With me today to read the novelette category for the Nebulas are Allen Dyen-Shapiro, Leigh Harlen, and Brent Lambert.

Allan Dyen-Shapiro is a Ph.D. biochemist who enjoyed a 19-year research career. He now teaches in high-poverty schools in Southwest Florida and recently ramped up his union activism. He's sold short fiction to venues including Dark Matter Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, and numerous anthologies and co-edited an anthology of speculative fiction set in the Middle East. He's a member of SFWA and Codex and blogs at allandyenshapiro.com, where you'll also find links to his stories.

Leigh Harlen is a queer, non-binary writer of dark leaning speculative fiction who lives and works in Seattle alongside their partner and dog. They are the author of Queens of Noise, Blood Like Garnets, A Feast For Flies, and several short stories. Their non-writing hobbies include petting strangers’ dogs, crocheting, and enthusing about how awesome bats are. Follow them on Twitter @LeighHarlen or better yet, Bluesky @leighharlen.bsky.social for updates on future publications.

Brent Lambert is a Black, queer man who heavily believes in the transformative power of speculative fiction across media formats. As a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine, he turned that belief into action and became part of a Hugo Award winning team. He resides in San Diego but spent a lot of time moving around as a military brat. His family roots are in the Cajun country of Louisiana.

Stories in this episode:


"A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair", Renan Bernardo (Samovar 2/23)
I Am AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
"The Year Without Sunshine", Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)
"Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon", Angela Liu (Clarkesworld 6/23)
"Saturday’s Song", Wole Talabi (Lightspeed 5/23)
"Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge", Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)

"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov

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Hello and welcome to Shining Moon, Episode 40. With me today are A.P. Howell, Sam W. Pisciotta, A.T. Sayre, and Risa Wolf. The voting for the Nebulas has just concluded, and we’re here to talk about the contenders on the ballot before the winners are revealed. Let’s get started with some introductions!

A. P. Howell For information on published works, links to social media accounts, and similar things, visit her website aphowell.com

Sam W. Pisciotta Connect with him at www.silo34.com and @silo34 on X and Instagram.

A.T. Sayre His first short story collection, Signals in The Static, comes out May 20th from Lethe Press. Pre-order link: https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p713/static.html

Risa Wolf Visit them at killerpuppytails.com.

Stories discussed:


"Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont", P.A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)
"Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200", R.S.A Garcia (Uncanny 7-8/23)
"Window Boy", Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23)
"The Sound of Children Screaming", Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
"Better Living Through Algorithms", Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 5/23)
"Bad Doors", John Wiswell (Uncanny 1-2/23)

"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov

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Zach Welhouse is a librarian and game designer who lives in the Pacific Northwest. He enjoys hot drinks and meeting dogs who look like goblins. His work has appeared in the Costume Fairy Adventures and Deadlands RPGs, and Strange Beast: A Tarot Zine. Cerebos: The Crystal City, a game about crossing a surreal desert by train, is available through Penguin King Games on itch.io and Drivethru RPG

Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring tidepools and redwoods with her dogs and foster dogs. Her fiction has appeared in Nightscript 6 and Cellar Door from Dark Peninsula Press. You can read some of her poetry in Vastarien, Utopia Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. Her first chapbook, the Elgin-winning Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her microchapbook, The Worm Sonnets, is available from The Quarter Press.

Cerberos is a fascinating game. The premise is simple; the execution is complex. The premise? That you’ve boarded a train for the Crystal City of Cerebos. But you can choose your journey’s tone right from the start—it might be a folk horror setting, it might be fairy tale, it might be science fiction. . . and then you’re rolling on tables for cards that detail the complications that ensue on the train, the strangeness of the stops along the route, and so on. Halfway through your journey, the game changes; one of the characters becomes the Protagonist, and the other characters become advisors who encourage them to either put aside the past and embrace the future, or embrace the past more fully. There’s a huge psychological element to play—if you want there to be, anyway. Some people might play it solely as an adventure, and that’s another entirely correct way to play.

"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov

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