The award is for stories published in 2009, so that means some of my first stories published in English are eligible as of now. I published the whole list of stories here, but (quoting the site here) "the award is for any fictional short story of at least a 1,000 words first published in an online publication during 2009." So I'm listing below my stories over 1000 words:

. The Arrival of the Cogsmiths (oil on canvas, by Turner, 1815) - Everyday Weirdness, April 27th 2009 - (also featured in StarShipSofa - Aural Delights #102)

. Who Mourns For Washington? - Everyday Weirdness, May 16th 2009

. Ganesh, in the Afternoon - The Nautilus Engine vol 2 number 4 (May 2009 issue)

. Edgar Can´t Stand It - Semaphore Magazine (December 2009 issue)

Hope you like the stories. You can make nominations (even if you don't like my stories, that's okay, just go and nominate the stories you liked best in 2009) here.

Novel

The City and the City, China Mieville (Macmillan) - my review here
Ark, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Lavinia, Ursula Le Guin (Gollancz)

Short

The Beloved Time of Their Lives, Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia - The Beloved of My Beloved, Newcon Press
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast, Eugie Foster - Interzone
The Assistant, Ian Whates - The Solaris Book of Science Fiction Volume 3
Vishnu at the Cat Circus, Ian McDonald
Johnnie and Emmie-Lou Get Married, Kim Lakin-Smith - Interzone
The Push, Dave Hutchinson - Newcon Press

Art

Adam Tredowski - covers of Interzone issues 220, 224 and 225
Nitzan Klamer - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, cover, art project published online (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kipizki/3753443748/in/set-72157621759215456/)
Stephanie Pui-Min Law - Emerald - http://www.shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=23&bid=512
Stephan Martiniere - Cover of Desolation Road by Ian McDonald: http://www.angel.org/will/site/files/ian-mcdonald-desolation-road.jpg

Non-Fiction Mutant Popcorn, Nick Lowe - Interzone
Canary Fever, John Clute - Beccon
Ethics and Enthusiasm, Hal Duncan
I didn't Dream of Dragons, Deepa D
A Short History of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James

Now I just read in Hal Duncan's blog that he gracefully declined the nomination in favor of Deepa D.

Even so, you must read that piece all the same. I urge you. Hal's attitude has just illustrated the point - you can't be more ethical than that.

1. Coraline - Neil Gaiman - I had never read that one, and I liked it hugely. I had already purchased the DVD, but I really wanted to read the story before I saw the film.

2. Leite Derramado - Chico Buarque - The brand new novel of our most celebrated living songwriter. After almost thirty years composing and singing (he also wrote plays for the stage in the seventies), Chico started to write novels. This is his fourth one - all the others have already been translated (my favorite is Budapest).

3. Xochiquetzal - Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro - This novel came as a big, lovely surprise to me. Ribeiro is a longtime friend of mine, and also a successful writer, one of the first Brazilian SF authors to publish stories outside the country (his very first books, two short stories collections, were in fact published in Portugal). Xochiquetzal is Alternate History, a genre of which Ribeiro is an absolute master in Brazil. He won several awards in Brazil and Portugal, and, under the pseudonym of Carla Cristina Pereira, was a finalist of 2000 Sidewise Awards, with Xochiquetzal, a short story which is the prologue of this novel, the story of the Aztec wife of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. She follows his husband in his travels and chronicles them, showing us a world where the Empire of Portugal rules all the Americas (or the Cabralias, since they were christened in honor of Pedro Álvares Cabral, the discoverer of Brazil in our timeline, and not Americo Vespucio). A damn fine story - highly recommended.

4. Liberdade Virtual - Sylvio Gonçalves (releitura) - This is a new edition of a YA classic, published for the first time in the mid-nineties. Gonçalves, another good friend of mine (Brazil may be a big country, but the SFF writing world fits easily in a nutshell - everybody knows each other), wrote this cyberpunk tale of teen rebellion and defiance with all the Gibsonian gadgets and Sterling political discussion. Gonçalves is a screenwriter, and a damn fine one - but I wish he wrote more novels.

5. Jubiabá - Jorge Amado - A Brazilian classic. Amado, a best-seller in Brazil and all over the world, began his writing career not writing about sensual women in Bahia, but about the survival of strong men. Member of the Brazilian Communist Party in the 1930s, Amado wrote a series of novels about the exploitation of the working class, especially black men. The protagonist of this peculiar Bildungsroman is Antônio Balduíno, an orphan who lives in the slums of Salvador, Bahia, and grows up learning to survive among famine and extreme poverty: he becomes a thief, then a boxeur, a sailor, a circus strongman, and finally a stevedore who becomes the leader of a major strike. Balduíno is an interesting character, maybe the first real black protagonist in Brazilian literature. (In the sense that he´s not a satirical, stereotyped character.)

6. The Quiet War - Paul McAuley - This novel has been much talked about in the last few months. Many friends of mine, like Larry Nolen, are curious to know what I thought of it, since it portrays a future world where Brazil rules most of Earth. To be frank, I didn´t like it. And Brazil has nothing to do with it. Expect a review soon.

7. Geosynchron - David Louis Edelman - Just started to read it. I loved Infoquake and Multireal, and considered them two of the best SF novels I´ve read in the past few years. I expect no less of Geosynchron.

8. Bone Song - John Meaney - Started it yesterday. I bought both Bone Song and Black Blood because of Necroflux Day, one of the best short stories I read in 2009. I´m finding the worldbuilding quite exquisite and intriguing. Definitely worth reading.

2009 is coming to an end, and, if I had thought 2008 had been the busiest, craziest, best year in my life, that is certainly something of an understatement today. I didn´t read and reviewed as many books - work and health issues didn´t help much, though I can´t complain: 2009 was the year I started publishing in the English language market, with no less than eight nine stories (six seven flash fictions, two short stories), and two of those podcasted. They are:

. The Boulton-Watt-Frankenstein Company - Everyday Weirdness, February 23rd 2009 - (also featured in StarShipSofa - Aural Delights #92)

. The Use of Knives - A Short Tutorial - Powder Burn Flash # 167 (03/16/2009)

. The Arrival of the Cogsmiths (oil on canvas, by Turner, 1815) - Everyday Weirdness, April 27th 2009 - (also featured in StarShipSofa - Aural Delights #102)

. Who Mourns For Washington? - Everyday Weirdness, May 16th 2009

. Ganesh, in the Afternoon - The Nautilus Engine vol 2 number 4 (May 2009 issue)

. Cold Sleep - The Human Genre Project

. Semiotic Smoke - Everyday Weirdness, November 4th 2009

. Ghosts - Everyday Weirdness, December 9th 2009

. Edgar Can´t Stand It - Semaphore Magazine (December 2009 issue)

Thank you who have been reading me so far, with a special thanks to (in no particular order):

. Jacques Barcia

. Richard Diegues

. Gianpaolo Celli

. Larry Nolen

. Lavie Tidhar

. Charles Tan

. Ann Vandermeer

. Jeff Vandermeer

. Matt Staggs

. Natania Barron

. Christopher Fletcher

. Cesar Torres

. All the team of The Outer Alliance

. Eugie Foster

. Robert Thompson

. Cindy Hannikman

. Mihir Wanchoo

. Liviu Suciu

. Pablo Defendini

. Torie Atkinson

. Ami Greko

. Lou Anders

. Jeffrey Thomas

. David Louis Edelman

. Jeff Carlson

. Rhys Hughes

. Flávio Medeiros

. Mark Newton

. Cheryl Morgan

. J.J.Adams

. John Klima

. Octavio Aragão

. Harry Markov

. Nathan E. Lilly

. Marie Hodgkinson

. Fabio Cobiaco

. Roberto Mendes

. Tiago Casagrande

. Leandro Gejfinbein

. Aurora Barbosa

Have an EXCELLENT New Year!! May 2009 be a better place in the space-time continuum for us all!