Some stories not reviewed by RSR are in the Best SF/F list because they were award finalists 🏆, included in year's best anthologies 📙, or recommended by other prolific reviewers 👍 (see Q&A for SF/F awards, year's best anthologies, and prolific reviewers followed).
Readers asked us to make it easy for them to find good stories written by authors with diverse racial backgrounds, and that’s what this list is meant to accomplish (author identity plays no role in our ratings). This is the sixth year we've done this list (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015-2016).
Please leave a comment if you see a story by a person of color in our 2021 Best SF/F list that isn't included here, or if a story here isn't by a person of color. We browsed author bios on the web to identify people of color but with hundreds of authors to look up, it's easy to make mistakes. Thank you.
Observations:
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- 34 are free online (highlighted in default view), 19 have podcasts.
- Among 📚publications, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons and Tor.com have the most here with 5, 4, 4, and 4 stories each, respectively (40% total).
- Among ️️stories by ✍new writers who qualify for the Astounding Award, there were 11 total, 9 that are Year 1 eligible and 2 that are Year 2 eligible.
- Among ️️✒️authors, Aliette de Bodard and Nnedi Okorafor have the most stories here with 2 each.
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