The Sturgeon Award honors best short science fiction by year of publication, and the 2009 finalists have been named. I went ahead and collected links so you can read the majority of them as well. If you know where the others are, please note it in the comments section.
The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
“The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay
“True Names” by Cory Doctorow & Benjamin Rosenbaum
“The Ray Gun: A Love Story” by James Alan Gardner
“Memory Dog” by Kathleen Ann Goonan
“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson (NOTE: Johnson, a juror, removed story from consideration)
“The Tear” by Ian McDonald
“Special Economics” by Maureen McHugh
“His Master’s Voice” by Hanu Rajaniemi
“From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled” by Michael Swanwick
Note that (if its up to date) the McDonald story is something you have to email him for. The Finlay story used to be online, but I’m getting a broken link when I go there now. “Special Economics” by Maureen McHugh and “His Master’s Voice” by Hanu Rajaniemi I couldn’t find online.
The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas,
BSC would like to congratulate all the nominees.
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