Highest Ranked Anthologies published in 2021

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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	Title	Type	Authors
1	114	When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
2	70	Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition)	ANTHOLOGY	Charlatan Bardot and Eric J. Guignard
3	70	The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021): Volume 1	ANTHOLOGY	Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
4	67	Relics, Wrecks & Ruins	ANTHOLOGY	Aiki Flinthart
5	60	Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology	ANTHOLOGY	Sarah Rafael Garcia and Matthew David Goodwin and Alex Hernandez
6	55	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 2	ANTHOLOGY	Paula Guran
7	51	Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories	ANTHOLOGY	Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
8	51	Tortured Willows	ANTHOLOGY	Geneve Flynn and Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith and Christina Sng
9	51	We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020	ANTHOLOGY	C. L. Clark and Charles Payseur
10	35	Blood on the Blade: Ten Tales of Slashing Swords and Sinister Sorcery	ANTHOLOGY	Jim Beard and John C. Bruening
11	35	Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales	ANTHOLOGY	Poppy Nwosu
12	35	It Came From the Trailer Park	ANTHOLOGY	William Joseph Roberts
13	35	Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology	ANTHOLOGY	Steven M. Long and S. D. Vassallo
14	35	Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign	ANTHOLOGY	James Chambers
15	35	Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies	ANTHOLOGY	Deborah Sheldon
16	35	Attack from the '80s	ANTHOLOGY	Eugene Johnson
17	35	Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: V3	ANTHOLOGY	Marie Hodgkinson
18	35	Who Sleuthed It?	ANTHOLOGY	Lindy Cameron
19	35	Food of My People	ANTHOLOGY	Candas Jane Dorsey and Ursula Pflug
20	35	Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand	ANTHOLOGY	Craig Gamble
21	35	La machine à indifférence et autres nouvelles	ANTHOLOGY	Tony Sanchez and Denis Taillandier
22	35	There Is No Death, There Are No Dead	ANTHOLOGY	Aaron J. French and Jess Landry
23	35	Robots	ANTHOLOGY	Fabrice Carré?Fabrice Carre and Alexandre Marcinkowski
24	30	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2	ANTHOLOGY	Jonathan Strahan
25	28	Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness	ANTHOLOGY	Dave Ring
26	27	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021	ANTHOLOGY	Veronica Roth
27	26	The Best of World SF: Volume 1	ANTHOLOGY	Lavie Tidhar
28	25	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
29	23	Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices	ANTHOLOGY	Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington
30	22	Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
31	21	The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2	ANTHOLOGY	Tarun K. Saint
32	19	Sinopticon 2021: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction	ANTHOLOGY	Xueting Christine Ni
33	18	Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future	ANTHOLOGY	Gideon Lichfield

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