Free Speculative Fiction Online: James Van Pelt

James Van Pelt

Nominated for one Nebula.

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only! Other awards, including the Retro Hugos, are not covered)

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Award-nominated fiction:

This list is limited to the Hugo Awards, the Nebula Awards, and the World Fantasy Awards. See here for further awards.

The Last of the O-Forms (Asimov's, September 2002)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
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Other fiction online:

O Tannenbaum (Weird Tales, Fall 1988)
A sample from this collection.
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Miss Hathaway’s Spider (Talebones #11, Spring 1998)
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Home (Realms of Fantasy, October 1998)
A sample from this collection.
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Once They Were Monarchs (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 2000)
A sample from this collection.
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The Yard God (Talebones #22, Fall 2001)
A sample from this collection.
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Night Sweats (Realms of Fantasy, February 2001)
A sample from this collection.
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Finding Orson (Strangers and Beggars Collection, 2002)
A sample from this collection.
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Perceptual Set (Analog, January 2002)
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Of Late I Dreamt of Venus (Visual Journeys Anthology, 2007)
A sample from this collection. Alternate link.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fifth Edition.
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Just Before Recess (Flash Fiction Online, March 2008)
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The Light of a Thousand Suns (Realms of Fantasy, August 2008)
A sample from this collection.
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Where Did You Come from? Where Did You Go? (The Radio Magician Collection, 2009)
A sample from this collection.
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The Radio Magician (Realms of Fantasy, February 2009)
A sample from this collection.
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Solace (Analog, June 2009)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
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Father’s Dragon (On Spec, Fall 2011)
A sample from this collection.
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Late Homework (Daily SF, January 2011)
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Values, Vision and Mission (Daily SF, May 2011)
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Classroom of the Living Dead (Daily SF, October 2011)
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Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille (Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille Collection, 2012)
A sample from this collection.
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The Time Travel Device (Daily SF, February 2013)
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This Gray Rock, Standing Tall (Unlikely Story #9, June 2014)
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The Story Will Win a Hugo (Daily SF, August 2014)
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Everything’s Unlikely (Daily SF, March 2015)
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Experience Arcade (Daily SF, September 2015)
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The Lies (Daily SF, January 2016)
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Writing Advice (Daily SF, July 2016)
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Weaponized Ghosts of the 96th Infantry (Daily SF, September 2016)
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Maybe if One Person Less (Daily SF, October 2016)
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Fine Dining During the Apocalypse (Daily SF, August 2017)
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Norwegian Wood (Daily SF, April 2019)
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In the Blue Buzz (Daily SF, July 2019)
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Gun Safe (Daily SF, May 2020)
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Small Worlds of Black and White (Daily SF, August 2021)
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NPC (Daily SF, April 2022)
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The Waylost Cafe (Asimov's, May 2022)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

The United Systems Goodwill Concert Series and the Greatest Performance of All Time (Lightspeed, July 2023)
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The Long Mural (Clarkesworld #206, November 2023)