I have only a few stories eligible for awards for 2015 (or, you know, for 2016, but published in 2015…), all in the Short Story category. The one I'm singling out is "The Plausibility of Dragons", Lightspeed Magazine #66 (November 2015). There are a number of reasons that I'm foregrounding this […]
This is just astonishing: My story “Selected Program Works from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer”, which originally appeared in Clockwork Phoenix 4 and then on Podcastle, has been nominated for the Nebula Award! You can read the full announcement here. I’m nominated in the same breath with these […]
I never read fast enough to make recommendations for all the works I should, and I despair of being able to say intelligent things about them. Here are the works I have recommended to the Nebula Reading List so far. I hope to add more later. Novels Elisha Barber by […]
I never read fast enough to make recommendations for all the works I should, and I despair of being able to say intelligent things about them. Here are the works I have recommended to the Nebula Reading List so far. I hope to add more later. Novels Elisha Barber by […]
As I do every year, I’m listing my stories from 2013 that will be eligible for the Nebula Award. This year, however, I’m going to highlight one particular story, for reasons noted below. Highlighted story: “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer”, which appears in both […]
Every year when the award nominations come out, there are dark mutterings about biased, complicated goings-on behind the scenes that result in nominations of Stories-And-People-I-Don’t-Like and prevent the nominations of Stories-And-People-I-Like. Usually these accusations are wildly silly, but sometimes they touch on the natural and understandable bias that is structurally […]
For those of you who are SFWA members, here are my 2012 stories that are eligible for the Nebula Awards: Novelette: "Serkers and Sleep", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #96 (May 31, 2012). Short Stories: "Financial Strategies for Innovative Researchers", Mad Scientist Journal (October, 2012). "Confinement", SQ Mag #2 (May 2012) (Finalist […]
Here are my five short stories that are eligible for the Nebula Award this year. Three of them are currently available for free online, and the other two have been posted to the appropriate SFWA forums. “The Mannequin’s Itch“, The Pedestal Magazine #67 (December 21, 2011). (Audio version available at […]
I like to start debates, when I can get people to play. I’ve been thinking about the issue of "quality" in literature, or heck, even in SFF by itself.
I don’t normally get to pore over Nebula or Hugo Award nominees before the awards are given, but this year Starship Sofa put audio recordings of all seven Nebula short story nominees on podcast. So I listened to them during my commute. What a pleasure! If I were in the […]
I’ve been looking at markets for short science fiction, trying to see which are “prominent” or “highly visible.” I used four different filters, which came up with different results. Markets with stories that received Hugo nominations for 2007: Market Nominations Asimovs 10 Jim Baen’s Universe 1 F&SF 1 Strange Horizons […]
Kenneth Schneyer 