The reviews of the 2008 Hugo Award short-fiction nominees on the SFSignal site provide a nice overview of the competing novellas, novelettes and short stories. And there are lots of links so you can read ‘em for yourself.
(As you probably know, the Hugo Awards honor the best science fiction or fantasy works of the year.)
Or if you prefer listening to reading, head on over to Escape Pod for audio podcast editions of four of the five nominated short stories.
Escape Pod has traditionally podcast the Hugo short story nominees, so you can also dig through their archives for past honorees. Nice!
Happy reading/listening.
