Tideline (short story)

"Tideline"
Author	Elizabeth Bear
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction short story
Published in	Asimov's Science Fiction
Publication type	Magazine
Publication date	March 2007

"Tideline" is a science fiction short story published in 2007 by Elizabeth Bear. It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story^[1] and the 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Award (tied with "Finisterra" by David R. Moles). "Tideline" appears in the twenty-fifth volume of Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction anthology.

Plot summary

The story follows a sentient war machine, Chalcedony, which is the lone survivor of a previous and highly apocalyptic war that has reduced the human population virtually to cavemen and hunter gatherers. As Chalcedony combs the beach looking for trinkets it can make into memorials for its fallen comrades, she develops a friendship with an orphaned boy.

When her power cells have completely worn down, the machine hands the trinkets to its now matured companion, telling him to spread the memory of those who fought.

Footnotes

↑ 2008 Hugo Award Winners List

External links

Tideline title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2001–present)

"Different Kinds of Darkness" by David Langford (2001) "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick (2002) "Falling Onto Mars" by Geoffrey A. Landis (2003) "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman (2004) "Travels with My Cats" by Mike Resnick (2005) "Tk'tk'tk" by David D. Levine (2006) "Impossible Dreams" by Tim Pratt (2007) "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear (2008) "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (2009) "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh (2010) "For Want of a Nail" by Mary Robinette Kowal (2011) "Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu (2012) "Mono no aware" by Ken Liu (2013) "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere", by John Chu (2014) <no award> (2015) "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer (2016)

Complete list Retro 1955–1960 1961–1980 1981–2000 2001–present

Works by Elizabeth Bear

Novels	Hammered (2005) Carnival (2006) Karen Memory (2015)

Short works	"Tideline" (2007) "Shoggoths in Bloom" (2008)

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