Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

This is our new feature aimed specifically for people who are unable/unwilling to read a longer fiction or already finished all monthly reads and are eager for more. Now there will be challenges with Hugo/Nebula nominated short stories, which I find interesting (a benevolent dictator at your service) and which are legally available online, so that anyone can get them just following a link. This challenge will not give you an Enhanced Nomination Credit (ENC), it is just pure fun! I will start with one story per month, but if anyone thinks we need more/less or has a suggestion what to read – please post in this thread!

Our first short story is Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories by Naomi Kritzer. It won Hugo and was nominated for Nebula in 2016. It also won Locus Award. Originally published in Clarkesworld. It can be found here – both text and audio, with another audio (better narration IMHO) is here.

Looking forward to all the discussion that is bound to follow, considering how accessible this challenge is. Thanks a lot for setting it all up and for researching the stories and free links to each of them.

Are you following the Tor short fiction? Go here https://www.tor.com/category/all-fict...

I very much appreciate you providing a link to the audiobook of this story! I just downloaded a pod cast app and already downloaded the story. I hope to have it finished in the next few days.

Just if you're curious, I play with data on H/N short stories. The authors, who were nominated the most for either one or both:
1 Michael Swanwick 19
2 Mike Resnick 19
3 Harlan Ellison 12
4 Fritz Leiber 10
5 Larry Niven 9
6 Michael A. Burstein 9
7 Gene Wolfe 7
8 Howard Waldrop 7
9 Theodore Sturgeon 7
10 Bruce Sterling 6

The most popular publisher of the short stories:
1 Asimov's Science Fiction 115
2 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 103
3 Analog Science Fact & Fiction 43
4 Galaxy Science Fiction 26
5 Omni 26
6 Fantasy & Science Fiction 18
7 Analog Science Fiction and Fact 15
8 Astounding Science-Fiction 15
9 Clarkesworld Magazine 15
10 Amazing Stories 14

There are only 6 stories, which won both prizes, and last time it happened whooping 25 year ago!

Do you have a spreadsheet of sort stories similar to what Bryan made for novels? If not, tell me where the data is and I can make one . . . or Bryan can if he wants . . . but I will be glad to

And how about novelettes and novellas?

I just read the cat pictures story. How cute!

Kateblue wrote: "Do you have a spreadsheet of sort stories similar to what Bryan made for novels? "

Yes, I have. I'll post it here shortly

And here it comes:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

This is great, thanks!! I love "Etaoin Shrdlu" especially.

Frederic Brown is my fave SF short story writer ever. I am surprised there are only two nominations.

"Etaoin Shrdlu" (1943) is in https://www.amazon.com/Fredric-Brown-...

It is to LOL for. And the Kindle book with 33 of his stories only costs 55 cents

"The Waveries" (1946) is in https://www.amazon.com/Second-Fredric...

Not LOL funny, but charming. I have always remembered it, ever since I was a kid. And only 99 cents for it and 26 other stories. There's a story called "something green" which I think must be one which I have been looking for for years. I'm going to go check now . . .

No, I don't get any money off of this, I just love Frederic Brown and want others to be happy, too.

And "Placet is a Crazy Place"!!!! In the 99 cent volume. I loved it so much probably because it might be the first SF short story I ever read. (I was already reading the Heinlein juveniles.)

Thank you, Oleksandr, for bringing me back to so many fond memories with your Short Story Challenge

Kateblue wrote: "This is great, thanks!! I love "Etaoin Shrdlu" especially.

Frederic Brown is my fave SF short story writer ever. I am surprised there are only two nominations."

I planned to add this story to the challenge - I liked it in par for it made me look up how printing worked those days

As for why only 2 - the part 1939-1951, which misses quite a few years is Retro-Hugos, and Brown wrote actively during this time... there were good stories in 1953-1965 [year of his last story]

Yes, there is at least one other story of Brown's that involves printing. And it is great, too. When I figure out what the name of it is, I will let you know.