2012 Hugo Award nominees for Best Short Story
"Movement", Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s 3/11)
"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 4/11)
2011 Hugo Award nominees for Best Short Story
"Ponies", Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10)
"For Want of a Nail", Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 12/10)
"Amaryllis", Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed 6/10)
"The Things", Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)
2010 Hugo Award nominees for Best Short Story
"The Bride of Frankenstein", Mike Resnick (Asimov’s 12/09)
"Bridesicle", Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)
"The Moment", Lawrence M. Schoen (Footprints)
"Non-Zero Probabilities", N.K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld 9/09)
"Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
2009 Hugo Award nominees for Best Short Story
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov's Jul 2008)
"Article of Faith", Mike Resnick (Baen's Universe Oct 2008)
"Evil Robot Monkey", Mary Robinette Kowal (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two)
"Exhalation", Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Feb 2008)
"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
I've read the first three short stories, and I liked them enough to put them on my Hugo nominations ballot. I was surprised to see that three of my choices in this category made the final list.
You won't find reviews for these pieces of short fiction on this blog. Back in early January, I decided that if I wanted to read enough short fiction to nominate, I better not review stories. Writing these reviews is time consuming for me. In the future, when I'm not as crunched for time, I'll write some more reviews.
"Eight Episodes", Robert Reed (Asimov's Jun 2006)
"The House Beyond Your Sky", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons Sep 2006)
"How to Talk to Girls at Parties", Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
"Impossible Dreams", Tim Pratt (Asimov's Jul 2006)
"Kin", Bruce McAllister (Asimov's Feb 2006)
