Winner
- “The Game of Smash and Recovery”, Kelly Link (Strange Horizons 17 Oct 2015)
Finalists
- “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead”, Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed Feb 2015)
- “Avery Cates: The Walled City”, Jeff Somers (self-published Jun 2015)
- “Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan”, Ian McDonald (Old Venus)
- “Damage”, David D. Levine (Tor.com 21 Jan 2015)
- “Emergence”, Gwyneth Jones (Meeting Infinity)
- “Folding Beijing”, Hao Jingfang (Uncanny Magazine Jan/Feb 2015)
- “The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred”, Greg Egan (Asimov's Dec 2015)
- “Our Lady of the Open Road”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov's Jun 2015)
- “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill”, Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld Feb 2015)