31st Annual Asimov’s Readers’ Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 31st annual Asimov’s Readers’ Awards have been announced. All are available to be read online.
NOVELLAS
- “Choose Poison, Choose Life’’, Michael Blumlein (10-11/16)
- ‘‘Where There Is Nothing, There Is God’’, David Erik Nelson (12/16)
- ‘‘What We Hold Onto’’, Jay O’Connell (6/16)
- ‘‘Lazy Dog Out’’, Suzanne Palmer (4-5/16)
- ‘‘Einstein’s Shadow’’, Allen M. Steele (1/16)
NOVELETTES
- ‘‘I Married a Monster from Outer Space’’, Dale Bailey (3/16)
- ‘‘They Have All One Breath’’, Karl Bunker (12/16)
- ‘‘President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut’’, Sandra McDonald (8/16)
- ‘‘Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man’’, Suzanne Palmer (7/16)
- ‘‘Matilda’’, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (4-5/16)
SHORT STORIES
- ‘‘The Mutants Men Don’t See’’, James Alan Gardner (8/16)
- ‘‘White Dust’’, Nathan Hillstrom (1/16)
- ‘‘All That Robot . . .’’, Rich Larson (9/16)
- ‘‘Exceptional Forces’’, Sean McMullen (2/16)
- ‘‘Dome on the Prairie’’, Robert Reed (9/16)
POETRY
- ‘‘The Ambassador’s Daughter’’, Megan Arkenberg (10-11/16)
- ‘‘Your Clone Excels at You’’, Robert Frazier (8/16)
- ‘‘After’’, Herb Kauderer (10-11/16)
- ‘‘Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman’’, Ron Koertge (4-5/16)
- ‘‘The Robot Grows Old’’, Geoffrey A. Landis (6/16)
- ‘‘Long Argument, the Longest’’, Jane Yolen (9/16)
- ‘‘Nice Touch’’, Jane Yolen (3/16)
- ‘‘Old Women of the Wood’’, Jane Yolen (10-11/16)
Winners will be announced during a breakfast ceremony at the 2017 SFWA Nebula conference, to be held at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh PA, May 18-21, 2017. For more information about the awards, see the Asimov’s website.
