Critical Mass May 21: Nebula Award Short Story nominees 2024

The current nominees for Best Short Story in the Nebula Awards are:

We’d like members of Critical Mass to read a few of the short stories, beginning with


Evan: a Remainder
Evan is suddenly coughing up bones, like, A LOT of bones, but that’s not even in the top ten strangest things that have happened to him since he moved into his new (possibly haunted) duplex . . .

and The V*mpire,

The vampires aren’t even the worst part about being a teenage trans girl on tumblr.

which appeared in Reactor.

You can also read the stories from Lightspeed magazine: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus and
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read .
And Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole is available from Clarkesworld.

A reminder, we meet in person at 6:30pm on Wednesday,May 21st at the Minor Works Building, 22 Stamford Court, Adelaide.
[If you enter from Sturt Street, there’s an open path between 50 and 52 Sturt Street
leading to the community centre]
For those who can’t make it in person, they’re welcome to join us via zoom

Zoom details

6:30pm Adelaide, 7pm Melbourne/Sydney, Noon Helsinki, 10am London, 9pm Wellington

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83196030896?pwd=m2ImO2Z7bGfLtmLvJJHeoci1455Vtr.1

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