Home of the world's leading Science Fiction magazine

Site Search

Print Email

Asimov's Readers' Award Finalists

We are very excited to bring you most of the works that finished in the top five slots in each category of the 32nd Annual Readers’ Award Poll. Although we won’t be announcing the winners until a later date, we’re listing all the finalists in alphabetical order by story title. We’ve uploaded these files, so check out the links to these tales if you missed them when they were first published in Asimov’s!

A big thanks goes to our readers for taking the time to vote and to our writers for allowing us to post their works. Enjoy these works and remember to check out the 2018 issues of Asimov’s. We want to know what your favorites are when we compile the 33rd annual poll.

Congratulations to our 32^nd Annual Readers' Award Finalists!

BEST NOVEL / NOVELLA

How Sere Picked Up Her Laundry – Alexander Jablokov (July/August 2017)
I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land – Connie Willis (November/December 2017)
The Girl Who Stole Herself – R. Garcia y Robertson (July/August 2017)
The Runabout – Kristine Kathryn Rusch (May/June 2017)
The Speed of Belief – Robert Reed (January/February 2017)

BEST NOVELETTE

Books of the Risen Sea – Suzanne Palmer (September/October 2017)
Soulmates.com – Will McIntosh (March/April 2017)
Tagging Bruno – Allen M. Steele (January/February 2017)
The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine – Greg Egan (November/December 2017)
Wind Will Rove – Sarah Pinkser (September/October 2017)

BEST SHORT STORY

Confessions of a Con Girl – Nick Wolven (November/December 2017)
Crimson Birds of Small Miracles – Sean Monaghan (January/February 2017)
Destination – Jack Skillingstead (January/February 2017)
Number Thirty-Nine Skink – Suzanne Palmer (March/April 2017)
On the Ship – Leah Cypess (May/June 2017)

BEST POEM

Challenger: A Sedoka – Jane Yolen (July/August 2017)
How to Die on a Faraway Planet – H. Mellas (November/December 2017)
Hubble’s Constant – Marian Moore (January/February 2017)
Invasion – Bruce McAllister (July/August 2017)
Titan’s Magic Islands – Geoffrey A. Landis (July/August 2017)