SHORTS: In this week's column we review several of the Hugo-nominated short fiction works, including four of the Retro Hugo nominees. "When We Were Starless" by Simone Heller (2018, free at Clarkesworld, $3.99 Kindle magazine issue). 2018 Hugo award nominee (novelette). In a fallen, future version of our Earth, Mink’s tribe of nomadic, intelligent lizards wanders the land, living at a bare ...