HUGO AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY MAGAZINE
Awards and Recognition
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 2, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “An Important Failure” by Rebecca Campbell
- “AirBody” by Sameem Siddiqui
Award Winners
Award Nominations
Year’s Best Selections
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five, Neil Clarke ed.
- “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt
- “The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer
- “Such Thoughts Are Unproductive” by Rebecca Campbell
- “Song Xiuyun” by A Que, translated by Emily Jin
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2020 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “Cloud Born” by Gregory Feeley
- “Tick Tock” by Xia Jia
- “The Visible Frontier” by Grace Seybold
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer
The Best of British Science Fiction: 2019, Donna Scott ed.
- “The Final Ascent” by Ian Creasey
- “Witch of the Weave” by Henry Szabranski
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One, Paula Guran ed.
- “Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart” by Sam J. Miller
Other Distinctions
Award Winners
Award Nominations
Year’s Best Selections
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four, Neil Clarke ed.
- “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller
- “Umbernight” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
- “Sour Milk Girls” by Erin Roberts
- “The Anchorite Wakes” by R.S.A. Garcia
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2019 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “Carouseling” by Rich Larson
- “The Persistence of Blood” by Juliette Wade
- “Umbernight” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller
The Best of British Science Fiction: 2018, Donna Scott ed.
- “The Miracle Lambs of Minane” by Finbarr O’Reilly
- “The Veilonaut’s Dream” by Henry Szabranski
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019, Paula Guran ed.
- “Sour Milk Girls” by Erin Roberts
The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 5, David Afsharirad ed.
- “Thirty-three Percent Joe” by Suzanne Palmer
Other Distinctions
Award Winners
Award Nominations
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 Kritzer
- “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
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin ed.
- “Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities” by Lettie Prell
The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 4, David Afsharirad ed.
- “The Ghost Ship Anastasia” by Rich Larson
Other Distinctions
Award Winners
Award Nominations
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
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, Charles Yu ed.
- “Teenagers from Outer Space” by Dale Bailey
- “Everyone From Themis Sends Letters Home” by Genevieve Valentine
The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 3, David Afsharirad ed.
- “Sephine and the Leviathan” by Jack Schouten
Other Distinctions
Award Winners
Award Nominations
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
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Karen Joy Fowler ed.
- “The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary” by Kij Johnson
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Award Winners
Award Nominations
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 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
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, Joe Hill ed.
- “Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable” by Cat Rambo
Other Distinctions
Award Winners
Award Nominations
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
Award Winners
Award Nominations
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
Award Winners
Award Nominations
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.
Other Distinctions
Award Winners
Award Nominations
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
Award Winners
Award Nominations
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
Award Winners
Award Nominations
Year’s Best Selections
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
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
Award Nominations
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
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
Awards
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
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