Fiction Online

Awards 2010-2019

Seanan McGuire: In Sea-Salt Tears

Paul Cornell: One of Our Bastards is Missing (Solaris Book of New SF Anthology #3, 2009)

Peter Watts: The Island (The New Space Opera Anthology #3, 2009)

Nicola Griffith: It Takes Two (Eclipse Anthology #3, 2009)

Lawrence M. Schoen: The Moment (Footprints Anthology, 2009)

Will McIntosh: Bridesicle (Asimov's, January 2009)

Eugie Foster: Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast (Interzone #220, February 2009)

Rachel Swirsky: Eros, Philia, Agape (Tor.com, March 2009)

Helen Keeble: A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc; or, A Lullaby (Strange Horizons, June 2009)

N. K. Jemisin: Non-Zero Probabilities (Clarkesworld #36, September 2009)

Kij Johnson: Spar (Clarkesworld #37, October 2009)

Genevieve Valentine: Light on the Water (Fantasy Magazine, October 2009)

Mike Resnick: The Bride of Frankenstein (Asimov's, December 2009)

Charles Stross: Overtime (Tor.com, December 2009)

Chris Barzak: Map of Seventeen (Beastly Bride Anthology, 2010)

Rachel Swirsky: Available as part of this magazine (Subterranean Online, Summer 2010)

Jennifer Pelland: Ghosts of New York (Dark Faith Anthology, 2010)

Peter Watts: The Things (Clarkesworld #40, January 2010)

Felicity Shoulders: Conditional Love (Asimov's, January 2010)

Harlan Ellison: How Interesting: A Tiny Man (Realms of Fantasy, February 2010)

Caroline M. Yoachim: Stone Wall Truth (Asimov's, February 2010)

Christopher Kastensmidt: The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara (Realms of Fantasy, April 2010)

Allen Steele: The Emperor of Mars (Asimov's, June 2010)

Vylar Kaftan: I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno (Lightspeed #1, June 2010)

Carrie Vaughn: Amaryllis (Lightspeed, June 2010)

Aliette de Bodard: The Jaguar House, in Shadow (Asimov's, July 2010)

Adam-Troy Castro: Arvies (Lightspeed, August 2010)

Sean McMullen: Eight Miles (Analog, September 2010)

Eric James Stone: That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made (Analog, September 2010)

Geoffrey A. Landis: The Sultan of the Clouds (Asimov's, September 2010)

Mary Robinette Kowal: For Want of a Nail (Asimov's, September 2010)

Kij Johnson: Ponies (Tor.com, November 2010)

Amal El-Mohtar: The Green Book (Apex Magazine #18, November 2010)

James Patrick Kelly: Plus or Minus (Asimov's, December 2010)

Ken Liu: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (Panverse Anthology #3, 2011)

Rachel Swirsky: Fields of Gold (Eclipse Anthology #4, 2011)

David W. Goldman: The Axiom of Choice (New Haven Review, Winter 2011)

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie (F & SF, March 2011)

Nancy Fulda: Movement (Asimov's, March 2011)

Tom Crosshill: Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son (Lightspeed, April 2011)

John Scalzi: The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City (Tor.com, April 2011)

Mike Resnick: The Homecoming (Asimov's, April 2011)

E. Lily Yu: The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees (Clarkesworld #55, April 2011)

Charlie Jane Anders: Six Months, Three Days (Tor.com, June 2011)

Mary Robinette Kowal: Kiss Me Twice (Asimov's, June 2011)

Jake Kerr: The Old Equations (Lightspeed, July 2011)

Katherine Sparrow: The Migratory Pattern of Dancers (GigaNotoSaurus, July 2011)

Adam-Troy Castro: Her Husband’s Hands (Lightspeed, October 2011)

Catherynne M. Valente: Silently and Very Fast (Clarkesworld #62, October 2011)

Ferrett Steinmetz: Sauerkraut Station (GigaNotoSaurus, November 2011)

Brad R. Torgersen: Ray of Light (Analog, December 2011)

Cat Rambo: Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain (Near and Far Collection, 2012)

Ken Liu: Mono no Aware (The Future Is Japanese Anthology, 2012)

Pat Cadigan: The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi (Edge of Infinity Anthology, 2012)

Andy Duncan: Close Encounters (The Pottawatomie Giant Collection, 2012)

Catherine Asaro: The Pyre of New Day (The Mammoth Books of SF Wars Anthology, 2012)

Mary Robinette Kowal: The Lady Astronaut of Mars (Rip-Off! Anthology, 2012)

Emily Gilman: The Castle That Jack Built (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #87, January 2012)

Meghan McCarron: Swift, Brutal Retaliation (Tor.com, January 2012)

Ken Liu: All the Flavors (GigaNotoSaurus, February 2012)

Tom Crosshill: Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes (Clarkesworld #67, April 2012)

Lee Mandelo: The Finite Canvas (Tor.com, May 2012)

Aliette de Bodard: Immersion (Clarkesworld #69, June 2012)

Jeffrey Ford: A Natural History of Autumn (F & SF, July 2012)

Maria Dahvana Headley: Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream (Lightspeed, July 2012)

Kat Howard: Breaking the Frame (Lightspeed, August 2012)

Ken Liu: The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species (Lightspeed, August 2012)

Kij Johnson: Mantis Wives (Clarkesworld #71, August 2012)

Catherynne M. Valente: Fade to White (Clarkesworld #71, August 2012)

Helena Bell: Robot (Clarkesworld #72, September 2012)

Gregory Norman Bossert: The Telling (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #109, November 2012)

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam: The Orangery (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #214, December 2012)

Sarah Pinsker: In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind (Strange Horizons, July 2013)

Sofia Samatar: Selkie Stories Are for Losers (Strange Horizons, January 2013)

Aliette de Bodard: The Waiting Stars (The Other Half of the Sky Anthology, 2013)

Kenneth Schneyer: Selected Program Notes From the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer (Clockwork Phoenix Anthology #4, 2013)

Brad R. Torgersen: The Exchange Officers (Analog, January 2013)

Matthew Kressel: The Sounds of Old Earth (Lightspeed, January 2013)