2018 Locus Poll and Survey

Here is the online version of the 48th annual Locus Awards ballot, covering works that appeared in 2017. Thank you for participating! In each category, you may vote for up to five works or nominees, ranking them 1 (first place) through 5 (fifth).

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Locus Poll

In each category, enter ‘1’ in the Rank column for your first choice, ‘2’ for your second choice, ‘3’ for your third choice, ‘4’ for your fourth choice, and ‘5’ for your fifth choice. Do not vote for more than five items in each category.

Best SF Novel

Rank	Title
	The Rift, Nina Allan (Titan US; Titan UK)
	The Massacre of Mankind, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Crown)
	The Berlin Project, Gregory Benford (Saga)
	Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
	Gnomon, Nick Harkaway (Heinemann; Knopf 2018)
	The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
	Mother Go, James Patrick Kelly (Audible)
	The Moon and the Other, John Kessel (Saga)
	Tomorrow’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tor)
	Shattered Minds, Laura Lam (Tor; Macmillan)
	Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
	The Corporation Wars: Emergence, Ken MacLeod (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	Austral, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
	Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
	The Last Good Man, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
	Null States, Malka Older (Tor.com Publishing)
	Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
	The Wrong Stars, Tim Pratt (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
	From the Wreck, Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge)
	The Real-Town Murders, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
	New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
	Sourdough, Robin Sloan (MCD; Atlantic UK)
	Empire Games, Charles Stross (Tor; Tor UK)
	Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)
	Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn (John Joseph Adams)
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Best Fantasy Novel

Rank	Title
	The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
	City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
	Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
	The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
	The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
	Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
	Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
	An Unkindness of Magicians, Kat Howard (Saga)
	The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	The River Bank, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
	Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	Blackthorne, Stina Leicht (Saga)
	A Tyranny of Queens, Foz Meadows (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
	The Beautiful Ones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Dunne)
	Corpselight, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)
	The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing; Orbit UK)
	Fair Rebel, Steph Swainston (Gollancz)
	Creatures of Will and Temper, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)
	Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)
	The Heart of What Was Lost, Tad Williams (DAW)
	Quillifer, Walter Jon Williams (Saga)
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Best Horror Novel

Rank	Title
	Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
	Universal Harvester, John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Scribe UK)
	After the End of the World, Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
	The Grip of It, Jac Jemc (FSG Originals)
	Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)
	The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
	The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
	Red Snow, Ian R. MacLeod (PS)
	Under a Watchful Eye, Adam Nevill (Macmillan)
	The Dark Net, Benjamin Percy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
	Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron; HarperCollins UK)
	Mormama, Kit Reed (Tor)
	Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin (Riverhead; Oneworld)
	Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
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Best YA Book

Rank	Title
	Tool of War, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
	One Dark Throne, Kendare Blake (HarperTeen; Macmillan)
	The Silent Invasion, James Bradley (Pan Australia)
	Before the Devil Breaks You, Libba Bray (Little, Brown; Atom UK)
	In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
	The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
	Jane, Unlimited, Kristin Cashore (Kathy Dawson)
	Chalk, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
	Sovereign, April Daniels (Diversion)
	Buried Heart, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
	A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
	The Ship Beyond Time, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow; Hot Key)
	The November Girl, Lydia Kang (Entangled Teen)
	Wild Beauty, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
	Ghosts of Greenglass House, Kate Milford (Clarion)
	Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin; Piccadilly)
	Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
	Shadowhouse Fall, Daniel José Older (Levine)
	Want, Cindy Pon (Simon Pulse)
	The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)
	Black Light Express, Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press 2016; Switch)
	Now I Rise, Kiersten White (Delacorte; Corgi)
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Best First Novel

Rank	Title
	The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
	The Guns Above, Robyn Bennis (Tor)
	Tropic of Kansas, Christopher Brown (Harper Voyager US)
	The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
	An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, Curtis Craddock (Tor)
	Dreadnought, April Daniels (Diversion)
	Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, Julie C. Dao (Philomel)
	Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
	The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden (Harper Voyager US)
	Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
	The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
	Wintersong, S. Jae-Jones (Dunne; Titan UK)
	An Excess Male, Maggie Shen King (Harper Voyager)
	Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)
	All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai (Dutton; Penguin UK)
	The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
	Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
	The Tiger’s Daughter, K Arsenault Rivera (Tor)
	Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
	An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
	Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Talos)
	Barbary Station, R.E. Stearns (Saga)
	Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)
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Best Collection

Rank	Title
	Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com Publishing)
	What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah (Riverhead; Tinder)
	The Overneath, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
	Totalitopia, John Crowley (PM)
	Concentration, Jack Dann (PS)
	Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
	Madame Zero, Sarah Hall (Custom House; Faber & Faber)
	Fire., Elizabeth Hand (PM)
	You Should Come With Me Now, M. John Harrison (Comma)
	Strange Weather, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
	Dear Sweet Filthy World, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
	Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
	Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
	The Man with the Speckled Eyes, R.A. Lafferty (Centipede)
	Tanith by Choice, Tanith Lee (NewCon)
	Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories, Ursula K. LeGuin (Library of America)
	Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
	Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers, Tim Powers (Baen)
	Telling the Map, Christopher Rowe (Small Beer)
	So You Want to Be a Robot, A. Merc Rustad (Lethe)
	Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
	Winter Children & Other Chilling Tales, Angela Slatter (PS)
	The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories, William Browning Spencer (Subterranean)
	The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
	The Emerald Circus, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)
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Best Anthology

Rank	Title
	Cosmic Powers, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
	Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, David Brin & Stephen W. Potts, eds. (Tor)
	Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
	The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
	Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures, Ed Finn & Joey Eschrich, eds. (Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination)
	Extrasolar, Nick Gevers, ed. (PS)
	Bookburners, Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
	Shadows and Tall Trees 7, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
	The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
	Infinite Stars, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, ed. (Titan)
	Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
	The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
	Galactic Empires, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
	The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime)
	The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
	The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
	The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
	Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)
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Best Nonfiction Book

Rank	Title
	Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics, Russell Blackford (Springer)
	Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
	In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
	Weinberg Tales, Doug Ellis, Bob Garcia & Phyllis Weinberg, eds. (American Fantasy/Tattered Pages)
	The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US; Chatto & Windus 2016)
	Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, James Gunn (McFarland)
	Iain M. Banks, Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
	Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings, Rob Latham (Bloomsbury Academic)
	Saving the World Through Science Fiction: James Gunn, Writer, Teacher and Scholar, Michael R. Page (McFarland)
	Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
	Not So Good a Gay Man, Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
	A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
	Don’t Live for Your Obituary, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
	J.G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)
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Best Art Book

Rank	Title
	Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic, Armand Baltazar (Tegen; HarperCollins UK)
	J.A.W. Cooper, Familiars / Flora & Fauna / Viscera (Flesk)
	The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History, Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg, eds. (IDW)
	Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
	Scott Gustafson, Classic Storybook Fables (Artisan)
	Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium (Gollancz)
	Jeffrey Alan Love, Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Candlewick Studio)
	Gregory Manchess, Above the Timberline (Saga)
	Syd Mead, The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist, Craig Hodgetts (Titan)
	Jean-Baptiste Monge, Celtic Faeries: The Secret Kingdom (Goblin’s WAY)
	Andrea Offermann, Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, M.T. Anderson (Candlewick)
	Wendy Pini, Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, Richard Pini (Flesk)
	Omar Rayyan, Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti (Donald M. Grant)
	Infected by Art, Volume 5, Todd Spoor & Bill Cox, eds. (ArtOrder)
	David Wiesner, David Wiesner & The Art of Wordless Storytelling, Eik Kahng, Ellen Keiter & Katherine Roeder (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
	James Wyatt, The Art of Magic: The Gathering: Kaladesh (Viz)
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Best Novella

Rank	Title
	In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
	The Martian Job, Jaine Fenn (NewCon)
	The Twilight Pariah, Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com Publishing)
	River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
	In Search of Lost Time, Karen Heuler (Aqueduct)
	Acadie, Dave Hutchinson (Tor.com Publishing)
	Proof of Concept, Gwyneth Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
	Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
	A Song for Quiet, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Publishing)
	Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
	The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, Margaret Killjoy (Tor.com Publishing)
	Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
	‘‘Lost in the Dark’’, John Langan (Haunted Nights)
	Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
	Prime Meridian, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Innsmouth Free Press)
	‘‘The Proving Ground’’, Alec Nevala-Lee (Analog 1-2/17)
	Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
	Mightier than the Sword, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
	‘‘And Then There Were (N-One)’’, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
	‘‘The Border State’’, Christopher Rowe (Telling the Map)
	‘‘Fallow’’, Sofia Samatar (Tender)
	The Process (is a Process All Its Own), Peter Straub (Subterranean)
	The Adventure of the Incognita Countess, Cynthia Ward (Aqueduct)
	All Systems Red, Martha Wells, (Tor.com Publishing)
	The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
	The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
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Best Novelette

Rank	Title
	‘‘The Mocking Tower’’, Daniel Abraham (The Book of Swords)
	‘‘Neptune’s Trident’’, Nina Allan (Clarkesworld 6/17)
	‘‘A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime’’, Charlie Jane Anders (Cosmic Powers)
	‘‘Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics’’, Jess Barber & Sara Saab (Clarkesworld 9/17)
	‘‘My English Name’’, R.S. Benedict (F&SF 5-6/17)
	‘‘The Moon is Not a Battlefield’’, Indrapramit Das (Infinity Wars)
	‘‘Children of Thorns, Children of Water’’, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 7-8/17)
	‘‘The Hermit of Houston’’, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF 9-10/17)
	‘‘The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine’’, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 11-12/17)
	‘‘Uncanny Valley’’, Greg Egan (Tor.com 8/9/17)
	‘‘‘I Am a Handsome Man,’ Said Apollo Crow’’, Kate Elliott (The Book of Swords)
	‘‘Crispin’s Model’’, Max Gladstone (Tor.com 10/4/17)
	‘‘Come See the Living Dryad’’, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
	‘‘The Thule Stowaway’’, Maria Dahvana Headley (Uncanny 1-2/17)
	‘‘Rain Ship’’, Chi Hui (Clarkesworld 2/17)
	‘‘Better You Believe’’, Carole Johnstone (Horror Library Volume 6)
	‘‘You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych’’, Kathleen Kayembe (Nightmare 3/17)
	‘‘The Worshipful Society of Glovers’’, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny 7-8/17)
	‘‘The Colgrid Conundrum’’, Rich Larson (The Book of Swords)
	‘‘The Chameleon’s Gloves’’, Yoon Ha Lee (Cosmic Powers)
	‘‘Extracurricular Activities’’, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 2/15/17)
	‘‘The Hidden Girl’’, Ken Liu (The Book of Swords)
	‘‘The Smoke of Gold Is Glory’’, Scott Lynch (The Book of Swords)
	‘‘The Resident’’, Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties)
	‘‘The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids’’, Seanan McGuire (Black Feathers)
	‘‘Concessions’’, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Strange Horizons 3/6/17, 3/13/17)
	‘‘The Secret Life of Bots’’, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 9/17)
	‘‘Remote Presence’’, Susan Palwick (Lightspeed 4/17)
	‘‘Wind Will Rove’’, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
	‘‘A Series of Steaks’’, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld 1/17)
	‘‘Night Passage’’, Alastair Reynolds (Infinite Stars)
	‘‘A Human Stain’’, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/17)
	‘‘We Who Live in the Heart’’, Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld 5/17)
	‘‘Mercury’’, Priya Sharma (Mad Hatters and March Hares)
	‘‘Weather Girl’’, E.J. Swift (Infinity Wars)
	‘‘Sweetlings’’, Lucy Taylor (Tor.com 5/3/17)
	‘‘Waterfalling’’, Lavie Tidhar (The Book of Swords)
	‘‘ZeroS’’, Peter Watts (Infinity Wars)
	‘‘Angel of the Blockade’’, Alex Wells (Tor.com 9/6/17)
	‘‘The Lamentation of Their Women’’, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 8/24/17)
	‘‘Waiting on a Bright Moon’’, JY Yang (Tor.com 7/12/17)
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Best Short Story

Rank	Title
	‘‘Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue’’, Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
	‘‘Mines’’, Eleanor Arnason (Infinity Wars)
	‘‘Probably Still the Chosen One’’, Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed 2/17)
	‘‘The Heart’s Cartography’’, Susan Jane Bigelow (Lightspeed 5/17)
	‘‘The Siret Mask’’, Marie Brennan (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/9/17)
	‘‘Shoggoths in Traffic’’, Tobias S. Buckell (self-published 4/17)
	‘‘Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance’’, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
	‘‘Say, She Toy’’, Chesya Burke (Apex 4/17)
	‘‘The Ouroboros Bakery’’, Octavia Cade (Kaleidotrope Autumn ’17)
	‘‘Though She Be But Little’’, C.S.E. Cooney (Uncanny 9-10/17)
	‘‘This Is Our Town’’, John Crowley (Totalitopia)
	‘‘The Worldless’’, Indrapramit Das (Lightspeed 3/17)
	‘‘An Unexpected Boon’’, S.B. Divya (Apex 11/17)
	‘‘Worrity, Worrity’’, Andy Duncan (Mad Hatters and March Hares)
	‘‘Witch Hazel’’, Jeffrey Ford (Haunted Nights)
	‘‘Octopus vs. Bear’’, Kendra Fortmeyer (Lightspeed 5/17)
	‘‘Persephone of the Crows’’, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s 5-6/17)
	‘‘The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom’’, Max Gladstone (Tor.com 3/29/17)
	‘‘Fire.’’, Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
	‘‘Infinite Love Engine’’, Joseph Allen Hill (Lightspeed 4/17)
	‘‘The Faerie Tree’’, Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed 11/17)
	‘‘These Deathless Bones’’, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com 7/26/17)
	‘‘One Hour, Every Seven Years’’, Alice Sola Kim (McSweeney’s #49)
	‘‘Dear Sarah’’, Nancy Kress (Infinity Wars)
	‘‘Love Engine Optimization’’, Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed 6/17)
	‘‘Paradox’’, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 5-6/17)
	‘‘Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty’s Place Cafe’’, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 3/17)
	‘‘Soccer Fields and Frozen Lakes’’, Greg Kurzawa (Lightspeed 3/17)
	‘‘An Evening with Severyn Grimes’’, Rich Larson (Asimov’s 7-8/17)
	‘‘The Whalebone Parrot’’, Darcie Little Badger (The Dark 10/17)
	‘‘The Fortune of Sparrows’’, Usman T. Malik (Black Feathers)
	‘‘With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds’’, Seanan McGuire (Haunted Nights)
	‘‘Sidewalks’’, Maureen McHugh (OMNI Winter ’17)
	‘‘Bodies Stacked Like Firewood’’, Sam J. Miller (Uncanny 1-2/17)
	‘‘The Ways Out’’, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 6/17)
	‘‘The Martian Obelisk’’, Linda Nagata (Tor.com 7/19/17)
	‘‘Conversations with an Armory’’, Garth Nix (Infinity Wars)
	‘‘The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon’’, Finbarr O’Reilly (Clarkesworld 10/17)
	‘‘The Shining Hills’’, Susan Palwick (Lightspeed 8/17)
	‘‘In Memory of Jianhong, Snake-Devil’’, Richard Parks (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/25/17)
	‘‘On the Road to the Hell of Hungry Ghosts’’, Richard Parks (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/28/17)
	‘‘Fandom for Robots’’, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
	‘‘Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM’’, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
	‘‘Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment’’, Eden Royce (Fiyah Spring ’17)
	‘‘Eminence’’, Karl Schroeder (Chasing Shadows)
	‘‘The Crow Palace’’, Priya Sharma (Black Feathers)
	‘‘Queen of Dirt’’, Nisi Shawl (Apex 2/17)
	‘‘The Little Mermaid, In Passing’’, Angela Slatter (Review of Australian Fiction 4/17)
	‘‘Run, Rabbit’’, Angela Slatter (Mad Hatters and March Hares)
	‘‘Starlight Express’’, Michael Swanwick (F&SF 9-10/17)
	‘‘Nine-Tenths of the Law’’, Molly Tanzer (Lightspeed 1/17)
	‘‘The Old Dispensation’’, Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com 2/8/17)
	‘‘I Have Been Drowned in Rain’’, Carrie Vaughn (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/13/17)
	‘‘Confessions of a Con Girl’’, Nick Wolven (Asimov’s 11-12/17)
	‘‘Carnival Nine’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)
	‘‘The White-Throated Transmigrant’’, E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 6/21/17)
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Best Magazine or Fanzine

Rank	Title
	Abyss & Apex
	Amazing Stories
	Analog
	Andromeda Spaceways
	Ansible
	Apex
	Asimov’s
	Aurealis
	Beneath Ceaseless Skies
	Black Gate
	Black Static
	Bull Spec
	The Cascadia Subduction Zone
	Cemetery Dance
	Clarkesworld
	The Coode Street Podcast
	Daily SF
	Dark Discoveries
	The Dark Magazine
	Diabolical Plots
	Drabblecast
	Dreams & Nightmares
	Electric Spec
	Escape Pod
	Extrapolation
	Far Fetched Fables
	Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
	F&SF
	Fiction River
	File 770
	Fireside
	Fiyah!
	Foundation
	Galactic Suburbia
	Galaxy’s Edge
	Gamut
	Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
	GigaNotoSaurus
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	Mike Allen
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	Mike Ashley
	Sam Bellotto Jr.
	Steve Berman
	Jennifer Brehl
	Neil Clarke
	Andy Cox
	Peter Crowther
	Ellen Datlow
	Kate Dollarhyde & Jane Crowley
	Gardner Dozois
	Malcolm Edwards
	C.C. Finlay
	Jo Fletcher
	Marc Gascoigne
	Jaym Gates
	Sheila Gilbert
	Diana Gill
	Liz Gorinsky
	Gavin Grant/Kelly Link
	Anne Groell
	Paula Guran
	Lee Harris
	Niall Harrison
	Katie Hoffman
	Tim Holman
	Rich Horton
	Brit Hvide
	Justina Ireland
	Stephen Jones
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	Alisa Krasnostein
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	Shahid Mahmud
	Beth Meacham
	Jim Minz
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	Joe Monti
	Silvia Moreno-Garcia
	Tricia Narwani
	Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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	Tim O’Connell
	Jon Oliver
	Bella Pagan
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	David Pomerico
	Trevor Quachri
	Gillian Redfearn
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	Scott Roberts
	Brett Alexander Savory
	William Schafer
	Bryan Thomas Schmidt
	Rene Sears
	Jason Sizemore
	Rashida J. Smith
	Anne Sowards
	David Steffen
	Jonathan Strahan
	Patrick Swenson
	Simon Taylor
	Mark Teppo
	Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
	Juliet Ulman
	Gordon Van Gelder
	Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
	Zachary Wagman
	Sean Wallace
	Miriam Weinberg
	Jacob Weisman
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	Brian White
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	Navah Wolfe
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	Kei Acedera
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	Anna & Elena Balbusso
	Chiara Bautista
	Julie Bell & Boris Vallejo
	Brom
	Jim Burns
	Rovina Cai
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	Vincent Chong
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	Larry Dixon
	Daniel Dos Santos
	Les Edwards
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	Rebecca Guay
	Dominic Harman
	John Harris
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	Michael Kaluta
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	Kekai Kotaki
	Abigail Larson
	Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
	Jody A. Lee
	Elizabeth Leggett
	Paul Lewin
	Todd Lockwood
	Jeffrey Alan Love
	Don Maitz
	Gregory Manchess
	Stephan Martiniere
	David Mattingly
	Chris McGrath
	Ian Miller
	Kurt Miller
	Erik Mohr
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	Lee Moyer
	Victo Ngai
	Tran Nguyen
	Karla Ortiz
	John Jude Palencar
	Dave Palumbo
	John Picacio
	Omar Rayyan
	Greg Ruth
	Ruth Sanderson
	Dave Seeley
	Cynthia Sheppard
	Yuko Shimizu
	Steve Stone
	Sana Takeda
	Shaun Tan
	Charles Vess
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