Best Novella, 2011
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
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A former zookeeper becomes a trainer of artificial pets, and over the years she and a few others stay with their digients as the world loses interest.
Also on the ballot
- TroikaAlastair ReynoldsGodlike Machines, Science Fiction Book ClubRunner-up
- The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s WindowRachel SwirskySubterranean Magazine, Summer 2010
- The Sultan of the CloudsGeoffrey A. LandisAsimov’s, September 2010
- The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s BellerophonElizabeth HandStories: All New Tales, William Morrow