2012 Hugo Nominees for Best Short Story

Here's a list of this year's five Hugo nominees for best short story, with links to the stories.

"Movement", Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s 3/11)
(This story was featured in an earlier post, Aaron's recommendation of "Movement", and was one of Aaron's Hugo nomination picks)

"The Paper Menagerie", Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)

"The Homecoming", Mike Resnick (Asimov’s 4-5/11)

"Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City (Prologue)", John Scalzi (Tor.com 4/1/11)

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

Aaron's Magazine of the Week :: Asimov's Science Fiction June 2007

The Magazine of the Week is the June 2007 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, with funky alien cover art by John Allemand. This is the Magazine of the Week because it contains "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear, this year's Hugo Award winner for Best Short Story.

Elizabeth Bear has recently burst onto the science fiction and fantasy scene. Her first story was published in 2003 and her first novel in 2005, but incredibly she will have released fourteen books by the end of this year, all of which have been well received. "Tideline," her first work to be nominated for a Hugo Award but one suspects not the last, is the moving tale of a derelict but intelligent war machine seeking meaning in its final days of consciousness before its batteries die.

Having now covered all of Denvention's Hugo winners for fiction, next week's Book of the Week will be the most collectible item I acquired in the Denvention dealer room.

2008 Hugo nominees for short story

Here are the nominees for this year's Hugo Award for Best Short Story

BEST SHORT STORY
"Last Contact", Stephen Baxter
"Tideline", Elizabeth Bear
"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?", Ken MacLeod
"Distant Replay", Mike Resnick
"A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick

(Want to read these stories? I've added links to 4 out 5 of the short story nominees. -- Amy)