2023 Analog AnLab and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards Finalists

Finalists for the 2023 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards, and the 38th Asimov’s Readers’ Awards, have been announced, with many finalists available to read online.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact Analytical Laboratory Award Finalists

BEST NOVELLAS

“To Fight the Colossus“, Adam-Troy Castro (July/August 2023)

“The Tinker and the Timestream“, Carolyn Ives Gilman (March/April 2023)

“The Elephant-Maker”, Alec Nevala-Lee (January/February 2023)

“Flying Carpet“, Rajnar Vajra (November/December 2023)

“Poison“, Frank Wu & Jay Werkheiser (May/June 2023)

BEST NOVELETTES

“Recruit“, Stephen L. Burns (July/August 2023)

“Didicosm“, Greg Egan (July/August 2023)

“The Deviltree“, Monalisa Foster (September/October 2023)

“Apollo in Retrograde“, Rosemary Claire Smith (November/December 2023)

“The House on Infinity Street“, Allen M. Steele (March/April 2023)

BEST SHORT STORIES

“Cornflower“, Victoria Navarra (January/February 2023)

“Second Sight“, Gray Rinehart (September/October 2023)

“Blowout“, Wole Talabi (July/August 2023)

“The Echo of a Will“, Marie Vibbert (January/February 2023)

“An Infestation of Blue“, Wendy N. Wagner (November/December 2023)

BEST SCIENCE FACT

“Life, but not Quite as We Know It?“, Christina de la Rocha (January/February 2023)

“The Passenger Pigeon and the Great Filter“, Howard V. Hendrix (March/April 2023)

“Fish Kill on the Tanis“, Richard A. Lovett (September/October 2023)

“Astronautical Explanations for ‘Oumuamua“, Duncan Lunan (May/June 2023)

“Dune and Superdune“, Kevin Walsh (November/December 2023)

BEST POEMS

“The Observer“, Bruce Boston (March/April 2023)

“What Xenologists Read“, Mary Soon Lee (November/December 2023)

“Object Permanence“,  Marissa Lingen (September/October 2023)

“I Dreamt an Alien Was in Love With my Ex-Girlfriend“, Don Raymond (January/February 2023)

“How to Conquer Gravity“, Mary Turzillo (September/October 2023)

BEST COVERS

Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award Finalists

BEST NOVELLAS

“Gravesend, or Everyday Life in the Anthropocene“, Paul McAuley (March/April 2023)

“The Ghosts of Mars“, Dominica Phetteplace (November/December 2023)

“The Break In“, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (September/October 2023)

“The Death Hole Bunker“, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (July/August 2023)

“Lemuria 7 Is Missing“, Allen M. Steele (May/June 2023)

BEST NOVELETTES

“Ernestine“, Octavia Cade (March/April 2023)

“Planetstuck“, Sam J. Miller (March/April 2023)

“The Case of the Blood-Stained Tower“, Ray Nayler (March/April 2023)

“The Nameless Dead“, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (March/April 2023)

“The Fifteenth Saint“, Ursula Whitcher (May/June 2023)

“The Less Than Divine Invasion“, Peter Wood”, (January/February 2023)

BEST SHORT STORIES

“Embot’s Lament“, James Patrick Kelly (November/December 2023)

“Hope Is the Thing With Feathers“, Karawynn Long (July/August 2023)

“Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel“, Derek Künsken (September/October 2023)

“Berb by Berb“, Ray Nayler (November/December 2023)

“The Pit of Babel“,  Kofi Nyameye (September/October 2023)

BEST POEMS

“Masters of the Future“, Bruce Boston (July/August 2023)

“Three Hearts as One“, G.O. Clark (May/June 2023)

“The Next Step“, Timons Esaias”, (January/February 2023)

“Sphinx“, Mary Soon Lee (September/October 2023)

“The Treachery of Images“, Mary Soon Lee (March/April 2023)

BEST COVERS

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