Update 2/22/21: Tagged 1 🏆British Fantasy Award winner for Novella (click to highlight it).
Update 11/1/20: Tagged 2 🏆World Fantasy Award winners (click to highlight them).
Update 10/25/20: Tagged 6 🏆British Fantasy Award finalists (click to highlight them).
Update 10/22/20: Tagged 3 🏆Sturgeon Award winners (click to highlight them).
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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
02/01/20: 100% done (✓88/88)
Next Update: N/A
| Recommendations By | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👍ABrown+2 👍ABrown+1 | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍GTognetti+2 👍GTognetti+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍JMcGregor+2 👍JMcGregor+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| 👍KBurnham+2 👍KBurnham+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍MHaskins+2 👍MHaskins+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 at the 2019 YTD 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.
A. 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)
Uncanny Favorite Fiction Reader Poll: Ballot (Jan 9-Feb 6)Clarkesworld Reader's Poll:Finalist Ballot(Jan 27-28);Winners Ballot(Feb 1-20)Locus Awards: Ballot (Feb 1-Apr 15)
B. Open to Members
- BSFA Awards: Longlist;
Shortlist Ballot(Jan 1-31); Winners Ballot (Feb 17-Apr 24) British Fantasy Awards: Ballot (Jan-Feb)Nebula Awards: Longlist;Shortlist Ballot(Nov 15-Feb 15);WinnersBallot (Mar 1-31)Hugo Awards:Shortlist Ballot(Jan 4-Mar 13); Winners Ballot (Apr-Jun)- 2019 Best SF/F (150+ stories, 130+ authors, 10+ magazines)
- Astounding-eligible Writers (150+ stories, 100+ authors, 10+ magazines)
- Pro Artists (300+ images, 100+ artists, lightbox view)
- Pro Artists from ISFDB (700+ images, 100+ artists, lightbox view) Due ?
Here are some helpful aggregation lists for Best Novel (John DeNardo's Best of the Best), Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form (Metacritic's 2019'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 - 2019). GoodReads' Choice Awards 2019 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
11/9/23: 100% complete (🏆32/32; 📙9/9; 👍18/18)
Next Updates: N/A
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 Thursday November 9, 2023
The first round for the Clarkesworld Readers' Poll is available until Jan 28th at 8pm EST:
ReplyDeletehttp://neil-clarke.com/2019-clarkesworld-readers-poll-phase-one/
Final Round of the Clarkesworld poll is now open:
Deletehttp://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_20/
Voting closes on February 20th at 8PM EST and the winners will be announced in the March issue.
DeleteThanks, I've updated the SF/F Ballots link and also tagged the 10 finalists (they get +1 to their score, winner will get +2).
DeleteThe Uncanny Poll is open until Feb 6:
ReplyDeletehttps://uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-celebrates-reader-favorites-of-2019/
Thanks! I've updated the SF/F Ballots links for both and also posted on Facebook and Twitter.
DeleteThe Uncanny results are in:
ReplyDeletehttps://uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-magazine-2019-favorite-fiction-reader-poll-results/
Thanks. I've updated this list and the annotated Locus list with these results and the BSFA finalists.
DeleteThe Clarkesworld Poll results are in:
ReplyDeletehttp://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_03_20/
Thanks, updated.
Delete"In That Place She Grows a Garden" by Del Sandeen from FIYAH 10 is now online at Uncanny 38 (Jan/Feb 2021).
ReplyDelete"Red" by Malinda Lo has been reprinted online at Lightspeed 147 (Aug 2022).
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