The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom.
But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology 2 collects 20 tales which were originally published in 2015 from the 2016 nomination list, totaling almost 550 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world.
Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from near future android stories to steampunk heists, too-plausible dystopias to contemporary vampire stories.
Table of Contents:
Cover Art
- Illustration by Galen Dara
Essays
- The Women You Didn't See by Nicola Griffith (Letters to Tiptree, Twelfth Planet Press)
- Neat Things by Seanan McGuire (Letters to Tiptree, Twelfth Planet Press)
Short Stories
- Damage by David D. Levine (Tor.com, January 21, 2015)
- Pockets by Amal El-Mohtar (Uncanny Magazine, Jan-Feb 2015)
- Today I Am Paul by Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld #107, August 2015)
- Tuesdays with Molakesh the Destroyer by Megan Grey (Fireside, January 2015)
- Wooden Feathers by Ursula Vernon (Uncanny Magazine, Nov-Dec 2015)
- Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight [Xuya Universe] by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)
- Madeleine by Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015)
- Pocosin by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2015)
- Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong (Nightmare Magazine, October 2015)
Novelettes
Novellas
The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following novella longlist entries, but they are available to read online for free:
The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following longlist novelette entries which are not available online:
The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following longlist novella entries which are not available online: