2023 Analog AnLab and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards Winners
Winners 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 Winners
BEST NOVELLAS
- WINNER: “Poison“, Frank Wu & Jay Werkheiser (5-6/23)
- “To Fight the Colossus“, Adam-Troy Castro (7-8/23)
- “The Tinker and the Timestream“, Carolyn Ives Gilman (3-4/23)
- “The Elephant-Maker”, Alec Nevala-Lee (1-2/23)
- “Flying CARPET“, Rajnar Vajra (11-12/23)
BEST NOVELETTES
- WINNER: “The Deviltree“, Monalisa Foster (9-10/23)
- “Recruit“, Stephen L. Burns (7-8/23)
- “Didicosm“, Greg Egan (7-8/23)
- “Apollo in Retrograde“, Rosemary Claire Smith (11-12/23)
- “The House on Infinity Street“, Allen M. Steele (3-4/23)
BEST SHORT STORIES
- WINNER: “Blowout“, Wole Talabi (7-8/23)
- “Cornflower“, Victoria Navarra (1-2/23)
- “Second Sight“, Gray Rinehart (9-10/23)
- “The Echo of a Will“, Marie Vibbert (1-2/23)
- “An Infestation of Blue“, Wendy N. Wagner (11-12/23)
BEST SCIENCE FACT
- WINNER: “Life, but not Quite as We Know It?“, Christina de la Rocha (1-2/23)
- “The Passenger Pigeon and the Great Filter“, Howard V. Hendrix (3-4/23)
- “Fish Kill on the Tanis“, Richard A. Lovett (9-10/23)
- “Astronautical Explanations for ‘Oumuamua“, Duncan Lunan (5-6/23)
- “Dune and Superdune“, Kevin Walsh (11-12/23)
BEST POEMS
- WINNER: “How to Conquer Gravity“, Mary Turzillo (9-10/23)
- “The Observer“, Bruce Boston (3-4/23)
- “What Xenologists Read“, Mary Soon Lee (11-12/23)
- “Object Permanence“, Marissa Lingen (9-10/23)
- “I Dreamt an Alien Was in Love With my Ex-Girlfriend“, Don Raymond (1-2/23)
BEST COVERS
- WINNER: May/June 2023 by Tomislav Tikulin
- January/February 2023 by Eldar Zakirov
- September/October 2023 by Tomislav Tikulin
Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award Winners
BEST NOVELLAS
- WINNER: “Lemuria 7 Is Missing“, Allen M. Steele (5-6/23)
- “Gravesend, or Everyday Life in the Anthropocene“, Paul McAuley (3-4/23)
- “The Ghosts of Mars“, Dominica Phetteplace (11-12/23)
- “The Break In“, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (9-10/23)
- “The Death Hole Bunker“, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (7-8/23)
BEST NOVELETTES
- WINNER: “The Nameless Dead“, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (3-4/23)
- “Ernestine“, Octavia Cade (3-4/23)
- “Planetstuck“, Sam J. Miller (3-4/23)
- “The Case of the Blood-Stained Tower“, Ray Nayler (3-4/23)
- “The Fifteenth Saint“, Ursula Whitcher (5-6/23)
- “The Less Than Divine Invasion“, Peter Wood”, (1-2/23)
BEST SHORT STORIES
- WINNER: “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers“, Karawynn Long (7-8/23)
- “Embot’s Lament“, James Patrick Kelly (11-12/23)
- “Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel“, Derek Künsken (9-10/23)
- “Berb by Berb“, Ray Nayler (11-12/23)
- “The Pit of Babel“, Kofi Nyameye (9-10/23)
BEST POEMS
- WINNER: “Three Hearts as One“, G.O. Clark (5-6/23)
- “Masters of the Future“, Bruce Boston (7-8/23)
- “The Next Step“, Timons Esaias”, (1-2/23)
- “Sphinx“, Mary Soon Lee (9-10/23)
- “The Treachery of Images“, Mary Soon Lee (3-4/23)
BEST COVERS
- WINNER: March/April 2023 by Dominic Harman
- May/June 2023 by 123RF
- July/August 2023 by Eldar Zakirov
Awards were presented August 8, 2024 at Housing Works Bookstore in SOHO in Manhattan.
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