Year Author Work Publisher or publication Ref. 1987 Judith Moffett *"Surviving " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 4] Susan Palwick "Elephant" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 4] Richard Kearns "Grave Angels" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 4] Howard Waldrop "The Lions Are Asleep This Night" Omni [ 4] Pat Cadigan "Pretty Boy Crossover" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 4] 1988 Pat Murphy *"Rachel in Love " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 5] Ursula K. Le Guin "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 5] Octavia E. Butler "The Evening and the Morning and the Night " Omni [ 5] Walter Jon Williams "Dinosaurs " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 5] Pat Forde "The Gift" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 5] James Patrick Kelly "Heroics" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 5] 1989 George Alec Effinger *"Schrödinger's Kitten " Omni [ 6] Howard Waldrop "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 6] Neal Barrett, Jr. "Stairs" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 6] Steven Popkes "The Color Winter" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 6] John Kessel "Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 6] 1990 Michael Swanwick *"The Edge of the World " Full Spectrum 2 (Doubleday ) [ 7] Megan Lindholm "Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 7] Bruce Sterling "Dori Bangs" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 7] James Patrick Kelly "Dancing with the Chairs" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 7] James Patrick Kelly "Faith" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 7] 1991 Terry Bisson *"Bears Discover Fire " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 8] R. A. Lafferty Episodes of the Argo United Mythologies Press [ 8] John Barnes "My Advice to the Civilized" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 8] 1992 John Kessel *"Buffalo " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 9] Alan Brennert "Ma Qui " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 9] Jonathan Lethem "The Happy Man" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 9] 1993 Dan Simmons *"This Year's Class Picture " Still Dead (Mark V. Ziesing ) [ 10] Judith Tarr "Death and the Lady" After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien (Tor Books ) [ 10] Pamela Sargent "Danny Goes to Mars " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 10] Connie Willis "Even the Queen " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 10] David B. Silva "Slipping" Borderlands 2 (Avon Books ) [ 10] 1994 Kij Johnson *"Fox Magic " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 11] Howard V. Hendrix "At the Shadow of a Dream" Aboriginal SF [ 11] Martha Soukup "The Story So Far" Full Spectrum 4 (Bantam Spectra ) [ 11] 1995 Ursula K. Le Guin *"Forgiveness Day " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 12] Maureen F. McHugh "Nekropolis" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 12] Michael Bishop "Cri de Coeur" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 12] Albert Goldbarth "The Two Domains" Beloit Poetry Journal [ 12] Ursula K. Le Guin "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" Tomorrow Speculative Fiction [ 12] Greg Egan "Cocoon" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 12] Edward Bryant "The Fire that Scours" Omni [ 12] David Gerrold "The Martian Child " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 12] Michael F. Flynn "Melodies of the Heart" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 12] Pat Cadigan "Paris In June" Omni [ 12] Mike Resnick "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 12] Rick Cook "Symphony for Skyfall" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 12] Peter L. Manly Barry N. Malzberg "Understanding Entropy" Science Fiction Age [ 12] 1996 John G. McDaid *"Jigoku no Mokushiroku (The Symbolic Revelation of the Apocalypse) " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 13] Brian Stableford "The Age of Innocence" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 13] Ray Aldridge "The Spine Divers" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 13] Paul Levinson "The Chronology Protection Case" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 13] S. P. Somtow "Diamonds Aren't Forever" David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible (HarperPrism ) [ 13] Nancy Kress "Fault Lines" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 13] Nina Kiriki Hoffman "Home for Christmas" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 13] Michael Bishop "I, Iscariot" Crank! [ 13] Brian Stableford "Mortimer Gray's History of Death " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 13] David Marusek "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 13] Robert R. Chase "The Wellness Plague" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 13] 1997 Nancy Kress *"The Flowers of Aulit Prison " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 14] William Barton "Age of Aquarius" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 14] Gregory Feeley "The Weighing of Ayre" Starlight 1 [ 14] Suzy McKee Charnas "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 14] Jeff VanderMeer Dradin, In Love Buzzcity Press [ 14] Karen Joy Fowler "The Elizabeth Complex" Crank! [ 14] John M. Ford "Erase/Record/Play" Starlight 1 (Tor Books ) [ 14] John Crowley "Gone" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 14] Nancy Kress "Marigold Outlet" Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror (Dell Publishing ) [ 14] Michael Swanwick "Radio Waves" Omni [ 14] James P. Blaylock "Thirteen Phantasms" Omni Online [ 14] 1998 Michael F. Flynn *"House of Dreams " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 15] Allen Steele "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 15] Brian Stableford "Coming to Grips with the Great Plague" Omni Online [ 15] Mike Resnick "The 43 Antarean Dynasties " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 15] Alan Brennert "Echoes" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 15] Paul Park "Get a Grip" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 15] James Patrick Kelly "Itsy Bitsy Spider" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 15] Walter Jon Williams "Lethe" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 15] Paul Levinson "Loose Ends" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 15] Mary Rosenblum "One Good Juror" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 15] James Sarafin William Sanders "The Undiscovered " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 15] Mary Soon Lee "Universal Grammar" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 15] 1999 Ted Chiang *"Story of Your Life " Starlight 2 (Tor Books ) [ 16] Michael Kandel "Wading River Dogs and More" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] Ian R. MacLeod "The Summer Isles" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] Paul Levinson "Advantage, Bellarmine" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 16] Gregory Feeley "Animae Celestes" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] Raphael Carter "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin " Starlight 2 (Tor Books ) [ 16] Eliot Fintushel "Crane Fly" Amazing Stories [ 16] Cory Doctorow "Craphound" Science Fiction Age [ 16] L. Timmel Duchamp "Dance at the Edge" Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (The Overlook Press ) [ 16] Kristine Kathryn Rusch "Echea" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] Gregory Frost "How Meersh the Bedeviler Lost His Toes" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] Uncle River "Love of the True God" Talebones [ 16] James Patrick Kelly "Lovestory" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] Bruce Sterling "Maneki Neko" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 16] Greg Egan "The Planck Dive " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] R. Garcia y Robertson "A Princess of Helium" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 16] Michael Swanwick "Radiant Doors " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] Tony Daniel "Radio Praha" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] Michael Swanwick "Wild Minds " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 16] 2000 David Marusek *"The Wedding Album " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 17] Eleanor Arnason "Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 17] Judith Berman "The Window" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 17] Ian R. MacLeod "The Chop Girl" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 17] Walter Jon Williams "Daddy's World" Not of Woman Born (Roc Books ) [ 17] Geoff Ryman "Everywhere" Interzone [ 17] Brian A. Hopkins "Five Days in April" Chiaroscuro [ 17] James Gunn "The Giftie" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 17] Richard Wadholm "Green Tea" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 17] William Sanders "Jennifer, Just Before Midnight" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 17] Terry Bisson "Macs " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 17] Wil McCarthy "Once Upon a Matter Crushed" Science Fiction Age [ 17] Michael A. Burstein "Reality Check" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 17] M. John Harrison "Suicide Coast" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 17] Robert Reed "Winemaster" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 17] 2001 Ian McDonald * Tendeléo's Story PS Publishing [ 18] Stephen Baxter "Sheena 5" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 18] Lucius Shepard "Radiant Green Star" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 18] Charles Stross "Antibodies" Interzone [ 18] Ursula K. Le Guin "The Birthday of the World" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 18] William Barton "Heart of Glass" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 18] John Kessel "The Juniper Tree" Science Fiction Age [ 18] Eliot Fintushel "Milo and Sylvie" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 18] Stephen Baxter "On the Orion Line" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 18] Paul J. McAuley "Reef" Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (Harcourt ) [ 18] Nancy Kress "Savior" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 18] Ted Chiang "Seventy-Two Letters " Vanishing Acts (Tor Books ) [ 18] 2002 Andy Duncan *"The Chief Designer " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 19] Charles Stross "Lobsters " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 19] James Patrick Kelly "Undone" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 19] James K. Morrow "The Cat's Pajamas" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 19] Michael Swanwick "The Dog Said Bow-Wow " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 19] Lucius Shepard "Eternity and Afterward" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 19] Geoff Ryman "Have Not Have" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 19] Ted Chiang "Hell Is the Absence of God " Starlight 3 (Tor Books ) [ 19] Maureen F. McHugh "Interview: On Any Given Day" Starlight 3 (Tor Books ) [ 19] Ian R. MacLeod "Isabel of the Fall" Interzone [ 19] Richard Chwedyk "The Measure of All Things" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 19] Ian R. MacLeod "New Light on the Drake Equation" Sci Fiction [ 19] 2003 Lucius Shepard *"Over Yonder " Sci Fiction [ 20] Richard Chwedyk "Bronte's Egg" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 20] Greg Egan "Singleton " Interzone [ 20] Ian R. MacLeod "Breathmoss" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 20] Robert Reed "Coelacanths" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 20] Charles Stross "Halo" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 20] Bruce Sterling "In Paradise" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 20] Ted Chiang "Liking What You See: A Documentary " Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor Books ) [ 20] Gregory Frost "Madonna of the Maquiladora" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 20] Ursula K. Le Guin "The Seasons of the Ansarac" The Infinite Matrix 3 [ 20] John Kessel "Stories for Men" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 20] Ursula K. Le Guin "The Wild Girls" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 20] Paul Di Filippo A Year in the Linear City PS Publishing [ 20] 2004 Kage Baker *"The Empress of Mars " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 21] James Patrick Kelly "Bernardo's House" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 21] John Kessel "It's All True" Sci Fiction [ 21] Jack Skillingstead "Dead Worlds" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 21] William Sanders "Dry Bones" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 21] Jeffrey Ford "The Empire of Ice Cream" Sci Fiction [ 21] Paolo Bacigalupi "The Fluted Girl" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 21] Ruth Nestvold "Looking Through Lace" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 21] William Barton "Off on a Starship" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 21] Lucius Shepard "Only Partly Here" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 21] David D. Levine "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 21] Adam-Troy Castro "The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 21] 2005 Bradley Denton *"Sergeant Chip " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 22] Christopher Rowe "The Voluntary State" Sci Fiction [ 22] Robert Reed "Mere" Golden Gryphon Press [ 22] Ian Watson "An Appeal to Adolf" Conqueror Fantastic (DAW Books ) [ 22] Gregory Feeley "Arabian Wine" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 22] John Kessel "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence" Sci Fiction [ 22] David Gerrold "Dancer in the Dark " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 22] Judith Berman "The Fear Gun" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 22] Lois Tilton "The Gladiator's War: A Dialog" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 22] Steven Utley "Invisible Kingdoms" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 22] Gene Wolfe "The Lost Pilgrim" The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age (Tor Books ) [ 22] Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu "The Magical Negro" Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Warner Aspect ) [ 22] Steve Tomasula "The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed by Some Asian Subjects" Denver Quarterly [ 22] Brenda Cooper "Savant Songs" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 22] Terry Bisson "Scout's Honor" Sci Fiction [ 22] Margo Lanagan "Singing My Sister Down " Black Juice (Allen & Unwin ) [ 22] Benjamin Rosenbaum "Start the Clock" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 22] Kelly Link "Stone Animals" Conjunctions 43: Beyond Arcadia [ 22] Mike Moscoe "The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 22] Pamela Sargent "Venus Flowers at Night" Microcosms (DAW Books ) [ 22] 2006 Paolo Bacigalupi *"The Calorie Man " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 23] Ian McDonald "The Little Goddess" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 23] Kelly Link "Magic for Beginners " Magic for Beginners (Small Beer Press ) [ 23] Bruce Sterling "The Blemmye's Stratagem" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 23] James Van Pelt "The Inn at Mount Either" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 23] Connie Willis "Inside Job " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 23] John G. McDaid "Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two Manuals" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 23] Vonda N. McIntyre "Little Faces" Sci Fiction [ 23] Jason Stoddard "Panacea" Sci Fiction [ 23] Daryl Gregory "Second Person, Present Tense" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 23] 2007 Robert Charles Wilson *"The Cartesian Theater " FutureShocks (Roc Books ) [ 24] Robert Reed "A Billion Eves" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] Michael Swanwick "Lord Weary's Empire" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] Christopher Rowe "Another Word for Map Is Faith" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 24] Michael F. Flynn "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] Ian McDonald "The Djinn's Wife " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] Benjamin Rosenbaum "The House Beyond Your Sky " Strange Horizons [ 24] William Shunn "Inclination " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] Robert Charles Wilson Julian: A Christmas Story PS Publishing [ 24] Paul Melko "The Walls of the Universe" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] Paolo Bacigalupi "Yellow Card Man " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] M. Rickert "You Have Never Been Here" Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Tachyon Publications ) [ 24] 2008 David Moles *"Finisterra " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] Elizabeth Bear *"Tideline " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 25] Ian R. MacLeod "The Master Miller's Tale" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] Gene Wolfe "Memorare " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] Karen Joy Fowler "Always " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 25] Johanna Sinisalo "Baby Doll" The SFWA European Hall of Fame (Tor Books ) [ 25] Jeffrey Ford "The Dreaming Wind" The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press ) [ 25] Kij Johnson "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change " The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press ) [ 25] Laird Barron "The Forest" Inferno (Tor Books ) [ 25] John Kessel "The Last American" Foundation [ 25] Ted Chiang "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] Gwyneth Jones "The Tomb Wife" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] 2009 James Alan Gardner *"The Ray-Gun: A Love Story " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 26] Kathleen Ann Goonan "Memory Dog" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 26] Ian McDonald "The Tear" Galactic Empires (Science Fiction Book Club ) [ 26] Michael Swanwick "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 26] Paolo Bacigalupi "The Gambler " Fast Forward 2 (Pyr ) [ 26] Hannu Rajaniemi "His Master's Voice" Interzone [ 26] Charles Coleman Finlay "The Political Prisoner" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 26] Maureen F. McHugh "Special Economics" The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Del Rey Books ) [ 26] Cory Doctorow "True Names " Fast Forward 2 (Pyr ) [ 26] 2010 James K. Morrow * Shambling Towards Hiroshima Tachyon Publications [ 27] Sara Genge "As Women Fight" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 27] John Barnes "Things Undone" Jim Baen's Universe [ 27] Damien Broderick "This Wind Blowing, and this Tide" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 27] Ted Kosmatka "Blood Dauber" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 27] Michael Poore Tanith Lee "Clockatrice" Fantasy Magazine [ 27] Lewis Shiner "The Death of Che Guevara" Subterranean Press [ 27] Rachel Swirsky "Eros, Philia, Agape" Tor.com [ 27] Tim Pratt "Her Voice in a Bottle" Subterranean Press [ 27] Peter Watts "The Island" The New Space Opera 2 (Eos ) [ 27] Kij Johnson "Spar " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 27] Robert Reed "True Fame" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 27] 2011 Geoffrey A. Landis *"The Sultan of the Clouds " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 28] Elizabeth Hand "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon " Stories (William Morrow and Company ) [ 28] Peter Watts "The Things " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 28] Robert Reed "Dead Man's Run" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 28] Yoon Ha Lee "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" Lightspeed [ 28] Paul Park "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 28] Steve Rasnic Tem "A Letter from the Emperor" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 28] Eleanor Arnason "Mammoths of the Great Plains" Mammoths of the Great Plains (PM Press ) [ 28] Lavie Tidhar "The Night Train" Strange Horizons [ 28] Alastair Reynolds "Troika" Godlike Machines (Science Fiction Book Club ) [ 28] Damien Broderick "Under the Moons of Venus" Subterranean Magazine [ 28] 2012 Paul J. McAuley *"The Choice " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 29] Charlie Jane Anders "Six Months, Three Days " Tor.com [ 29] Ken Liu "The Paper Menagerie" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 29] Paul Cornell "The Copenhagen Interpretation" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 29] Yoon Ha Lee "Ghostweight " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 29] Jake Kerr "The Old Equations" Lightspeed [ 29] Ken Liu "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" Panverse 3 (Panverse Publishing) [ 29] Catherynne M. Valente "Silently and Very Fast" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 29] 2013 Molly Gloss *"The Grinnell Method " Strange Horizons [ 30] Kate Bachus "Things Greater Than Love" Strange Horizons [ 30] Aliette de Bodard "Immersion" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 30] Aliette de Bodard "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 30] Jay Lake "The Weight of History, The Lightness of the Future" Subterranean Magazine [ 30] Ken Liu "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" Lightspeed [ 30] Ken Liu "Mono No Aware" The Future is Japanese (Haikasoru ) [ 30] Linda Nagata "Nahiku West" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 30] Robert Reed Eater-of-Bone PS Publishing [ 30] Bruce Sterling "The Peak of Eternal Light" Edge of Infinity (Solaris Books ) [ 30] E. Catherine Tobler "(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 30] Nancy Kress After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall Tachyon Publications [ 30] 2014 Sarah Pinsker *"In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind " Strange Horizons [ 31] Gregory Norman Bossert "Bloom" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] Vylar Kaftan "The Weight of the Sunrise " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] Alaya Dawn Johnson "They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] Will McIntosh "Over There" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] Alan DeNiro "The Wildfires of Antarctica" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] Val Nolan "The Irish Astronaut" Electric Velocipede [ 31] Robert Reed "Mystic Falls" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 31] Kenneth Schneyer "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer " Clockwork Phoenix 4 (Mythic Delirium Books) [ 31] E. Lily Yu "The Urashima Effect" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 31] 2015 Cory Doctorow *"The Man Who Sold the Moon " Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (William Morrow ) [ 32] Gregory Benford "Lady With Fox" Carbide Tipped Pens (Tor Books ) [ 32] Octavia E. Butler "Childfinder" Unexpected Stories (Open Road Media) [ 32] Seth Chambers "In Her Eyes" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 32] Tananarive Due "Herd Immunity" The End is Now (CreateSpace ) [ 32] Eugie Foster "When It Ends, He Catches Her " Daily Science Fiction [ 32] Daryl Gregory We Are All Completely Fine Tachyon Publications [ 32] Nancy Kress Yesterday's Kin Tachyon Publications [ 32] Geoffrey A. Landis "A Hotel in Antarctica" Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (William Morrow ) [ 32] Ken Liu "The Regular" Upgraded (Wyrm Publishing) [ 32] Pat MacEwen "The Lightness of the Movement" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 32] Sam J. Miller "We Are the Cloud" Lightspeed [ 32] Ian McDonald "The Fifth Dragon" Reach for Infinity (Solaris Books ) [ 32] Suzanne Palmer "Shatterdown" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] Robert Reed "The Cryptic Age" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] 2016 Kelly Link *"The Game of Smash and Recovery " Strange Horizons [ 33] Brooke Bolander "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" Lightspeed [ 33] Jeff Somers "Avery Cates: The Walled City" self-published [ 33] Ian McDonald "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" Old Venus (Bantam Books ) [ 33] David D. Levine "Damage" Tor.com [ 33] Gwyneth Jones "Emergence" Meeting Infinity (Solaris Books ) [ 33] Hao Jingfang "Folding Beijing" Uncanny Magazine [ 33] Greg Egan "The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 33] Carter Scholz "Gypsy" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 33] Eugene Fischer "The New Mother" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 33] Sarah Pinsker "Our Lady of the Open Road" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 33] Kelly Robson "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 33] 2017 Catherynne M. Valente *"The Future is Blue " Drowned Worlds (Solaris Books ) [ 34] Nina Allan "The Art of Space Travel" Tor.com [ 34] Amal El-Mohtar "Seasons of Glass and Iron " The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Saga Press ) [ 34] Carolyn Ives Gilman "Touring With The Alien" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 34] Victor LaValle The Ballad of Black Tom Tor.com Publishing [ 34] Ian R. MacLeod "The Visitor From Taured" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] Sam J. Miller "Things With Beards" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 34] Dominica Phetteplace "Project Empathy" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] Kai Ashante Wilson A Taste of Honey Tor.com Publishing [ 34] 2018 Charlie Jane Anders *"Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue " Global Dystopias (The Boston Review ) [ 35] Tobias S. Buckell "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far Away Galaxies (Saga Press ) [ 35] Greg Egan "The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 35] Maureen F. 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