Speculative Short Fiction Deserves Love discussion

I'm still playing around with listopia, adding lists that include short fiction. I made a bunch of Hugo and Nebula short fiction lists. Some of them end up pointing at collections or Ace doubles, but it mostly works. Feel free to vote.

My theory is this helps because
a) voting is fun
b) people are exposed to the names of stories they might not otherwise know, and maybe interested in something that gets a lot of votes
c) If somebody searches for any of these books or titles, the list also comes up on that story/book's page as "lists this book is on," which can lead to further discoveries.

Nebula Short Story winners: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Nebula Novelette winners: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Nebula novella winners: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Hugo Novella winners: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Hugo novelette winners: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Thank you! Now I'm inspired to figure out how Listopia works and add a few Shirley Jackson Award lists!

S. wrote: "Thank you! Now I'm inspired to figure out how Listopia works and add a few Shirley Jackson Award lists!"

I found it really addictive when they first added the feature. Hadn't played with it in a while until I thought of using it for short fiction.

Jonathan wrote: "Awards are for books the big publishers push. I'd like to see a list of books that group members would give the awards to if they had the power. Really good and possibly oscure stuff. There's some ..."

Book awards sometimes get some help from their publishers, and there was the "sad-puppy" campaign this year, but on the whole I don't see a lot of attempts at system gaming in the short story categories.

The trouble with something like a Nebula list is it isn't interactive really. Either a story was nominated or it wasn't, so there's not much other people can do to the list. Whereas lists like "Favourite single-author SFF collection" or "Favourite SFF short story" are subjective. People can vote for anything they enjoyed, so it's a lot more interactive.

True. Still useful to have links all in one place. And of course there is still the voting...