Update 8/12/24: Tagged 3 🏆Asimov's Readers' Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 8/11/24: Tagged 3 🏆Hugo Award (short fiction) winners (click link to highlight).
Update 8/11/24: Tagged 11 of 12 🏆World Fantasy Award finalists for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 7/15/24: Tagged 9 🏆Sturgeon Award finalists (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
2/1/24: 100% done (✓123/123)
Next Update: N/A
| Recommendations By | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👍ABrown | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍ACWise | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍CPayseur | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍KBurnham | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 👍MHaskins | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍PGuran.r | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| 👍SDowie | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 👍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 2023 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 15-30)
- Clarkesworld Reader's Poll: Finalist Ballot (Jan 27-29); Winners Ballot (Feb 1-15)
- Locus Awards: Ballot (Feb 1-Apr 15)
- Longlist; My Ratings
- Uncanny Favorite Fiction Reader Poll: Ballot (Jan 31-Feb 12)
B. Open to Members
- BSFA Awards: Longlist; Shortlist Ballot (Jan); Winners Ballot (Feb 29-Mar 29)
- British Fantasy Awards: Ballot (Jan)
- Nebula Awards: Longlist; Shortlist Ballot (Nov 15-Feb 28); Winners Ballot (Mar 15- Apr 30)
- Hugo Awards: Shortlist Ballot (Jan 27-Mar 9); Winners Ballot (Apr 20-Jul 20)
- 2023 Best SF/F (140+ stories, 130+ authors, 10+ magazines)
- Astounding-eligible Writers (300+ stories, 250+ authors, 10+ magazines)
Here are some helpful aggregation lists for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form (Metacritic's 2023 SF/F Movies to Watch), and Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (Metacritic's 2023 SF/F TV Shows to Watch). GoodReads Choice Awards 2023 is also useful for science fiction novels and fantasy 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
8/15/24: 93% complete (🏆31/35; 📙6/7; 👍26/26; 63/68)
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 Thursday August 15, 2024
A couple reader polls have started.
ReplyDelete2023 Apex Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards
Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2023!
Thanks for the heads up! I've updated the 2023 YTD page to 2023 SF/F Ballots with links to magazine readers awards (and their stories).
DeleteClarkesworld's first round is open.
ReplyDeleteThanks, updated the SF/F Ballots links.
DeleteDevon Eriksen's "Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1" was published Nov 11, 2023 and meets eligibility criteria for the Astounding award multiple times over, can you add his book to the list of novels eligible for nomination? Thanks!!
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