36th Annual Asimov’s Readers’ Awards Winners

Best Novel/Novella

• WINNER: A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear (9-10/21)

• Light Up the Clouds, Greg Egan (3-4/21)
• Glitch, Alex Irvine (3-4/21)
• A Rocket for Dimitrios, Ray Nayler (1-2/21)
• The Realms of Water, Robert Reed (1-2/21)

Best Novelette

• WINNER: “Table Etiquette for Diplomatic Personnel, in Seventeen Scenes“, Suzanne Palmer (1-2/21)

• “The Hazmat Sisters“, L.X. Beckett (5-6/21)
• “Philly Killed His Car”, Will McIntosh (7-8/21)
• “Año Nuevo“, Ray Nayler (5-6/21)
• “Billie the Kid“, Rick Wilber (9-10/21)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Muallim“, Ray Nayler (11-12/21)

• “My Heart Is at Capacity“, TJ Berry (5-6/21)
• “Flowers like Needles“, Derek Künsken (3-4/21)
• “Bread and Circuits“, Misha Lenau (11-212/21)
• “Sentient Being Blues“, Christopher Mark Rose (3-4/21)
• “Alien Ball“, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (7-8/21)

Best Poem

• WINNER: “Mars Rover, Curiosity“, Jane Yolen (1-2/21)

• “In the Library Annex“, Bruce Boston (9-10/21)
• “Chalk and Carbon“, Marissa Lingen (11-21/21)
• “When I’m Thirty, I Receive a Box Full of Your Bones“, Avra Margariti (1-2/21)
• “Your Memories are Sponsored by a Fossil Fuel Company“, Matt Thompson (11-12/21)