Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System
Novella 20,040 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"This is Chapter Thirty or so in a whole ongoing saga that I don’t have time to get into right now. I’m jumping in at the point when my Machiavellian twin brother Charles decided to take over Mars, and I decided to help. My big failing is I never figure these things out until I’m already in the middle of them. But I’ve survived this long, haven’t I?"
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.