Looking for a good new read? The latest Hugo finalists have been announced, and I just finished my book, what excellent timing! The full list is extensive, so I won’t replicate the whole thing, but the complete roster is available if you’re interested:
Announcing the 2021 Hugo Award Finalists
Here is the list of best novellas, novelettes, and short stories, with links where full text or review crossed my path.
Enjoy!
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Best Novella
- Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- Finna, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom Publishing) Read the First Two Chapters From Nino Cipri’s Finna | Tor.com
- Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom Publishing) Review: ‘Ring Shout,’ By P. Djèlí Clark : NPR
- Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom Publishing) Read an Excerpt From Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi | Tor.com
- Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey (Tordotcom)
Best Novelette
- “Burn, or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2020)
- “Helicopter Story”, Isabel Fall (Clarkesworld, January 2020) Links to archived version (with original title) and discussion of controversy.
- “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2020)
- “Monster”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, January 2020)
- “The Pill”, Meg Elison (from Big Girl, (PM Press)
- “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com)
Best Short Story
- “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse”, Rae Carson (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2020)
- “A Guide for Working Breeds”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)
- “Little Free Library”, Naomi Kritzer (Tor.com)
- “The Mermaid Astronaut”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2020)
- “Metal Like Blood in the Dark”, T. Kingfisher (Uncanny Magazine, September/October 2020)
- “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots – 2020, ed. David Steffen)
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J.R. Johnson 
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