Just reminding people that my short story Reading By Numbers is eligible to be nominated for a Hugo.

Sean Wallace, the co-editor of Fantasy includes the story in his nominations.

My story didn’t make the Nebula shortlist, but SF Signal asked the finalists if their own work hadn’t made it onto the shortlist what other stories they thought should have made the shortlist.

Rachel Swirsky mentioned my story.

“I was also really taken by another debut story from Fantasy Magazine, Aidan Doyle’s “Reading by Numbers,” a formally experimental piece of fiction that plays with the intersections between mathematics and storytelling to create a story that’s both surprising and moving.”

The Mathematical Fiction web site is an interesting sith with reviews and lists of fiction that uses mathematical concepts.

Not surprisingly there are a lot of references to Greg Egan and Ted Chiang stories.

My own Reading By Numbers story has an entry now.

http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf880

My story Reading By Numbers won third place in the Fantasy Magazine reader poll.

I really enjoyed the story that won first place – Jessica Lee’s Superhero Girl.  It’s her first published story.

The Winners of the Best Fantasy Story of 2009 Poll and Contest
http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/02/the-winners-of-the-best-fantasy-story-of-2009-poll-and-contest/

Rachel Swirsky’s Short Story Nomination & Recommendation List for the 2009 Nebula Awards

http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/01/27/rachel-swirskys-short-story-nomination-recommendation-list-for-the-2009-nebula-awards/

My Reading By Numbers gets a highly recommended.

Mr. Nine & the Gentleman Ghost (my week 6 Clarion South tale of a book prospector, the ghost of a zeppelin captain and a gold-eating, monkey-hunting homicidal puppet) has just been accepted for publication on the Weird Tales web site (to coincide with the launch of their upcoming steampunk issue).

Woohoo!