If you're voting for the Hugos, Nebulas, Ignytes, Locus, Stokers, World Fantasy or any other SFF award, you can find below my eligible work published in 2024.
Below each story, you will find some keywords that might pique your interest. Feel free to reach me out if you have any questions, want to talk about a story, or prefer to read any one of them in other file format.
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"A Theory of Missing Affections" – Clarkesworld Magazine #216
Philosophical SF, warp gates, sisters, religion x science, alien archeology, alien devices
This story is in the Nebula Suggested Reading List. Consider upvoting it there if you're a SFWA member and liked it! :-)
A Theory of Missing Affections is the story of Jekya, a historian who’s studying the torture devices of the Byrnyan. At the other side of a warp gate, where Jekya was raised, lies Kata, Jekya’s sister. Kata believes the Byrnyan are not supposed to be scrutinized by science—instead, she believes they’re gods. As Jekya thinks on how to convince her sister to move to her side of the warp gate (and to her own view on life), she’s about to find some uncomfortable truths about the Byrnyan torture devices.
"The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds" – Diabolical Plots #109 (February)
Space opera, galactic conflicts, defiance, relationships, transgender protagonists
This story is also in the Nebula Suggested Reading List. Consider upvoting it there if you're a SFWA member and liked it! :-)
The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds is a ship and an offer. Alberto is a boy and a captain. None of them wants to be those things.
"The Plasticity of Being" – Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com) (April)
Environmental dystopia, secret project, nutrition, journalism, hunger
This story is in the Nebula Suggested Reading List. Consider upvoting it there if you're a SFWA member and liked it! :-)
Elisa Assunção is back in São João da Campânula after many years, reluctant to confront the past. As a freelance journalist, she has finally gathered the courage to tell the story of the landfill’s inhabitants and their dietary customs. Years ago, as a PR specialist, Elisa battled for the project to happen: an enzyme designed to allow humans to digest plastic, challenging the world to consider that allowing people to nibble on plastic bottle caps was a more humane alternative to starvation. Now, Elisa has some realities to face—that of the people whose lives she has profoundly impacted; that of her mother, who knew the austerity of hunger and humiliation and refused to support her daughter on her choices; her own, for having believed in wealth-stuffed dreams.
"Dermatillomania" – Skull & Laurel #1
Body horror, extreme anxiety, trauma
When his father breaks his mother's porcelain set, Jonathan starts lacerating the skin of his fingers. As life goes on, he'll find out he has so much more to rip off from his body.
"Fill My Heart With Galaxies" – Frivolous Comma - Children of Imagined Futures
Robot dystopia, singularity, friendship, AI x humans
Lena got a last job in the Tangle. After that, she'll have to go to Checkpoint Flesh and live with the humans that remained after most cities in the world were overtaken by robots and artificial minds. But she doesn't want to go and leave her high school friends behind—now with their minds uploaded to objects. Things are about to change when Lena meets Sinatra, a robot singer with a rhyming problem, and his friend Luke: the painting of a farmer in a picture frame.
"Maitake-by-the-Sea" – Tractor Beam
Solarpunk, soilpunk, green architecture, utopia, Big Food, food sovereignity, investigation
When an pathogenic fungus infects the walls of Maitake, Adri sets off in a investigation to find out what happened with the biotech-enhanced walls of her hometown—a place that she fought hard to bring to life.
"Complete Log of Week 893819 - Dana's Story" – Apex Magazine #143 (March)
Children, space opera, generational ships, adventure, mystery, artificial intelligence
Dana wants to tell her adoption myth like all the kids in the orphan home. For that, she wants LAIR’s help. LAIR is everything. It’s the constant presence in the kids’ minds, it’s the one who feeds them, and it’s the only parent they ever had. But it seems it has other plans now… After LAIR disappears, Lana is both furious and curious, so she decides to venture further and further into the woods that surround the orphan home just to find out things are not quite what they seem.
"Wet Socks Drying in the Tide" – Solarpunk Magazine #17
Solarpunk, immigration, friendship, mechas, education, flooded town
Every day, Cássio goes to school on his allotted mecha, crossing swamplands and mud to reach the place where people are taught about the future and how they can improve their town. But when a boy from afar arrives, stealing food and using his bike to cross the flooded lands, Cássio decides to do something about it.
"The Wattled Goddess" – Andromeda Spaceways #93 (January)
Dark fantasy, secondary world, grimdark, evil gods, disease, devastation.
Due to the cover date (Q4/2023) it isn't eligible for the Hugos, even though the story was published in January 2024.
Kissare travels across the desert, her body the vessel for the goddess Epidemya. At the whims of Werius, the deacon, Kissare transports diseases, sucking them out from the “good people” and transfering them to prisoners of wars and criminals. She does that to preserve the life of Orjiel, the old and decaying poet, the only person she has ever loved in her life, and the only life she has ever spared during her time as a desert marauder.
"The River that Passed Through My Life" – Different Kinds of Defiance (March)
Climate fiction, action-adventure, poverty, class struggle, family.
The ocean levels have risen and the world governments crumbled. The wealthy have fled to space. Nine years ago, Néia, a 63-year-old woman and former math teacher, won a lottery to live in a space station. Now, she lives off gigs repairing bots, cleaning windows, and delivering pizzas. But her heart has remained in Rio de Janeiro, and to come back she needs a good job. It's in Rebeca Soares that she bets everything: the scavenger, heir of fortunes and dreams, makes plans to visit Rio de Janeiro. And Rebeca needs someone who knows the place. They couldn't be more different from each other, but they'll work together across the canals of Rio after a historical artifact and reconciliations with the past. That is... If they can avoid the traps on the way...
"To Remember the Poison" – Different Kinds of Defiance (March)
Fake utopias, hunger, first contact, climate crisis, wastelands, industrial collapse.
Adoniran is a forest expander, a professional responsible to conquer the ruins of the old, oil-ravaged world and repurpose them under the sphere of influence of Verdoá. But in a bleak, abandoned warehouse, Adoniran comes into contact with the stuff of myths and legends: the spirits of a world left behind.