Finalist, Best Novella, 2010
Shambling Towards Hiroshima
James Morrow (opens in a new tab)
In 1945 a B-movie actor is hired to play a giant lizard monster to frighten Japan into surrender.
The ballot
- PalimpsestCharles StrossWireless; Ace; OrbitWinner
- The God EnginesJohn ScalziSubterraneanRunner-up
- The Women of Nell Gwynne’sKage BakerSubterranean
- Act OneNancy KressAsimov’s 3/09
- Vishnu at the Cat CircusIan McDonaldCyberabad Days; Pyr; Gollancz