A Good Year & Stiff Competition
The 2007 nominees for the Best Short story Hugo Award are all high quality work this year. I predict a tough race: I’ve read each several times and *still* have trouble deciding which I think is The Best. Right now I’m going with a pure sentimental favorite: Tim Pratt’s bittersweet movie fan dream-come-true alternate reality tale "Impossible Dreams".
Lucky for us fans, the authors have agreed to put their stories on line for all to see — a way to even the playing field as the Hugos are a fandom vote based award.
You pick *your* fave!
[*How To Talk To Girls At Parties* Neil Gaiman](http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/partiesstory/)
[*Kin* Bruce McAllister](http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Kin.shtml)
[*Impossible Dreams* Tim Pratt](http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Impossibledreams.shtml)
[*Eight Episodes* Robert Reed](http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/8episodes.shtml)
[*The House Beyond Your Sky* Benjamin Rosenbaum](http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060904/house-f.shtml)
The thing that’s going to make the voting especially hard is that not only are all five stories excellent, all five are excellent in wonderfully different *ways*. The old cliche ‘They all deserve to win’ truthfully applies here, and we’ll just have to settle for the comfortable knowledge that whichever story manages to make off with the trophy will have done so deservingly.
Excellent; thanks, G.!
PS. I had to register to post this comment, fyi. I know you’ve been trying to tweak it to allow unregistered comments.
Comment by Astoria — August 8, 2007 @ 6:25 pm