Update 11/9/22: Tagged 2 🏆World Fantasy Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 10/30/22: Tagged 2 🏆Shirley Jackson Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 10/19/22: Tagged 3 🏆Asimov's Readers' Award winners (click link to highlight).
Update 9/30/22: Tagged 4 (out of 15) 🏆Shirley Jackson 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
2/1/22: 100% done (✓84/84)
Next Update:
| Recommendations By | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👍ABrown+2 👍ABrown+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍KBurnham+2 👍KBurnham+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍MHaskins+2 👍MHaskins+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍PGuran.r+2 👍PGuran.r+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍RHorton.r+2 👍RHorton.r+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍STomaino+2 👍STomaino+1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 👍Tangent+2 👍Tangent+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 2021 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)
- Clarkesworld Reader's Poll: Finalist Ballot (Jan 25-26); Winners Ballot (Feb 1-15)
- Locus Awards: Ballot (Feb 1-Apr 15)
- Uncanny Favorite Fiction Reader Poll: Ballot (Jan 10-Feb 7)
B. Open to Members
- BSFA Awards: Longlist; Shortlist Ballot (Jan 24-Feb 21); Winners Ballot (Feb ?-Apr ?)
- British Fantasy Awards: Ballot (Jan ?)
- Nebula Awards: Longlist; Shortlist Ballot (Dec 1-Feb 28); Winners Ballot (Mar 15- Apr 30)
- Hugo Awards: Shortlist Ballot (Jan 16-Mar 15); Winners Ballot (May ?-Jun ?)
- 2021 Best SF/F (160+ stories, 140+ authors, 10+ magazines)
- Astounding-eligible Writers (250+ stories, 210+ authors, 10+ magazines)
- Pro Artists (300+ images, 100+ artists, lightbox view) Coming Jan ?
Here are some helpful aggregation lists for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form (Metacritic's Best 50 Movies - search for Sci-Fi or Fantasy), and Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (Metacritic's Best TV Shows). GoodReads Choice Awards 2021 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 (🏆39/39; 📙8/8; 👍24/24; 71/71)
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 November 9, 2023
Apex also had Reader's Choice Awards for story and cover (voting was Jan 12-19): https://apex-magazine.com/blog/story-and-cover-of-the-year-2021/
ReplyDeleteThanks, I've updated the list.
DeleteThe novelette O2 Arena on Galaxy's Edge made the BSFA shortlist but that wasn't reflected in your latest update.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up, I've added it. Congratulations for being a finalist for the BSFA and Nebula awards.
DeleteThank you! 😇
DeleteIn the Garden of Ibn Ghazi by Molly Tanzer (F&SF Mar/Apr 2021) is now online in Apex 130 (Mar 2022): https://apex-magazine.com/issue-130/in-the-garden-of-ibn-ghazi/
ReplyDeleteSentient Being Blues by Christopher Mark Rose from Asimov's Mar/Apr 2021 is now online at Escape Pod 802.
ReplyDeleteAsimov's has Billie the Kid by Rick Wilber listed as a novelette.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the correction, it's now fixed.
Delete"Three Tales from the Blue Library" by Sofia Samatar is now online at Lightspeed 149 (Oct 2022).
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Deletehttps://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/three-tales-from-the-blue-library/
DeleteThe Music of the Siphorophenes by C.L. Polk (F&SF Mar/Apr 2021) is now online at Uncanny 53 (Jul/Aug 2023): https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-music-of-the-siphorophenes/
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