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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.
“Swan Song” by Joanne Merriam
October 2008, Strange Horizons
“The Mermaid’s Tea Party” by Samantha Henderson
Summer 2008, Helix
“She Called Me Sweetie” by Glenn Lewis Gillette
July 2009, Apex Magazine
“Cold Words” by Juliette Wade
October 2009, Analog
“Tales of the White Street Society – The Corpse Army of Khartoum” by Grady Hendrix
February 2009, Pseudopod
“Shades of White and Road” by Camille Alexa
April 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“If Wishes Were Horses” by Tiffani Angus
May 2009, Strange Horizons
“Driftwood” by Marie Brennan
April 2009, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“Superhero Girl” by Jessica Lee
June 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Offerings” by Stephanie Burgis
August 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“The Moon Over Tokyo through Leaves in the Fall” by Jerome Stueart
September 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Images of Anna” by Nancy Kress
September 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Light on the Water” by Genevieve Valentine
October 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Reading By Numbers” by Aidan Doyle
November 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Celadon” by Desirina Boskovich
January 2009, Clarkesworld
“Spar” by Kij Johnson
October 2009, Clarkesworld
“Diary of an Interesting Year” by Helen Simpson
December 21 and 28 2009, The New Yorker
“Defence of the Realm” by Greg Mellor
February 2009, Cosmos
Teddy Bears and Tea Parties by S. Boyd Taylor
July 2009, ChiZine
“Pimp my Airship” by Maurice Broaddus
August 2009, Apex Magazine
“Black Dog: A Biography” by Peter M. Ball
November, 2009, Interfictions 2, , Sherman & Barak eds.
“Teaching Bigfoot to Read” by Geoffrey W. Cole
January 2009, Clarkesworld
“Another Perfect Day” by Steven Popkes
August, 2008, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“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