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Highest Ranked Collections of the 2020s

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.
Place Score Year Title Type Authors
1 141 2020
Velo/Cities?Velocities
 COLLECTION Kathe Koja
2 98 2021 The Ghost Sequences COLLECTION A. C. Wise
3 92 2020 We All Hear Stories in the Dark COLLECTION Robert Shearman
4 86 2021 The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales COLLECTION Angela Slatter
5 85 2020 Grotesque: Monster Stories COLLECTION Lee Murray
6 85 2020 Dark Harvest COLLECTION Cat Sparks
7 85 2020 A Collection of Dreamscapes COLLECTION Christina Sng
8 82 2020 Songs for Dark Seasons COLLECTION Lisa L. Hannett
9 76 2020 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories COLLECTION Ken Liu
10 73 2020 Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel COLLECTION Julian K. Jarboe
11 70 2020 The Zookeeper's Tales of Interstellar Oddities COLLECTION Aiki Flinthart and Pamela Jeffs
12 70 2020 Bloody Britain COLLECTION Anna Taborska
13 70 2020 Only the Broken Remain COLLECTION Dan Coxon
14 68 2020 The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper COLLECTION A. J. Fitzwater
15 66 2021 Never Have I Ever COLLECTION Isabel Yap
16 66 2020 The Heart Is a Mirror for Sinners & Other Stories COLLECTION Angela Slatter
17 65 2021 Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan COLLECTION Usman T. Malik
18 64 2020 Nine Bar Blues COLLECTION
Sheree Renée Thomas?Sheree Renee Thomas
19 62 2020 The Best of Jeffrey Ford COLLECTION Jeffrey Ford
20 61 2020 If It Bleeds COLLECTION Stephen King
21 59 2021 Alias Space and Other Stories COLLECTION Kelly Robson
22 59 2021 Big Dark Hole COLLECTION Jeffrey Ford
23 55 2020 Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies COLLECTION John Langan
24 54 2020 Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 COLLECTION M. John Harrison
25 51 2020 La fabrique des lendemains COLLECTION Rich Larson
26 50 2021 Plasmas COLLECTION Céline Minard
27 50 2021 The Gulp COLLECTION Alan Baxter
28 50 2021 Even Greater Mistakes COLLECTION Charlie Jane Anders
29 50 2021 In That Endlessness, Our End COLLECTION Gemma Files
30 50 2020 The Watcher in the Woods COLLECTION Charlotte Bond
31 50 2020 The Sign of the Dragon COLLECTION Mary Soon Lee
32 50 2020 Dearly COLLECTION Margaret Atwood
33 50 2020 Otherwheres COLLECTION Akua Lezli Hope
34 48 2020 Aftermath of an Industrial Accident COLLECTION Mike Allen
35 46 2020 Thin Places COLLECTION Kay Chronister
36 36 2022 Strange Nests COLLECTION Jessica McHugh
37 36 2021 Exposed Nerves COLLECTION Lucy A. Snyder
38 36 2021 Victims COLLECTION Marge Simon and Mary A. Turzillo
39 36 2020 Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems COLLECTION Alessandro Manzetti
40 36 2020 A Complex Accident of Life COLLECTION Jessica McHugh
41 36 2020 Into the Forest and All the Way Through COLLECTION Cynthia Pelayo
42 36 2020 Cradleland of Parasites COLLECTION Sara Tantlinger
43 35 2021 The Terralight Collection COLLECTION Pamela Jeffs
44 35 2021 Tales the Devil Told Me COLLECTION Jen Fawkes
45 35 2021 The Dead Hours of Night COLLECTION Lisa Tuttle
46 35 2021 Other Worlds: The Poetry of Terry Persun COLLECTION Terry Persun
47 35 2021 Side Roads: A Dark Fiction Collection COLLECTION Rachel A. Brune
48 35 2021 Fractured Fairy Tales COLLECTION Alma Alexander
49 35 2021 Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson and Other Very Short Stories COLLECTION Jack Remiel Cottrell
50 35 2021 Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations COLLECTION Joe R. Lansdale
51 35 2021 Orbital Defense Corps: And Eight More Stories COLLECTION Kevin Steverson
52 35 2021 Danged Black Thing COLLECTION Eugen Bacon
53 35 2021 The Tensorate Series COLLECTION JY Yang
54 35 2021
Революция в стоп-кадрах?Revolyutsiya v stop-kadrakh
 COLLECTION Peter Watts
55 35 2021 Beneath a Pale Sky COLLECTION Philip Fracassi
56 35 2021 Seeds COLLECTION Tabatha Wood
57 35 2021 Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead COLLECTION Jonathan Maberry
58 35 2021 Alt-ernate COLLECTION Melanie Harding-Shaw
59 35 2021 Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions COLLECTION Sean Williams
60 35 2021 Beneath Raven's Wing COLLECTION Vonnie Winslow Crist
61 35 2021 Spirits Abroad COLLECTION Zen Cho
62 35 2020 Castle Charming COLLECTION Tansy Rayner Roberts
63 35 2020 Les secrets du premier coffre COLLECTION Fabien Cerutti
64 35 2020 England's Screaming COLLECTION Sean Hogan
65 35 2020 Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness COLLECTION Juliet Marillier
66 35 2020 Three Mothers, One Father COLLECTION Sean Hogan
67 35 2020 Neon Leviathan COLLECTION T. R. Napper
68 35 2020 Bienvenue à Sturkeyville COLLECTION Bob Leman
69 35 2020 Twelve COLLECTION Andrea Blythe
70 35 2020 Dragon Assassin COLLECTION Arthur Slade
71 35 2020 Green Fingers COLLECTION Dan Coxon
72 35 2020 The Cuckoo Girls COLLECTION Patricia Lillie
73 35 2020 Ghost Bus: Tales from Wellington's Dark Side COLLECTION Anna Kirtlan
74 35 2020 The Murderbot Diaries COLLECTION Martha Wells
75 35 2020 The Better Sister and Other Stories COLLECTION Piper Mejia
76 35 2020 Dance on Saturday COLLECTION Elwin Cotman
77 35 2020 The Best of Elizabeth Bear COLLECTION Elizabeth Bear
78 35 2020 Perles COLLECTION
紀大偉?Jì Dàwěi
Chi Ta-wei
79 35 2020 La guerre uchronique COLLECTION Fritz Leiber
80 30 2020 Big Girl Plus The Pill Plus Such People in It and Much More COLLECTION Meg Elison
81 29 2020 The Midnight Circus COLLECTION Jane Yolen
82 27 2021 Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales COLLECTION Soman Chainani
83 27 2021 Belladonna Nights and Other Stories COLLECTION Alastair Reynolds
84 26 2021 The Best of Elizabeth Hand COLLECTION Elizabeth Hand
85 26 2020 The Girl and the Goddess COLLECTION Nikita Gill
86 25 2021 Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories COLLECTION Tobias S. Buckell
87 25 2020 Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future COLLECTION Lavanya Lakshminarayan
88 25 2020 Norse Tales: Stories from Across the Rainbow Bridge COLLECTION Kevin Crossley-Holland
89 24 2020 The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus COLLECTION Michael Swanwick
90 22 2021 The Best of Walter Jon Williams COLLECTION Walter Jon Williams
91 21 2021 Burning Girls and Other Stories COLLECTION Veronica Schanoes
92 20 2021 The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell COLLECTION Brian Evenson
93 20 2021 Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories COLLECTION Bruce Sterling
94 18 2021 The Truth and Other Stories COLLECTION
Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
95 17 2021 The Best of Harry Turtledove COLLECTION Harry Turtledove
96 17 2020 The Grand Tour COLLECTION E. Catherine Tobler
97 15 2021 The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories COLLECTION Nina Allan
98 15 2020 The Best of Michael Marshall Smith COLLECTION Michael Marshall Smith
99 15 2020 Reconstruction COLLECTION Alaya Dawn Johnson
100 14 2020 The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories COLLECTION Eugen Bacon
101 13 2021 The First Law of Thermodynamics Plus Someone Else's Problem Plus Who Owns Cyberpunk? and Much More COLLECTION James Patrick Kelly
102 12 2021 Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories COLLECTION Maria Haskins
103 10 2021 Everything in All the Wrong Order: The Best of Chaz Brenchley COLLECTION Chaz Brenchley
104 9 2021 The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories COLLECTION Charles Payseur
105 8 2021 How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters COLLECTION Erica L. Satifka
106 7 2021 Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories COLLECTION Nana Nkweti
107 6 2021 Honeycomb COLLECTION Joanne Harris
108 2 2020 Carpe Noctem COLLECTION Robert Borski
109 2 2020 The Withering COLLECTION Ashley Dioses
110 2 2020 The Journey COLLECTION Anna Cates
111 2 2020 Past the Glad and Sunlit Season: Poems for Halloween COLLECTION K. A. Opperman
112 2 2020 Maps of a Hollowed World COLLECTION T. D. Walker
113 2 2020 25 Trumbulls Road COLLECTION Christopher Locke
114 2 2020 Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht COLLECTION Catherine Moore
115 1 2021 The Smallest of Bones COLLECTION Holly Lyn Walrath
116 1 2021 Horrific Punctuation COLLECTION John Reinhart
117 1 2021 Stone the Monsters, or Dance: Speculative Poetry with Ambitions of Menace COLLECTION Ken Poyner
118 1 2021 Tug of a Black Hole COLLECTION Deborah P. Kolodji
119 1 2021 Lexicon of Future Selves COLLECTION Gretchen Rockwell
120 1 2021 Unquiet Stars COLLECTION Ann K. Schwader
121 1 2021 Monstrum Poetica COLLECTION Jezzy Wolfe
122 1 2021 Oblivion in Flux COLLECTION Maxwell I. Gold
123 1 2021 Planet of the Zombie Zonnets: Seasons One and Two COLLECTION Juan Manuel Perez
124 1 2021 blips on a screen COLLECTION Joshua Gage
125 1 2021 Saving Shadows COLLECTION Eugen Bacon
126 1 2021 Unearthed COLLECTION Federica Santini
127 1 2021 Can You Sign My Tentacle? COLLECTION Brandon O'Brien
128 1 2021 Good Boi COLLECTION Jason B. Crawford
129 1 2021 The Saints of Capitalism COLLECTION Benjamin Schmitt
130 1 2021 Kraken Fever COLLECTION Angela Yuriko Smith and Kyra Starr
131 1 2021 Utopian Problems COLLECTION Jean-Paul L. Garnier
132 1 2021 Enkidu Is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está COLLECTION Tucker Lieberman
133 1 2021 The Ghettobirds COLLECTION Bryant O'Hara
134 1 2021 Igor in Therapy COLLECTION M. K. Garrison
135 1 2021 Dancing with Maria's Ghost: Dark Encounters with the Ghost of Maria Callas COLLECTION Alessandro Manzetti
136 1 2021 The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows COLLECTION John Koenig
137 1 2021 Midnight Comes Early COLLECTION Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
138 1 2021 who is owed springtime COLLECTION Rasha Abdulhadi
139 1 2021 notsleepyyet COLLECTION Alexander P. Garza
140 1 2021 Odyssey COLLECTION John Urbancik
141 1 2021 Comme ce monde est joli COLLECTION Karen Joy Fowler
142 1 2021 Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota COLLECTION Amelia Gorman
143 1 2021 A Predisposition for Madness COLLECTION Aurelio Rico Lopez, III
144 1 2021 Million-Year Elegies COLLECTION Ada Hoffmann
145 1 2021 Night Song COLLECTION Daan Katz
146 1 2021 Autobiographie d'un poulpe et autres récits d'anticipation COLLECTION Vinciane Despret
147 1 2021 Ainsi parle le dernier homme COLLECTION Paul Martin Gal
148 1 2021 Cleave COLLECTION Tiana Nobile
149 1 2021 October Ghosts and Autumn Dreams: More Poems for Halloween COLLECTION K. A. Opperman
150 1 2021 Bramah and the Beggar Boy COLLECTION Renée Sarojini Saklikar
151 1 2021 The Undead COLLECTION Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
152 1 2020 Altars and Oubliettes COLLECTION Angela Yuriko Smith
153 1 2020 The High Alive COLLECTION Carlos Sirah
154 1 2020 How to Extricate Yourself COLLECTION Laura Theis
155 1 2020 America, Mine COLLECTION Sasha Banks
156 1 2020 DMMTHL COLLECTION C. C. Hannett
157 1 2020 Dub COLLECTION Alexis Pauline Gumbs
158 1 2020 What the Gargoyle Sees COLLECTION Gene Twaronite
159 1 2020 Visions at Templeglantine COLLECTION John W. Sexton
160 1 2020 [re]construction of the necromancer COLLECTION Hannah V. Warren
161 1 2020 Echoes From An Expired Earth COLLECTION Allen Ashley
162 1 2020 Cries to Kill the Corpse Flower COLLECTION Ronald J. Murray
163 1 2020 Broken Nails COLLECTION Susan Snyder
164 1 2020 Before We Remember We Dream COLLECTION Bryan Thao Worra
165 1 2020 Bad Jamie COLLECTION Jessica Fordham Kidd
166 1 2020 The Cyborg Anthology COLLECTION Lindsay B-E
167 1 2020 Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows COLLECTION Frank Coffman
168 1 2020 The Malevolent Volume COLLECTION Justin Phillip Reed
169 1 2020 Meaningless Cycles in a Vicious Glass Prison: Songs of Death and Love COLLECTION Anton Cancre
170 1 2020 Shadows Abyss COLLECTION Luna Nyx Frost
171 1 2020 Sacred Summer COLLECTION Cassandra Rose Clarke
172 1 2020 Witch Doctrine COLLECTION Annah Browning
173 1 2020 Android Girl: And Other Sentient Speculations COLLECTION Michael H. Hanson
174 1 2020 The Humans in the Walls: And Other Stories COLLECTION Eric James Stone
175 1 2020 Betelgeuse Dimming COLLECTION Jean-Paul L. Garnier
176 1 2020 Arthurian Things: A Collection of Poems COLLECTION Melissa Ridley Elmes
177 1 2020
I, Taliesin: The Joseph Smith/King Arthur Sonets—A Brief Epic?I, Taliesin: The Joseph Smith/King Arthur Sonets: A Brief Epic
 COLLECTION Michael R. Collings
178 1 2020 Easy Travel to the Stars COLLECTION G. O. Clark
179 1 2020 Shadow Box COLLECTION Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
180 1 2020 Space in Pieces COLLECTION Juan Manuel Perez
181 1 2020 Many Restless Concerns COLLECTION Gayle Brandeis
182 1 2020 Burials COLLECTION Jessica Drake-Thomas
183 1 2020 Notes from the Last Age COLLECTION
José Chapa Valle?Jose Chapa Valle
184 1 2020 The State She's In COLLECTION Lesley Wheeler
185 1 2020 Tea With Death COLLECTION Abigail Wildes
186 1 2020 Toxicon and Arachne COLLECTION Joyelle McSweeney
187 1 2020 Poems That Could End the World COLLECTION Ronald A. Busse
188 1 2020 Temporary Planets for Transitory Days: Poems of Mykol Ranglen COLLECTION Albert Wendland
189 1 2020 A Refuge of Tales COLLECTION Lynne Sargent
190 1 2020 Monstrous COLLECTION P. S. Cottier
191 1 2020 Reading the Signs COLLECTION Janis Freegard
192 1 2020 The Mythology of Salt and Other Stories COLLECTION Octavia Cade
193 1 2020 The Miseducation of the Androids COLLECTION William Landis
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