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2018 Best SF/F

Update 6/18/20: Added anthologist ๐Ÿ“™Allan Kaster (click link to highlight).
Update 1/25/20: Added reviewer ๐Ÿ‘A.C. Wise (click link to highlight). (More)

Update 11/3/19: Tagged 3 ๐Ÿ†World Fantasy Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 10/20/19: Tagged 2 ๐Ÿ†British Fantasy Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 9/2/19: Tagged 1 ๐Ÿ†Eugie Award winner (click link to highlight).
Update 8/24/19: Tagged 20 stories in ๐Ÿ“™BASFF year's best anthology TOC + 33 honorable mentions (click link to highlight).
Update 8/24/19: Tagged 3 ๐Ÿ†Hugo Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 7/25/19: Tagged 9 ๐Ÿ†World Fantasy Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 7/23/19: Tagged 5 ๐Ÿ†British Fantasy Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 7/7/19: Tagged 35 stories listed as honorable mentions in ๐Ÿ“™NClarke's year's best anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 6/30/19: Tagged 3 ๐Ÿ†Locus Award and 1 ๐Ÿ†Sturgeon Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 6/1/19: Tagged 5 ๐Ÿ†Eugie Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 5/19/19: Tagged 3 ๐Ÿ†Nebula Award winners (click link to highlight), 3 ๐Ÿ†Analog and 3 ๐Ÿ†Asimov's Readers Poll winners.
Update 5/12/19: Tagged 33 stories in ๐Ÿ“™PGuran's year's best anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 5/8/19: Tagged 26 stories ๐Ÿ“™RHorton's year's best anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 5/8/19: Tagged 30 ๐Ÿ†Locus Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 5/8/19: Tagged 2 ๐Ÿ†Shirley Jackson Award finalist (click link to highlight).
Update 4/22/19: Tagged 1 ๐Ÿ†BSFA Award winner (click link to highlight).
Update 4/2/19: Tagged 18 ๐Ÿ†Hugo Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 3/6/19: Tagged 11 ๐Ÿ†Sturgeon Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 3/1/19: Tagged 1 ๐Ÿ†Clarkesworld Readers' Poll winner (click link to highlight).
Update 2/20/19: Tagged 18 ๐Ÿ†Nebula finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 2/17/19: Tagged 4 ๐Ÿ†BSFA finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 2/11/19: Tagged 29 stories in ๐Ÿ“™NClarke's year's best anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 2/10/19: Tagged 30 ๐Ÿ†Analog & Asimov's readers polls finalists (click links to highlight their now-free stories).
Update 2/7/19: Tagged 6 ๐Ÿ†Uncanny Poll winner/finalists.
Update 2/1/19: Tagged 6 ๐Ÿ†Clarkesworld Reader's Poll finalists.

Every month, on the 1st, we add the most recommended๐Ÿ‘ 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 โ€œyearโ€™s bestโ€ anthologies๐Ÿ“™ and award finalists๐Ÿ† are announced. For some awards and the Locus Recommended Reading List, weโ€™ll 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, weโ€™ll produce themed selections of outstanding stories๐Ÿš€โœจ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ“š with final scores from the annual library.

1. Year-To-Date


2/1/19: 100% done (โœ“70/70)
Next Update: Complete

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๐Ÿ‘GDozois.r+2 ๐Ÿ‘GDozois.r+1 โœ“โœ“โœ“โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”
๐Ÿ‘GTognetti+2 ๐Ÿ‘GTognetti+1 โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“
๐Ÿ‘JMcGregor+2 ๐Ÿ‘JMcGregor+1 โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“
๐Ÿ‘KBurnham+2 ๐Ÿ‘KBurnham+1 โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“
๐Ÿ‘RHorton.r+2 ๐Ÿ‘RHorton.r+1 โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“
๐Ÿ‘RSR+2 ๐Ÿ‘RSR+1 โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“
๐Ÿ‘STomaino+2 ๐Ÿ‘STomaino+1 โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“
Note: KBurnham is a month behind because she reviews online stories (which generally have no advance copies) for a print magazine with a one month lead time.

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

Open to Members
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.

Jury-Only

3. Best SF/F


11/03/19: 100% complete (๐Ÿ†33/33; ๐Ÿ“™11/11; ๐Ÿ‘16/16)
Next Updates: October ((ๅ‰Š้™ค) British Fantasy Awards (ๅ‰Š้™คใ“ใ“ใพใง)), November ((ๅ‰Š้™ค) World Fantasy Awards (ๅ‰Š้™คใ“ใ“ใพใง))

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.

1. General AwardsFinalistsWinners
Eugie ๐Ÿ†โ‚Eugie+3 ๐Ÿ†โ‚Eugie+4
Hugo ๐Ÿ†โ‚Hugo+3 ๐Ÿ†โ‚Hugo+4
Locus ๐Ÿ†โ‚Locus+3 ๐Ÿ†โ‚Locus+4
Nebula ๐Ÿ†โ‚Nebula+3 ๐Ÿ†โ‚Nebula+4
Sturgeon ๐Ÿ†โ‚Sturgeon+3 ๐Ÿ†โ‚Sturgeon+4
2. Subgenre AwardsFinalistsWinners
British Fantasy ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚BFantasy+2 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚BFantasy+3
BSFA ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚BSFA+2 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚BSFA+3
Lambda ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚Lambda+2 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚Lambda+3
Shirley Jackson ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚SJackson+2 (ๅ‰Š้™ค) Jul @ ReaderCon (ๅ‰Š้™คใ“ใ“ใพใง)
Stoker ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚Stoker+2 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚Stoker+3
Tiptree (ๅ‰Š้™ค) March (ๅ‰Š้™คใ“ใ“ใพใง) (ๅ‰Š้™ค) May @ WisCon (ๅ‰Š้™คใ“ใ“ใพใง)
World Fantasy ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚WFantasy+2 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚‚WFantasy+3
3. Readers AwardsFinalistsWinners
Analog ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+1 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+2
Apex ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+2
Asimov's ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+1 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+2
Clarkesworld ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+1 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+2
Uncanny ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+1 ๐Ÿ†๏ปฟโ‚ƒReaders+2
4. Year's BestHonorable MentionTable of Contents
Best American SF/F ๐Ÿ“™โ‚BASFF+1 ๐Ÿ“™โ‚BASFF+2
Jonathan Strahan ๐Ÿ“™โ‚JStrahan+2
Neil Clarke ๐Ÿ“™โ‚NClarke+1 ๐Ÿ“™โ‚NClarke+2
Rich Horton ๐Ÿ“™โ‚RHorton+2
5. Subgenre BestHonorable MentionTable of Contents
Allan Kaster ๐Ÿ“™โ‚‚AKaster+1
Bogi Takacs ๐Ÿ“™โ‚‚BTakacs+1
David Afsharirad ๐Ÿ“™โ‚‚DAfsharirad+1
Ellen Datlow ๐Ÿ“™โ‚‚EDatlow+1
Paula Guran ๐Ÿ“™โ‚‚PGuran+1
6. ReviewersRecommendedAward Worthy
Gardner Dozois ๐Ÿ‘GDozois.r+1 ๐Ÿ‘GDozois.r+2
Gary Tognetti ๐Ÿ‘GTognetti+1 ๐Ÿ‘GTognetti+2
Jason McGregor ๐Ÿ‘JMcGregor+1 ๐Ÿ‘JMcGregor+2
Karen Burnham ๐Ÿ‘KBurnham+1 ๐Ÿ‘KBurnham+2
Maria Haskins ๐Ÿ‘MHaskins+1 ๐Ÿ‘MHaskins+2
Rich Horton ๐Ÿ‘RHorton.r+1 ๐Ÿ‘RHorton.r+2
Greg Hullender ๐Ÿ‘RSR+1 ๐Ÿ‘RSR+2
Sam Tomaino ๐Ÿ‘STomaino+1 ๐Ÿ‘STomaino+2


Eric Wong
Updated Sunday November 3, 2019

9 comments (may contain spoilers):

  1. You have Domestic Violence by Madeline Ashby listed as a novelette, but the word count I get is about 4970.

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    1. Thanks. 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.

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  2. "Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good"
    by 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/

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    1. Thanks. I've added the link to the table.

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  3. We 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.

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  4. It looks like Goodreads has removed the Year's Best anthology series pages. Here are the ones at LibraryThing:

    Best American SF/F
    Jonathan Strahan
    Neil Clarke
    Rich Horton

    These pages are unlikely to disappear.

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    1. Thanks. I've updated these four Year's Best, plus the four subgenre Year's Best (Takacs, Afsharirad, Datlow, Guran), to LibraryThing series links.

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  5. Olivia's Table by Alyssa Wong has been reprinted at Lightspeed 130 (Mar 2021): https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/olivias-table/

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  6. Another online reprint of "She Searches for God in the Storm Within" by Khaalidah Muhammadโ€‘Ali (Sword and Sonnet 2018) at Apex 122 (Mar/Apr 2021).

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