2023 Recommended Reading List

NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION

• Conquest, Nina Allan (Riverrun)
• The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
• Creation Node, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
• Bridge, Lauren Beukes (Mulholland; Michael Joseph UK)
• Prophet, Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald (Grove; Jonathan Cape)
• A Stranger in the Citadel, Tobias S. Buckell (Tachyon)
• Infinity Gate, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
• Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• Scale, Greg Egan (self-published)
• Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Hospital, Han Song (Amazon Crossing)
• Titanium Noir, Nick Harkaway (Knopf; Corsair UK)
• Biography of X, Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus, Giroux; Granta UK)
• Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Blue, Beautiful World, Karen Lord (Del Rey; Gollancz)
• In Ascension, Martin MacInnes (Atlantic UK; Black Cat 2/24)
• The Deluge, Stephen Markley (Simon & Schuster)
• Hopeland, Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Tor)
• The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Descendant Machine, Gareth L. Powell (Titan UK)
• Airside, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• Him, Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot UK)
• Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber; Scribner 2/24)
• Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
• The Circumference of the World, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon; PS)
• Where Peace Is Lost, Valerie Valdes (Harper Voyager US)
• System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey)

NOVELS – FANTASY

• Blade of Dream, Daniel Abraham (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• Mr. Breakfast, Jonathan Carroll (Melville House)
• The Art of Destiny, Wesley Chu (Del Rey; Daphne UK)
• The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK)
• The Warden, Daniel M. Ford (Tor)
• Dead Country, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
• A Midwinter’s Tail, Lili Hayward (Sphere)
• The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
• The Pomegranate Gate, Ariel Kaplan (Erewhon; Solaris UK)
• Paladin’s Faith, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• Dragonfall, L.R. Lam (DAW; Hodderscape)
• Terrace Story, Hilary Leichter (Ecco)
  
• Mad Sisters of Esi, Tashan Mehta (Harper Collins India)
• I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, Lorrie Moore (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
• He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
• The Thick and the Lean, Chana Porter (Saga; Titan UK)
• My Brother’s Keeper, Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra)
• City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
• House of Open Wounds, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
• We Are the Crisis, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
• Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• Salt on the Midnight Fire, Liz Williams (NewCon)
• After the Forest, Kell Woods (Tor; Titan UK)

NOVELS – HORROR

• Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
• A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere)
• Mothtown, Caroline Hardaker (Angry Robot UK)
• Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
• How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK)
• Lamb, Matt Hill (Dead Ink UK)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
• Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Pink Slime, Fernanda Trías (Scribe UK; Scribner 7/24)
• Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVELS

• Promises Stronger Than Darkness, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
• The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido)
• Damned If You Do, Alex Brown (Page Street)
• A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
• Godly Heathens, H.E. Edgmon (Wednesday; Daphne UK)
• Where Echoes Die, Courtney Gould (Wednesday)
• Guardians of Dawn: Zhara, S. Jae-Jones (Wednesday; Titan UK)
• The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK)
• Spell Bound, F.T. Lukens (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz)
• Into the Light, Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
• Rook, William Ritter (Algonquin)
• Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK)
• The Siren, the Song, and the Spy, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)

FIRST NOVELS

• The Thing in the Snow, Sean Adams (Morrow)
• Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
• The Splinter in the Sky, Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga)
• The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK)
• Blood Debts, Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Teen; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Flux, Jinwoo Chong (Melville House)
• Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves, Quinn Connor (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Dazzling, Chikọdịlị Emelụmadụ (Wildfire; Overlook)
• A Market of Dreams and Destiny, Trip Galey (Titan UK)
• Shark Heart, Emily Habeck (Mary Sue Rucci; Jo Fletcher)
• Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK)
• These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Godkiller, Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
• The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei (Flatiron)
• Extended Stay, Juan Martinez (University of Arizona Press)
• The Shadow Sister, Lily Meade (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Dry Land, B. Pladek (University of Wisconsin Press)
• The Legend of Charlie Fish, Josh Rountree (Tachyon)
• The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
• Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century)
• Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues, H.S. Valley (Hardie Grant)
• That Self-Same Metal, Brittany N. Williams (Amulet)

COLLECTIONS

• Monstrous Alterations, Christopher Barzak (Lethe)
• The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• The Way Home, Peter S. Beagle (Ace; Gollancz)
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Apex)
• You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories, Octavia Cade (Stelliform)
• Where Rivers Go to Die, Dilman Dila (Rosarium)
• The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic)
• If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories, Malon Edwards (Fireside Fiction)
• The Collected Enchantments, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium)
• The Fortunate Isles, Lisa L. Hannett (Egaeus)
• The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small, Medium, and Large Stories, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
• White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)
• Ragged Maps, Ian R. MacLeod (Subterranean)
• Uranians, Theodore McCombs (Astra House)
• No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
• Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz, Garth Nix (Gollancz; Harper Voyager US)
• Like Smoke, Like Light, Yukimi Ogawa (Mythic Delirium)
• Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
• Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
• Under My Skin, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
• Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)
• Under the Hollywood Sign, Tom Reamy (Subterranean)
• The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings, Angela Slatter (Brain Jar)
• The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean)
• The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness, James Tiptree, Jr. (Subterranean)
• The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
• H’ard Starts: The Early Waldrop, Howard Waldrop (Subterranean)
• The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories, Gene Wolfe (Subterranean)
• The Wolfe at the Door, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Jewel Box, E. Lily Yu (Erewhon)

ANTHOLOGIES

ORIGINAL

• Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK)
• Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage)
• Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays, Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law & Susan Forest, eds. (European Astrobiology Institute and Laksa Media)
• Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador)
• Luminescent Machinations, Rhiannon Rasmussen & dave ring, eds. (Neon Hemlock)
• New Suns 2, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris UK)
• The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Communications Breakdown: SF Stories about the Future of Connection, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (MIT Press)
• Rosalind’s Siblings, Bogi Takács, ed. (Atthis Arts)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)

REPRINT

• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezic)
• Multiverses, Preston Grassmann, ed. (Titan UK)
• The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 4, Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr)
• The Year’s Best Fantasy: Volume 2, Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr)
• Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction, Margret Helgadottir, ed. (Solaris UK)
• The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 7, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• Infinite Constellations, Khadijah Queen & K. Ibura, eds. (FC2)
• Worlds of Possibility, Julia Rios, ed. (self-published)
• Best of British Science Fiction 2022, Donna Scott, ed. (NewCon)
• The Big Book of Cyberpunk, Jared Shurin, ed. (Vintage)
• The Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Ad Astra)

NON-FICTION

• Spec Fic for Newbies, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Academia Lunare)
• Follow Me: Religion in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Francesca T. Barbini, ed. (Academia Lunare)
• The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History, Jack Dann (Bloomsbury Academic)
• 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, Kevin Jon Davies, ed. (Unbound UK)
• Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy, Dimitra Fimi & Alistair J.P. Sims, eds. (Bloomsbury Academic)
• Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir, M. John Harrison (Serpent’s Tail; Saga 2024)
• All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene)
• 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing)
• Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy, Tanya Kirk & Matthew Sangster, eds. (British Library Publishing)
• Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin (Silver)
• Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House Books)
• An Introduction to Fantasy, Matthew Sangster (Cambridge)
• Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction, Mingwei Song (Columbia University Press)
• A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Maureen Kincaid Speller (Academia Lunare)
• Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God, Robert Charles Wilson (Pitchstone)
• Being Michael Swanwick, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOKS

• The Culture: The Drawings, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Art of Peter Bergting, Peter Bergting (Dark Horse)
• Refuge, Bill Campbell, art by Louis Netter (Rosarium)
• Gilt, J.A.W. Cooper (Flesk)
• Local Fauna: The Art of Peter de Sève, Peter de Sève (Cernunnos)
• The Pen & Ink Drawings of Tony DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi (self-published)
• Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, Ray Bradbury, adapted by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wallace Wood, et al. (Fantagraphics)
• Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume Three, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Dian Hanson, ed., art by Frank Frazetta (Taschen)
• The Kwaidan Collection, Lafcadio Hearn, art by Kent Williams (Beehive)
• The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett, art by Tristan Roach (Megascope)
• Verdance, Stephanie Law (Shadowscapes)
• Voyaging, Volume One: The Plague Star, George R.R. Martin, art and adaptation by Raya Golden (Ten Speed Graphic)
• Thalamus, Volumes 1 & 2: The Art of Dave McKean, Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
• Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe (Abrams)
• Infected by Art Volume 11, Todd Spoor & Bill Cox, eds. (Dynamite)
• Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin M. Strait & Kinshasha Holman Conwill, eds. (Smithsonian)
• Chanarack & Tabberlox, Casson Trenor, art by Stephanie Law (Shark & Siren)

NOVELLAS

• The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das (Subterranean)
• OKPsyche, Anya Johanna DeNiro (Small Beer)
• “The Tinker and the Timestream”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Analog 3-4/23)
• A Feast for Flies, Leigh Harlen (Dancing Star)
• “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
• The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• Hybrid Heart, Iori Kusano (Neon Hemlock)
• A Necessary Chaos, Brent C. Lambert (Neon Hemlock)
• Feed Them Silence, Lee Mandelo (Tordotcom)
• Rose/House, Arkady Martine (Subterranean)
• “Blade and Bone”, Paul McAuley (Asimov’s 11-12/23)
• Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire (Tor)
• Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris (Stelliform)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
• “To Sail Beyond the Botnet“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 5/23)
• “The Ghosts of Mars”, Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov’s 11-12/23)
• After Many a Summer, Tim Powers (Subterranean)
• The Navigating Fox, Christopher Rowe (Tordotcom)
• “The Many Different Kinds of Love”, Geoff Ryman & David Jeffrey (F&SF 11-12/23)
• “On the English Approach to the Study of History“, E. Saxey (GigaNotoSaurus 10/23)
• Pluralities, Avi Silver (Atthis Arts)
• The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
• Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• The Book of Gems, Fran Wilde (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTES

• “We Grew Tall and Strong by the Water”, Leah Andelsmith (Fiyah Winter ’23)
• “A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair“, Renan Bernardo (Samovar 2/23)
• “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata”, P. Djèlí Clark (The Book of Witches)
• “Bruised-Eye Dusk“, Jonathan Louis Duckworth (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/4/23)
• “Spell for Grief and Longing”, Eboni J. Dunbar (Fiyah Spring ’23)
• “John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
• “Isle of Cloves”, Gregory Feeley (Exacting Clam Autumn ’23)
• “The Unpastured Sea”, Gregory Feeley (Asimov’s 9-10/23)
• “How to Travel Safely in Faerieland”, Vanessa Fogg (Fusion Fragment 1/23)
• “Where the God-Knives Tread“, A.L. Goldfuss (Lightspeed 10/23)
• “Such Is My Idea of Happiness“, David Goodman (Clarkesworld 10/23)
• I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
• “The Witch Is Not the Monster”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (The Book of Witches)
• “Muna in Barish“, Isha Karki (Lightspeed 7/23)
• “The Year Without Sunshine“, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)
• “Prince Hat Underground”, Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
• “The Passing of the Dragon“, Ken Liu (Tor.com 9/13/23)
• “Planetstuck”, Sam J. Miller (Asimov’s 3-4/23)
• “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown)
• “Fell Our Selves“, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (GigaNotoSaurus 2/23)
• “The Rainbow Bank“, Uchechukwu Nwaka (GigaNotoSaurus 8/23)
• “Tiger-boy’s Theater of Shattered Truths“, Antony Paschos (GigaNotoSaurus 9/23)
• “One Man’s Treasure“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “Science Facts!”, Sarah Pinsker (Lost Places: Stories)
• “Ivy, Angelica, Bay“, C.L. Polk (Tor.com 12/8/23)
• “An Ode to Stardust“, R.P. Sand (Clarkesworld 2/23)
• “What the Mountain Takes, What the Journey Offers“, Jae Steinbacher (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/23)
• “Saturday’s Song“, Wole Talabi (Lightspeed 5/23)
• “The Luck Thief”, Tade Thompson (The Book of Witches)
• “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)
• “On the Fox Roads“, Nghi Vo (Tor.com 10/31/23)
• “Contracting Iris“, Peter Watts (Lightspeed 3/23)
• “Deep Blue Jump”, Dean Whitlock (Asimov’s 9-10/23)
• “SuperMAX“, Daniel H. Wilson (Uncanny 7-8/23)
• “My Neighbor Mothman”, Cynthia Zhang (Fusion Fragment 6/23)

SHORT STORIES

• “A Soul in the World“, Charlie Jane Anders (Uncanny 3-4/23)
• “There Are Only Two Chairs and the Skin Is Draped Over the Other“, Alexia Antoniou (Bourbon Penn 31)
• “Thin Ice“, Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Clarkesworld 11/23)
• “Those Hitchhiking Kids“, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23)
• “Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe“, Beston Barnett (Strange Horizons 11/20/23)
• “The Farmer’s Wife and the Faerie Queen”, K. Tempest Bradford (New Suns 2)
• “Miz Boudreaux’s Last Ride“, Christopher Caldwell (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “All the Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10“, Isabel Cañas (The Deadlands 10/23)
• “Resurrection Highway“, A.R. Capetta (The Sunday Morning Transport 9/3/23)
• “The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa“, Myna Chang (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/19/23)
• “The God of Minor Troubles“, Megan Chee (Strange Horizons 5/29/23)
• “Mother’s Teeth“, E.L. Chen (The Dark 3/23)
• “Fandom for Witches“, Ruoxi Chen (Fantasy 10/23)
• “Ain’t Houses, Ain’t Names“, Nino Cipri (The Sunday Morning Transport 7/16/23)
• “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “Disassembling Light“, Kel Coleman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/29/23)
• “A Small Bloody Gift“, Naomi Day (Fiyah Winter ’23)
• “The Mausoleum’s Children“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 5-6/23)
• “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New Suns 2)
• “Memories of Memories Lost“, Mahmud El Sayed (khōréō 3.2)
• “After the Animal Flesh Beings“, Brian Evenson (Tor.com 6/21/23)
• “Brincando Charcos (Jumping Puddles)“, Ben Francisco (Strange Horizons 10/20/23)
• “Waystation City“, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “For However Long“, Thomas Ha (khōréō 3.1)
• “Window Boy“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23)
• “How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga“, S.M. Hallow (Baffling 4/23)
• “A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy“, Gabrielle Emem Harry (Strange Horizons 8/14/23)
• “Quantum Love“, Sylvia Heike (Flash Fiction Online 9/8/23)
• “Secondhand Music”, Aleksandra Hill (Analog 9-10/23)
• “The Uncool Hunters“, Andrew Dana Hudson (Escape Pod 6/22/23)
• “Reckless Eyeballing”, N.K. Jemisin (Out There Screaming)
• “Good Night Gracie”, Alex Jennings (New Suns 2)
• “The Sound of Children Screaming“, Rachel K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
• “What It Means to Be a Car“, James Patrick Kelly (Tor.com 7/26/23)
• “Day Ten Thousand“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 6/23)
• “The Big Glass Box and the Boys Inside“, Isabel J. Kim (Apex 1/3/23)
• “Zeta-Epsilon“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 3/23)
• “Park’s All-Night Ramyun and Snack Emporium“, Seoung Kim (Cast of Wonders 6/24/23)
• “Interstate Mohinis“, M.L. Krishnan (Diabolical Plots 6/16/23)
• “Counting Casualties“, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 4/26/23)
• “The Ethnomusicology of the Last Dreadnought“, Yoon Ha Lee (The Sunday Morning Transport 2/5/23)
• “Kwong’s Bath“, Angela Liu (khōréō 3.2)
• “Pinocchio Photography“, Angela Liu (Clarkesworld 3/23)
• “A Borrowing of Bones”, Karin Lowachee (New Suns 2)
• “If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak“, Sam J. Miller (The Dark 7/23)
• “Discreet Services Offered for Women Ridden by Hags“, Stephanie Malia Morris (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/9/23)
• “Umeboshi“, Rebecca Nakaba (khōréō 3.2)
• “Stones“, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 9/23)
• “The Plant and the Purist”, Malka Older (New Suns 2)
• “In the Forest of Talking Animals“, Makena Onjerika (The Deadlands 10/23)
• “Jamais Vue”, Tochi Onyebuchi (Asimov’s 1-2/23)
• “Origin Story”, Tochi Onyebuchi (Out There Screaming)
• “There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead“, Sarah Pinsker (The Deadlands 6/23)
• “The Succubus and the Store Clerk“, A.D. Sui (Baffling 10/23)
• “Negative Theology of the Child From ‘The King of Tars’“, Sonia Sulaiman (Fantasy 10/23)
• “The Sweet in the Empty”, Tade Thompson (F&SF 3-4/23)
• “Homewrecker“, E. Catherine Tobler (Apex 11/21/23)
• “Always Be Returning“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (The Sunday Morning Transport 8/6/23)
• “Flower, Daughter, Soil, Seed“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 1/2/23)
• “Salt Water“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Tor.com 4/12/23)
• “Undog“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Strange Horizons 5/15/23)
• “A Tech Mage Comes to Visit“, Cadwell Turnbull (The Sunday Morning Transport 7/30/23)
• “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood”, Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)
• “An Infestation of Blue”, Wendy N. Wagner (Analog 11-12/23)
• “The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets“, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 5-6/23)
• “Ocasta”, Daniel H. Wilson (New Suns 2)
• “The Dark House“, A.C. Wise (Tor.com 4/15/23)
• “Bird-Girl Builds a Machine“, Hannah Yang (Clarkesworld 11/23)
• “Alphabet of Swans“, E. Lily Yu (The Sunday Morning Transport 8/27/23)
• “The River and the World Remade“, E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 3/29/23)

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[Edited to move Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire (Tor) to Novella from YA. Moved The Thick and the Lean, Chana Porter (Saga; Titan UK) from First Novel to Fantasy. “What It Means to Be a Car” by James Patrick Kelly to Short Story. To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose turned out to not be a debut as advertised, and so was moved from First Novel to Fantasy.]