2024 SF/F Ballots

Update 6/9/25: Tagged 2 of 16 🏆Shirley Jackson Award (short fiction) finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 6/7/25: Tagged 3 🏆Nebula Award (short fiction) winners (click link to highlight).
Update 5/21/25: Tagged 10 🏆Sturgeon Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 5/15/25: Tagged 20 TOC and 60 notable stories from 📙John Joseph Adam's Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 5/6/25: Tagged 1 of 9 🏆Otherwise Award finalists and winners (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


1/17/25: 100% done (✓137/137)
Next Update: Compete

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👍ABrown
👍ACWise
👍CPayseur
👍MHaskins
👍PGuran.r
👍STomaino
👍Tangent
👍Booklist 📘
👍Goodreads 📘
👍LibraryJournal 📘
👍Kirkus 📘
👍PW 📘
Note: CPayseur, ACWise, and PGuran are a month behind because they review online stories (which generally have no advance copies) for a print magazine with a one month lead time.

2. SF/F Ballots


Here are links to ballots for various SF/F awards, 5 that are open to all, and 4 that are open to members of a convention or association. Highlighted awards are currently open for voting.

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 2024 SF/F Ballots page, grouped by length (novella, novelette, short story), by publication, by new writer (year 1, year 2), or by author.


A. Open to All

B. Open to Members
Here are some helpful aggregation lists for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form (Metacritic's 2024 SF/F Movies to Watch), and Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (Metacritic's 2024 SF/F TV Shows to Watch). GoodReads Choice Awards 2024 is also useful for science fiction novels and fantasy novels.

C. Jury-Only

3. Best SF/F


6/15/25: 72% complete (🏆22/37; 📙3/7; 👍24/24; 49/68)
Next Updates: 6/21/25 🏆Locus Award winners

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.

1. General AwardsFinalistsWinners
Eugie May Aug 28-Sep 1 @ DragonCon
Hugo🏆₁Hugo+3 Aug 13-17 @ WorldCon
Locus🏆₁Locus+3 Jun 18-21 @ Locus Awards Weekend
Nebula🏆₁Nebula+3🏆₁Nebula+4
Sturgeon🏆₁Sturgeon+3 Oct @ Gunn Center Conference
2. Subgenre AwardsFinalistsWinners
British Fantasy Jul Oct 30-Nov 2 @ FantasyCon
BSFA🏆₂BSFA+2🏆₂BSFA+3
Lambda Apr Jun @ Lammys
Otherwise🏆₂Otherwise+2🏆
Shirley Jackson🏆₂SJackson+2 Jul 17-20 @ ReaderCon
Stoker🏆₂Stoker+2🏆
World Fantasy Jul Oct 30-Nov 2 @ World Fantasy Convention
3. Readers AwardsFinalistsWinners
Analog🏆₃Readers+1 Jul-Aug Issue
Apex🏆₃Readers+2
Asimov's🏆₃Readers+1 Jul-Aug Issue
Clarkesworld🏆₃Readers+1🏆₃Readers+2
Uncanny🏆₃Readers+1🏆₃Readers+2
Choice🏆₃Choice+1📘🏆
Reading List🏆₃ReadingList+2📘🏆
4. Year's BestHonorable MentionTable of Contents
Best American SF/F📙₁BASFF+1📙₁BASFF+2
Neil Clarke Feb 2026
5. Subgenre BestHonorable MentionTable of Contents
Allan Kaster Jun
Ellen Datlow📙₂EDatlow+1
Paula Guran (F) Jan
Paula Guran (DF&H) Mar
6. ReviewersRecommendedAward Worthy
Alex Brown👍ABrown+1👍ABrown+2
A.C. Wise👍ACWise+1👍ACWise+2
Maria Haskins👍MHaskins+1👍MHaskins+2
Paula Guran👍PGuran+1👍PGuran+2
Sam Tomaino👍STomaino+1👍STomaino+2
Tangent👍Tangent+1👍Tangent+2
Tar Vo lon👍TarVolon+1👍TarVolon+2
Booklist👍Booklist+1📘👍Booklist+2📘
Goodreads👍Goodreads+1📘👍Goodreads+2📘
Library Journal👍LibraryJournal+1📘👍LibraryJournal+2📘
Kirkus Reviews👍Kirkus+1📘👍Kirkus+2📘
Publishers' Weekly👍PW+1📘👍PW+2📘


Eric Wong
Updated Sunday June 15, 2025

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