Science Fiction & Fantasy

2017 — Issues 124-135

Award Nominations

• 2018 Finalist Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Short Story, "The Stone Weta" by Octavia Cade
• 2017 Finalist: Nebula Award for Best Novelette, "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• 2018 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novelette, "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• 2018 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novelette, "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer
• 2018 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
• 2018 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer
• 2018 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• 2018 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, "We Who Live in the Heart" by Kelly Robson

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "Pan Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics" by Jessica Barber and Sara Saab
• "Waiting out the end of the World in Patty's Place Café" by Naomi Krtizer
• "The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon" by Finbarr O'Reilly
• "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• "We Who Live in the Heart" by Kelly Robson
• "Assassins" by Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three, Neil Clarke ed.

• "The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon" by Finbarr O'Reilly
• "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer
• "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• "We Who Live in the Heart" by Kelly Robson

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "The Significance of Significance" by Robert Reed
• "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer
• "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prased

Other Distinctions

• "Neptune's Trident" by Nina Allan, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Pan Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics" by Jessica Barber and Sara Saab, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Rain Ship" by Chi Hui, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prased, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "We Who Live in the Heart" by Kelly Robson, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Waiting out the end of the World in Patty's Place Café" by Naomi Krtizer, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "The Ways Out" by Sam J. Miller, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon" by Finbarr O'Reilly, 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)

 

2016 — Issues 112-123

Award Winners

• 2016 Winner: Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story, "Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart" by Samantha Murray

Award Nominations

• 2016 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story, "Things with Beards" by Sam J. Miller
• 2016 Nominee: Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story, "Things with Beards" by Sam J. Miller
• 2017 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novelette, "Touring with the Alien" by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• 2017 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
• 2017 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Art Director: Neil Clarke

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "Touring with the Alien" by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• "Jonas and the Fox" by Rich Larson
• "Things with Beards" by Sam J. Miller
• "One Sister, Two Sisters, Three" by James Patrick Kelly
• "Checkerboard Planet" by Eleanor Arnason
• "A Tower for the Coming World" by Maggie Clark

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two, Neil Clarke ed.

• "Extraction Request" by Rich Larson
• "And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices" by Margaret Ronald
• "Things with Beards" by Sam J. Miller
• "Touring with the Alien" by Carolyn Ives Gilman

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "The Bridge of Dreams" by Gregory Feeley
• "Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home" by Genevieve Valentine
• "Things with Beards" by Sam J. Miller

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "Touring with the Alien" by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• "Things with Beards" by Sam J. Miller
• "Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home" by Genevieve Valentine

Other Distinctions

• "Checkerboard Planet" by Eleanor Arnason, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Touring with the Alien" by Carolyn Ives Gilman, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Jonas and the Fox" by Rich Larson, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home" by Genevieve Valentine, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "A Tower for the Coming World" by Maggie Clark, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Breathe" by Cassandra Khaw, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Things with Beards" by Sam J. Miller, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Between Dragons and Their Wrath" by An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Left Behind" by Cat Rambo, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "The Abduction of Europa" by E. Catherine Tobler, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "First Light at Mistaken Point" by Kali Wallace, 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)

 

2015 — Issues 100-111

Award Winners

• 2015 BSFA Award for Best Short Story, "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard
• 2016 Winner: Locus Award for Best Short Story, "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
• 2016 Winner: Chesley Award for Best Art Director: Neil Clarke
• 2016 Winner: Hugo Award for Best Short Story, "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
• 2016 Winner: Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction, "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild by Catherynne M. Valente
• 2016 Winner: WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction, "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker

Award Nominations

• 2015 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story, "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
• 2015 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story, "When Your Child Strays From God" by Sam J. Miller
• 2015 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story, "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker
• 2015 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" by Kelly Robson
• 2016 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Short Story, "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard
• 2016 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
• 2016 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, "A-boushi-ya" by shichigoro-shingo
• 2016 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
• 2016 Finalist: Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction, "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard
• 2016 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction, "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
• 2016 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction, "The Empress in Her Glory" by Robert Reed

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard
• "Ice" by Rich Larson
• "Meshed" by Rich Larson
• "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" by Kelly Robson
• "Today I am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One, Neil Clarke ed.

• "Meshed" by Rich Larson
• "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
• "So Much Cooking" by Naomi Kritzer
• "Today I am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente
• "Asymptotic" by Andy Dudak
• "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
• "Today I am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "The Empress in Her Glory" by Robert Reed

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

• "Cassandra" by Ken Liu
• "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" by Kelly Robson

The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 2015, David Afsharirad ed.

• "Morrigan in Shadow" by Seth Dickinson
• "For the Love of Sylvia City" by Andrea M. Pawley

Other Distinctions

• "So Much Cooking" by Naomi Kritzer, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Coming of the Light" by Chen Qiufan, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "The Long Twilight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Let Baser Things Devise" by Berrien C. Henderson, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "The Apartment Dweller’s Beastiary" by Kij Johnson, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "When Your Child Strays from God" by Sam J. Miller, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" by Kelly Robson, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Today I am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker, 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)

 

2014 — Issues 88-99

Award Winners

• 2014 Winner: Sidewise Award Winner for Best Short-Form Alternate History, "The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" by Ken Liu

Award Nominations

• 2014 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story, "The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye" by Matthew Kressel
• 2014 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Novelette, "The Magician and Laplace’s Demon" by Tom Crosshill
• 2015 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction, "The Magician and Laplace’s Demon" by Tom Crosshill
• 2015 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
• 2015 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, "Hollow" by Matt Dixon

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" by Ken Liu
• "Communion" by Mary Anne Mohanraj
• "Weather" by Susan Palwick
• "Passage of Earth" by Michael Swanwick

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" by Ken Liu

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "The Magician and Laplace’s Demon" by Tom Crosshill
• "Wine" by Yoon Ha Lee
• "The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" by Ken Liu
• "Pernicious Romance" by Robert Reed

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

• "Water in Springtime" by Kali Wallace

Other Distinctions

• "The Magician and Laplace’s Demon" by Tom Crosshill, 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "Wine" by Yoon Ha Lee, 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
• "The Saint of the Sidewalks" by Kat Howard, 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "The Contemporary Foxwife" by Yoon Ha Lee, 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" by Ken Liu, 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "And Wash Out by Tides of War" by An Owomoyela, 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Pernicious Romance" by Robert Reed, 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
• "Passage of Earth" by Michael Swanwick, 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)

 

2013 — Issues 76-87

Award Winners

• 2014 Winner: World Fantasy Award, Special Award Non-Professional, Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, and Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld Magazine
• 2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine

Award Nominations

• 2014 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: "Mystic Falls" by Robert Reed (audio)
• 2014 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: "The Urashima Effect" by E. Lily Yu (audio)
• 2014 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction: "Bits" by Naomi Kritzer (audio)
• 2014 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
• 2014 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
• 2014 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, "Elliptic" by Julie Dillon
• 2014 Nominee: World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story: "Effigy Nights" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "The Promise of Space" by James Patrick Kelly (audio)

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "Effigy Nights" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)
• "The Promise of Space" by James Patrick Kelly (audio)
• "Mystic Falls" by Robert Reed (audio)

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2014 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "Effigy Nights" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)
• "Soulcatcher" by James Patrick Kelly (audio)
• "Found" by Alex Dally MacFarlane (audio)

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

• "The Creature Recants" by Dale Bailey (audio)

Other Distinctions

• “Cry of the Kharchal” by Vandana Singh, 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “Soulcatcher” by James Patrick Kelly, 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “The Promise of Space” by James Patrick Kelly, 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee, 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “Mystic Falls” by Robert Reed, 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “No Portraits on the Sky” by Kali Wallace, 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List

 

2012 — Issues 64-75

Award Winners

• 2012 Nebula Award for Best Short Story: "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (audio)
• 2013 Locus Award for Best Short Story: "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (audio)
• 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story: "The Wisdom of Ants" by Thoraiya Dyer (audio)
• 2013 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story: "The Wisdom of Ants" by Thoraiya Dyer (audio)
• 2013 Winner: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, "New World" by Ken Barthelmey

Award Nominations

• 2012 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story: "Robot" by Helena Bell (audio)
• 2012 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story: "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" by Tom Crosshill (audio)
• 2012 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Novelette: "Fade to White" by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)
• 2012 Nominee: BSFA Award for Best Short Story: "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (audio)
• 2013 Aurora Award Nominee for Best Short Fiction - English: "Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop" by Suzanne Church (audio)
• 2013 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (audio)
• 2013 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" by Aliette de Bodard (audio)
• 2013 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: "(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky" by E. Catherine Tobler (audio)
• 2013 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Short Story: "Mantis Wives" by Kij Johnson (audio)
• 2013 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
• 2013 Nominee: Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards, Short Form "A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu (audio)
• 2013 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction: "Astrophilia" by Carrie Vaughn (audio)
• 2013 Finalist: Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History: "Fade to White" by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)
• 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Short Story: "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (audio)
• 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Short Story: "Mantis Wives" by Kij Johnson (audio)
• 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Novelette: "Fade to White" by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)
• 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld Magazine
• 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
• 2013 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, "Breaking Through" by Julie Dillon
• 2013 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, "Space Journey" by Martin Faragasso

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "Astrophilia" by Carrie Vaughn (audio)

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (audio)
• "Mantis Wives" by Kij Johnson (audio)
• "Fade to White" by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)
• "A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones" by Genevieve Valentine (audio)

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2013 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" by Aliette de Bodard (audio)
• "A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" by Xia Jia (audio)
• "Prayer" by Robert Reed (audio)
• "Honey Bear" by Sofia Samatar (audio)

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

• "England Under the White Witch" by Theodora Goss (audio)
• "Everything Must Go" by Brooke Wonders (audio)

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five, Ellen Datlow ed.

• "Mantis Wives" by Kij Johnson (audio)

Other Distinctions

• “Immersion” by Aliette De Bodard, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette De Bodard, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “England Under the White Witch” by Theodora Goss, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “The Battle of Candle Arc” by Yoon Ha Lee, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “Prayer” by Robert Reed, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “To See the Other (Whole Across the Sky)” by E. Catherine Tobler, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones” by Genevieve Valentine, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List
• “Astrophila” by Carrie Vaughn, 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List

 

2011 — Issues 52-63

Award Winners

• 2012 Winner: Locus Award for Best Novella "Silently and Very Fast" (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III)
• 2012 Winner: Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards, Short Form "The Fish of Lijiang" by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu (audio)

Award Nominations

• 2012 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
• 2012 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Novella "Silently and Very Fast" (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III)
• 2012 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Short Story "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)
• 2011 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Novella "Silently and Very Fast" (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III)
• 2011 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)
• 2012 Finalist: 2012 Sturgeon Award "Silently and Very Fast" (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III)
• 2012 Finalist: 2012 Sturgeon Award "Ghostweight" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)
• 2012 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Short Story "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)
• 2012 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine
• 2012 Finalist: Million Writers Award for Best Online Story "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)
• 2012 Finalist: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover "Off Road" by Facundo Diaz
• 2012 Nominee: 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella "Silently and Very Fast" (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III)
• 2012 Nominee: World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)
• 2012 Nominee: World Fantasy Award, Special Award Non-Professional, Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan & Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld Magazine
• 2012 Nominee: WSFA Small Press Award "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)
• 2012 Nominee: WSFA Small Press Award "A Militant Peace" by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell (audio)

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "A Militant Peace" by  David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell (audio)
• "Ghostweight" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)
• "The Smell Of Orange Groves" by Lavie Tidhar (audio)
• "Silently and Very Fast" (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III)

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 6 , Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)" by Nnedi Okorafor (audio)
• "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "Ghostweight" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)
• "The Smell Of Orange Groves" by Lavie Tidhar (audio)
• "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

• "Conservation of Shadows" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)

Honorable Mentions

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "The Architect of Heaven" by Jason Chapman (audio)
• "Tying Knots" by Ken Liu (audio)
• "Staying Behind" by Ken Liu (audio)
• "The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from the Great Book)" by Nnedi Okorafor (audio)
• "Frozen Voice" by An Owomoyela (audio)
• "Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know" by Cat Rambo (audio)
• "Pack" by Robert Reed (audio)
• "Troix Morceaux En Forme de Mechanika" by Gord Sellar (audio)
• "Semiramis" by Genevieve Valentine (audio)
• "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "Frozen Voice" by An Owomoyela (audio)
• "Silently and Very Fast" (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III)

Other Distinctions

• "Ghostweight" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio), 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Tying Knots" by Ken Liu (audio), 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)" by Nnedi Okorafor (audio), 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Smell Of Orange Groves" by Lavie Tidhar (audio), 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Silently and Very Fast" (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III), 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio), 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List

 

2010 — Issues 40-51

Award Winners

• 2011 Winner: Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
• 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)

Award Nominations

• 2011 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Short Story "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)
• 2010 Finalist: Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form) : "The Things" by Peter Watts, read by Kate Baker
• 2010 Nominee: BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction : "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)
• 2011 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)
• 2011 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Short Story : "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)
• 2011 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Short Story : "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)
• 2011 Finalist: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover "Warm" by Sergio Rebolledo.
• 2011 Finalist: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover "Honeycomb" by Julie Dillon.
• 2011 Finalist: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover "Soulhunter" by Andrey Lazarev.

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)
• "My Father's Singularity" by Brenda Cooper (audio)

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)

Year's Best SF 16, David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer ed.

• "Futures in the Memory Market" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (audio)

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

• "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3, Allan Kaster ed.

• "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)

Wilde Stories 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction, Steve Berman ed.

• "Beach Blanket Spaceship" by Sandra McDonald (audio)

Honorable Mentions

The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3, Ellen Datlow ed.

• "The Things" by Peter Watts (audio)

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "Laying the Ghost" by Eric Brown (audio)
• "A Jar of Goodwill" by Tobias S. Buckell (audio)
• "Paper Cradle" by Stephen Gaskell (audio)
• "Torquing Vacuum" by Jay Lake (audio)
• "Between Two Dragons" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)
• "The Cull" by Robert Reed (audio)

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "The History Within Us" by Matthew Kressel (audio)
• "Between Two Dragons" by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)

Other Distinctions

• "A Jar of Goodwill" by Tobias S. Buckell (podcast), 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Futures in the Memories Market" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (podcast), 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Between Two Dragons" by Yoon Ha Lee (podcast), 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Beach Blanket Spaceship" by Sandra McDonald (podcast), 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Cull" by Robert Reed (podcast), 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" by Catherynne M. Valente (podcast), 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Things" by Peter Watts (podcast), 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Children of Main Street" by A.C. Wise (podcast), 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List

 

2009 — Issues 28-39

Award Winners

• 2010 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
• 2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : "Spar" by Kij Johnson (audio)

Award Nominations

• 2010 World Fantasy Award : Special Award Non-Professional
• 2010 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine
• 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : "Non-Zero Probabilities" by N.K. Jemisin (audio)
• 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : "Spar" by Kij Johnson (audio)
• 2010 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Short Story : "Spar" by Kij Johnson (audio)
• 2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : "Non-Zero Probabilities" by N.K. Jemisin (audio)
• 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist: "Spar" by Kij Johnson (audio) [Kij, a juror for this award, withdrew the story]
• 2010 Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover "Brain Tower" by Kazuhiko Nakamura.

Year's Best Selections

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 4, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "Spar" by Kij Johnson

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" by Catherynne M. Valente

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2010, Paula Guran ed.

• "White Charles" by Sarah Monette

Honorable Mentions

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "Celadon" by Desirina Boskovich
• "Placa del Fuego" by Tobias S. Buckell
• "Brief Candle" by Jason K. Chapman
• "Teaching Bigfoot to Read" by Geoffrey W. Cole
• "Spar" by Kij Johnson
• "White Charles" by Sarah Monette
• "Night, in Dark Perfection" by Richard Parks
• "The Mermaids Singing Each to Each" by Cat Rambo
• "Of Melei, of Ulthar" by Gord Sellar
• "The Dying World" by Lavie Tidhar
• "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" by Catherynne M. Valente

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "Spar" by Kij Johnson
• "Rolling Steel" by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
• "White Charles" by Sarah Monette
• "The Dying World" by Lavie Tidhar

Other Distinctions

• "In the Lot and in the Air" by Lisa Hannett, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Spar" by Kij Johnson, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "White Charles" by Sarah Monette, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Of Melei, of Ulthar" by Gord Sellar, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Dying World" by Lavie Tidhar, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" by Catherynne M. Valente, 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List

 

2008 — Issues 16-27

Award Winners

• 2009 Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover "Floating Fish" by Mats Minnhagen.

Award Nominations

• 2009 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
• 2009 World Fantasy Award : Special Award Non-Professional
• 2009 World Fantasy Award : Best Short Story "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente

Year's Best Selections

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black" by Jay Lake

Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction, Rich Horton ed.

• "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente

Year's Best Fantasy 9, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer ed.

• "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente

Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Ellen Datlow ed.

• "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald

Honorable Mentions

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "Teeth" by Stephen Dedman
• "After Moreau" by Jeffrey Ford
• "Clockwork Chickadee" by Mary Robinette Kowal
• "Blue Ink" by Yoon Ha Lee
• "The River Boy" by Tim Pratt
• "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald
• "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica" by Catherynne Valente
• "Can You See Me Now?" by Eric Witchey

Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction, Rich Horton ed.

• "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black" by Jay Lake
• "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2009 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

• "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black" by Jay Lake
• "When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald
• "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica" by Catherynne Valente

Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Ellen Datlow ed.

• "Teeth" by Stephen Dedman
• "Captain's Lament" by Stephen Graham Jones

Other Distinctions

• "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black" by Jay Lake, 2008 Locus Recommended Reading List, finished 15th in 2009 Locus Poll for Best Short Story
• "A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente, 2008 Locus Recommended Reading List, finished 11th in 2009 Locus Poll for Best Short Story
• 9th Place in magazine category, 2009 Locus Poll

 

2007 — Issues 4-15

Award Nominations

• "There's No Light Between Floors" by Paul Tremblay, 2007 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction
• "Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben, Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction
• "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer, Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction
• "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear, WSFA Small Press Award
• "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer, WSFA Small Press Award
• "Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky" by Ken Scholes, Nebula Awards Preliminary Ballot

Year's Best Selections

Fantasy Best of the Year 2008, Rich Horton ed.

• "Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan ed.

• "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #19, Stephen Jones ed.

• "The Ape's Wife" by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year's Gay Speculative Fiction, Steve Berman ed.

• "Acid and Stoned Reindeer" by Rebecca Ore

Honorable Mentions

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear
• "Automatic" by Erica L. Satifka
• "Chewing Up the Innocent" by Jay Lake
• "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer
• "Qubit Conflicts" by Jetse De Vries
• "The Oracle Spoke" by Holly Phillips
• "I'll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said" by Cat Rambo
• "The Beacon" by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
• "The Ape's Wife" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• "Lost Soul" by M P Ericson
• "A Dance Across Embers" by Lisa Mantchev
• "Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky" by Ken Scholes
• "Acid and Stoned Reindeer" by Rebecca Ore

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant ed.

• "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear
• "Clockmaker's Requiem" by Barth Anderson
• "Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben
• "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer
• "The Oracle Spoke" by Holly Phillips
• "Moon Over Yodok" by David Charlton
• "I'll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said" by Cat Rambo
• "The Ape's Wife" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• "There's No Light Between Floors" by Paul Tremblay

Best American Fantasy 2, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ed.

• "Acid and Stoned Reindeer" by Rebecca Ore

Other Distinctions

• SciFi.com Site of the Week: August 29, 2007
• "Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List
• "Clockmaker's Requiem" by Barth Anderson, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List

Quotes

"Stylishly written and usually faintly perverse fantasy is also available at Clarkesworld Magazine" — Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

 

2006 — Issues 1-3

Awards

• Million Writers Award for Best New Online Magazine
• Million Writers Award for Best Online Short Story for "Urchins, While Swimming" by Catherynne M. Valente

Year's Best Selections

Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, Paula Guran ed.

• "A Light in Troy" by Sarah Monette

Horror: Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, Sean Wallace and John Gregory Betancourt ed.

• "Lydia's Body" by Vylar Kaftan

Honorable Mentions

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant and Kelly Link ed.

• "304, Adolph Hitler Strasse" by Lavie Tidhar
• "Lydia's Body" by Vylar Kaftan
• "Urchins, While Swimming" by Catherynne M. Valente

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

• "A Light in Troy" by Sarah Monette