Hugo in the headlights
3 o'clock, March 1, 2005
I shouldn’t play favorites, but nonetheless I’d like to put in a particular plea for Ben Rosenbaum’s novelette “Biographical notes to ‘A discourse on the nature of causality, with air-planes’ by Benjamin Rosenbaum”, from ASZAS. There are plenty of other good stories in there, too, so if you’ve got a favorite, by all means nominate it.
I also hear that there were some fine stories published last year that were not edited by me:
- Emerald City’s Hugo recommendations page
- Locus magazine’s 2004 recommended reading list
- Some good stories Matt “Mumpsimus” Cheney read last year
And if those don’t do it for you:
Many of these are now available on-line somewhere, if you missed them the first time around. So no excuses. Remember, Making These Awards Mean Something Begins With You.
P.S. For those of you keeping score at home, my own eligible works are the short stories “Five Irrational Histories”, in Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo (Velocity Press, May 2004), and “The Ideas”, in Flytrap (Tropism Press, May 2004 — also being reprinted in two parts in Norwescon’s latest progress report and convention program, by the way), and the novelette “The Third Party”, in Asimov’s (September 2004). I’m not as excited about them as I am on the stuff I’m working on now, but they’re not bad.