Hugo Awards: My Short Fiction Ballot

(Disclaimer: English is my second language, so I want to apologize in advance for there may be mistakes in the text below. If you find any, please let me know so that I can correct it. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.)

Last year I read much less short fiction than I'd have liked, and now I'm deeply regretting it, for I'm noticing that I missed a lot of high quality stories. There were so many excellent stories published in 2012 that now, with only two days until the Hugo nomination deadline, I still don't know which ones I won't be voting for. 

What I'm 99% sure of is that my ballot will be a subset of the following stories (I provide links to online, free versions when available), all of them superb. I'm still catching up with my reading, though, so there might be some minor modifications.

Novella

• On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard
• The Longest Fall, Liu Cixin
• "All the Flavors", Ken Liu (GigaNotoSaurus February 2012)
• Adrift on the Sea of Rains, Ian Sales (my review, in Spanish)
• The Emperor's Soul, Brandon Sanderson
• Legion, Brandon Sanderson
• The Boolean Gate, Walter Jon Williams (my review, in Spanish)

 

Novelette

• "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi", Pat Cadigan (Engineering Infinity)
  
• Mountain, Liu Cixin
• Taking Care of God, Liu Cixin
• The Wandering Earth, Liu Cixin
• "The Waves", Ken Liu (Asimov's 12/12)
  
• "Limited Edition", Tim Maughan (Arc 1.3)
• "Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods", Bejanun Sriduangkaew (The Future Fire 2012.24)

 

Short Story

 

• "Scattered Along the River of Heaven", Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 64)
• "During the Pause", Adam-Troy Castro (Apex Magazine, September 2012)
•  "My Wife Hates Time Travel", Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed 28)
• "Power Armor: A Love Story", David Barr Kirtley (Armored)
• "The Bookmaking Habits of Some Selected Species", Ken Liu (Lightspeed 27)
• "And the Hollow Space Inside", Mari Ness (Clarkesworld 65)
• "Vainglory", Alastair Reynolds (Engineering Infinity)

 (You can also read this post in Spanish/También puedes leer esta entrada en español)