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nwhyte

Hugo Short Story nominees

May 13, 2009 08:37

This being the quickest category to read, there are already a number of summaries of the entire ballot out there - Matt Hilliard, Ian Sales, Abigail Nussbaum, Steven Klotz, Rich Horton and Coderyder. There is considerable consensus about which is the best story on the list; there is universal consensus about the worst. My preferences, in reverse ( Read more... )

writer: mary robinette kowal, writer: michael swanwick, sf: i hate cute robots, writer: ted chiang, writer: kij johnson, writer: mike resnick, hugos 2009

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redfiona99 May 13 2009, 12:02:06 UTC

I'm detecting a monkeys and robots theme.

shsilver May 13 2009, 13:00:39 UTC

Monkeys and Robots. Sounds like a great theme anthology.

rmc28 May 13 2009, 14:48:58 UTC

Zombie pirate robot monkeys?

shsilver May 13 2009, 14:51:39 UTC

If you're going there, you also need into include ninjas and dinosaurs:

Zombie Ninja Pirate Robomonkeysaurus

del_c May 13 2009, 15:04:41 UTC

This is just awful. [...] It was so bad I couldn't finish it. It is embarrassing that this even made the shortlist.

Wait, how could "Redchapel" have been nominated this year?

(oh, it's a different Resnick story. never mind)

raycun May 13 2009, 21:50:00 UTC

I think the Chiang was a little by-the-numbers, but I've gone and read three of the others, and it's comfortably better than them (have to read the Swanwick still)
That Resnick - or the portion of it I managed to read - is just shockingly bad.

purplecthulhu July 12 2009, 08:15:38 UTC

The thing that got me about Exhalation was how close aspects of the metaphor are to real cosmology. This really is an astounding short story, and is top of my list for the Hugos.