Go read this NOW.

[nonelvis]

26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss

It's the first of the Hugo Award nominees for short story that I've read, and it completely blew me away. If the others are half this good, this should be a terrific category.

(Novelette wasn't bad – nothing I hated, nothing I thought was perfect.)

Comments

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

I know! Haunting and awesome. I love it. When it came out in Asimov's Magazine it was one of the ones I came back to over and over.

[nonelvis]

I told columbina to read it, and we had the following conversation:

columbina: I'm going to hate it, aren't I?
nonelvis: Why? Because you're going to wish you'd written it?
columbina: Yes.
nonelvis: ... um ... yeah. You're going to hate it.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I adore your husband, but sometimes I think he needs to unbend just a teensy eensy bit...

(so did he read it? Or did you just slink away and leave him to his brooding?)

[nonelvis]

He says he hasn't read it yet, but plans to.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Kij Johnson is also a pretty nifty person. I've only met her once but she's a friend of several friends of mine (excellent writers all) and I like her a great deal.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

Wow, truly excellent. If this *doesn't* win, I'd like to see what does.

[nonelvis]

Most of the other stories are fine, but this one is far beyond the rest of the competition, in my opinion. I'll be disappointed if it loses.