2021 Analog AnLab Awards Winners

Best Novella

• 1st place: “Invasive Species“, Catherine Wells (3-4/21)
• 2nd place: “The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station“, Marie Vibbert (7-8/21)
• 3rd place: “The Silence Before I Sleep“, Adam-Troy Castro (9-10/21)
• 4th place: “Uploading Angela“, Lettie Prell (5-6/21)

Best Novelette

• 1st place: “A Shot in the Dark“, Deborah Davitt (1-2/21)
• 2nd place: “Sample Return“, C. Stuart Hardwick (7-8/21)
• 3rd place: “No Stranger to Native Shores“, Matt McHugh (11-12/21)
• 4th place (tie): “The Hunger“, Marco Frassetto (9-10/21)
• 4th place (tie): “The Next Frontier“, Rosemary Claire Smith (7-8/21)

Best Short Story

• 1st place: “Heart of Stone“, Tom Jolly (5-6/21)
• 2nd place: “The Trashpusher of Planet 4“, Brenda Kalt (3-4/21)
• 3rd place: “The Last Science Fiction Story“, Adam-Troy Castro (1-2/21)
• 4th place: “My Hypothetical Friend“, Harry Turtledove (1-2/21)
• 5th place: “Room to Live“, Marie Vibbert (9-10/21)

Best Fact Article

• 1st place: “Constructing a Habitable Planet“, Julie Novakova (1-2/21)
• 2nd place: “Possible Signs of Life on Venus“, David L. Clements (5-6/21)
• 3rd place: “Return to the Golden Age: Why Venus Might Actually Once Have Been Habitable”, Richard A. Lovett (7-8/21)

Best Poem

• 1st place: “If“, Bruce McAllister (1-2/21)
• 2nd place: “A Daguerreotype of the Moon“, Jennifer Crow (7-8/21)
• 3rd place (tie): “Quantum Entanglement”, Ken Poyner (9-10/21)
• 3rd place (tie): “Hidden Things“, Jennifer Crow (1-2/21)
• 4th place (tie): “What We Forget“, Bruce McAllister (11-12/21)
• 4th place (tie): “When I think of My Father“, Bruce McAllister (7-8/21)

Best Cover

• 1st place: Tomislav Tikulin (7-8/21)
• 2nd place: Maurizio Manzieri (3-4/21)
• 3rd place: Kurt Huggins (9-8/21)

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