2011 — Issues 52-63

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)
• 2012 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)
• 2012 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (audio)
• 2012 Finalist: 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 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

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)

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