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Here is a list of Abyss & Apex's Hugo-eligible science fiction for 2010. All of it is in the short story category, unless otherwise noted.

Sunlight by Kelly Dwyer. A young man at the awkward age between youth and manhood befriends an elderly bionic veteran.

For the Cause of the Saints by Gary Cuba. Should the Catholic church canonize a proselytizing avatar?

High Art by Alan Smale. A billionaire talks a brilliant but subversive artist into designing space habitats, without understanding his true price.

Spirits in the Night by Michael Swanwick. A flash-fiction travel brochure: visit Ginhenge, on Pluto.

Chinvat Bridge by Erin Cashier. Cut off on a barren planet and barely surviving, a military colony's young girls are raised as breeders. The girls hope an imaginary friend--the Daena--will rescue them. Their keeper, a cyborg named Druj, discovers who the Daena really is.

Fairyland by Jennifer Greylyn. An elderly woman, unused to total immersion virtual environments, is visits her son's VR after an accident puts him in a comma. She, and his ex-wife, meet the virtual wife that caused his divorce - and the child they could never have. (Novelette)

Prelude to Battle by Gwendolyn Clare. A journalist uncovers the secret of "the woman who lost the war" and quietly saved thirteen worlds from annihilation by her sacrifice.

Mind's Eye View by David Schibi. The man who saved humanity by pioneering uploaded personalities regrets, to the last of his decaying consciousness, the mind-deaths of early adapters who were unable to dream.

The Black Sheep of Vaerlosi by Desmond Warzel. A dedicated customs agent tries in vain to catch a notorious interstellar smuggler. What, exactly, is he carrying? And how?

The Monks Of Udom Xhai by Lavie Tidhar. Set in Tibet, post-singularity humans come as visiting monks, and create strange effects as they build a "three-dimensional representational matrix of pre- and post-human evolutionary subconsciousness." A prequel to the 2009 YBSF reprint, "The Integrity of the Chain."

How We Fly by Lisa A. Koosis. Guided visualization as therapy - for two. When the woman Jamie loves cannot visualize for herself, Jamie risks a fatal relapse to make them both well.

The Tortuous Path by Bud Sparhawk. Two young men on the cusp of puberty must decide if being 'castrato' is worth the price of steering a starship.

Night of the Manticore by Tony Pi. A steampunk detective adventure.  (Novelette)

Anything Chocolate by Caren Gussoff. A woman in the first wave of medical immortals tends her elderly, dying father - for whom such advances are too late.


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