2012 Awards-Eligible Fiction
Originally published at ipse illum dicto. You can comment here or there.
One thing every writer, at every level, should be doing this time of year is gathering together a list of what they’ve published that’s eligible for awards. When your peers and your readers are filling out their nomination ballots (and anyone who buys a WorldCon membership is eligible to nominate for the Hugos), they’ll pop over to their favorite writers’ websites and see which of the stories they’ve read recently were published in the correct calendar year. And, yes, I recommend doing this even if, like me, you can’t conceive of anyone wanting to nominate you for anything. Many nominees and even winners have felt that way. (And, no, you shouldn’t spam Twitter every 60 minutes reminding people to check your list and nominate you, either. That’s obnoxious.) So without futher ado, here’s what I’ve got for 2012:
- “Another Generation’s Problems” - short story by Kyle Aisteach, Emerald Sky Magazine, September 2012.
- “Clockman” - short story by Kyle Aisteach, Kyle Aisteach’s blog, May 22, 2012.
Yes, it was a slow year. And though I’ve got two stories in the queue at different publications for next year, that’s likely to continue to be the case at least until I finish grad school.
I don’t consider either of these two to be award-worthy material. I’m quite pleased with both of them, but not in the way that does or should impress my fellow science fiction writers or fandom at large. “Another Generation’s Problems” was an experiment to see if I could take a science fiction trope I’ve always disliked and make it work the way I think it should work. “Clockman” was an attempt to write something so awful as to be actually entertaining. I think both succeeded at what I was trying to do, but there are some truly marvelous and innovative stories that were published this year, and I hope you’ve all been reading them.
Unfortunately, none of this is going to help with either the term paper I need to finish for my literature course or the final portfolio I need to write for my pedagogy course, so that’s all I’m going to say on the subject.
Please let me know when you’ve got your lists posted, as I’m both a Nebula and a Hugo nominator again.