Strange Horizons 2013 Reader’s Poll

February 4, 2014 admin

The results of the 2013 Reader’s Poll for Strange Horizons have been announced:

Fiction

First place: “Selkie Stories are for Losers”, Sofia Samatar
Second place: “I Have Placed My Sickness Upon You”, Karin Tidbeck
Third place: “Inventory”, Carmen Maria Machado
Fourth place: “Ten Cigars”, C. S. E. Cooney
Fifth place: “Town’s End”, Yukimi Ogawa

Poetry

First place: “Full Metal Hanuman”, Bryan Thao Worra
Second place: “Lost”, Amal El-Mohtar
Third place: “Tattertongue”, Jenn Grunigen
Fourth place: “Jael”, Nancy Hightower
Fifth place (tie): “Tatakai”, Shweta Narayan
Fifth place (tie): “I Am Learning To Forget”, Dominik Parisien

Articles

First place: “Recentering Science Fiction and the Fantastic: What would a non-Anglocentric Understanding of Science Fiction and Fantasy Look Like?”, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Second place: “Noticing Language: An Interview with Rose Lemberg”, Julia Rios
Third place: “The Convergence Between Poetry and the Fantastic: A Conversation”, Lavie Tidhar & Shimon Adaf
Fourth place: “Write Your Heart Out: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson”, Sofia Samatar
Fifth place: “Different Frontiers: Taking Over English”: a round-table moderated by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Columns (See the archives for individual columns)

First place: Intertitles, Genevieve Valentine
Second place: Movements, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Third place: Communities, Renay
Fourth place: Me and Science Fiction, Eleanor Arnason
Fifth place: Scores, John Clute

Reviews (See the archives for individual reviews)

First place: Sofia Samatar
Second place: Aishwarya Subramanian
Third place: Liz Bourke
Fourth place: Nina Allan
Fifth place: L. Timmel Duchamp