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Nebula Report: Short Stories Nov 08

The following is a list of works recommended for the Nebula Awards, data current within the last available month.
NOTE: This is not the Preliminary Ballot. This is a list of all works in the applicable category that have received at least one nomination from an Active SFWA voting member and are currently still eligible.  Please refer to the Rules section for a more detailed explanation.

Aguirre, Forrest: Andretto Walks the King’s Way (Paper Cities, Ekaterina Sedia, Ed., Senses Five Press, Apr08)

Allen, Mike: The Button Bin (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct07 )

Amundsen, Erik: Bufo Rex (Weird Tales, Dec07)

Amundsen, Erik: Turnipseed (Fantasy Magazine, Mar08 )

Anders, Charlie: Love Might Be Too Strong a Word (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Jun08 <#22>)

Anders, Charlie: The Last Young Person Alive Writes A Memoir (Flurb, Aug07 <#3 Sum07>)

Antonelli, Lou: The Witch of Waxahachie (Jim Baen’s Universe, Apr08)

Attebery, Brian: Fairest (Strange Horizons, Sep07 <9/11/06>)

Bacigalupi, Paolo: The Gambler (Fast Forward 2, Lou Anders, Ed., Pyr, Oct08)

Baker, Kage: Running the Snake (Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, Ed., Solaris, Jun08)

Ballingrud, Nathan: Monsters of Heaven (Inferno, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Dec07)

Ballingrud, Nathan: North American Lake Monsters (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Del Rey, Apr08)

Banks, Gregory Bernard: Law of the Land (Amazon Shorts, Amazon.com, Oct07)

Barron, Laird: The Lagerstatte (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Del Rey, Apr08)

Barron, Laird: The Occultation (Clockwork Phoenix, Mike Allen, Ed., Norilana, Jul08)

Barzak, Chris: Little Miss Apocalypse (Realms of Fantasy, Aug07)

Barzak, Chris: Realer Than You (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)

Beagle, Peter S.: The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Bear, Elizabeth: Hobnoblin Blues (Realms of Fantasy, Feb08)

Bear, Elizabeth: Inelastic Collisions (Inferno, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Dec07)

Bear, Elizabeth: Sonny Liston Takes the Fall (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Del Rey, Apr08)

Beard, Beverly: A Thing Brilliant and Fine (Cicada, Jul07 )

Bergmann, E.J.: The Dream Tinker (Touched by Wonder, Gamber, Jackie, Ed., Meadowhawk Press, Oct07)

Berman, Steve: Tearjerker (Paper Cities, Ekaterina Sedia, Ed., Senses Five Press, Apr08)

Bernobich, Beth: A Handful of Pearls (Apex Online, Mar08 )

Bernobich, Beth: Shoppiing Spree (Jim Baen’s Universe, Aug08)

Bishop, Anne R.: Stands a God Within the Shadows (Imaginary Friends, John Marco and Martin H. Greenberg, Ed., DAW, Sep08)

Bisson, Terry: Pirates of the Somali Coast (Subterranean, Sep07 <#7, Datlow issue>)

Bisson, Terry: Private Eye (F&SF, Nov08 )

Black, Holly: A Reversal of Fortune (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)

Black, Holly: The Coat of Stars (So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction, SBerman, Ed., Haworth Positronic Press, Sep07)

Bobet, Leah: The Girl From Another World (Strange Horizons, Aug07 )

Bowes, Richard: A Tale for the Short Days (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)

Bowes, Richard: King of the Big Night Hours (Subterranean, Sep07 <#7>)

Bowes, Richard: The Cinnamon Cavalier (Fantasy Magazine, Apr08)

Brandon, Paul & Dann, Jack: The Transformation of Targ (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Brin, David: The Smartest Mob (Jim Baen’s Universe, Feb08)

Burgis, Stephanie: It’s All About the Shoes (Flytrap, Nov07)

Burns, Stephen L.: Righteous Bite (Analog, Apr08)

Burns, Stephen L.: The Fourth Thing (Analog, Sep08)

Burstein, Michael A.: Collapse (Polu Texni, Sep08 )

Burstein, Michael A.: I Remember the Future (I Remember the Future, Apex Publications, Nov08 )

Cambias, James L.: Balancing Accounts (F&SF, Feb08)

Cambias, James L.: The Dinosaur Train (F&SF, Jul08)

Campbell, Alan: The Gadgey (Strange Horizons, May08 )

Carr, Von: The White Isle (Realms of Fantasy, Dec07)

Carter, Scott William: Father Hagerman’s Dog (Analog, Jun07 )

Cassutt, Michael: Skull Valley (Asimov’s, Nov07 )

Castle, Sarah K.: Still-Hunting (Analog, May08)

Castro, Adam-Troy: Night of the Living POTUS (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Feb08 )

Copley-Woods, Haddayr: Dead (Strange Horizons, Feb08)

Cotrina, Jose Antonio: Between the Lines (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )

Cowdrey, Albert: Envoy Extraordinary (F&SF, Sep07)

Cowdrey, Albert E.: Thrilling Wonder Stories (F&SF, May08)

Cox, F. Brett: The Serpent and the Hatchet Gang (Black Static, Dec07 <#2>)

Creasey, Ian: Cut Loose the Bonds of Flesh and Blood (Asimov’s, Sep08)

Creasey, Ian: This Is How It Feels (Asimov’s, Mar08)

Cypress, Leah: Dead Silent (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Jul08)

Dalrymple, Scott: An Open Letter to Earth (F&SF, Aug08)

Dellamonica, Alyx M.: Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy (Strange Horizons, Apr08 )

Doctorow, Cory: Scroogled (Radar Magazine, Sep07)

Dowling, Terry: The Suits at Auderlene (Inferno, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Dec07)

Dowling, Terry: Toother (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Doyle, Debra & Macdonald, James D.: Philologos, or a Murder in Bistrita (F&SF, Feb08)

Drummond, Oz: Re (Analog, Nov08)

Duane, Diane: Theobroma (Wizards, Inc., Martin H. Greenberg and Loren L. Coleman, Ed., DAW, Nov07)

Dunbar, Clifford: Holiday in Hot Zone 16 (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Apr08 )

Edwards, Graham: Girl in Pieces (Realms of Fantasy, Apr08)

Egan, Greg: Dark Integers (Asimov’s, Nov07 )

Egan, Greg: Steve Fever (MIT Technology Review, Dec07 )

Elam, Bond: A Plethora of Truth (Analog, Aug08 )

Emrys, Ruthanna: Ghost Simulations (Strange Horizons, Nov07 )

Emshwiller, Carol: At 6s & 7s (Asimov’s, Nov07 )

Emshwiller, Carol: God Clown (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)

Emshwiller, Carol: Whoever (F&SF, Nov08 )

Emshwiller, Carol: Wilmer or Wesley (Asimov’s, Aug08)

Farmer, Nancy: The Mole Cure (F&SF, Aug07)

Finch, Sheila: Stranger Than Imagination Can (The Guild of Xenolinguists, Golden Gryphon Press, Sep07)

Finlay, Charles Coleman: The Secret Life of Walter Burty (LiveJournal.com, Jan08 )

Fintushel, Eliot: How the Little Rabbi Grew (Strange Horizons, Sep07)

Ford, Jeffrey: Daltharee (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Del Rey, Apr08)

Ford, Jeffrey: The Bedroom Light (Inferno, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Dec07)

Ford, Jeffrey: The Dreaming Wind (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)

Ford, Jeffrey: The Drowned Life (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Ford, Jeffrey: Under the Bottom of the Lake (Subterranean, Sep07 <#7, Datlow issue>)

Forest, Susan: Back (Analog, Jun08)

Forest, Susan: Paid in Full (Asimov’s, Nov07 )

Foster, Alan Dean: Cold Fire (Analog, Nov08)

Fowler, Karen Joy: The Last Worders (Rosebud, Jun07 <#20>)

Frost, P.R.: Alien Voices (The Future We Wish We Had, Martin Greenburg & Rebecca Lickiss, Ed., DAW, Dec07)

Genge, Sara: Clapping for the Fairies (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., May08 )

Gilbow, S. L.: Who Brought Tulips to the Moon (F&SF, Dec07)

Glover, Elizabeth: Metaphysics (Realms of Fantasy, Aug07)

Goldstein, Lisa: Reader’s Guide (F&SF, Jul08)

Goonan, Kathleen: Electric Rains (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Goss, Theodora: Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon (Realms of Fantasy, Jun07 )

Gregory, Daryl: Dead Horse Point (Asimov’s, Aug07)

Griffin, Peni R.: The Restroom Murders (Realms of Fantasy, Aug08)

Hale, Beverly A.: Pest Control (Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas, Selina Rosen, Ed., Yard Dog Press, Jun07)

Haskell, Merrie: An Almanac for the Alien Invaders (Asimov’s, May08 )

Hautala, Rick: The Hum (Man vs. Machine, Marting H. Greenberg & John Helfer, Ed., DAW, Jul07)

Haw, Kevin N.: Requirements for the Mythology Merit Badge (F&SF, Sep07)

Hemry, John G.: The Bookseller of Bastet (Analog, Mar08)

Henderson, Samantha: Bottles (Realms of Fantasy, Apr07)

Higgins, Peter: Listening for Submarines (Asimov’s, Nov08 )

Hobson, M. K.: The Hotel Astarte (Realms of Fantasy, Jun07)

Howe, Justin: By the Searing Flames (Spacesuits and Sixguns, Aug07 <#3, Summer 07 issue>)

Howe, Robert J.: Season of the Long Now (Electric Velocipede, Nov08 )

Hughes, Matt: Petri Parousia (F&SF, Feb08)

Hulme, Michael: Minty Bags a Squidboy (Strange Horizons, Jul07)

Janz, Kristin: Veritas Nos Liberabit (Futurismic Fiction, Jun08)

Jessup, Paul: A Word Without Ghosts (Fantasy Magazine, Apr08 )

Johnson, Kij: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Asimov’s, Jul08)

Jones, Gwyneth: Cheats (The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Apr08)

Jones, Gwyneth: In the Forest of the Queen (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Jones, Gwyneth: The Tomb Wife (F&SF, Aug07)

Jones, Shane: I Will Unfold You With My Hairy Hands (Hobart, Sep07)

Jones, Stephen Graham: Do (This) (Asimov’s, Dec07)

Kaftan, Vylar: Break the Vessel (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Jul08)

Kaftan, Vylar: Kill Me (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct07)

Kail, Andrea: Soft Like a Rabbit (Fantasy Magazine, Jun07 )

Kanning, Sarah: Sex With Ghosts (Strange Horizons, Aug08 )

Kasselman, Gloria: The Monster (Touched by Wonder, Gamber, Jackie, Ed., Meadowhawk Press, Oct07)

Keeble, Helen: In Stone (Strange Horizons, Oct07 <10 Sep07 issue>)

Kelly, James Patrick: Don’t Stop (Asimov’s, Jun07)

Kelly, James Patrick: Surprise Party (Asimov’s, Jun08)

Kelner, Toni L.P.: How Stella Got Her Grave Back (Many Bloody Returns, Charlaine Harris and Toni Kelner L.P., Ed., Ace, Sep07)

Kemnitzer, Lucy: The Boulder (Fantasy Magazine, Jun07? )

Keohane, Daniel: Ray Gun (Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest, Nov07 <#11>)

Kessel, John: Downtown (Flurb, Feb08 <#4 Fall/Win07>)

Kessel, John: The Last American (Asimov’s, Feb08 )

Killus, James: Plot Device (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct08 )

King, Stephen: Ayana (Paris Review, Nov07)

King, Stephen: The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates (F&SF, Nov08 )

Kirtley, David Barr: Save Me Plz (Realms of Fantasy, Oct07)

Klages, Ellen: Friday Night at Saint Cecelia’s (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)

Klages, Ellen: Mrs. Zeno’s Paradox (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Kosmatka, Ted: N-Words (Seeds of Change, John Joseph Adams, Ed., Prime Books, Aug08)

Kosmatka, Ted: The Art of Alchemy (F&SF, Jun08)

Koustas, Panagiotis: Athos Emfovos in the Temple of Sound (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )

Kowal, Mary Robinette: Death Comes But Twice (Talebones, Aug07)

Kowal, Mary Robinette: Scenting the Dark (Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest, Aug08)

Kowal, Mary Robinette: Some Other Day (All Possible Worlds, Nov07 )

Krasnoff, Barbara: All His World Goods (Sybil’s Garage, Feb08)

Krasnoff, Barbara: An Old-Time Girl (Behind the Wainscott, Oct07 <#8>)

Krasnoff, Barbara: First Class (Escape Velocity, Nov07 <#1>)

Kress, Nancy: Art of War (The New Space Opera, Eos, Jun07)

Kress, Nancy: By Fools Like Me (Asimov’s, Sep07)

Kress, Nancy: Sex & Violence (Asimov’s, Feb08)

Kress, Nancy: The Kindness of Strangers (Fast Forward 2, Lou Anders, Ed., Pyr, Oct08)

Kressel, Mathew: The Writing’s on the Wall (Farrago’s Wainscott, Jan08)

Lake, Jay: A Different Way Into the Life (Wizards, Inc., Martin H. Greenberg and Loren L. Coleman, Ed., DAW, Nov07)

Lanagan, Margo: She-Creatures (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Lanagan, Margo: The Goosle (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Del Rey, Apr08)

Lance, Kathryn and McDevitt, Jack: Welcome to Valhalla (Asimov’s, Dec08)

Landis, Geoffrey A.: Still on the Road (Asimov’s, Dec08)

Landis, Geoffrey A.: The Man in the Mirror (Analog, Feb08, Category?)

Landis, Geoffrey A.: Vectoring (Analog, Jun07)

Lane, Joel and Pelan, John: City of Night (Subterranean, Sep07 <#7, Datlow issue>)

Lee, Yoon Ha: Blue Ink (Clarkesworld Magazine, Aug08)

Lerner, Edward M.: Inside the Box (Asimov’s, Feb08)

Lindsley, Heather: Atalanta Loses at the Interpantheonic Trivia Bee (F&SF, Sep07)

Link, Kelly: Light (Tin House, Oct07)

Longyear, Barry B.: The Advocate (Asimov’s, May08 )

Lovett, Richard A.: The Sands of Titan (Analog, Jun07)

Ludwigsen, Will: All Talk (Strange Horizons, Mar08 )

Ludwigsen, Will: In Search of (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Apr08)

Lyon, Richard K.: Finalizing History (Analog, Jun08)

MacLeod, Ken: Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359 (The New Space Opera, Eos, Jun07)

Mamatas, Nick: Summon Bind Banish (Bandersnatch, Paul Tremblay & Sean Wallace, Ed., Prime Books, Nov07)

Mantchev, Lisa: Six Scents (Weird Tales, May07 )

Martino, Joseph P.: A Bridge in Time (Analog, Oct07)

Maxey, James: Silent as Dust (Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Jan08)

McDaniel, Tim: Teachers’ Lounge (Asimov’s, Aug07)

McHugh, Maura: Bone Mother (Fantasy, Sean Wallace & Paul Tremblay, Ed., Prime Books, Jul07)

McHugh, Maureen F.: The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

McIntyre, Vonda: Misprint (Nature, Jul08 )

Menon, Anil: A Sky Full of Constants (Albedo One, Sep07 , Category?)

Morganfield, T. L.: Night Bird Soaring (Gud, Nov08 <#3, Autumn 2008 issue>)

Mueller, Richard: A Ten-Pound Sack of Rice (F&SF, Mar08)

Myers, E. C.: Fortune Favors the Bold (Touched by Wonder, Gamber, Jackie, Ed., Meadowhawk Press, Oct07)

Nagle, Pati: Draw (Asimov’s, Sep07)

Nazarian, Vera: The Three Names of the Hidden God (Heroes in Training, Martin H. Greenberg and Jim C. Hines, Ed., DAW, Aug07)

Neff, Ondrej: The Fourth Day to Eternity (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )

Nestvold, Ruth: Mars: A Traveler’s Guide (F&SF, Jan08)

Nestvold, Ruth: The Far Side of the Moon (Ideomancer, Jun07)

Nix, Garth: Bad Luck, Trouble, Death, and Vampire Sex (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

O’Halloren, Brian: Why Is It That My Girlfriend Insists on Hanging Around While I Transform into a Werewolf (The Onion, Oct07)

O’Leary, Patrick: The Oldest Man on Earth (Electric Velocipede, Nov08 )

Oltion, Jerry: Outside the Box (Analog, Aug08 )

Oltion, Jerry: Salvation (Analog, Dec07)

Ore, Rebecca: Acid and Stoned Raindeer (Clarkesworld Magazine, Nov07)

Park, Paul: The Blood of Peter Francisco (Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, Ed., Solaris, Jun08)

Person, Lawrence: Gabe’s Globster (Asimov’s, Jun08)

Phillips, Holly: The Oracle Spoke (Clarkesworld Magazine, Jun07)

Pitts, John A.: The Hanging of the Greens (Aeon Magazine, Aug07)

Plante, Brian: The Astronaut (Analog, May07)

Radford, Irene: Alien Voices (The Future We Wish We Had, Martin Greenburg & Rebecca Lickiss, Ed., DAW, Dec07)

Radford, Irene: The Final Choice (Fate Fantastic, Martin H. Greenberg and Daniel M. Hoyt, Ed., DAW, Oct07)

Rambo, Cat: Events at Fort Plentitude (Weird Tales, Jan08)

Rambo, Cat: I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said (Clarkesworld Magazine, Jul07)

Rambo, Cat: Sugar (Fantasy, Sean Wallace & Paul Tremblay, Ed., Prime Books, Jul07)

Rasey, Michelle R.: Banshee’s Tatoo (Touched by Wonder, Gamber, Jackie, Ed., Meadowhawk Press, Oct07)

Reed, Robert: Character Flu (F&SF, Jul08)

Reed, Robert: Reunion (F&SF, May08)

Reed, Robert: The House Left Empty (Asimov’s, May08 )

Reisman, Jessica: Flowertongue (Farrago’s Wainscott, Apr08)

Resnick, Laura: Creation: The Launch (Jim Baen’s Universe, Aug07)

Resnick, Mike: Article of Faith (Jim Baen’s Universe, Oct08)

Resnick, Mike: Christmas Eve at Harvey Wallbanger’s (Jim Baen’s Universe, Dec07)

Rich, Mark: To Make a Love Story Short (Zahir, May08 )

Rickert, M.: Don’t Ask (F&SF, Dec07)

Rickert, M.: Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment (F&SF, Nov08 )

Rickert, Mary: Holiday (Subterranean, Sep07 <#7, Datlow issue>)

Rininger, Denise: Demon Sun (Tales of the Talisman, May08 )

Roberson, Chris: The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small (Asimov’s, Jul07)

Robins, Madeleine E.: Virtue and the Archangel (Lace and Blade, Deborah Ross, Ed., Norilana Books, Feb08)

Roessner, Michaela: It’s a Wonderful Life (F&SF, Jan08)

Ronald, Margaret: Goat Eschatologies (Strange Horizons, Nov07 <11/19/07>)

Rosen, Selina: Salvager’s Gold (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Jan08)

Rosenbaum, Benjamin & Ackert, David: Stray (F&SF, Dec07)

Rosenblum, Mary: Horse Racing (Asimov’s, Sep08)

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn: Disaster Relief (Wizards, Inc., Martin H. Greenberg and Loren L. Coleman, Ed., DAW, Nov07)

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn: The End of the World (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jun07?)

Russell, Karen: Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Zoetrope All-Story, Nov07 )

Scalzi, John: After the Coup (Tor.com, Jul08?)

Schoen, Lawrence M.: What Doesn’t Stay in Vegas (Desolate Places, Eric T. Reynolds, Ed., Hadley Rille Books, Dec07)

Schoffstall, John: Bullet Dance (Asimov’s, Jul07)

Scholes, Ken: Summer in Paris, Light From the Sky (Clarkesworld Magazine, Nov07)

Schwartz, David J.: Somnambulist (Paper Cities, Ekaterina Sedia, Ed., Senses Five Press, Apr08)

Sedia, Ekaterina: The Taste of Wheat (Clarkesworld Magazine, Aug07)

Sedia, Ekaterina: Virus Changes Skin (Analog, Oct07)

Seewald, Jacqueline: Girl with One Green Eye and Cat (Touched by Wonder, Gamber, Jackie, Ed., Meadowhawk Press, Oct07)

Shepard, Lucius: Larissa Miusov (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Shepard, Lucius: The Ease With Which We Freed the Beast (Inferno, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Dec07)

Sherman, Delia: Gift From a Spring (Realms of Fantasy, Apr08)

Shoulders, Felicity: Burgerdroid (Asimov’s, Jun08)

Shunn, William: Objective Impermeability in a Closed System (An Alternate History of the 21st Century, Spilt Milk Press, Sep07)

Silverberg, Robert: Against the Current (F&SF, Nov07 )

Simmons, Adrian: Retinue (Coyote Wild, Feb08)

Sinor, Bradley H.: Money’s Worth (Places To Be, People To Kill, Martin H. Greenberg and Brittany A. Koren, Ed., DAW, Jun07)

Skillingstead, Jack: Alone with an Inconvenient Companion (Fast Forward 2, Lou Anders, Ed., Pyr, Oct08)

Skillingstead, Jack: Cat in the Rain (Asimov’s, Nov08 )

Skillingstead, Jack: Strangers on a Bus (Asimov’s, Dec07)

Skillingstead, Jack: Thank You, Mr. Whiskers (Asimov’s, Aug07)

Smale, Alan: A Trade in Serpents (Realms of Fantasy, Aug07)

Smale, Alan: Quartet, With Mermaids (Abyss & Apex, Jan08)

Sparhawk, Bud: The Suit (Analog, Nov07)

Stanchfield, Justin: Produgal (Asimov’s, Aug07)

Sterling, Bruce: The Lustration (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Stoddard, James: The Star to Every Wandering Barque (F&SF, Nov07)

Stoddard, Jason: The Elephant Ironclads (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Del Rey, Apr08)

Stone, Eric James: The Ashes of His Fathers (Analog, May08)

Stueart, Jerome: Brazos (Strange Horizons, Jul07)

Sussex, Lucy: Ardent Clouds (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Del Rey, Apr08)

Svedi, Robin: Yellow Ribbons (Touched by Wonder, Gamber, Jackie, Ed., Meadowhawk Press, Oct07)

Swanwick, Michael: Congratulations from the Future (Asimov’s, Jul07 )

Swanwick, Michael: From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled (Asimov’s, Feb08)

Swanwick, Michael: The Scarecrow’s Boy (F&SF, Nov08 )

Szego, Chris: Valiant on the Wing (Strange Horizons, Apr08 )

Turtledove, Harry: Hoxbomb (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jun07?)

Underwood, Laura J.: Drooling Wizards (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Jan08)

Utley, Steven: The Woman Under the World (Asimov’s, Jul08)

Valente, Catherynne M.: A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica (Clarkesworld Magazine, May08)

Valente, Catherynne M.: The City of Blind Delight (Clockwork Phoenix, Mike Allen, Ed., Norilana, Jul08)

Valentine, Genevieve: The Red Shoes (Endicott Studios, Terri Windling, Ed., Aug08)

van Eekhout, Greg: Ghost Market (Paper Cities, Ekaterina Sedia, Ed., Senses Five Press, Apr08)

Van Pelt, James: How Music Begins (Asimov’s, Sep07)

Virtes, Scott: Jimmy the Box (Analog, Aug07 )

Walton, David: Letting Go (Jim Baen’s Universe, Aug08)

Warren, Kaaron: Down to the Silver Spirits (Paper Cities, Ekaterina Sedia, Ed., Senses Five Press, Apr08)

Warzel, Desmond: Wikihistory (Abyss & Apex, Oct07)

What, Leslie: Frankenfetish (In Crazy Love, Wordcraft of Oregon, Jul08 )

Wilce, Ysabeau S.: Quartermaster Returns (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Wilhelm, Kate: The Fountain of Neptune (F&SF, Apr08)

Williams, Walter Jon: Send Them Flowers (The New Space Opera, Eos, Jun07)

Winter, Laurel: Going Back in Time (F&SF, Nov08 )

Yolen, Jane: Chinese Proverb Sent by Worried Friend (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Jan08)

Zimring, Kim: My Heart As Dry As Dust (Asimov’s, Sep07)

Zumsteg, Derek: Usurpers (Asimov’s, Sep08)

4 comments so far.

1. Bob on 26th November 2008 at 3:48 am

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I ask why HOXBOMB by Turtledove and END OF THE WORLD by Rusch are in the short story category?  They are both Novellas (in fact the Rusch could almost be considered a novel).

2. Lou Antonelli on 26th November 2008 at 7:44 am

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You’ve misspelled my last name.

Lou Antonelli

3. Lou Antonelli on 26th November 2008 at 5:22 pm

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Thanks for making the correction.

Lou Antonelli

4. David de Beer on 27th November 2008 at 11:35 am

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Lou,

it’s been corrected here but that doesn’t necessarily follow it’s also been corrected in the NAR database itself yet. You really should shoot off a mail to Brook West as well.

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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

About the Author

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin

In the third entry in Ursula K. Le Guin's widely acclaimed Annals of the Western Shore saga (GIFTS and VOICES), Gav, a young slave, finds that he has amazing powers of recollection: he can remember a page of text after seeing it only once, and sometimes, he can even "remember" things that haven't happened yet. Gav's world is turned brutally upside-down when his sister is killed by a member of the household he has been taught to trust, and, blinded by sorrow, he runs away from the only world he has ever known, embarking on a journey of transformation and discovery.

About the Author

Ursula K. Le Guin writes both poetry and prose, and in various modes including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young children's books, books for young adults, screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voicetexts. She has published seven books of poetry, twenty-two novels, over a hundred short stories (collected in eleven volumes), four collections of essays, twelve books for children, and four volumes of translation. Few American writers have done work of such high quality in so many forms. Most of Le Guin's major titles have remained continuously in print, some for over forty years. Her best known fantasy works, the six Books of Earthsea, have sold millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated into sixteen languages. Her first major work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness, is considered epoch-making in the field for its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity. Her novels The Dispossessed and Always Coming Home redefine the scope and style of utopian fiction, while the realistic stories of a small Oregon beach town in Searoad show her permanent sympathy with the ordinary griefs of ordinary people. Among her books for children, the Catwings series has become a particular favorite. Her version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, a translation she worked on for forty years, has received high praise. Three of Le Guin's books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are a National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, SFWA's Grand Master, the Kafka Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Howard Vursell Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the L.A. Times Robert Kirsch Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Margaret A. Edwards Award, etc.

Cauldron by Jack McDevitt

The year is 2255. The academy that trained the starfarers is long gone and veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fund-raising efforts for The Prometheus Foundation, a privately funded organization devoted to deep space exploration. But when a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, Hutch finds herself back in the deepest reaches of space, and on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly Omega clouds that continue to haunt her.

About the Author

Jack McDevitt is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer, and motivational trainer. With the nominations of Infinity Beach, Ancient Shores, “Time Travelers Never Die,” Moonfall, “Good Intentions” (cowritten with Stanley Schmidt), “Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City,” Chindi, Omega, and Polaris,, "Henry James, This One's for You," and Seeker, his work has been on the final Nebula ballot ten of the last eleven years.

Brasyl by Ian McDonald

Think Bladerunner in the tropics... Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world’s greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling.

About the Author

Ian McDonald's mother is Irish, Fatrher Scottish, was born in England but has lived for almost all of his forty something years in Northern Ireland, more speciafically, in that narrow strip of land along the southern edge of Belfast Lough. From that vantage he's seen the Troubles start and also, he hopes, end. His first story was sold in 1983 to short-lived but very glossy local SFF magazine Extro. He bought a guitar with the money. His first novel, Desolation Road came out in 1988 from Bantam Spectra, this year PYR republish it for the first time since then in the US. His most recent novel was the Hugo and Nebula nominated Brasyl, just out from PYR in the US and Gollancz in the UK is Cyberabad Days, a collexction of stories from teh future India of his 2006 novel River of Gods, including Hugo winning novelette The Djinn's Wife. In progress is a new novel, The Dervish House, set in near-future Turkey. In daylight hours he works for local animation company Flickerpix.

Making Money by Terry Pratchett

The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations—including his own. So it's somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and asks, "Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to make some real money?" Vetinari isn't talking about wages, of course. He's referring, rather, to the Royal Mint of Ankh-Morpork, a venerable institution that haas run for centuries on the hereditary employment of the Men of the Sheds and their loyal outworkers, who do make money in their spare time. Unfortunately, it costs more than a penny to make a penny, so the whole process seems somewhat counterintuitive. Next door, at the Royal Bank, the Glooper, an "analogy machine," has scientifically established that one never has quite as much money at the end of the week as one thinks one should, and the bank's chairman, one elderly Topsy (née Turvy) Lavish, keeps two loaded crossbows at her desk. Oh, and the chief clerk is probably a vampire. But before Moist has time to fully consider Vetinari's question, fate answers it for him. Now he's not only making money, but enemies too; he's got to spring a prisoner from jail, break into his own bank vault, stop the new manager from licking his face, and, above all, find out where all the gold has gone—otherwise, his life in banking, while very exciting, is going to be really, really short. . . .

About the Author

Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987 he turned to writing full time, and has not looked back since. To date there are a total of 36 books in the Discworld series, of which four (so far) are written for children. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller, and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback (Harper Torch, 2006) and trade paperback (Harper Paperbacks, 2006). Terry's latest book, Making Money, was published in September 2007 and was an instant New York Times and London Times bestseller. In 2008, Harper Children's will publish Terry's new standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received four honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warwick, Portsmouth, Bath, and Bristol. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 45 million copies (give or take a few) and have been translated into 33 languages.

Superpowers by David J. Schwartz

Madison, Wisconsin: In the summer of 2001, five college juniors wake up with . . . not just a hangover, but superpowers. . . . Jack Robinson: Grew up on a farm, works in a chem lab, and brews his own beer. Age: 19. Superpower: SPEED. Caroline Bloom: Has a flair for fashion design and a mother who’s completely out of touch. Works as a waitress for a lunatic boss. Age: 20. Superpower: FLIGHT. Harriet Bishop: Studied violin, guitar, and piano . . . and was terrible at them all. Now writes about music for the campus paper. Age: 20. Superpower: ­INVISIBILITY. Mary Beth Layton: Is managing a 3.8, but feels like she’s working three times as hard as the people around her. Age: 20. Superpower: STRENGTH. Charlie Frost: Has an anxious way about him, and always looks like he’s on day 101 of his most recent haircut. Age: 20. Superpower: TELEPATHY. But how do you adjust to an extraordinary ability when you’re an ordinary person? What if you’re not ready for the responsibility that comes with great power? And how do you keep your head in a world that’s going mad?

About the Author

David J. Schwartz's short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including the anthologies Paper Cities, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Twenty Epics. He attended Odyssey in 1996 and has participated in workshops with the Semi-Omniscients, the Supersonics, and the Sycamore Hill Writing Workshop. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. You can visit his website at http://snurri.livejournal.com/.