This novelette was nominated for Nebula in 2018
This is a vampire story with a twist: the victim is a transgender gay person, which, I guess is based on actual experience (the transgender part, not vampire bite part) of the author. While it could have been an interesting story, with vampires legalized and allowed to live among humans (this was already done in [b:Blindsight|48484|Blindsight (Firefall, #1)|Peter Watts|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386924412s/48484.jpg|47428] as well as in scores of YA vampire romances), but it is unknown how turning into vampire affects transgenders. Add some sex scenes and that’s it. The story is not very interesting for me and I doubt it is because of the transgender stuff – in my mind I can replay the story with a cis person and it doesn’t either improves or worsens it for me.
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2018 Hugo Awards Best Novelette Nominee ( )

This story does a great job depicting someone running up against a system that wasn't designed with people like them in mind, in an interesting urban fantasy setting. ( )