Free Speculative Fiction Online: Awards 2000-2005

Awards 2000-2005

Neil Gaiman: A Study in Emerald (Shadows Over Baker Street Anthology, 1993)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2004.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Andy Duncan: Fortitude (Realms of Fantasy, June 1999)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2000.
Notes:

Recommended!

Eleanor Arnason: The Grammarian's Five Daughters (Realms of Fantasy, June 1999)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2000.
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Greg Egan: Border Guards (Interzone #148, October 1999)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2000.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Seventeenth Edition.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Mike Resnick: Hothouse Flowers (Asimov's, October 1999)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2000.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Seventeenth Edition.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Stephen Baxter: The Gravity Mine (Asimov's, April 2000)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2001.
Notes:

Recommended!

Mike Resnick: The Elephants on Neptune (Asimov's, May 2000)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2001.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2001.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Greg Egan: Oracle (Asimov's, July 2000)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2001.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Eighteenth Edition.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web. Recommended!

Lucius Shepard: Radiant Green Star (Asimov's, August 2000)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2001.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2001.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Eighteenth Edition.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web. Recommended!

Stephen Baxter: On the Orion Line (Asimov's, October 2000)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2001.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Eighteenth Edition.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Mike Resnick: Redchapel (Asimov's, December 2000)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2001.
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Kelly Link: Louise's Ghost (Stranger Things Happen Collection, 2001)
Available as part of this collection.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2001.
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Kelly Link: Shoe and Marriage (Stranger things Happen Collection, 2001)
Available as part of this collection.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2001.
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Paul Di Filippo: Karuna, Inc. (Strange Trades Collection, 2001)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2002.
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Ted Chiang: Hell Is the Absence of God (Starlight Anthology #3, 2001)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2002.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2002.
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Allen Steele: Stealing Alabama (Asimov's, January 2001)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2002.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Amy Sterling Casil: To Kiss the Star (F & SF, February 2001)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2001.
Reviews: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Bud Sparhawk: Magic's Price (Analog, March 2001)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2002.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Adam-Troy Castro: Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's (Analog, June 2001)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2002.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Charles Stross: Lobsters (Asimov's, June 2001)
Available as part of this fix-up novel.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2002.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2002.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Nineteenth Edition.
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Stephen Baxter: The Ghost Pit (Asimov's, July 2001)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Jack McDevitt: Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Artemis, August 2001)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
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Mike Resnick: Old MacDonald Had A Farm (Asimov's, September 2001)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Andy Duncan: Lincoln in Frogmore (Asimov's, October 2001)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2001.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Shane Tourtellotte: The Return of Spring (Analog, November 2001)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2002.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Somtow Sucharitkul: The Bird Catcher (The Museum of Horrors Anthology, 2002)
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 2002.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Tim Pratt: Little Gods (Strange Horizons, February 2002)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
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Maureen F. McHugh: Presence (F & SF, March 2002)
Available as part of this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twentieth Edition.
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Michael Swanwick: 'Hello,' Said the Stick (Analog, March 2002)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Eleanor Arnason: Knapsack Poems (Asimov's, May 2002)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Gregory Frost: Madonna of the Maquiladora (Asimov's, May 2002)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2002.
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Charles Stross: Halo (Asimov's, June 2002)
Available as part of this fix-up novel.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twentieth Edition.
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Cory Doctorow: 0wnz0red (Salon, August 2002)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Eleanor Arnason: Potter of Bones (Asimov's, September 2002)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2003.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

James van Pelt: The Last of the O-Forms (Asimov's, September 2002)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Pat Forde: In Spirit (Analog, September 2002)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2003.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

John Kessel: Stories for Men (Asimov's, October 2002)
Available as part of this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twentieth Edition.
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Michael Swanwick: Slow Life (Analog, December 2002)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twentieth Edition.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Adam-Troy Castro: Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs (Imaginings Anthology, 2003)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Chris Roberson: O One (Life Without a Net Anthology, 2003)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
Notes:
A Sidewise Award winner.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Cory Doctorow: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Tor, 2003)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2004.
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Greer Gilman: A Crowd of Bone (Trampoline Anthology, 2003)
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 2004.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Jeffrey Ford: The Empire of Ice Cream (SciFiction, February 2003)
Available as part of this anthology.
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2004.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2003.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2004.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web. Recommended!

Kelly Link: The Hortlak (The Dark Anthology, 2003)
Available as part of this collection.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2004.
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Maureen F. McHugh: Ancestor Money (SciFiction, October 2003)
Available as part of this collection.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
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Catherine Asaro: Walk in Silence (Analog, April 2003)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2004.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2004.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Charles Stross: Nightfall (Asimov's, April 2003)
Available as part of this fix-up novel.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2004.
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Michael Swanwick: Legions in Time (Asimov's, April 2003)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2004.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

William Sanders: Dry Bones (Asimov's, May 2003)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2004.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Kage Baker: The Empress of Mars (Asimov's, July 2003)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2004.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2003.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Mike Resnick: Robots Don't Cry (Asimov's, July 2003)
Alternate link.
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Robert Reed: Hexagons (Asimov's, July 2003)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2004.
Review: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Michael A. Burstein: Paying it Forward (Analog, September 2003)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
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Bruce Holland Rogers: Don Ysidro (Polyphony #3, October 2003)
Alternate link.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2004.
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Walter Jon Williams: The Green Leopard Plague (Asimov's, October 2003)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2004.
Nebula for Best Novella 2004.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twenty-First Edition.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Connie Willis: Just Like the Ones We Used to Know (Asimov's, December 2003)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2004.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2004.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Greg van Eekhout: In the Late December (Strange Horizons, December 2003)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
Notes:

Recommended!

Benjamin Rosenbaum: Biographical Notes <...> (All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories Anthology, 2004)
Available as part of this collection.
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2005.
Notes:

Recommended!

Charles Stross: The Concrete Jungle (The Atrocity Archives Collection, 2004)
Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Novella 2005.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Eileen Gunn: Coming To Terms (Stable Strategies and Others Collection, 2004)
Nebula for Best Short Story 2004.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Eileen Gunn & Leslie What: Nirvana High (Stable Strategies and Others Collection, 2004)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2005.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Kelly Link: The Faery Handbag (The Faery Reel Anthology, 2004)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2005.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2005.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2005.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web. Recommended!

Benjamin Rosenbaum: Embracing-The-New (Asimov's, January 2004)
Available as part of this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
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Mike Resnick: Travels with My Cats (Asimov's, February 2004)
Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2005.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
Reviews: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Paolo Bacigalupi: The People of Sand and Slag (F & SF, February 2004)
A sample from this collection.
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2005.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2005.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twenty-Second Edition.
Reviews: Notes:

Recommended!

James Patrick Kelly: Men Are Trouble (Asimov's, June 2004)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2005.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twenty-Second Edition.
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Lois Tilton: The Gladiator's War: A Dialogue (Asimov's, June 2004)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2004.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Nancy Kress: My Mother, Dancing (Asimov's, June 2004)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2005.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Bud Sparhawk: Clay's Pride (Analog, July 2004)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2005.
Reviews: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Michael F. Flynn: The Clapping Hands of God (Analog, July 2004)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2005.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twenty-Second Edition.
Reviews: Notes:

Recommended!

Bradley Denton: Sergeant Chip (F & SF, September 2004)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2005.
Reviews: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Charles Stross: Elector (Asimov's, September 2004)
Available as part of this fix-up novel.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2005.
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Mike Resnick: A Princess of Earth (Asimov's, December 2004)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2005.
Reviews: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Anne Harris: Still Life With Boobs (Talebones #30, Summer 2005)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2005.
Reviews: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.