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• Mari Ness: Shattered Amber (Daily SF, November 2012)

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The 2013 Nebula Awards Final Ballot

Novels

• Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Marian Wood, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2013.
• A novel.

• Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Morrow, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2013.
• A novel.

• Charles E. Gannon: Fire with Fire (Baen, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2013.

• Nicola Griffith: Hild (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2013.

• Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice (Orbit, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2013.

• Linda Nagata: The Red: First Light (Mythic Island, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2013.

• Sofia Samatar: A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2013.

• Helene Wecker: The Golem and the Jinni (Harper, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2013.

Novellas

• Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages: Wakulla Springs (Tor.com, October 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

• Vylar Kaftan: The Weight of the Sunrise (Asimov's, February 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

• Nancy Kress: Annabel Lee (New Under the Sun Anthology, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2013.

• Veronica Schanoes: Burning Girls (Tor.com, June 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

• Lawrence M. Schoen: Trial of the Century (World Jumping, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2013.

• Catherynne M. Valente: Six-Gun Snow White (Subterranean, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2013.

Novelettes

• Chris Barzak: Paranormal Romance (Lightspeed, June 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

• Aliette de Bodard: The Waiting Stars (The Other Half of the Sky Anthology, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.

• Alaya Dawn Johnson: They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass (Asimov's, January 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

• Henry Lien: Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters (Asimov's, December 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
• Reviews:    Isfdb:  

• Ken Liu: The Litigation Master and the Monkey King (Lightspeed, August 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

• Sarah Pinsker: In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind (Strange Horizons, July 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

Short Stories

• Matthew Kressel: The Sounds of Old Earth (Lightspeed, January 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

• Sofia Samatar: Selkie Stories Are for Losers (Strange Horizons, January 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Kenneth Schneyer: Selected Program Notes From the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer (Clockwork Phoenix Anthology #4, 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
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• Rachel Swirsky: If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love (Apex Magazine #46, March 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• Sylvia Spruck Wrigley: Alive, Alive Oh (Lightspeed, June 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  

Some of the best fiction from 2013

• Charlie Anders: The Master Conjurer (Lightspeed, October 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Barbara A. Barnett: The Girl Who Welcomed Death to Svalgearyen (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #124, June 2013)

• Available as part of this magazine.   Alternate link.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• M. Bennardo: The Herons of Mer de l'Ouest (Lightspeed, February 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• M. Bennardo: The Penitent (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #122, May 2013)

• Available as part of this magazine.   Alternate link.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Ted Chiang: The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (Subterranean Online, Fall 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• John Chu: The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (Tor.com, February 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Aliette de Bodard: The Waiting Stars (The Other Half of the Sky Anthology, 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.

• Gemma Files: Two Captains (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #125, July 2013)

• Available as part of this magazine.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Jeffrey Ford: A Terror (Tor.com, July 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Thomas Olde Heuvelt: The Ink Readers of Doi Saket (Tor.com, April 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Kat Howard: Painted Birds and Shivered Bones (Subterranean Online, Spring 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• James Patrick Kelly: The Promise of Space (Clarkesworld #84, September 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Jake Kerr: Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince (Lightspeed, March 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.

• Caitlín R. Kiernan: The Prayer of Ninety Cats (Subterranean Online, Spring 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• Nancy Kress: One (Tor.com, July 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.

• Jay Lake & Seanan McGuire: Hook Agonistes (Subterranean Online, Fall 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• Sarah Langan: Sacred Cows (Nightmare Magazine #5, February 2013)

• Review:  Isfdb:  
• Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• Yoon Ha Lee: Effigy Nights (Clarkesworld #76, January 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Ken Liu: The Plague (Nature #497, May 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.

• Sam J. Miller: The Beasts We Want to Be (Electric Velocipede #27, Winter 2013)

• Review:  Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Sunny Moraine: A Heap of Broken Images (We See a Different Frontier Anthology, 2013)

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• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.

• Sunny Moraine: Event Horizon (Strange Horizons, October 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Review:  Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Ramez Naam: Water (An Aura of Familiarity Anthology, 2013)

• Available as part of this anthology.   Alternate link.
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• To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.
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• Val Nolan: The Irish Astronaut (Electric Velocipede #26, Spring 2013)

• Review:  Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• An Owomoyela: In Metal, In Bone (Eclipse Online, March 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• K. J. Parker: The Sun And I (Subterranean Online, Summer 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Richard Parks: Cherry Blossoms on the River of Souls (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #131, October 2013)

• Available as part of this magazine.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Robert Reed: Mystic Falls (Clarkesworld #86, November 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.
  To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Alastair Reynolds: A Map of Mercury (The Lowest Heaven Anthology, 2013)

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• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.

• Sofia Samatar: Selkie Stories Are for Losers (Strange Horizons, January 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• David J. Schwartz: Today's Friends (Asimov's, July 2013)

• Available as part of this magazine.
• Reviews:    Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Priya Sharma: Rag and Bone (Tor.com, April 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• Lewis Shiner: Doctor Helios (Subterranean Online, Fall 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• Non-SF.
  On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Vandana Singh: Cry of the Kharchal (Clarkesworld #83, August 2013)

• Alternate link.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• William Browning Spencer: The Indelible Dark (Subterranean Online, Spring 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• James L. Sutter: Beheaded by Peasants (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #114, February 2013)

• Available as part of this magazine.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• Rachel Swirsky: Abomination Rises on Filthy Wings (Apex Magazine #50, July 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• Rachel Swirsky: If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love (Apex Magazine #46, March 2013)

• Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• Three Stars on Tangent Online's '2013 recommended reading' list.

• Karin Tidbeck: Sing (Tor.com, April 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Strahan's Year's Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

• E. Catherine Tobler: Grandmother of Ghosts (Electric Velocipede #26, Spring 2013)

• Review:  Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Tori Truslow: Boat in Shadows, Crossing (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #113, January 2013)

• Available as part of this magazine.   Alternate link.
• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Genevieve Valentine: 86, 87, 88, 89 (Clarkesworld #78, March 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Genevieve Valentine: Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (Lightspeed, February 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.

• Carrie Vaughn: The Best We Can (Tor.com, July 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• To be featured in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF, Thirty-First Edition.

• Kali Wallace: No Portraits on the Sky (Clarkesworld #79, April 2013)

• Reviews:   Isfdb:  
• On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2013' list.