Update 10/31/23: Tagged 2 🏆World Fantasy Award winners for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 10/22/23: Tagged 3 🏆Hugo Award winners for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 9/6/23: Tagged 1 🏆Eugie Award winner (click link to highlight).
Update 8/25/23: Tagged 1 🏆Sturgeon Award winner (click link to highlight).
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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
2/5/23: 100% done (✓133/133)
Next Update:
| Recommendations By | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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| 👍ABrown | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍CPayseur | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍KBurnham | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍MHaskins | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍PGuran.r | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍RHorton.r | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 👍STomaino | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍Tangent | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍Goodreads 📘 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍LibraryJournal 📘 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍Kirkus 📘 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍PW 📘 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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 2022 YTD page, grouped by length (novella, novelette, short story), by publication, by new writer (year 1, year 2), or by author.
A. Open to All
- Analog Readers' Awards: Ballot (Jan 1-Feb 1)
- Asimov's Readers' Awards: Ballot (Jan 1-Feb 1)
- Apex Readers' Choice: Ballot (Jan 16-30)
- Clarkesworld Reader's Poll: Finalist Ballot (Jan); Winners Ballot (Feb 1-15)
- Locus Awards: Ballot (Feb 1-Apr 15)
- Uncanny Favorite Fiction Reader Poll: Ballot (Jan 31-Feb 21)
B. Open to Members
- BSFA Awards: Longlist; Shortlist Ballot (Jan); Winners Ballot (Feb)
- British Fantasy Awards: Ballot (Jan)
- Nebula Awards: Longlist; Shortlist Ballot (Dec 1-Feb 28); Winners Ballot (Mar 15- Apr 30)
- Hugo Awards: Shortlist Ballot (Apr); Winners Ballot (Jul)
- 2022 Best SF/F (120+ stories, 110+ authors, 10+ magazines)
- Astounding-eligible Writers (250+ stories, 200+ authors, 10+ magazines)
Here are some helpful aggregation lists for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form (Metacritic's Film Critics Top Ten Lists), and Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (Metacritic's TV Critics Top Ten Lists). GoodReads Choice Awards 2022 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
9/18/24: 97% complete (🏆37/39; 📙7/7; 👍24/24; 68/70)
Next Updates:
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 Wednesday September 18, 2023
The 2022 Clarkesworld Poll is taking nominations now through Friday Jan 27 8pm EST: http://neil-clarke.com/2022-clarkesworld-poll-nomination-phase/
ReplyDeleteThe Analog stories that made the Locus List are online.
ReplyDeleteThanks, links to the Analog stories have been added.
DeleteWanderlust by LP Kindred has been reprinted at Apex 144 (May 2024)
ReplyDeleteThanks, though it was available from the original magazine Anathema and later at Escape Pod.
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