The apparently obligatory Nebula post
Nov. 18th, 2009 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessSigh. I feel uncomfortable with doing this, but since I got nudged about this, and since everyone else seems to be doing it, you can find a list of my Nebula eligible works here. Basically, everything except for "The Fuddles of Oz" (originally published in Canada) and the poetry since July 2008 is eligible. Since most of them appeared in out-of-the-way venues, though, and the ones that appeared in larger venues were overshadowed by (in my opinion) better stories by considerably better known authors, I think my chances of appearing on the Nebula ballot are about 0.0001 percent. I may be overly optimistic. (Which is why, incidentally, I'm uncomfortable with this post...I'd be more gung-ho about this if there was a chance in hell, but of course, I probably wouldn't be pimping myself like this if I were. Hmm.)
(For the curious, works that originally appeared in Hub Fiction are considered eligible since they made their first appearance in electronic format, which means that they are treated as if they were published in the United States, even though Hub is based in Great Britain.)
For what it's worth, if I were nominating me, I would probably nominate the experimental Pogo Stick, possibly the most original thing I published this year. But I am a notoriously bad judge of my own work, so feel free to dispute this. (Actually, this was already disputed - the nudger in question was more excited about Colors and Playing With Spades. So there.) A more detailed post chatting about this year's publications (including the poetry) and what I thought about them will probably be appearing in late December/early January if I don't forget, and I'll probably be using that post for the probably inevitable upcoming Hugo/other awards post so that readers who just come here looking for movie/television snark (by far the majority of you) don't get overly bored by things like this.
I will say, however, that I sincerely hope Nebula voters and readers will be checking out and focusing on some of the awesome work appearing in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Abyss and Apex and any of the anthologies printed by Norilana Books, Small Beer Press, Hadley Rille Books and Morrigan Books. Because some seriously good stuff is appearing there. Go check them out.
(For the curious, works that originally appeared in Hub Fiction are considered eligible since they made their first appearance in electronic format, which means that they are treated as if they were published in the United States, even though Hub is based in Great Britain.)
For what it's worth, if I were nominating me, I would probably nominate the experimental Pogo Stick, possibly the most original thing I published this year. But I am a notoriously bad judge of my own work, so feel free to dispute this. (Actually, this was already disputed - the nudger in question was more excited about Colors and Playing With Spades. So there.) A more detailed post chatting about this year's publications (including the poetry) and what I thought about them will probably be appearing in late December/early January if I don't forget, and I'll probably be using that post for the probably inevitable upcoming Hugo/other awards post so that readers who just come here looking for movie/television snark (by far the majority of you) don't get overly bored by things like this.
I will say, however, that I sincerely hope Nebula voters and readers will be checking out and focusing on some of the awesome work appearing in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Abyss and Apex and any of the anthologies printed by Norilana Books, Small Beer Press, Hadley Rille Books and Morrigan Books. Because some seriously good stuff is appearing there. Go check them out.