Eligible fiction of 2017 (by me)

To add to the rounds of author posts announcing their award-eligible fiction of the year now almost past, here’s mine. These are eligible for the Sir Julius Vogel, Ditmar, Hugo, and Nebula awards, and possibly others.

 

Novella:

Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body (Peggy Bright Books, 2017), 31000 words approx.

Novelette:

‘November 31st is World Peace Day’ (Dimension6 issue 11, 2017, available for free download here), 12000 words approx.

Short story:

‘Good Intentions’ (AntipodeanSF issue 232, 2017, available for free download here), 500 words approx. (Obviously, this is ‘flash fiction’ rather than a short story per se. I don’t think this undercuts any of the short story categories for the above awards, but it’s always wise to double-check.)

As always, my advice to any would-be nominators is to read widely and only nominate fiction for which you feel a nomination is genuinely merited. A diverse shortlist is a useful shortlist.