February 2016 Short Story / Novella / Anthology selection complete

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You may use this topic to suggest a Fantasy or Science Fiction Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Collection or Anthology of shorter works for our group's February, 2016, discussion (beginning February 11.)

It's very helpful if you can indicate where an individual story is still in print, either individually or in some anthology or on a website.

You need not have read the title you are nominating; after all, you'll be reading along. Feel free to say why you are making the nomination, if you care to. If your nomination is selected by the group, you'll be expected to take the lead in the discussion.

We read two different SF/F novels and one short SF/F work each month: The short SF/F work may be a short story, novelette, novella, or an anthology or collection of such stories; that discussion starts the 11th of each month. The others are one "Classic" and one "Contemporary" SF/F novel; those discussion starts on the 1st & 21st of each month, respectively. You can always check on our upcoming SF/F discussion topics by scrolling down on the Group Homepage to the "Upcoming Reads” section.

You can review past group selections in the "read" section of our Group's BookShelf. If you wish to continue a discussion of one of those past selections, all those discussion topics are still open in our Book Discussions area.

Note that this is our discussion selection for February. Burgess's A Clockwork Orange has already been chosen as our January novella discussion topic.

Nominations will be open through Sunday, December 27, when I'll collect the nominees and post a poll so members can choose among them.

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Let me throw out a couple of recent anthologies for consideration, both are near-term hard science fiction collections recently published:

Twelve Tomorrows: Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2016 edition) edited by Bruce Sterling
I'm not sure why this is called the 2016 edition since it was published in September, 2015. It's the 3rd "Twelve Tomorrows" published by MIT's Technology Review. We had a discussion of the 2013 edition of Twelve Tomorrows last December.

Meeting Infinity edited by Jonathan Strahan
Published just two weeks ago, this is the most recent entry in Straham's Infinity anthology series. We had a discussion of Edge of Infinity, an earlier book in the series , last June.

Anyone interested in either?

[Jim]

The Long List Anthology: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List has just been published. It was a crowd-funded effort. Is it too new to nominate? It is out in a variety of different formats, even audio.

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Jim wrote: "The Long List Anthology: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List has just been published. It was a crowd-funded effort. Is it too new to nominate? It is out in a variety of formats..."

As long as it's out by February, (when this discussion would start), it's good to go. So, I'll take that as a nomination.


On the other hand, I'll point out that we've already had a couple of discussions of 2014's best short fiction, including the Nebula Award short fiction nominees discussion and Strahan's "Best SF of the Year #9" anthology. So, we've already discussed more than half the stories in this new collection.

The good news is, you can start discussing any of those today! :) I've put "The Long List" table of contents below, along with links to our discussions of those stories which we've discussed earlier. (also a plus, "The Long List" contains two stories that were on my Hugo nomination sheet but didn't make either of the two previous collections: Liu's "The Regular" & Bear's "This Chance Planet" :)

"The Breath Of War" by Aliette De Bodard
"When It Ends, He Catches Her" by Eugie Foster
"Toad Words" by T. Kingfisher
"Makeisha In Time" by Rachael K. Jones
"Covenant" by Elizabeth Bear
"The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar
"A Kiss With Teeth" by Max Gladstone
"The Vaporization Enthalpy Of A Peculiar Pakistani Family" by Usman T. Malik
"This Chance Planet" by Elizabeth Bear
"Goodnight Stars" by Annie Bellet
"We Are The Cloud" by Sam J. Miller
"The Magician And Laplace’s Demon" by Tom Crosshill
"Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy" by Xia Jia
"The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado
"The Bonedrake’s Penance" by Yoon Ha Lee
"The Devil In America" by Kai Ashante Wilson
"The Litany Of Earth" by Ruthanna Emrys
"A Guide To The Fruits Of Hawai’i" by Alaya Dawn Johnson
"A Year And A Day In Old Theradane" by Scott Lynch
"The Regular" by Ken Liu
"Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" by Rachel Swirsky

It's too bad they couldn't clear more of the novella: The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Yesterday's Kin, We Are All Completely Fine, Skin Deep. But all those are being sold as a standalone e-books, so I suppose it would have pushed up the anthology cost quite a bit.

[Andreas]

I'd be in for 12 Tomorrows.

I finished Meeting Infinity this week and I'm currently in the process of writing 16 reviews.

[Jim]

Thanks!

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Andreas wrote: "I'd be in for 12 Tomorrows."

OK, I'll make my nomination...

Twelve Tomorrows: Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2016 edition) edited by Bruce Sterling
I'm still not sure why this is called the 2016 edition since it was published in September, 2015. It's the 3rd "Twelve Tomorrows" published by MIT's Technology Review. We had a discussion of the 2013 edition of Twelve Tomorrows last December.

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Reminder: Today, Sunday, is the final day to nominate a Fantasy or Science Fiction Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Collection or Anthology of shorter works for the group discussion topic in February.

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame vol. 1 ed by Robert Silverberg

nothing but the best

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Thank you for the nominations. A poll to select our SF/F Novella or Anthology discussion topic for February (starting February 11) is now open. If you're interested in participating in the discussion of one of our nominees, you can vote here for your choice. Please only vote if you plan on participating in the discussion of that work.

Note that this is our discussion selection for February. A Clockwork Orange has already been chosen as our January novella discussion topic.

This poll will be open through Monday, January 4.

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Reminder: Today, Monday, is the final day to vote for a SciFi/Fantasy Novella or Anthology topic for our February group read and discussion.

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Our selection for our Science Fiction / Fantasy Anthology discussion topic for February is...

The Long List Anthology: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List edited by David Steffen

The discussion will begin February 11. See you there.