Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

This is the thread to discuss eligible short stories. The official definition from the rules:

Best Short Story: Awarded for science fiction or fantasy story of less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) words.

Also a reminder: there is a filial group created to discuss only new releases, SFF Hot from Printers: New Releases group.

For short stories (there can be novelettes, one has to check) I started with Locus Stuff picks:

This https://locusmag.com/2019/12/staff-pi...

And this https://locusmag.com/2019/12/staff-pi...

If anyone interested, I made epub and mobi of the listed short stories to ease up reading and can share it (only stories, which are free online, just another 'container')

Emergency Skin

I'm thinking this puppy should get nominated despite the fact that it's an Amazon production. It was the best of the six stories in this Amazon group.

Kateblue wrote: "Emergency Skin

I'm thinking this puppy should get nominated despite the fact that it's an Amazon production. It was the best of the six stories in this Amazon group."

I plan to go thru the whole collection. Aren't they novelettes?

No idea if they are novelettes or short stories

Emergency Skin has 33 pages, which, I'd assume, is short story.

9116 words, if we you up to 7500 for a short story, this is a novelette

I use the Hugo nominated web site Rocket Stack Rank which breaks down everything between Short Story, Novelette and Novella. They also have a short summary, time to read and where to find. It is a useful tool. http://www.rocketstackrank.com/search...
My one sure short story on my Hugo list so far is :
The Beast Weeps with One Eye by Morgan Al-Moor
You can find it here:
http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.co...

Stephen wrote: "I use the Hugo nominated web site Rocket Stack Rank which breaks down everything between Short Story, Novelette and Novella. They also have a short summary, time to read and where to find. It is a ..."

Yes, Stephen, RSR is a good source, but last year Hugo had exactly zero short stories of their top-10 (they wrote in detail on the site), so beware that they not always in line with nominating fandom

I think people wait until the Nebula nominations and that influences everything in my opinion. RSR goes month by month, so of course there will be a difference. I fully expect to go 0 for 5 on my Best Novel picks. I also will go 0 for 5 on my Short Presentation category. So if I go 0 for 5 in Novella, Novelette and Short Story no big deal. I am just glad I go for new authors on my novelette and short story categories.

Yes, it is perfectly fine to read not-nominated works, I do so myself. My only point was that if you base your expectations about nominees (see topic's title) on RSR only then be warned that you may miss something

I loved this short story...on Tor’s website.

https://www.tor.com/2019/07/10/for-he...

Carolyn wrote: "I loved this short story...on Tor’s website."

Thanks, I'll check it

At 7903 words it is a novelette I believe

Stephen wrote: "At 7903 words it is a novelette I believe"

There is 20% rule that can be used quite arbitrary so they can count if as a short story even despite 7500 words mark. However, if we nominate it I guess novelette is a preferable slot

Remember, we knew from someone last year that if we pick the wrong category, they will fix it for us.

Yep, they have eligibility screeners who check every single entry, and will move things around to where they should be according to the process' rules. I'm doing that for the Aurora Awards this year. :)

A reference list for short stories from 2019 (quite long!)

https://quicksipreviews.blogspot.com/...

Oleksandr wrote: "A reference list for short stories from 2019 (quite long!)

https://quicksipreviews.blogspot.com/..."

Oh my! I've read exactly 1 story of those … ^^'. Let's see, if some of them have an audio version ...