Reading Tomorrow

“Echo” by Elizabeth Hand
Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005
Nebula Award nominee for Best Short Story

From an isolated island in Maine, a woman calls out to a lost lover, wondering plaintively where he is and what has happened to him.  Her days are full of simple survival, long walks with her wolfhound Finn, references to Greek mythology, and memories of the time she spent with him. (more…)

“Pip and the Fairies” by Theodora Goss
Originally published on Strange Horizons, 3 October 2005
Nebula Award nominee for Best Short Story

Susan Lawson was the author of a series of children’s books about a girl named Pip and her adventures in a magical land with the likes of Jack Feather, Hyacinth, and the Thorn King. Her daughter Philippa, now a successful soap opera star, was the inspiration for those stories. When her mother passes away, everyone remembers how much they enjoyed the Pip books when they were children, and suddenly Philippa is again living in her mother’s shadow. (more…)

“Helen Remembers the Stork Club” by Esther M. Friesner
Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005
Nebula Award nominee for Best Short Story

Helen — the Helen, as in “of Troy,” as in getting lots of boats on their way with her face, that Helen — is thousands of years old and living in a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan (her long life a by-product of being the daughter of Zeus). World-weary doesn’t begin to describe how she’s feeling lately, (more…)

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2007 NEBULA AWARDS (to be awarded May 12, 2007 at the Financial Center Marriott in New York City)

Novels
From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes (Golden Gryphon Press, 2005)
The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford (Dark Alley, 2005)
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra, 2006)
To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy (Bantam Spectra, 2005)
Seeker by Jack McDevitt (Ace, 2005)
Farthing by Jo Walton (Tor, 2006)

Novellas
“Sanctuary” by Michael A. Burstein (Analog, Sept 2005)
Burn by James Patrick Kelly (Tachyon Publications, 2005)
“The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko (Asimov’s, Apr/May 2006)
“Inclination” by William Shunn (Asimov’s, Apr/May 2006)

Novelettes
“The Language of Moths” by Christopher Barzak (Realms of Fantasy, Apr 2005)
“Two Hearts” by Peter S. Beagle (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005)
“Little Faces” by Vonda N. McIntyre (Sci Fiction, 23 Feb 2005)
“Journey into the Kingdom” by M. Rickert (Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2006)
“Walpurgis Afternoon” by Delia Sherman (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Dec 2005)

Short Stories
“Helen Remembers the Stork Club” by Esther M. Friesner (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005)
“Pip and the Fairies” by Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons, 3 Oct 2005)
“Echo” by Elizabeth Hand (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005)
“Henry James, This One’s for You” by Jack McDevitt (Subterranean #2, Nov 2005)
“The Woman in Schrödinger’s Wave Equations” by Eugene Mirabelli (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Aug 2005)
“An End to All Things” by Karina Sumner-Smith (Children of Magic, DAW, 2006)

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2007 HUGO AWARDS (to be awarded September 3, 2007 at Nippon 2007 in Yokohama, Japan)

Novels
Eifelheim by Michael F. Flynn (Tor, 2006)
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik (Del Rey, 2006)
Glasshouse by Charles Stross (Ace, 2006)
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (Tor, 2006)
Blindsight by Peter Watts (Tor, 2006)

Novellas
“The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko (Asimov’s, Apr/May 2006)
“A Billion Eves” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2006)
“Inclination” by William Shunn (Asimov’s, Apr/May 2006)
“Lord Weary’s Empire” by Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s, Dec 2006)
“Julian: A Christmas Story” by Robert Charles Wilson (PS Publishing, 2006)

Novelettes
“Yellow Card Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Asimov’s, Dec 2006)
“Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth” by Michael F. Flynn (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2006)
“The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald (Asimov’s, July 2006)
“All the Things You Are” by Mike Resnick (Jim Baen’s Universe, Oct 2006)
“Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)” by Geoff Ryman (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct 2006)

Short Stories
“How to Talk to Girls at Parties” by Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things, Morrow, 2006)
“Kin” by Bruce McAllister (Asimov’s, Feb 2006)
“Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt (Asimov’s, July 2006)
“Eight Episodes” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s, June 2006)
“The House Beyond Your Sky” by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons, 4 Sept 2006)