Long List Anthology

The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom.But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology collects 21 tales from that nomination list, totaling about 180.000 words of fiction by writers from all corners of the world.Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from near future android stories to steampunk heists, too-plausible dystopias to contemporary vampire stories.There is something here for everyone.

This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology Volume 2 collects 18 fiction stories from that nomination list, along with 2 essays from the book Letters to Tiptree that was also on the nomination list, totaling over 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy and horror, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from android caretakers to Lovecraftian romances, from adventures to quests and more. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone.The stories included are:"Damage" by David D. Levine "Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker "The Women You Didn't See" by Nicola Griffith (a letter from Letters to Tiptree)"Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer" by Megan Grey "Wooden Feathers" by Ursula Vernon "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard "Madeleine" by Amal El-Mohtar "Neat Things" by Seanan McGuire (a letter from Letters To Tiptree) "Pocosin" by Ursula Vernon "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong "So Much Cooking" by Naomi Kritzer "The Deepwater Bride" by Tamsyn Muir "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" by Rose Lemberg "Another Word For World" by Ann Leckie "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente "Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik "The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps" by Kai Ashante Wilson

This is the third annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 3 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From intelligent appliances gone feral to Lovecraftian detective noir, from tech-enhanced wilderness races to Egyptian science fantasy steampunk, from hard science fiction to fairy tale to humor and more. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone.The stories included are:"Red in Tooth and Cog" by Cat Rambo"A Salvaging of Ghosts" by Aliette de Bodard"Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0" by Caroline M. Yoachim"Razorback" by Ursula Vernon"We Have a Cultural Difference, Can I Taste You?" by Rebecca Ann Jordan"Lullaby for a Lost World" by Aliette de Bodard"Terminal" by Lavie Tidhar"Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands" by Seanan McGuire"Things With Beards" by Sam J. Miller"The Venus Effect" by Joseph Allen Hill"The Visitor From Taured" by Ian R. MacLeod"Blood Grains Speak Through Memories" by Jason Sanford"Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" by Sarah Pinsker"A Dead Djinn in Cairo" by P. Djèlí Clark "Red as Blood and White as Bone" by Theodora Goss"Foxfire, Foxfire" by Yoon Ha Lee"Forest of Memory" by Mary Robinette Kowal"Chimera" by Gu Shi, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu and Ken Liu"Hammers on Bone" by Cassandra Khaw"Runtime" by S.B. Divya

This is the fourth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readers.The Long List Anthology Volume 4 collects 15 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 300 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From utopian science fiction to dystopian horror, from a society based entirely on personal upvotes/downvotes to one where one's status is defined by enchanted gloves, from a kickass blockade-running spaceship pilot to an artist who can twist the world with his perspective. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are:"Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" by Tobias S. Buckell"Waiting Out the End of the World at Patty's Place Cafe" by Naomi Kritzer"Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" by Charlie Jane Anders"Confessions of a Con Girl" by Nick Wolven"Utopia, LOL?" by Jamie Wahls"The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom" by Max Gladstone"Paradox" by Naomi Kritzer"Angel of the Blockade" by Alex Acks"The Fisher of Bones" by Sarah Gailey"Crispin's Model" by Max Gladstone"The Dark Birds" by Ursula Vernon"Waiting On a Bright Moon" by JY Yang"Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics" by Jess Barber and Sara Saab"A Human Stain" by Kelly Robson"The Worshipful Society of Glovers" by Mary Robinette Kowal

This is the fifth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From science fiction mysteries to studying wish-granting fairies, research on haunted houses to extracting language knowledge from your brain, from sex-changing dinosaurs to survival stories in a wild alien environment. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are:"Mother Tongues" by S. Qiouyi Lu"Field Biology of the Wee Fairies" by Naomi Kritzer"Meat and Salt and Sparks" by Rich Larson"Sour Milk Girls" by Erin Roberts"Asphalt, River, Mother, Child" by Isabel Yap"The Starship and the Temple Cat" by Yoon Ha Lee"Waterbirds" by G.V. Anderson"You Can Make a Dinosaur, but You Can't Help Me" by K.M. Szpara"And Yet" by A.T. Greenblatt"She Still Loves the Dragon" by Elizabeth Bear"An Agent of Utopia" by Andy Duncan"A Study in Oils" by Kelly Robson"The Substance of My Lives, the Accident of Our Births" by José Pablo Iriarte"No Flight Without the Shatter" by Brooke Bolander"How to Swallow the Moon" by Isabel Yap"A World to Die For" by Tobias S. Buckell"Thirty-Three Percent Joe" by Suzanne Palmer"The Privilege of the Happy Ending" by Kij Johnson"The Nearest" by Greg Egan"Umbernight" by Carolyn Ives Gilman

This is the seventh annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 7 collects 24 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From lonely haunted houses to invincible mechsuits, from body-lending gigwork to Fae ransom letters, from space pirate radio to interstellar disputes over art ownership. There is something here for everyone.The following stories are in the anthology:"50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know" by Ken Liu"AirBody" by Sameem Siddiqui"The Eight-Thousanders" by Jason Sanford"Open House On Haunted Hill" by John Wiswell"This is New Gehesran Calling" by Rebecca Fraimow"The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign" by Cora Buhlert"A Being Together Amongst Total Strangers" by Arkady Martine"Sinew and Steel and What They Told" by Carrie Vaughn"My Country Is a Ghost" by Eugenia Triantafyllou"In This, At Least, We Are Alike" by Caitlin Starling"The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly" by Alix E. Harrow"Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise" by Lauren Ring"The Salt Witch" by Martha Wells"Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City" by Arula Ratnakar"Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo" by Catherynne M. Valente"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh"An Important Failure" by Rebecca Campbell"City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat" by Usman T. Malik"If You Take My Meaning" by Charlie Jane Anders"On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa With Gun and Camera" by Elizabeth Bear"A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential" by Neon Yang"The Bahrain Underground Bazaar" by Nadia Afifi"To Sail the Black" by A.C. Wise"Exile's End" by Carolyn Ives Gilman

This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers around the world. From magical couches to impossible radio broadcasts, from robotic uprisings to rogue artist AIs, from gigantic alien telepaths to elaborate death trials held on a deadly stage. There is something here for everyone.The following stories are in the anthology:"For Lack of a Bed" by John Wiswell"The Cold Calculations" by Aimee Ogden"Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo"The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries" by Meg Elison"If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark"Let All the Children Boogie" by Sam J. Miller"Crazy Beautiful" by Cat Rambo"Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship" by Marie Vibbert"Before, After, and the Space Between" by Kel Coleman"Orumai's Choice" by Gautam Bhatia"Questions Asked in the Belly of the World" by A.T. Greenblatt"Mulberry and Owl" by Aliette de Bodard"The General's Turn" by Premee Mohamed"The Music of the Siphorophenes" by C.L. Polk"Just Enough Rain" by P H Lee"Ina's Spark" by Mary Robinette Kowal"The Red Mother" by Elizabeth Bear"Small Monsters" by E. Lily Yu"Tombs of the Universe" by Han Song, translated by Xueting C. Ni"(emet)" by Lauren Ring"Submergence" by Arula Ratnakar