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To be eligible for a Nebula in the Short Story category, fiction must be less that 7,500 words and published between July 2008 and December 31, 2009.
All SFWA members are eligible to add works to the suggested reading list. Suggestions are moderated for accuracy and to prevent duplicate entries.
“Ballad of the Groupie Everlasting” by Robert T. Jeschonek
November 2009, “The Trouble With Heroes,” DAW
“The Wish of a Wish” by Robert T. Jeschonek
February 2009, Crime Spells
“The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake” by Robert T. Jeschonek
Fall 2009, Space & Time Magazine
“Forced Retirement” by Robert T. Jeschonek
November 2009, A Thousand Faces,
The Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction
“Early Winter, Near Jenli Village” by J. Kathleen Cheney
Fantasy Magazine, April 2009
“Two Boys” by Steven Popkes
August, 2009, Asimov’s Science Fiction
“Mermaid” by Robert Reed
October/November 2009 F&SF
“Blocked” by Geoff Ryman
October/November 2009, F&SF
“And Their Lips Rang with the Sun” by Amal El-Mohtar
October 2009, Strange Horizons
“Chanel Surfing in Amnesiaville” by Justin Howe
September 2009, Brain Harvest
“Tio Gilberto and the Twenty-Seven Ghosts” by Ben Francisco
October 2009, Realms of Fantasy
“Of Shifting Skin and Certainty” by Justin Howe
September 2009, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“No Cord or Cable” by Bud Sparhawk
April 2009, Abyss and Apex
“The President’s Book Tour” by M. Rickert
October/November 2009, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“The Beardresser’s Secret” by Richard Bowes
Spring 2009, Electric Velocipede
“Non-Zero Probabilities” by N.K. Jemisin
September 2009, Clarkesworld
“Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela” by Saladin Ahmed
Clockwork Phoenix 2, July, 2009, Mike Allen, ed.
“Stone Flowers” by Mike Allen
September 2009, Cabinet des Fées
“Before My Last Breath” by Robert Reed
Asimov’s Oct./Nov. 2009
“The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” by Catherynne M. Valente
August 2009, Clarkesworld
“James and the Dark Grimoire” by Kevin Lauderale
March 2009, Cthulhu Unbound, Thomas Brannan and John
Sunseri eds.
“Waiting for the Green Woman” by Sean Markey
May 2009, Sybil’s Garage #6, Matthew Kressel, ed.
“Advection” by Genevieve Valentine
August 2009, Clarkesworld
“The Parable of the Shower” by Leah Bobet
Lone Star Stories, June 2009
“Up the Down Beanstalk” by Peter S. Beagle
Troll’s Eye View, Viking, April 2009, Datlow/Windling, eds
“A Delicate Architecture” by Catherine M. Valente
Troll’s Eye View, Viking, Apr 2009, Datlow/Windling eds.
“The Consciousness Problem” by Mary Robinette Kowal
Asimov’s, August 2009
“The Cinderella Game” by Kelly Link
Troll’s Eye View, Viking, Apr 2009, Datlow/Windling, eds.
“When Thorns are the Tips of Trees” by Jason Sanford
Apex Magazine, May 2009
“The Promise of Touch” by Steven Mohan, Jr.,
Ideomancer, March 2009
“The Art of the Dragon” by Sean McMullen,
F&SF, Aug-Sept. 2009
“Strappado” by Laird Barron,
Solaris/ Poe/ed. Datlow, 01/09 2009
“Sleeping with Angels” by M. Rickert,
Solaris/ Poe/ed. Datlow, 01/09 2009
“One Bright Star To Guide Them” by John C. Wright,
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April/May 2009
“Lowland Sea” by Suzy McKee Charnas,
Solaris/ Poe/ed. Datlow, 01/09 2009
“Illimitable Domain” by Kim Newman,
Solaris/ Poe/ed. Datlow, 01/09 2009
“Hindsight, in Neon” by Jamie Todd Rubin,
Apex Magazine, April 2009
“Echoes of Aurora” by Ellen Klages,
What Remains, Aqueduct Press, 2009
“Bespoke” by Genevieve Valentine,
Strange Horizons, July 2009
“The Radio Magician” by James Van Pelt,
Realms of Fantasy, February 2009
“The Shangri-La Affair” by Lavie Tidhar,
Strange Horizons, Jan. 2009