Well, jaylake and scalzifeed are doing it, and since I actually have something out there this year...

...Incident on a Small Colony was officially published in December '06 (Baen's Universe). It's classified as a novella, falling into the 20K-40K word category--my MacWord count came in at about 28K. If you liked it and think it merits an award nom, many thanks. I have no idea who are the other contenders and there's likely enough firepower out there to blow Incident out of the water, but I'll throw it out there anyway.

UPDATE: You need a subscription to read the story. I don't know if that changes once the story is no longer current.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.