Update 1/25/20: Added reviewer ๐A.C. Wise (click link to highlight). (More)
Update 11/3/19: Tagged 3 ๐World Fantasy Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 10/20/19: Tagged 2 ๐British Fantasy Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 9/2/19: Tagged 1 ๐Eugie Award winner (click link to highlight).
Update 8/24/19: Tagged 20 stories in ๐BASFF year's best anthology TOC + 33 honorable mentions (click link to highlight).
Update 8/24/19: Tagged 3 ๐Hugo Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 7/25/19: Tagged 9 ๐World Fantasy Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 7/23/19: Tagged 5 ๐British Fantasy Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 7/7/19: Tagged 35 stories listed as honorable mentions in ๐NClarke's year's best anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 6/30/19: Tagged 3 ๐Locus Award and 1 ๐Sturgeon Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 6/1/19: Tagged 5 ๐Eugie Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 5/19/19: Tagged 3 ๐Nebula Award winners (click link to highlight), 3 ๐Analog and 3 ๐Asimov's Readers Poll winners.
Update 5/12/19: Tagged 33 stories in ๐PGuran's year's best anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 5/8/19: Tagged 26 stories ๐RHorton's year's best anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 5/8/19: Tagged 30 ๐Locus Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 5/8/19: Tagged 2 ๐Shirley Jackson Award finalist (click link to highlight).
Update 4/22/19: Tagged 1 ๐BSFA Award winner (click link to highlight).
Update 4/2/19: Tagged 18 ๐Hugo Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 3/6/19: Tagged 11 ๐Sturgeon Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 3/1/19: Tagged 1 ๐Clarkesworld Readers' Poll winner (click link to highlight).
Update 2/20/19: Tagged 18 ๐Nebula finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 2/17/19: Tagged 4 ๐BSFA finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 2/11/19: Tagged 29 stories in ๐NClarke's year's best anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 2/10/19: Tagged 30 ๐Analog & Asimov's readers polls finalists (click links to highlight their now-free stories).
Update 2/7/19: Tagged 6 ๐Uncanny Poll winner/finalists.
Update 2/1/19: Tagged 6 ๐Clarkesworld Reader's Poll finalists.
Every month, on the 1st, we add the most recommended๐ stories from the previous month's ratings to our Year-To-Date (YTD) list, grouped by story length and current score (must be 2 or more). This is our annual library.
After year's end, during the three-month award nomination season, the YTD list becomes the SF/F Ballots list and story scores are updated as โyearโs bestโ anthologies๐ and award finalists๐ are announced. For some awards and the Locus Recommended Reading List, weโll create an annotated list of the finalists sorted by latest score to help people choose stories to read.
After most nominations close in March, the SF/F Ballots list becomes the Best SF/F list and story scores continue to be updated until November when the last award winners (World Fantasy) are announced. During this time, weโll produce themed selections of outstanding stories๐โจ๐๐ with final scores from the annual library.
1. Year-To-Date
2/1/19: 100% done (โ70/70)
Next Update: Complete
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| ๐GDozois.r+2 ๐GDozois.r+1 | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| ๐GTognetti+2 ๐GTognetti+1 | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| ๐JMcGregor+2 ๐JMcGregor+1 | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| ๐KBurnham+2 ๐KBurnham+1 | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| ๐RHorton.r+2 ๐RHorton.r+1 | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| ๐RSR+2 ๐RSR+1 | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| ๐STomaino+2 ๐STomaino+1 | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
2. SF/F Ballots
Here are links to ballots for various SF/F awards, 6 that are open to all, and 4 that are open to members of a convention or association.
The magazine-specific awards come with a longlist link to all stories published by each magazine, with blurbs to help you remember the ones you've read and scores to guide further reading.
For the general awards, see the outstanding stories on this page, grouped by length (novella, novelette, short story), by publication, by new writer (year 1, year 2), or by author.
Awards in bold are currently available for voting.
Open to All
(ๅ้ค) Analog Readers' Awards (ๅ้คใใใพใง): Ballot (Jan 1-Feb 1)- Longlist & Covers; My Ratings (Analog highlighted)
(ๅ้ค) Asimov's Readers' Awards (ๅ้คใใใพใง): Ballot (Jan 1-Feb 1)- Longlist & Covers; My Ratings (Asimov's highlighted)
(ๅ้ค) Apex Story of the Year (ๅ้คใใใพใง): Story Ballot & Cover Ballot (Jan 23-Feb 4)(ๅ้ค) Uncanny Favorite Fiction Reader Poll (ๅ้คใใใพใง): Ballot (Jan 8-Feb 5)(ๅ้ค) Clarkesworld Reader's Poll (ๅ้คใใใพใง): Winners Ballot (Feb 1-20)(ๅ้ค) Locus Awards (ๅ้คใใใพใง): Ballot (Feb 1-Apr 15)
Open to Members
- BSFA Awards : Longlist Ballot (Sep-Dec); Shortlist Ballot (Jan 1-31); Winners Ballot (Feb 17-Apr 20)
(ๅ้ค) British Fantasy Awards (ๅ้คใใใพใง): Ballot (Jan-Feb)(ๅ้ค) Nebula Awards (ๅ้คใใใพใง): Longlist; Shortlist Ballot (Nov 15-Feb 15); Winners Ballot (Mar)- Hugo Awards : Shortlist Ballot (Jan 10-Mar 15); Winners Ballot (Apr-Jun)
- Campbell-eligible Writers (200+ stories, 150+ authors)
- Pro Artists (300+ images, 100+ artists, lightbox view)
- Pro Artists from ISFDB (700+ images, 100+ artists, lightbox view)
Here are some helpful aggregation lists for Best Novel (John DeNardo's Best of the Best), Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form (Metacritic's 2018's Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Superhero Films - scroll down), and Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (Metacritic's TV Shows Mentioned on Most Critic Top 10 Lists - 2018). GoodReads' Choice Awards 2018 is also useful for science fiction novels, fantasy novels, and graphic novels.
- Eugie Award: Longlist (Publishers, Editors); Shortlist (Commitee); Winner (Panel)
- Sturgeon Award: Shortlist (Editors, Reviewers); Winner (Jury)
- Shirley Jackson Awards: Longlist (Publishers, Editors); Shortlist & Winners (Jury)
- World Fantasy Awards: Longlist (Publishers, Editors); Shortlist & Winners (Jury)
3. Best SF/F
11/03/19: 100% complete (๐33/33; ๐11/11; ๐16/16)
Next Updates: October (
Clicking on a completed award/year's best/reviewer link will highlight the stories whose score was increased by that award/year's best/reviewer.
Eric Wong Updated Sunday November 3, 2019
9 comments (may contain spoilers):
You have Domestic Violence by Madeline Ashby listed as a novelette, but the word count I get is about 4970.
Reply DeleteThanks. I repasted the text in Word and got 4,983 but my spreadsheet showed 9,983 so it must have been a typo when I first entered it.
Delete"Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good"
Reply Deleteby LaShawn M. Wanak, originally in FIYAH 7, was reprinted in Apex 120:
https://www.apex-magazine.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe-and-memphis-minnie-sing-the-stumps-down-good/
Thanks. I've added the link to the table.
DeleteWe deleted a comment in which an author asked us to review his book. Rocket Stack Rank doesn't review anything over 50,000 words, and requests for us to review short fiction need to be sent to greghull@rocketstackrank.com.
Reply DeleteIt looks like Goodreads has removed the Year's Best anthology series pages. Here are the ones at LibraryThing:
Reply DeleteBest American SF/F
Jonathan Strahan
Neil Clarke
Rich Horton
These pages are unlikely to disappear.
Thanks. I've updated these four Year's Best, plus the four subgenre Year's Best (Takacs, Afsharirad, Datlow, Guran), to LibraryThing series links.
DeleteOlivia's Table by Alyssa Wong has been reprinted at Lightspeed 130 (Mar 2021): https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/olivias-table/
Reply DeleteAnother online reprint of "She Searches for God in the Storm Within" by Khaalidah MuhammadโAli (Sword and Sonnet 2018) at Apex 122 (Mar/Apr 2021).
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