Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

We plan to chronologically read Hugo and Nebula nominated works. As the start, we go with short stories nominated for Retro-Hugos, then (from 1953) Hugos and (from 1965) Nebulas

The threads:
1939 Retro-Hugo nominees
1941 Retro-Hugo nominees
1943 Retro-Hugo nominees
1944 Retro-Hugo nominees
1945 Retro-Hugo nominees
1946 Retro-Hugo nominees
1951 Retro-Hugo nominees
1953 - No short stories, only novel category.
1954 Retro-Hugo nominees

After searching for Retro Hugo nominated short stories I want to suggest to all participants if they wish 'an iron (wo)man challenge', which may consist of one or both:
1. reading stories for missing years, I suggest from collections starting with Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 22: 1960 for 1940. These books also contain most nominated retro Hugos
2. for years where we have data on stories below nomination read these as well

I have a few of those “Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories” anthologies, but as far as I know they’re all out of print and would be expensive and/or hard to find.

I can manage about one piece of short fiction a day, on average, on top of other reading, and I have an Analog subscription (none have come yet) and other short fiction I want to read as well. I’m not sure the “iron man” thing would fit within that constraint.

Most if not all of them are available at Archive.org, sometimes as OCRed epub files. Alas sometimes titles are incorrectly written like some are SF and others are science fiction
Say here is the first: https://archive.org/details/isaacasim...

Stephen wrote: "I’m not sure the “iron man” thing would fit within that constraint"

To say the truth I ain't sure myself. It is just that I mostly enjoyed the nominees read so far and therefore thought of reading more in my desire to be more versed in the genre history

I’m slowly working my way through the years & will see if I can fit those in. As I mentioned in another thread, I found a few of the Great SF series but it would be a long term goal to read all 25!

I am closing this thread because (if you haven't already heard) we have started a whole new group that is reading short fiction. If you are interested, come join us at ORBIT, (a/k/a Otherworldly Reads, Bold Ideas, and Tales. SF & F Short Stories and Novelettes) here:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...