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Synopsis

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 collects 21 tales which were originally published in 2014 from the 2015 nomination list, totaling almost 500 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.

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Cover Art

• "A City On Its Tentacles", illustration by Galen Dara

Short Stories

• "Covenant" by Elizabeth Bear (Slate.com)
• "This Chance Planet" by Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com)
• "Goodnight Stars" by Annie Bellet (The End is Now, edited by John Joseph Adams)
• "The Breath of War" by Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar (Strange Horizons)
• "When It Ends, He Catches Her" by Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction)
• "A Kiss With Teeth" by Max Gladstone (Tor.com)
• "Makeisha in Time" by Rachael K. Jones (Crossed Genres)
• "Toad Words" by T. Kingfisher, aka Ursula Vernon (author's website)
• "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" by Usman T. Malik (Medium.com)

Novelettes

• "The Magician and LaPlace's Demon" by Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld)
• "The Litany of Earth" [Innsmouth Legacy] by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com)
• "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" by Alaya Dawn Johnson (author's website)
• "The Bonedrake's Penance" by Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "A Year and a Day in Old Theradane" by Scott Lynch (Uncanny Magazine)
• "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (Granta)
• "We are the Cloud" by Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed Magazine)
• "Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy" by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld)
• "The Devil in America" by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)

Novellas

• "The Regular" by Ken Liu (Forever Magazine)
• "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Press)

The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following longlist entries, but they are available to read for free online:

• "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon (short story, Apex Magazine)
• "Each to Each" by Seanan McGuire (novelette, Lightspeed Magazine)
• "The Mothers of Voorhisville" by Mary Rickert (novella, Tor.com)
• "Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome" by John Scalzi (novella, Tor.com)
• "Where the Trains Turn" by Pasi Jääskeläinen (novella, Tor.com)

The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following longlist novella entries which are not available online:

• "The Slow Regard of Silent Things" by Patrick Rothfuss (Gollancz / DAW Books)
• "Yesterday's Kin" [Yesterday's Kin] by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)
• "We Are All Completely Fine" by Daryl Gregory (Tachyon Publications)
• "Dream Houses" by Genevieve Valentine (WSFA Press)
• "Legion: Skin Deep" by Brandon Sanderson (Subterranean Press)

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