Albedo One has finalized their long-list for the Aeon Award Short Fiction Contest, 2006-2007. They list only the titles, keeping the author’s names hidden to maintain the anonymity of the contest. From these stories, the judges will choose the top six, which will be forwarded to author Ian Watson, who will choose the winner of €1000 prize (which will also be published in Albedo One).
The winner will be announced at Eurocon in Copenhagen at the end of September (as well as on Albedo One‘s web site).
The titles of the finalist stories are:
“Dress Rehearsal”
“Isle of Beauty”
“Ezekiel, Prophet to Bones”
“The Waters and the West”
“Forbidden Fruit”
“One In One Out”
“High Rise”
“Holes”
“Saviours”
“The Torturess”
“Rourke”
“To the End of the Earth”
“Faithless”
“Lux Lucis”
“Beware of Falling Rocks”
“The White Knight”
“The Patron”
“Stowaway”
“Shadows of Inspiration”
“The Sleepers”
“A Giant in the House”
“The Dreamy Sloth”
“Black Water”
“Partial Recall”
“Angelus”
This article is an update of one we published in April.