Ranking Hugo Nominees — Short Stories | 2022

This is the first, in a hopefully bigger project of talking about this year's Hugo Award nominees.
First up short stories, then the other categories. Fingers crossed.

SHORT STORY NOMINEES
“Mr. Death”, by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, Feb 2021)
“Proof by Induction”, by José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny Magazine, May/Jun 2021)
“The Sin of America”, by Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021)
“Unknown Number”, by Blue Neustifter (Twitter, Jul 2021)
“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021)

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[ThatsSoPoe]

Yay!!! Loved hearing your thoughts on the short stories! If you get to some of the other categories, I'll be super interested in what your rankings end up being. So agreed about Harrow - I've had similar issues with everything I've read by her, so now she's on my skip list and I just don't pick things up by her anymore. Pinsker's story was just so fun and creepy!

[murkymir]

🚀 Mr Death was the first of the nominees that I read, and it more or less put me off reading the rest of the nominees, so it was nice to hear your opinions on the rest :)

[ReadBecca]

🚀 the only one I've read is unknown number, I thought it was pretty neat in the approach and message, but agree the storytelling may have been a bit uneven.