Last Minute Hugo Reads

There's only a week left until the Hugo Nomination window closes! I am frantically leaping from story to story in an attempt to stuff my brain full of every potentially-awesome piece of speculative fiction published in 2014. In case anyone else is similarly frozen by decision paralysis, below are some of my favourite free-to-read-online Hugo-eligible short stories and novelettes of 2014.

Novelette

• Each to Each by Seanan McGuire http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/each-to-each/
• Cuts Both Ways by Heather Clitheroe http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cuts-both-ways/
• Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy by Xia Jia http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/xia_09_14/

Short Story

• Walking Awake by N.K. Jemisin http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/walking-awake/
• Salvage by Carrie Vaughn http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/salvage/
• The Dryad’s Shoe by T. Kingfisher http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-fiction/the-dryads-shoe/
• As Good As New by Charlie Jane Anders Tor.com http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/09/as-good-as-new-charlie-jane-anders