I am so very honored and happy to announce that Carnival Nine is a Hugo finalist in the short story category! This is my first Hugo nomination, and I was lucky enough to be at Norwescon this year and hear the ballot announcement live, surrounded by friends (some of whom are also finalists!). I don’t have the words to express how much this nomination means to me, thank you all so much. <3

The full list of finalists is here. Congratulations, everyone! It is truly an honor to be in such good company.

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Extremely excited to announce that my Beneath Ceaseless Skies short story “Carnival Nine” is a finalist for the Nebula Award! This story is one that I am particularly proud of, and it is such an honor to have it recognized alongside several other truly wonderful stories.

The complete list of Nebula Finalists is here:
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2017/

Congratulations to all the finalists! I will be attending the Nebula Awards weekend in May–if you will also be there, come say hi!

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It is that time of year when people are writing end-of-year and awards eligibility posts, so here is mine. I had eight short stories and one novelette out in 2017. If you only read one piece of work from me this year, I encourage you to check out Carnival Nine, which came out in issue #225 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Short stories:

Shadow Station (Nature, April 13)
Carnival Nine (BCS, May 2017)
The Ivory Hummingbird (June 30, 2017, DSF)
Building a Bridge Too Vast to Cross (July 27, 2017 DSF)
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The table of contents is out for the 2017 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and one of my stories is in it:

“Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” (originally in Lightspeed Magazine)

I’m honored to be included with a really great lineup of authors and stories!

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As promised, here is a list of Asian and South Asian authors that were mentioned in the panel (plus a few that were in my notes but I never had a chance to mention). Since I am incapable of taking notes while being on the panel, I didn’t jot down the names of authors that were mentioned by other panelists, although many were already on my list. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of authors/works, just a starting point. I’ve included links to where you can read short stories free online.

Aliette de Bodard – Immersion

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The nominees for this year’s Ignotus Awards have been announced, and I’m honored that my story “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” (translated by Marcheto, published in SuperSonic 4) is up for an award in the translated short fiction category.

Congrats to all the nominees!

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At the Nebula Conference I moderated a panel on flash fiction with wonderful panelists Trevor Quachri, Cat Rambo, John Wiswell, and A.T. Greenblatt. (If you missed the panel, check out the SFWA tweets in this thread for highlights.)

I promised at the end of the panel that I would post a list of all the recommended flash fiction stories that we talked about, so here it is:

• Indigo Blue by Rachael K. Jones
• Stars That Fall by Samantha Murray
• 43 Responses to “In Memory  of Dr. Alexandra Nako” by Barbara A. Barnett
• Break by Mishell Baker

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I have a new story out in issue #225 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies (May, 2017). “Carnival Nine” is a story that I am particularly proud of, and I’m so happy it found a good home. A short excerpt:

One night, when I was winding down to sleep, I asked Papa, “How come I don’t get the same number of turns every day?”

“Sometimes the maker turns your key more, and sometimes less, but you can never have more than your mainspring will hold. You’re lucky, Zee, you have a good …