Update 9/18/24: Tagged 31 stories from 📙
Neil Clarke's Best Science Fiction of the Year (click link to
highlight).
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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Update 7/26/23: Tagged 6 of 10 🏆World Fantasy Award finalists for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 7/25/23: Tagged 4 of 10 🏆Britiash Fantasy Award finalists for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 7/15/23: Tagged 2 of 3 🏆Shirley Jackson Award winners for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 7/11/23: Tagged 5 🏆Eugie Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 7/8/23: Tagged 18 🏆Hugo Award finalists for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 6/24/23: Tagged 3 🏆Locus Award winners for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 6/22/23: Tagged 7 of 16 🏆Shirley Jackson Award finalists for short fiction (click link to highlight).
Update 6/6/23: Tagged 10 🏆Sturgeon Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 6/2/23: Tagged 4 🏆Analog Readers' Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 6/2/23: Tagged 3 🏆Asimov's Readers' Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 5/21/23: Tagged 20 TOC and 60 notable stories from 📙John Joseph Adam's Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 5/17/23: Tagged 10 of 12 stories from 📙Allan Kaster's The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, Vol 7 anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 5/15/23: Tagged 3 🏆Nebula Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 4/28/23: Tagged 30 🏆Locus Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 4/18/23: Tagged 5 of 21 stories from 📙Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Vol 15 anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 4/18/23: Tagged 9 of 21 stories from 📙Paula Guran's The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol 4 anthology (click link to highlight).
Update 4/10/23: Tagged 1 🏆BSFA Award (short fiction) winner (click link to highlight).
Update 3/15/23: Tagged 1 of 5 🏆Lambda Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 3/7/23: Tagged 17 🏆Nebula Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 3/2/23: Tagged 2 of 5 🏆BSFA Award (short fiction) finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 3/1/23: Tagged 2 🏆Clarkesworld Reader's Poll winners (click link to highlight).
Update 2/27/23: Tagged 6 🏆Uncanny Reader's Poll winners and finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 2/18/23: Tagged 13 🏆Analog Readers' Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 2/18/23: Tagged 15 🏆Asimov's Readers' Award finalists (click link to highlight).
Update 2/2/23: Tagged 1 🏆Apex Reader's Choice winner (click link to highlight).
Here is the annotated
2022 Locus Recommended Reading List for short fiction, merged with
RSR's 2022 Best SF/F list (aka our aggregated list of "outstanding" stories from 2022 that score 2 or more based on 👍reviewers, 🏆awards, and year's best 📙anthologies). All the stories are grouped by length and score, with stories from the Locus list
highlighted in red.
The merge lets us analyze the
Locus list to see which stories that were broadly recognized as outstanding were left out, which publications stood out, which authors did particularly well (or not), how many were eligible for the Astounding Award, and how
RSR's own recommendations stack up with Locus reviewers in general.
As with every
RSR annotated list, there are links galore to the stories, their authors, the magazines, any award nominations/wins or "year's best" anthology inclusions, and search-links to find other reviews.
Anyone can vote for the Locus Awards at this link. Due date is Thursday April 15, 2023.
If you want to skip the analysis and just start reading,
click here (free stories
highlighted).
