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mmcirvinBy the way, I was a little embarrassed at the Hugos, since this year I happen to have read unusually little of the nominated material. Fortunately, as a day-pass last-minute visitor, I didn't have a vote.
Many of the novellas, novelettes and short stories were in the Dozois Best of the Year anthology, so I was planning to read them there and then misplaced the thing somewhere while I was on vacation. The nominees in the shortish fiction categories were, however, all made available online, which was pretty cool. Neil Gaiman had the odd experience of being both master of ceremonies and the winner for Best Short Story; "A Study in Emerald" was one that I hadn't gotten around to reading, in part because I had my fill of science-fictional Sherlock Holmes pastiches some time ago. Personally I was pulling for Joe Haldeman's "Four Short Novels", but it was not to be.
Many of the novellas, novelettes and short stories were in the Dozois Best of the Year anthology, so I was planning to read them there and then misplaced the thing somewhere while I was on vacation. The nominees in the shortish fiction categories were, however, all made available online, which was pretty cool. Neil Gaiman had the odd experience of being both master of ceremonies and the winner for Best Short Story; "A Study in Emerald" was one that I hadn't gotten around to reading, in part because I had my fill of science-fictional Sherlock Holmes pastiches some time ago. Personally I was pulling for Joe Haldeman's "Four Short Novels", but it was not to be.