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Lobsters

Charles Stross

First published June 2001
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Macx Family #1

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2002 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist
2002 Hugo Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist
2002 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist
2002 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Runner-up
2003 Nebula Award Novelette Nominee/Finalist
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (25)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 2001 Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2001 Dell Magazines MAGAZINE 70
June 2002 Lobsters Fictionwise Chapbook
July 2002 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press / SFBC Anthology 196
July 2002 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 157
July 2002 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 157
October 2002 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 15th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology
March 2004 Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 Roc / New American Library Anthology 228
April 2004 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
February 2005 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 577
February 2005 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 577
February 2005 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
August 2005 Lobsters Audiotext Chapbook
2006 Toast Cosmos Books / Wildside Press Collection 216
July 2007 Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology Tachyon Publications Anthology 259
September 2007 Lobsters Infinivox Chapbook
October 2007 Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology Tachyon Publications Anthology 227
March 2008 The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF Robinson Anthology 638
March 2008 The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF Robinson Anthology |638
November 2010 Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology Tachyon Publications Anthology 227
June 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |368
December 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |368
March 2012 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 15th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology |196
September 2023 The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vintage Books Anthology 87
September 2023 The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vintage Books Anthology |87
May 2024 The Big Book of Cyberpunk Volume One Vintage (UK) Anthology 105