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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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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...

Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.

What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man" ( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.

About the Author

Paolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. It has been anthologized in various “Year’s Best” collections of short science fiction and fantasy, nominated for a Nebula and four Hugo awards, and has won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best sf short story of the year.

The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak

In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate.

On a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong.

From the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection—uncovering the love we share without knowing.

Exquisitely perceptive and deeply affecting, Barzak’s artful storytelling deftly illuminates the inner lives of those attempting to find—or lose—themselves in an often incomprehensible world.

About the Author

Christopher Barzak grew up in rural Ohio, went to university in a decaying post-industrial city in Ohio, and has lived in a Southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, where he taught English in rural junior high and elementary schools. His stories have appeared in a many venues, including Nerve.com, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Strange Horizons, Salon Fantastique, Interfictions, Asimov’s, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. His first novel, One for Sorrow, was published by Bantam Books in Fall of 2007, and won the Crawford Award that same year. He is the co-editor (with Delia Sherman) of Interfictions 2, and has done Japanese-English translation on Kant: For Eternal Peace, a peace theory book published in Japan for Japanese teens. Currently he lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where he teaches writing at Youngstown State University.

Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman

Once, all power in the Vin Lands was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spellwines, and selfishly used them to increase their own wealth and influence. But their abuse of power caused a demigod to break the Vine, shattering the power of the mages. Now, fourteen centuries later, it is the humble Vinearts who hold the secret of crafting spells from wines, the source of magic, and they are prohibited from holding power.

But now rumors come of a new darkness rising in the vineyards. Strange, terrifying creatures, sudden plagues, and mysterious disappearances threaten the land. Only one Vineart senses the danger, and he has only one weapon to use against it: a young slave. His name is Jerzy, and his origins are unknown, even to him. Yet his uncanny sense of the Vinearts' craft offers a hint of greater magics within -- magics that his Master, the Vineart Malech, must cultivate and grow. But time is running out. If Malech cannot teach his new apprentice the secrets of the spellwines, and if Jerzy cannot master his own untapped powers, the Vin Lands shall surely be destroyed.

In Flesh and Fire, first in a spellbinding new trilogy, Laura Anne Gilman conjures a story as powerful as magic itself, as intoxicating as the finest of wines, and as timeless as the greatest legends ever told.

About the Author

Born in the late 1960’s in suburban New Jersey, Laura Anne endured only moderate trauma - and some good times - before escaping to Skidmore College. After graduation, given the choice between grad school and employment, the lure of a paycheck took her to NYC and a career in publishing, while working nights and weekends to get her writing career started. In 2004, she and corporate America decided they needed a break from each other. Her first original novel contract in-hand, Laura Anne became a full-time freelancer, and never looked back. She is the author of the Cosa Nostradamus books for Luna (the “Retrievers” and “Paranormal Scene Investigations” series), a YA trilogy for HarperCollins, and the forthcoming Vineart War books from Pocket, while continuing to write and sell short fiction. She also writes paranormal romances for Nocturne as Anna Leonard. Laura Anne is also an amateur chef, oenophile, and cat-servant. She lives in New York City, where she also runs d.y.m.k. productions.

The City & The City by China Miéville

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

About the Author

China Miéville is the author of King Rat; Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar, winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council, winner of the Locus Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories; and Un Lun Dun, his New York Times bestselling book for younger readers. He lives and works in London.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.

But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.

His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

About the Author

Cherie Priest made her debut with the Eden Moore series of Southern Gothic ghost stories that began with Four and Twenty Blackbirds. She lives in Seattle, Washington, and keeps a popular blog at cmpriest.livejournal.com.

Finch by Jeff VanderMeer

Tasked with solving an impossible double murder, detective John Finch searches for the truth among the rubble of the once-mighty city of Ambergris. Under the rule of the mysterious gray caps, Ambergris is falling into anarchy. The remnants of a rebel force are demoralized and dispersed, their leader, the Lady in Blue, not seen for months. Partials—human traitors transformed by the gray caps—walk the streets brutalizing the city’s inhabitants. Finch’s partner Wyte, stricken with a fungal disease, is literally disintegrating. And strange forces are marshaling themselves against detective Finch even as he pursues his one clue: the elusive spymaster Ethan Bliss. How much time does Finch have before time itself runs out?

About the Author

Award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer's final novel in his Ambergris Cycle, Finch, has just been published in the US, and will appear in the UK from Atlantic's Corvus imprint. His writer guide Booklife and associated Booklifenow website focus on sustainable creativity. With his wife, he recently edited the charity anthology Last Drink Bird Head. His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Library of America's American Fantastic Tales, and several year's best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post Book World, Omnivoracious, The New York Times Book Review, the B&N Review, and many others. Murder by Death recently completed a CD soundtrack based on Finch./.