2024 Clarkesworld Reader Poll Winners

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“, Isabel J. Kim (2/24)

• “Swarm X1048 – Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, ‘6’”, F.E. Choe (3/24)
• “The Coffee Machine”, Celia Corral-Vázquez, translated by Sue Burke (12/24)
• “The Sort”, Thomas Ha (8/24)
• “Hello! Hello! Hello!”, Fiona Jones (3/24)
• “An Intergalactic Smugglers Guide to Homecoming”, Tia Tashiro (4/24)

Best Novelette/Novella

• WINNER: “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being”, A.W. Prihandita (11/24)

• “Lucie Loves Neutrons and the Good Samarium”, Thoraiya Dyer (12/24)
• “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”, Thomas Ha (5/24)
• “Stars Don’t Dream”, Chi Hui, translated by John Chu (1/24)
• “The Indomitable Captain Holli”, Rich Larson (4/24)
• “Fractal Karma”, Arula Ratnakar (10/24)

Best Cover

• WINNER: “Reminiscence”, Daria Anako (9/24)

• “Dandelion”, Marcel Deneuve (8/24)
• “Secret Garden”, JC Jongwon Park (1/24)
• “Robot in a flower field 02”, Ninja Jo (7/24)
• “Strider”, Ilya Nazarov (5/24)

Clarke also discussed a minor voting discrepancy, in which “we noticed some anomalies in the voting data that appeared to be an attempt by an individual, or a small group of people, to manipulate the final rankings.” While the attempt did not successfully impact the results, it resulted in changes in the algorithm used to determine the winner.

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