Every month, on the 1st, we add the most recommended👍 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 “year’s best” anthologies📙 and award finalists🏆 are announced. For some awards and the Locus Recommended Reading List, we’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, we’ll produce themed selections of outstanding stories🚀✨🌈📚 with final scores from the annual library.
1. Year-To-Date
2/1/19: 100% done (✓70/70)
Next Update: Complete
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| 👍GDozois.r+2 👍GDozois.r+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 👍GTognetti+2 👍GTognetti+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍JMcGregor+2 👍JMcGregor+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍KBurnham+2 👍KBurnham+1 | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍RHorton.r+2 👍RHorton.r+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍RSR+2 👍RSR+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍STomaino+2 👍STomaino+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
2. SF/F Ballots
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
Analog Readers' Awards: Ballot (Jan 1-Feb 1)- Longlist & Covers; My Ratings (Analog highlighted)
Asimov's Readers' Awards: Ballot (Jan 1-Feb 1)- Longlist & Covers; My Ratings (Asimov's highlighted)
Apex Story of the Year: Story Ballot & Cover Ballot (Jan 23-Feb 4)Uncanny Favorite Fiction Reader Poll: Ballot (Jan 8-Feb 5)Clarkesworld Reader's Poll: Winners Ballot (Feb 1-20)Locus Awards: 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)
British Fantasy Awards: Ballot (Jan-Feb)Nebula Awards: 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 (🏆33/33; 📙10/10; 👍16/16)
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
You have Domestic Violence by Madeline Ashby listed as a novelette, but the word count I get is about 4970.
ReplyDeleteThanks. 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"
ReplyDeleteby 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.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Goodreads has removed the Year's Best anthology series pages. Here are the ones at LibraryThing:
ReplyDeleteBest 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.
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