(2019) Post *YOUR* Hugo 2019 nomination lists

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Nebula's lists are out! Kate, most of your novels' list is there https://nebulas.sfwa.org/2018-nebula-...

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

What about the other categories?

[Ed]

"Dirty Computer" nominated for dramatic presentation. OK, that's fair. The music itself doesn't read as SF to me, but the video for the full album is a mini SF movie for sure.

They also nominated an episode of "The Good Place", which I would probably also do if I were able to watch season 3.

Anyhow, please remove my 1943 nomination for "The man who walked through walls". It was published earlier than I had thought, in 1940.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Kateblue wrote: "What about the other categories?"

Here is the list

Novel

The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)
Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)
Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
Novella

Fire Ant, Jonathan P. Brazee (Semper Fi)
The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
Alice Payne Arrives, Kate Heartfield (Tor.com Publishing)
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
Novelette

The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)
“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
“The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births”, José Pablo Iriarte (Lightspeed 1/18)
“The Rule of Three”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Future Science Fiction Digest 12/18)
“Messenger”, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi (Expanding Universe, Volume 4)
Short Story

“Interview for the End of the World”, Rhett C. Bruno (Bridge Across the Stars)
“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)
“Going Dark”, Richard Fox (Backblast Area Clear)
“And Yet”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 3-4/18)
“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)
“The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)
Game Writing

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker (House of Tomorrow & Netflix)
The Road to Canterbury, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
God of War, Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert, Cory Barlog, Orion Walker, and Adam Dolin (Santa Monica Studio/Sony/Interactive Entertainment)
Rent-A-Vice, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
The Martian Job, M. Darusha Wehm (Choice of Games)
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

The Good Place: “Jeremy Bearimy” (Written by Megan Amram)
Black Panther (Written by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole)
A Quiet Place (Screenplay by John Krasinski, Bryan Woods, and Scott Beck)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman)
Dirty Computer (Written by Janelle Monáe and Chuck Lightning)
Sorry to Bother You (Written by Boots Riley)
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
Aru Shah and the End of Time, Roshani Chokshi (Rick Riordan Presents)
A Light in the Dark, A.K. DuBoff (BDL)
Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien (Henry Holt)

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Oleksandr, nice work, and I owe you an apology. When I said "What about the other categories?" I meant to ask about our other categories for the 1943 Hugos. So, what do we have for the 1943 Hugos in categories other than novels?

(Note to all Goodreads users--what happened here happens on Goodreads sometimes. The pages break at 50 messages, and I did not see Oleksandr's post about the Nebulas. I had just written a message which is on page one of this thread, and I did a BAD thing. I did not define what I was asking about well enough and so Oleksandr of course thought I was referring to his intervening comment, which I hadn't seen as I was still on page one of the thread. Sorry all!)

[Elisa]

Best 2018 Novel
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Best 2018 Novelette
The Thing About Ghost Stories by Naomi Kritzer

Best 2018 Short Story
Bears at Parties by Emily B. Cataneo
My Name Is Cybernetic Model XR389F, and I Am Beautiful by Monica Valentinelli
The Farm by Charlie Jane Anders

Best Graphic
The Books of Earthsea, The Complete Illustrated Edition; Ursula K. LeGuin/Charles Vess; Simon & Schuster

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Black Panther

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
The Commuter; Phillip K. Dick's Electric Dreams; Amazon Prime Video
Demons of the Punjab; Doctor Who; BBC
It Takes You Away; Doctor Who; BBC

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Elisa wrote: "Best 2018 Novel"

Welcome, Elisa! I'll read up the shorts you suggested and if I like them I guess we can incorporate your choices to Team #1 unless you disagree or say Kate will make another team with you first!

[Elisa]

Than you!

Im afraid that Bears at Parties is not available online. It was in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #38.

[Antti]

The only works published in 2018 I've read are novellas, and if I understood correctly, Team 1 already has all the works I was going to nominate. But anyway, here's my list:
NOVELLA
Expert System's Brother
Phoresis
Artificial Condition (or Exit Strategy)
Beneath the Sugar Sky

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Antti, 3 out of 4 are on Team 1's list.

Beneath the Sugar Sky is the only one missing and there's a slot open yet.

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Beneath the Sugar Sky was the only novella I had listed, so that works for me.

What do we have for 1944 novellas novelettes and short stories?

[Ed]

Team #1 (We're #1! We're #1!) is lacking in novelettes, so I'll nominate Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen. She calls it a "short novel", I'd say a "tiny novel" or "novelette", barely more than a short story. I haven't read many novelettes, so will gladly let someone else choose one if we run out of spaces.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

@Antti, I'll include you ti the team #1 and will add the novelette

@Kate - I'll update 1944 lists shortly

[Ed]

I found the 1943 short animated film "Willoughby's Magic Hat" on you tube in a Portuguese version ´PACÍFICO E O BONÉ MÁGICO. You can easily understand it without understanding that language. (You can skip the first half which is just a story about how the hat was made and passed down through history.) It is incredibly silly. I'm not nominating it, but you might choose to.

There were several later short films featuring the same character. At least one is on you tube at the moment, probably without permission.

[Ed]

Another 1943 short film that I will not nominate is "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs". I'm not as offended by it as some will be, but.... it's a NO from me.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Gone through the list of Nebula shorts and I must say I enjoyed "And Yet" the most, enough to try and get it onto the list.

Witches I liked plenty, a solid 4* story, probably because I simply adore libraries and everything they stand for.

I will hit all the Team 1 stories next.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Art wrote: "Gone through the list of Nebula shorts and I must say I enjoyed "And Yet" the most, enough to try and get it onto the list."

Me too. I'm yet to check other nominees, which aren't available online. I also read two stories nominated in this thread by @Elisa, namely
My Name Is Cybernetic Model XR389F, and I Am Beautiful by Monica Valentinelli
The Farm by Charlie Jane Anders

I liked the latter but the former, while an interesting attempt at a serious topic didn't work for me.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

I will post my list by the end of the month, so far there's no conflict with Team1 so I will be joining you lot.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

I also liked Nebula nominee “The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18). It is a nice story without preaching for social justice in every sentence.

I also liked previous nominees by Sarah

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

My nominees are not in conflict with those of Team 1, so I guess we can just merge our entries.

Best 2019: I've read some, but besides what was already named I don't feel strongly enough to nominate anything except for one entry, "And Yet" for best short 2019. It is written in a refreshingly captivating manner, it merges multiple genres and ideas without losing its own character and the plot, though elusve, comes to a solid conclusion. If there's room for one more short, I recommend it.

Retro 1944:

- Conjure Wife though not overly complicated, it is well written and probably one of the first novels of its kind.

- Sinister Barrier I've read it three or four years ago and it did not leave much of an impact on me, at the time I never even realised it was written in '43. Admittedly around the time of me reading it I was somewhat spoiled, having read only the best and the most famous works of fiction of various genres. After skimming through it I realised I was probably unfair in my 3 star rating and I plan to reread it in a few years ince I forget the plot somewhat. It is a worthy nomination, imho.

- The Glass Bead Game weeell.. wwhere do I start with this one. Not the easiest of reads, but worth reading once especially those who like utopian novels, the world building is hard to follow but if you keep all the little detailes lined up in your mind's eye and ignore majority of the nonsense about unrelated stuff (such as music references that serve only the purpose of showing how elite and sophisticated the citizens are, knowing their Bach and whatnot), the picture starts to emerge. A vivid picture at that.

For the rest, I suppose I haven't read enough to nominate anything worthy in any other category, seems like Team 1 has the most of it covered.

Best Series - Pern, I suppose.

Best Dramatic Representation - Black Panther, I cannot recall any other contenders in that category.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

@Art, I'll update the list today (I hope)

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Updated Team #1 list (Oleksandr + Ed + Donna + Art + Kate + Elisa + Stephan + Silvia ):

Here is our list
Best 2018 Novel
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

Best 2018 Novella
Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Phoresis by Greg Egan
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Best 2018 Novelette
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen
The thing about ghost stories by Kritzer, Naomi
The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Birth by José Pablo Iriarte


Best 2018 Short Story
And Yet by A.T. Greenblatt
Meat And Salt And Sparks by Rich Larson
"Aware" by C. Robert Cargill. (In Resist )
The Farm by Charlie Jane Anders
A Witch’s Guide To Escape: A Practical Compendium Of Portal Fantasies by Alix E. Harrow

Best 2018 Graphic Novel
Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis
The Furnace by Prentis Rollins
Maestros, Vol. 1 by Steve Skroce
Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven


Best 2018 Art Book
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition; Ursula K. LeGuin/Charles Vess; Simon & Schuster

Best 2018 Related Work
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin

Best 2018 Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
The Isle of Dogs
The Incredibles 2
Black Panther
Spiderman into the Spiderverse

Best 2018 Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
"Six Short Stories About Magic" from "The Magicians"
"Bandersnatch" from "Black Mirror"
The Commuter; Phillip K. Dick's Electric Dreams; Amazon Prime Video
Demons of the Punjab; Doctor Who; BBC
It Takes You Away; Doctor Who; BBC

Best 2018 Series
Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel
The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Peter Grant / Rivers of London; Ben Aaronovitch; Lies Sleeping
Frontlines; Marko Kloos; Points of Impact

Best 1943 Novel
Ravage("Ashes, Ashes" in English) by René Barjavel
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Sinister Barrier by Eric Frank Russell


Best 1943 Novella
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


Best 1943 Novelette
Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett
The Angelic Angelworm by Fredric Brown

Best 1943 Short Story
The Secret Miracle by Jorge Luis Borges
Q.U.R. by Anthony Boucher
The Proud Robot by Henry Kuttner


Best 1943 Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
Heaven Can Wait (1943).

Best 1943 Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
"Meshes of the Afternoon" [I don't understand it, but I keep thinking about it for 35 years, and it is influential.]

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Annex by Rich Larson

John W. Campbell Award
Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
Witchmark by C.L. Polk
Planetside by Michael Mammay
Semiosis by Sue Burke

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

I'm ok with this, except for one thing. I do not think that Trail of Lightning is a YA book. I think it needs to be in the John W. Campbell list. It's not really YA. She (the protagonist) is older, I think, and it just does not strike me as a YA book. Lots of scary stuff

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Kateblue wrote: "I'm ok with this, except for one thing. I do not think that Trail of Lightning is a YA book. I think it needs to be in the John W. Campbell list. It's not really YA. She (the protag..."

I planned to shift it to the John W. Campbell list, but found out that the author won this award last year with her short fiction

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Here's YA books according to Locus--I have read none of them. I think The Cruel Prince will be good. I have been waiting 2 months for it from the library!

YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
A Room Away From the Wolves, Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin)
Black Wings Beating, Alex London (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
Blanca & Roja, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
Bluecrowne, Kate Milford (Clarion)
Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)
Damsel, Elana K. Arnold (Balzer + Bray)
Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
For a Muse of Fire, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow)
Half-Witch, John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)
Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)
Mapping the Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)
Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)
The Astonishing Color of After, Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)
The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)
The Brilliant Death, Amy Rose Capetta (Viking)
The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)

I cannot look at the Nebula list because I did not copy it and it is gone.

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Z, don 't know what to suggest given your Campbell award information. Leave it, I guess. I think it will be in the Hugo Best Novels list anyway, when the nominees come out.

I always thought the Campbell award was for first novels. Guess I was wrong. Semiosis, Witchmark, and Trail of Lightning were all on the best first novels list for the Nebula

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Kateblue wrote: "I cannot look at the Nebula list because I did not copy it and it is gone. "

here is their YA list

The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)

Aru Shah and the End of Time, Roshani Chokshi (Rick Riordan Presents)

A Light in the Dark, A.K. DuBoff (BDL)

Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)

Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)

Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien (Henry Holt)

[Ed]

Kateblue wrote: "I always thought the Campbell award was for first novels...."

No, it is for first professional publication, which is usually a short story.

I actually feel weird about nominating anyone for that, though I did! What if the person turns out to be a one-hit-wonder?

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

As with the one-hit wonder of Suzanna Clark's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell? She's never written much else (a story, or some stories?), but she blames her ill-health for that, I read.

I wouldn't feel too bad if I'd nominated that! And now I wonder why I failed to nominate that for the woman's month read.

[Silvana]

Hi guys, a quick question, the link says we could change the nominations as we wish before the deadline but I failed deleting one nominee. So that means I could only add and not revise?

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Silvana wrote: "Hi guys, a quick question, the link says we could change the nominations as we wish before the deadline but I failed deleting one nominee. So that means I could only add and not revise?"

You write your own post, with works you want to nominate. If others want to join with you, they make a suggestion about joining/incorporating. So, if only Semiosis then write:

Best novel 2018
Semiosis by Sue Burke

if more - just add more in respective categories

[Silvana]

Oh, I was referring to the the nomination link sent by the Dublin committee. I tried to delete a short story I listed but there is no option for delete. Even when I clicked reset.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Silvana wrote: "Oh, I was referring to the the nomination link sent by the Dublin committee. I tried to delete a short story I listed but there is no option for delete. Even when I clicked reset."

Are you a paid member of WorldCon 2019 or are you clicking on one of the links provided in one of our threads?

In order to nominate books you need a membership for the event, that allows you to nominate 5 works for each category. This year we have the chance to nominate works we like as a group because Bryan's registered as a member. Once we've selected our nominees, Bryan does all the paperwork and sends it to the commitee.

[Silvana]

Art wrote: "Silvana wrote: "Oh, I was referring to the the nomination link sent by the Dublin committee. I tried to delete a short story I listed but there is no option for delete. Even when I clicked reset."
..."

A paid member. Apologies if this is the wrong thread to ask.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

I am not sure how online ballots work exactly, whether you've already submitted your choices and how long the session stays open before it is timed out(if you have it opened in another tab).

You can always contact the support using hugohelp@dublin2019.com, if you cannot get it to work.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Silvana wrote: "Oh, I was referring to the the nomination link sent by the Dublin committee. I tried to delete a short story I listed but there is no option for delete. Even when I clicked reset."

The solution is easy: delete current pdf file from your computer and download it again from the site. If you have free space in nominations and want our suggestions, feel free to ask

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

I think she is referring to the online ballots, PDFs are downloadable ballots which can be either mailed or scanned and then emailed.
The third option is voting online using a pin and username they provide you and send over by email upon the opening of nomination stage.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Art wrote: "I think she is referring to the online ballots, PDFs are downloadable ballots which can be either mailed or scanned and then emailed."

I thought these were the only options. If it is an online form then cleaning cache should help

[Silvana]

Thanks for the suggestions! 😆

[Silvana]

Okay, here goes my list (might add some later)

Best 2018 Novel
Semiosis
Blackfish City
Revenant Gun
Wrath of Empire
The Calculating Stars

Best 2018 Novella
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
Umbernight by Carolyn Ives Gilman

Best 2018 Novelette
The Only Harmless Great Thing
The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Birth (José Pablo Iriarte)
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
A World to Die For (Tobias S. Buckell)

Best Short Story
A Witch’s Guide To Escape: A Practical Compendium Of Portal Fantasies
Meat And Salt And Sparks
We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice (Octavia Cade)
Asphalt, River, Mother, Child (Isabel Yap)
The Starfish Girl (Maureen McHugh)

Best related work
Fire & Blood

Graphic story
Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven

Dramatic long
Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)

Dramatic Short:
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad; Star Trek: Discovery;
What's Past is Prologue; Star Trek: Discovery
Janet(s); The Good Place
Jeremy Bearimy; The Good Place
And He Shall Be a Good Man; iZombie

Fancast:
Coode Street Podcast; https://jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/
Sword and Laser; http://swordandlaser.com/
Mugglecast; http://mugglecast.com/
Radio Westeros; https://radiowesteros.com/
Galactic Suburbia https://galactisuburbia.podbean.com/

Series:
Machineries of Empire; Yoon Ha Lee; Revenant Gun
Frontlines; Marko Kloos; Points of Impact
Draconis Memoria; Anthony Ryan; The Empire of Ashes

John W Campbell:
Semiosis (but I am not sure about its eligibility)

Lodestar:
Rich Larson, Annex

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

A nice list, Silvana!

I'm unsure whether Best related work is the place for this GRRM's book, after all it is like a side-quel, not encyclopedia... but I haven't read it yet (unlike you)

[Silvana]

Oleksandr wrote: "A nice list, Silvana!

I'm unsure whether Best related work is the place for this GRRM's book, after all it is like a side-quel, not encyclopedia... but I haven't read it yet (unlike you)"

I followed his own suggestion (he actually wrote a blog about how to nominate it) :D

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Silvana wrote: "I followed his own suggestion (he actually wrote a blog about how to nominate it) :D "

ok, he have to know, so fine.

No nominations for 1943 fiction?

[Silvana]

Oleksandr wrote: "
No nominations for 1943 fiction?"

Umm, not interested yet.

[Stephen]

My nomination so far.
Best Novel:
Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Circe by Madeline Miller
My Hope to win but is a longshot Is Oscar and Golden Globe winner Spiderman into the Spiderverse for Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form.
The website Rocket Stack Rank has a list of those writer eligibility for the Campbell
http://www.rocketstackrank.com/p/2019...
Also a great help with all sorts of other categories Like Best Pro Artist

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Hi Stephen and welcome to the group!
How did you find Grey Sister compared to its prequel, Red Sister?
Haven't read the Spaceborn but everyone seems to love it, must WTR it.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

We will be locking the threads in a short while, so post whatever nominees you might still have.
There might be a poll stage for some of the categories, so stay tuned!

[Stephen]

Grey Sister continued the great story started in Red Sister. Becky Chambers
Three Wayfarer books are so completely different from each other I feel like I am cheating when I nominate it for Best Series, but all 3 are so fabulous.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

I plan to close this thread in 2 days. Before that I'll try to incorporate @Stephen and @Silvana lists to the team one. If I fail, we'll vote for the best list or part of it (novels are the only narrow spot)

[Silvana]

Stephen wrote: "My nomination so far.
Best Novel:
Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Circe b..."

Nice list, Stephen.
I wish I could read Circe before the nomination ends but I already have a BR scheduled next month. I have a good feeling about it based on the sample and friends reviews so I hope it will at least got a nod.

PS: I miscategorized Jose Iriarte's story, should be a novelette. Which is good since I now have two empty slots for shorts. 🤔