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Inside Job

Connie Willis

First published January 2005
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Synopsis

<a href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060101">Here</a> A debunker of pseudoscience encounters a fake medium who seems to be genuinely channelling the disruptive spirit of H. L. Mencken.

Notes

First published in the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2005.

External Links

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2006 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novella Runner-up
2006 Hugo Award Best Novella Winner
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Runner-up
2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Nominee/Finalist
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (14)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 2005 Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2005 Dell Magazines MAGAZINE 80
May 2005 Inside Job Subterranean Press Chapbook 7
May 2005 Inside Job Subterranean Press Chapbook
June 2005 Inside Job Subterranean Press Chapbook 7
June 2006 Best Short Novels 2006 Science Fiction Book Club Anthology 367
September 2006 Year's Best Fantasy 6 Tachyon Publications Anthology 301
April 2008 Inside Job Audible Frontiers Chapbook
March 2011 Inside Job Subterranean Press Chapbook
July 2013 The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 137
July 2013 The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories Del Rey / Ballantine Collection
August 2013 Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis Gollancz / Orion Collection 137
August 2013 Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis Gollancz / Orion Collection |13
October 2013 The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories Recorded Books Collection |137
April 2014 The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories Del Rey Collection