SF Signal: All 2008 Hugo Short Fiction Nominees Available Online

All 2008 Hugo Short Fiction Nominees Available Online

The text of Daniel Abraham's story "The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" is now online.

This is the final short fiction nominee to be made available online. For a complete list of short fiction nominees, with links to the corresponding online versions, see our earlier post of 2008 Hugo Award Nominees.

[via John Klima, editor or Logorrhea, the anthology where the story first appeared.]

Attempt to download the story via Firefox asks me to upgrade my Flash player! If I refuse, as I did, the file - assuming there is one - is inaccessible.

Have you actually downloaded it successfully? Aware of an ordinary URL that doesn't go via fancy Flash?

Posted by tinkoo on Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 3:41 AM

@Tinkoo: The page loads an Amazon-like browse feature to let you read online.

I understand your frustration, though. More of this year's stories than I'd prefer are available only in PDF format. I prefer text I can copy into eBook format and take with me, or better yet, delivered directly in various eBook formats.

Posted by John on Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 7:27 AM

Even with the newest Flash plug-in available this is totally inaccessible on Linux (just shows up with a blank screen). Very disappointed.

Posted by Adam Wendt on Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 1:46 PM

It works for me flash plugin 1.4 in Debian GNU/Linux... still, no download link. I couldn't possibly read something presented like that.

Posted by Jon on Thursday May 01, 2008 at 6:14 AM