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The stories I marked as "might nominate":

Storytelling for the Night Clerk, JY Yang. Personality archiving and the State.

*How to Get Back to the Forest, Sofia Samatar. The best dystopia story I've read in ages.

No Lonely Seafarer, Sarah Pinsker. Intersex kid vs sirens.

Stone Hunger, N.K. Jemisin. Kinetic magic.

*Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick. Alien autopsy.

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the Overhaul of the Barricade, John Chu. Parental expectations and magic engineering.

Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land, Ruthanna Emrys. Judaism as portal fantasy.

Economies of Force, Seth Dickinson. The machines are running the show.

Jackalope Wives, Ursula Vernon. They dance in the light of the moon.

My likely nominees in bold.

Stories on the Locus list are starred. "Storytelling for the Night Clerk" placed fourth in the Strange Horizons reader poll - last year second place in the reader poll wasn't enough to get a story I really loved onto the Hugo ballot (but the first place story did make it on).

More patterns of bias: it makes me happy that I have something on my nomination list from Strange Horizons. It makes me happy that a bunch of the authors I'm nominating are women.