The 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 almost 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. Ten short stories, nine novellets, and two novellas. 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.

Contents:

Foreword (The Long List Anthology) • essay by David Steffen

The Breath of War [Universe of Xuya] / (2014) / short story by Aliette de Bodard

When It Ends, He Catches Her (2014) / short story by Eugie Foster

Toad Words (2014) / short story by Ursula Vernon [as by T. Kingfisher]

Makeisha in Time (2014) / short story by Rachael K. Jones

Covenant (2014) / short story by Elizabeth Bear

The Truth About Owls (2014) / short story by Amal El-Mohtar

A Kiss with Teeth (2014) / short story by Max Gladstone

The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family (2014) / short story by Usman T. Malik

This Chance Planet (2014) / short story by Elizabeth Bear

Goodnight Stars (2014) / short story by Annie Bellet

We Are the Cloud (2014) / novelette by Sam J. Miller

The Magician and Laplace's Demon (2014) / novelette by Tom Crosshill

Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy (2014) / novelette by Xia Jia (trans. of 2044年春节旧事 2013)

The Husband Stitch (2014) / novelette by Carmen Maria Machado

The Bonedrake's Penance (2014) / novelette by Yoon Ha Lee

The Devil in America (2014) / novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson

The Litany of Earth [The Innsmouth Legacy • 0] (2014) / novelette by Ruthanna Emrys

A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i (2014) / novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson

A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014) / novelette by Scott Lynch

The Regular (2014) / novella by Ken Liu

Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) (2014) / novella by Rachel Swirsky

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