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Charles Coleman Finlay - "The Political Prisoner" (novella, free): Description of a violent political purge
Variety SF — ... Adareans. There appears to be no effective government; it's a purge by the power seekers of "Intelligence". Violence all through the story. Sometimes graphic violence. I'm not familiar enough with Israel to say if any allusion is intended, though I suspect there might be. Fact sheet. First published: F&SF, August 2008. Rating: B. Download full text from publisher's site. Nominated for Nebula Award 2008 in novella category. ...

FINALISTS: 2009 Hugo Awards
SF Signal — ... Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor) [See SF Signal review] Saturn's Childrenby Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit) Zoe's Taleby John Scalzi (Tor) [See SF Signal review] BEST NOVELLA "The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008) "The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF; Aug 2008) "The Tear" by Ian McDonald ...

Hugo Awards 2009: Novella nominees & my rankings
Variety SF — ... usually have preferences very different from those of Western readers - probably because of familiarity. I include the download links for stories I know are online. Link on author, editor, or publisher name yield more works from the source. Link on story title goes to my post on the story, if I have one. My rating is in brackets. Novella nominees (5 stories, best first, unread last). Charles Coleman Finlay's "The Political Prisoner" (B); download; F&SF, August 2008: Description of a very violent political ...

95 Recently-Free SF/F Stories
SF Signal — ... Chandler: "The Bird-Brained Navigator" A. Bertram Chandler: "The Rim Gods" A. Bertram Chandler: "The Subtracter" [a.k.a. "The Minus Effect"] A. Bertram Chandler: "With Good Intentions" Ted Chiang: "Exhalation" (Audio) Ian Creasey: "Demonstration Day" Linda Evans & Robert R. Hollingsworth: "Little Red Hen" Linda Evans: "The Farmer's Wife" Charles Coleman Finlay: "The Political Prisoner" M. Alan Ford: "Quasi" Tony Frazier: " ...

REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees
SF Signal — ... "The Spacetime Pool" by Catherine Asaro "Dangerous Space" by Kelley Eskridge "The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay "Dark Heaven" by Gregory Benford "The Duke in His Castle" by Vera Nazarian ...

Reminder: “Shoggoths in Bloom” discussion, and future schedule
Torque Control — ... of the novelettes, this Sunday. Read it here. We now hit a slight snag, in that the Hugo voting deadline is 3rd July, which on a weekly discussion pattern would get us through only seven of the remaining nine (having already discussed “Exhalation“) short fiction nominees. My proposal, therefore, is to do the novellas like this: 17 May: “The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress 24 May: “The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay 31 May: “The Tear” by Ian ...

REVIEW: 2009 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees
SF Signal — ... "Truth" by Robert Reed "The Tear" by Ian McDonald "True Names" by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow "The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress "The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay ...

2009 Hugo Best Novella Spotlight
Tor.com — ... “The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay (originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 2008 issue) ...