Award Nominee Short Lists 2013

A lot of really awesome stuff was published in 2013. As I look forward to the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy voting this year, I have done my utmost to read a smattering of what is available. I will have to winnow down my selections from here, especially in the short story category, but these are my favorites. I link to the story if it's available online.

Whether you're voting for awards or not, check out these books and stories for a nice (or not so nice) escape from reality.

Also, I have to mention my own story that I'm promoting--"Stitched Wings" at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It's completely free to read online or in a variety of file formats.

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Short Stories
- "Selkie Stories Are For Losers" by Sofia Samatar, Strange Horizons

- "Alive, Alive Oh" by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Lightspeed

- "Sparg" by Brian Trent, Daily Science Fiction

- "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" by Kenneth Schneyer, Clockwork Phoenix 4

- "Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince" by Jake Kerr, Lightspeed

- "The Urashima Effect" by E. Lily Yu, Clarkesworld

- "Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug" by Oliver Buckram, Fantasy & Science Fiction

- "Stranger vs. the Malevolent Malignancy" by Jim Hines, Unidentified Funny Objects 2

- "The Air That I Breathe" by Eric Del Carlo, Waylines


Novelette
- "Cartographer of Dreamland" by Robert J. Howe, InterGalactic Medicine Show #33

- "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" by Sara Pinsker, Strange Horizons

- "Devil's Posthole" by M.K. Hutchins, InterGalactic Medicine Show #32

- "Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters" by Henry Lien, Asimov's


Novellas
- "Weight of Sunrise" by Vylar Kaftan, Asimov's

- "Trial of the Century" by Lawrence M. Schoen

- "Mermaid" by Kate O'Connor, Musa Publishing

Novels, Adult
- The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez

- Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill

- The Golden City by J. Kathleen Cheney

- Elisha Barber by E.C. Ambrose

- Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone

- The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu

- Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

Novels, Middle Grade and YA
- Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell

- Dead Set by Richard Kadrey