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| 1978 |
| 1
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Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night
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Andrew Joron
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| 1
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The Starman
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Duane Ackerson
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| 9
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Corruption of Metals
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Sonya Dorman
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| 1979 |
| 1
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Fatalities
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Duane Ackerson
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| 1
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Story Books and Treasure Maps
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Steve Eng
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| 1980 |
| 1
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Encased in the Amber of Eternity
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Robert Frazier
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| 1
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The Migration of Darkness
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Peter Payack
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| 1981 |
| 1
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Meeting Place
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Ken Duffin
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| 1982 |
| 1
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On the Speed of Light
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Raymond DiZazzo
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| 1983 |
| 1
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In Computers
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Alan P. Lightman
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| 1984 |
| 1
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Two Sonnets
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Helen Ehrlich
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| 1985 |
| 1
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For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets
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Bruce Boston
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| 1986 |
| 1
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The Neighbor's Wife
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Susan Palwick
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| 1987 |
| 1
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A Dream of Heredity
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John Calvin Rezmerski
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| 1
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Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope
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Jonathan V. Post
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| 1988 |
| 1
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Rocky Road to Hoe
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Suzette Haden Elgin
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| 1
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The Nightmare Collector
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Bruce Boston
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| 1989 |
| 1
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Salinity
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Robert Frazier
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| 1990 |
| 1
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Epitaph for Dreams
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G. Sutton Breiding
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| --- Finalists ------- |
| *
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One Hundred Years of Russian Revolution, 7 November 1917 to 7 November 2017: Novaya Moskva, Mars
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M. Shayne Bell
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| 1991 |
| 1
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Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh
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Joe Haldeman
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| 1992 |
| 1
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Song of the Martian Cricket (for Marilyn)
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David Lunde
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| 1993 |
| 1
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Will
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Jane Yolen
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| 1994 |
| 1
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Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over
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Jeff VanderMeer
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| 1
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Spacer's Compass
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Bruce Boston
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| 1995 |
| 1
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Skin of Glass
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Dan Raphael
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| 1996 |
| 1
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Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation
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Bruce Boston
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| --- Honorable Mentions ------- |
| *
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Bilateral Symmetry
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Denise Dumars
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| *
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Satan Is a Mathematician
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Keith Allen Daniels
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| 1997 |
| 1
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Day Omega
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W. Gregory Stewart
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| 2
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Dash
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Mary A. Turzillo
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| 9
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California
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Carol D. Page
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| 9
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Email
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Kathryn Rantala
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| 9
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Lunary
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Clélie Rich
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| 9
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Sourdough Bread
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Marge Simon
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| 9
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This Dream We Lumber in
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Wendy Rathbone
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| 1998 |
| 1
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Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother
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John Grey
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| 3
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On Reading Bradbury
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Sandra Kasturi
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| 9
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It's All Time Machines She Said
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Timons Esaias
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| 9
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Monkey from a Cannon
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Rhys Hughes
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| 9
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Shaman
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Charlee Jacob
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| 9
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The Weatherman
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Andrew Joron
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| 9
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Warning to the Younger Sisters
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Marion Arenas
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| 1999 |
| 1
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egg horror poem
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Laurel Winter
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| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
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Day Care Golems
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Ruth Berman
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| *
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I Met a Beast with Cloven Thoughts
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Steven Rogers
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| *
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In Darker Skies of Mind
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Ann K. Schwader
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| *
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Kiki in the Museum of Life's Pain
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James S. Dorr
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| *
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My Study of Neutrinos
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John Grey
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| *
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New Colors and Old
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Bruce Boston
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| *
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Night Glyphs
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Ann K. Schwader
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| *
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Passing On
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Margaret B. Simon
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| *
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Serial Killers Being Things
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Lida Broadhurst
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| *
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The Boy in the Golden Atom
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Ruth Berman
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| *
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The Ritual of Proper Preparation
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Steve Sneyd
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| *
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The Seven Wonders of the New World
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G. O. Clark
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| 2000 |
| 1
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Grimoire
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Rebecca Marjesdatter
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| 2
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Brigit
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Peggy J. Taylor
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| 2
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Clark the Ripper
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David C. Kopaska-Merkel
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| 2
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The Au Pair from Out There
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Ann K. Schwader
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| 3
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A Picture Postcard of the Cerne Abbas Giant
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David Lunde
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| 3
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Silicon Trade Agreement
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Ruth Berman
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| 3
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song of a last duckbill
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W. Gregory Stewart
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| 3
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The Language of Rain
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Wendy Rathbone
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| 3
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The Unfinished Map of the Sky
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G. O. Clark
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| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
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Another Short Horror Story
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Bruce Boston
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| *
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Badges of Either's Woe
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Tom Piccirilli
and
Michelle Scalise
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| *
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Umbilicile
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Michael A. Arnzen
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| *
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What If the Aliens Have Come?
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Bruce Boston
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| *
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When an Alien Is Inhabiting Your Body
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Laurel Winter
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| 2001 |
| 1
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My Wife Returns As She Would Have It
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Bruce Boston
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| 2
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Of Dance Steps and Distances
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G. O. Clark
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| 2
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Reflections in a Fading Mir
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Ann K. Schwader
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| 3
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Persephone Wakening
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Tracina Jackson-Adams
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| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
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Advice for Our New Galactic Warriors
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Timons Esaias
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| *
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Ebonmadder's Run
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Marge Simon
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| *
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Every Other Day of the Year
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Mary Soon Lee
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| *
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Fairy in Winter
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Bobbi Sinha-Morey
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| *
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First Contact
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David Clink
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| *
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Nehebka
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Denise Dumars
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| *
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Not Yet of the Flesh
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Tom Piccirilli
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| *
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Outbound: Cryogenic Dream #1
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Roger Dutcher
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| *
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Planeta do Favela
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Mike Allen
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| *
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Poem for Persephone
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Mary Rudbeck Stanko
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| *
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Sarah
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Sandy DeLuca
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| *
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Terminal Moraine
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Terry McGarry
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| *
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The Last Word
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Timons Esaias
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| *
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The Oort Cloud
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John Salonia
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| *
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The Sibyl Sevant
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Sandra Lindow
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| *
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----
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Albert Goldbarth
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| 2002 |
| 1
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We Die As Angels
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William John Watkins
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| 2
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Threnody at Sea
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Mark Rudolph
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| 3
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True Love
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Ian Watson
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| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
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A Star Is Born
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Tippi N. Blevins
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| *
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Autumn at the Robo Factory
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Marge Simon
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| *
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Consumed
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Linda D. Addison
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| *
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Embers and Memory
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W. Gregory Stewart
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| *
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February 4th, Farmer's Almanac Entry
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Donna Farley
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| *
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I Am the Bullet
|
Duane Ackerson
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| *
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If the Dead Must Speak
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Ward Kelley
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| *
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Insignificant Others
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Mary Soon Lee
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| *
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It's a Disaster, Really
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Timons Esaias
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| *
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Jazz Vamps
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Ann K. Schwader
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| *
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October Witches
|
Jack Fisher
and
Wendy Rathbone
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| *
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Saturn Devours His Children
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Mike Allen
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| *
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Shipwreck
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David Livingstone Clink
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| *
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Silent World
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Bruce Boston
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| *
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Swan Transformed
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Erin Donahoe
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| *
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The Castaway Bar: 1967
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Marge Simon
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| *
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The Heat of the Moon
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Gary Lehmann
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| *
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The Poet
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Michael Carman
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| *
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The Stars, Natasha
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Tim Jones
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| *
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Vampires on a Bed of Wild Rice
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Rebecca Marjesdatter
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| *
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Venusian Landscape: Portrait
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Nancy Ellis Taylor
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| *
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Zero's Demon
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Charlee Jacob
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| 2003 |
| 1
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Potherb Gardening
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Ruth Berman
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| 2
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A Ghost Story
|
Mike Allen
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| 3
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meteor shower
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David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
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A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut
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Tim Pratt
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| *
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A Million Layers Removed
|
Mike Allen
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| *
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Annchuck, by Daylight
|
James S. Dorr
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| *
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At the Last
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Jennifer A. Grier
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| *
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Buying November
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Scott Thomas
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| *
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Carnival 2001
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Marge Simon
|
| *
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Final Whimper
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Jim Applegate
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| *
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Footnote from The Official Guide to Time Travel
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Robert Frazier
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| *
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Like Death
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Erin Donahoe
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| *
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Old Earth Is the Museum of Genetic Art
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Marge Simon
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| *
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On Einstein
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Francis Cartier
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| *
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Salon de Nadir
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Marge Simon
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| *
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Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes
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Tracina Jackson-Adams
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| *
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Starry Crown
|
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| *
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The Fortune Teller
|
Chris Ferrier
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| *
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The Pleasure Surgeons
|
Ian Watson
|
| *
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The Storm Maidens
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Anastasia Andersen
|
| *
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The Tree
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G. O. Clark
|
| *
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The Watercolor Sky
|
Laura Jacobsen
|
| *
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Werechihuahua
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Ian Watson
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| *
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When a Snake Bites You in the Ass
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Rebecca Lu Kiernan
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| 2004 |
| 1
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Just Distance
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Roger Dutcher
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| 2
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"Observe the Month of Spring"
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Lucy Cohen Schmeidler
|
| 3
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How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves
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Mike Allen
|
| 3
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Nursery Ghosts
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
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Alternate History
|
Maureen McHugh
|
| *
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Basement World
|
L. A. Story Houry
|
| *
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Cranial Sacral
|
Diane Ackerman
|
| *
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Hands Tell All
|
Tracina Jackson-Adams
|
| *
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Isis
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April Lott
|
| *
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Language of Scorpions
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Marge Simon
|
| *
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Memory Man
|
Ian Watson
|
| *
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Night of the Living Dead
|
John Grey
|
| *
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She
|
Karen R. Porter
|
| *
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Storm Gods of the Connecticut River Valley
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
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Tarot Cards and UFOs
|
Mark Rudolph
|
| *
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The Length of a Candle
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
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The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole
|
Jessy Randall
|
| *
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To Feel the Cold
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
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Tomatoes Cannot Tolerate Frost
|
Nathan Parker
|
| *
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Warm Thick Beer
|
Jeremy Gottwig
|
| *
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What It Comes Down To
|
David Lunde
|
| *
|
What to Do When an Alien Spacecraft Lands and the Visitors Come Out to Greet You
|
John Teehan
|
| *
|
When She Dances
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Winter in the Tropic of Cancer
|
Elizabeth Henderson
|
| |
| 2005 |
| 1
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No Ruined Lunar City
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Greg Beatty
|
| 2
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The Clockmaker's Wife
|
Mikal Trimm
|
| 3
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Rich & Strange
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins"
|
Derek Walcott
|
| *
|
* elementary scientific theism *
|
roibeárd Uí-neíll
|
| *
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A Poet on Board
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
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An Eclipse of Raven
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
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Bolts of Memory
|
Roger Dutcher
|
| *
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Carnival
|
Jennifer de Guzman
|
| *
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Daughters of the Ash-Tree
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
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Diving Xibalba
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Family Tree
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
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Gingerbread
|
Catherynne M. Valente
|
| *
|
Heavy Weather
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Her Hero
|
Leah Bobet
|
| *
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Her Master's Whereabouts
|
John Garrison
|
| *
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How to Survive on a Distant Planet
|
Thomas D. Reynolds
|
| *
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I Am the Ugly Stepsister
|
Judith Boyer
|
| *
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In Praise of Spam
|
Ian Watson
|
| *
|
Lamia
|
Frida Westford
|
| *
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Mother of Atlantis
|
Robin M. Mayhall
|
| *
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Musings About Seth
|
Jane Yolen
|
| *
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Plastered
|
Scott Urban
|
| *
|
Red Shirt
|
Marci Rae Johnson
|
| *
|
Rural Blessings
|
Pam McNew
|
| *
|
Seating Chart
|
Ruth Berman
|
| *
|
Six Breaths
|
Wesley Lambert
|
| *
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Strange Cargo
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
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Thank-You Note to Sandra from the Anti-Matter Universe
|
William John Watkins
|
| *
|
The Asteroid Painter
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
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The Best of All Probable Worlds
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
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The Oculist Builds Glass Eyes to Refocus His Grief
|
David Memmott
|
| *
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The Seasons of Death
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
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The Spice of Life
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
The Submergence and Re-Emergence of John Starkey
|
Charles M. Saplak
|
| *
|
Through a Lens Vaguely (Mars '03)
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
To Catch the Light
|
Joy Oestreicher
|
| *
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Witch, You Say
|
Karen A. Romanko
|
| *
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Wizard Turns His Wife Into a Frog
|
John Grey
|
| |
| 2006 |
| 1
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The Strip Search
|
Mike Allen
|
| 2
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Tsunami Child
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| 3
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South
|
Marge Simon
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
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"As the Sun Rises"
|
Marcus Ewert
|
| *
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*Sacrifice to the Solstice*
|
roibeárd Uí-neíll
|
| *
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A Bestiary: Tlaltecuhtli
|
Tim Pratt
|
| *
|
After Cavafy
|
John Garrison
|
| *
|
American Requiem
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
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Application of Einstein's Theories to Personal Affairs
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Baskets Full of Gods
|
Rio Le Moignan
|
| *
|
Catastrophic Love Song
|
Jamie Wasserman
|
| *
|
Colder
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| *
|
Constellations
|
Duane Ackerson
|
| *
|
Fairy Tale Ending
|
Marsheila Rockwell
|
| *
|
Fighting the Tide
|
Melissa Marr
|
| *
|
Frankenstein's Monster's Wife's Therapist
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
From Earth to Moon
|
K. J. Kirby
|
| *
|
Genetics
|
Charles Saplak
|
| *
|
Grieve Not
|
John Borneman
|
| *
|
How the Sea People Mourn
|
Constance Cooper
|
| *
|
Ibis, Scribe
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Icarus
|
Chris Ambrose
|
| *
|
In Retirement
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
In Sight of the Seasons
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Keepers (from Grannie's Garden)
|
Mary E. Choo
|
| *
|
Like
|
Harry Bose
|
| *
|
Lost Over East Texas
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Medusa
|
Roger Dutcher
|
| *
|
Medusa in L.A.
|
Christina Sng
|
| *
|
Mindgames
|
Margo Roby
|
| *
|
Mist and Shadows
|
Helen Marshall
|
| *
|
New from the Götterdämmerung Shop
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| *
|
O Is for October
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
Once Upon a Time
|
Jaime Lee Moyer
|
| *
|
Orpheus Retires
|
Erin Keane
|
| *
|
Potato Pilots
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Prayer Causes Stars
|
Greg Beatty
|
| *
|
Prince Charming
|
Helena Bell
|
| *
|
Ratatouille
|
James S. Dorr
|
| *
|
Reptile Brain
|
Samantha Henderson
|
| *
|
Robot Origami
|
Robert Frazier
|
| *
|
Scorpions
|
Chris Fox (I)
|
| *
|
Screen Savior
|
Vincent Miskell
|
| *
|
Slow Spider Sunset
|
Todd Hanks
|
| *
|
Storm of Souls
|
Linda Addison
|
| *
|
The Cathedral of Lost Faces
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
The Holes Left Behind
|
C. W. Sabetelli
|
| *
|
The Intelligent Designer
|
Irving Rothchild
|
| *
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The Presence of Merlin on Glastonbury Tor
|
Teresa Noelle Roberts
|
| *
|
The Sandman's Sestina
|
E. Sedia
|
| *
|
Theoretical Physics of Loss
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Those Who Landed, Surprised to Discover That Zombies Had Taken Over the Planet
|
Michael A. Arnzen
|
| *
|
Thoughts, from a Sin Eater
|
Pam McNew
|
| *
|
Through the Back Windshield
|
Ash Bowen
|
| *
|
TimeFlood
|
Mike Allen
and
Ian Watson
|
| *
|
Utnapishtim on Friday After Dessert
|
Danny Adams
|
| *
|
Village of the Mermaids: A Painting by Paul Delvaux
|
Cythera
|
| |
| 2007 |
| 1
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The Graven Idol's Godheart
|
Rich Ristow
|
| 2
|
god is dead short live god
|
Joe Haldeman
|
| 3
|
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Hole
|
Lawrence Schimel
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"Time stumbles sideways"
|
Robin Mayhall
|
| *
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A Candlemass Poem
|
Jo Walton
|
| *
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A Wing and a Prayer
|
Jessica D. Thompson
|
| *
|
As the Moon Loses Its Smile
|
Deborah P. Kolodji
|
| *
|
Atom's Apple
|
Roger E. Naylor
and
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
Bacchanal
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
|
Beach Climbing
|
Elizabeth Barrette
|
| *
|
Casualty
|
Kenneth B. Chiacchia
|
| *
|
Cobwebs in Heaven
|
Ian Watson
|
| *
|
Deepspace Meditation
|
Kendall Evans
|
| *
|
Demands of the Voluptuous Virginal Sacrifice
|
John Edward Lawson
|
| *
|
Disneyesque
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Neal Wilgus
|
| *
|
Dwarves
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| *
|
First Festival
|
Samantha Henderson
|
| *
|
Frost Bitten
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
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I Build Engines
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
In All Probability
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K. J. Kirby
|
| *
|
In the Sweltering Ruins of the Old City
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Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Into the Heart
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Mirta Ana Schultz
|
| *
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It will appear on your water and sewerage bill
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Julia Sevin
|
| *
|
Love's Resistance—Crossing the Wheatstone Bridge
|
John Borneman
|
| *
|
Manifest Density
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
|
Ogygia
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Pluto Contemplates His Next Career
|
JoSelle Vanderhooft
|
| *
|
Saint Jefferson Then and Now
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
Sir Once Forgotten
|
Jaime Lee Moyer
|
| *
|
Sleeping Beauty
|
Mary Alexandra Agner
|
| *
|
Spider Silk
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
Spiral Scream
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Taking Back the Moon
|
Duane Ackerson
|
| *
|
Template for a Fairy Tale
|
Mike Allen
and
Charles Saplak
|
| *
|
The Edge of the World
|
James S. Dorr
|
| *
|
The Last Madman
|
William Sanders
|
| *
|
The Mute
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
| *
|
The Spider Wakes
|
Deborah P. Kolodji
and
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Time Zones
|
Elizabeth Jodi Woodward
|
| *
|
To a Lover Dying Old
|
Lida Broadhurst
|
| *
|
Touched by the Gods
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| *
|
Twilight
|
Jaime Lee Moyer
|
| *
|
Two Cathedrals
|
Malcolm Deeley
|
| *
|
Very Soon ...
|
Hosho McCreesh
|
| *
|
When We Sent Our Poems Into Space
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| *
|
When Will Time Unfold
|
Robert Frazier
|
| |
| 2008 |
| 1
|
Eating Light
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| 2
|
Ice Palace
|
Margaret Atwood
|
| 3
|
The Oracle on River Street
|
Rachel Swirsky
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"my man come back"
|
Daniel R. Robichaud
|
| *
|
After Appomattox
|
Holly Cooley
|
| *
|
At the Tsukiji Fish Market
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
Be Patient, Don't Try to Open Your Eyes
|
Sankar Roy
|
| *
|
Be True
|
Mary Alexandra Agner
|
| *
|
Beyond the Clouds of Paradise
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Cellwoman
|
Deborah P. Kolodji
|
| *
|
Dark Matter
|
Rae Armantrout
|
| *
|
Doomed
|
K. Ceres Wright
|
| *
|
Ersatz Man, Walking
|
Charles Saplak
|
| *
|
Falling
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
Follow Me Home
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Foodstuff
|
A. E. Lowery
|
| *
|
Given to the Frost
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Giving Back to the Muse
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
|
Heat
|
Sandra J. Lindow
|
| *
|
How to Hide in a Japanese Print
|
Lila Garrott
|
| *
|
I Can Feel the Drilling
|
Drew Morse
|
| *
|
If We Had No Moon
|
John Borneman
|
| *
|
Les Fantômes (29 August 2005)
|
James S. Dorr
|
| *
|
Loup garou
|
Serena Fusek
|
| *
|
Menace Anyone
|
Brian Rosenberger
|
| *
|
Mrs. McGregor
|
Robert Borski
|
| *
|
My Android Bob
|
Pam McNew
|
| *
|
Next Time Write It Down
|
Charles Saplak
|
| *
|
Night Falls
|
Greg Schwartz
|
| *
|
Nine days out—
|
Jaime Lee Moyer
|
| *
|
Only the Moon
|
J. E. Stanley
|
| *
|
Poems from the New Symbiont
|
Deborah P. Kolodji
|
| *
|
Reservations Suggested
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Skyman's Daughter
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
Snow After False Spring, Again
|
Mary Turzillo
|
| *
|
Snowball's Chance
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Tales of You
|
Jaime Lee Moyer
|
| *
|
The Amateur Astronomer in Me
|
Timothy Green
|
| *
|
The Beetles' Dung, the Bird's Blind Eye
|
Kendall Evans
and
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
The Crone Meets Her Son (On a Battlefield)
|
K. J. Bishop
|
| *
|
The Cyburbs
|
Constance Cooper
|
| *
|
The Envoy
|
Mikal Trimm
|
| *
|
The Marian Lee
|
Mary Alexandra Agner
|
| *
|
The Night Silent
|
Christopher Hivner
|
| *
|
The Periodic Table
|
Charles Larsen
|
| *
|
The Windfalls
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
They Threw Their Daughters Into the Sea
|
Karen A. Romanko
|
| *
|
Time
|
Norman J. Olson
|
| *
|
To All My Clones
|
Shelley Lesher
|
| *
|
Tribute to an Astronaut
|
Rita Janice Traub
|
| *
|
Ursine Conversation
|
Pam McNew
|
| *
|
Valandinne Sings Galdr and Seio
|
Misha Nogha
|
| *
|
Virgin Dragon Birth
|
Gary Every
|
| *
|
We Made Poetry
|
Mary Turzillo
|
| *
|
Weightless
|
K. S. Hardy
|
| *
|
Winter's Keep
|
Yoon Ha Lee
|
| |
| 2009 |
| 1
|
Song for an Ancient City
|
Amal El-Mohtar
|
| 2
|
Spell
|
Samantha Henderson
|
| 3
|
The Future
|
Billy Collins
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"eruptions"
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
|
"faint"
|
Charles Gramlich
|
| *
|
A Mother Speaks
|
Joshua Gage
|
| *
|
A Sad, a Southern Face
|
Lynn Strongin
|
| *
|
A Taxi Driver on Mars
|
Bryn Fortey
|
| *
|
Animal Rescue
|
Deborah P. Kolodji
|
| *
|
Autopoiesis
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Awaré for the Woman Who Disappears in Silence
|
Jeannine Hall Gailey
|
| *
|
Bats
|
Greg Schwartz
|
| *
|
Becoming Fictional
|
Jen Valencia
|
| *
|
Camera Obscura
|
Deborah P. Kolodji
|
| *
|
Cherries in Winter
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Collage
|
Todd Hanks
|
| *
|
Dear Giant Squid
|
Peter Sears
|
| *
|
Don't Get Too Close to the Baby
|
Francis W. Alexander
|
| *
|
Dystopian Dusk
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Emile's Ghosts
|
James S. Dorr
|
| *
|
Four Haiku Poems on Artificial Intelligence
|
Christopher M. Cevasco
|
| *
|
Frankenstein's Ice Mirror
|
Diana Adams
|
| *
|
Green Cotillions
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| *
|
Green Willow Wife
|
Jeannine Hall Gailey
|
| *
|
In the Slipstream of the Levee's Overflow
|
Kendall Evans
and
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
In the World
|
Sandy Walejko
|
| *
|
Internet Witch
|
Karen L. Newman
|
| *
|
Logos
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Lovers
|
Rhonda Parrish
|
| *
|
Lunaticus (in D Minor)
|
J. E. Stanley
|
| *
|
Midnight Rendezvous, Philly
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
|
My Addiction
|
Edward Morris
|
| *
|
No Word for Goodbye
|
Pam McNew
|
| *
|
Odysseus on the war train
|
Rose Lemberg
|
| *
|
Pandora's Box, Afterward
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Pavlov's Best Friend
|
Kristine Ong Muslim
|
| *
|
Piece of Mind
|
Anthony Bernstein
|
| *
|
Pygmalion
|
Malcolm Deeley
|
| *
|
Return of Zombie Teen Angst
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
|
Screams
|
Ian Watson
|
| *
|
Six Miles from Nowhere
|
Deborah P. Kolodji
|
| *
|
Smells
|
Jane Yolen
|
| *
|
So Many Lullabies
|
Mary Alexandra Agner
|
| *
|
Some Random Hero
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
Songs Were Washing Up
|
Francesca Forrest
|
| *
|
Streamside
|
Mark Rich
|
| *
|
Tammuz to Ishtar
|
Delbert R. Gardner
|
| *
|
The A. I.'s Table Prayer
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| *
|
The Astronaut's Return
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
The Deceptive Truth
|
Brian W. Aldiss
|
| *
|
The Devourer
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
The Gnome's Spectacles
|
Chris Burdett
|
| *
|
The Illuminator
|
Joshua Gage
|
| *
|
The Invisible Woman Runs for President
|
Karen A. Romanko
|
| *
|
The Midwife's Progress
|
Joy Marchand
|
| *
|
The Seasons' Dying
|
Samantha Henderson
|
| *
|
There, where the universe begins
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
|
To the Royal Society of Cryptozoologists from the Concerned Daughter of a Member
|
Caitlyn Paxson
|
| *
|
Von Neumann's Poem
|
Aaron Benson
|
| *
|
World's Oldest Profession 2.0
|
G. O. Clark
|
| |
| 2010 |
| 1
|
To Theia
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| 2
|
The Changeling Always Wins
|
Nicole Kornher-Stace
|
| 3
|
Nine Views of the Oracle
|
Rachel Manija Brown
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"parental pride"
|
Carolyn M. Hinderliter
|
| *
|
A Tale of Three Worlds
|
David Lee Summers
|
| *
|
Alexander von Humboldt Visits the Moon
|
Sharon Mock
|
| *
|
Apple Jack Tangles the Maidy Lac with a Red, Red Ribbon
|
Amal El-Mohtar
and
Jessica Paige Wick
|
| *
|
Apsara
|
Shweta Narayan
|
| *
|
Ascending
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
|
At Death's Door
|
Larry Hammer
|
| *
|
Cabaret
|
J. E. Stanley
|
| *
|
Cities in Fog
|
Robert Frazier
and
Andrew Joron
|
| *
|
City of Bridges
|
J. E. Stanley
|
| *
|
Clotho Visits the Local Yarn Store
|
Paula Berman
|
| *
|
Conjunctions
|
Neil Gaiman
|
| *
|
Conrad, in the Autopsy Room
|
Kristine Ong Muslim
|
| *
|
Earthrise, Viewed from Meridiani, Sol 687
|
Geoff Landis
|
| *
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
Bryan D. Dietrich
|
| *
|
Endings
|
Elizabeth Bennefeld
|
| *
|
Eventual, I
|
Greg Beatty
|
| *
|
Exobiology II
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Fallen Gardens
|
Elizabeth Barrette
|
| *
|
Finding the God Particle
|
Sandra J. Lindow
|
| *
|
For a Few Coins, I Draw You a Picture
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
From Tindalos
|
Wade German
|
| *
|
Fungi from Yuggoth
|
Michael Kriesel
|
| *
|
God's Cat
|
Lyn C. A. Gardner
|
| *
|
Godzilla's Better Half
|
Matt Betts
|
| *
|
It Snowed
|
Mark Rich
|
| *
|
Joy Ride
|
Angel Favazza
|
| *
|
Laments of the Lucid Dreamer
|
Charles Saplak
|
| *
|
Layers of Man
|
John C. Mannone
|
| *
|
Millennial Mass
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Nonrenewable Resources
|
Marsheila Rockwell
|
| *
|
Of Amaranth and Honey
|
Marsheila Rockwell
|
| *
|
On Its Own
|
Suzanne Sykora
|
| *
|
Online Edition hillbilly invasion
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Outfoxed
|
Duane Ackerson
|
| *
|
Outward, Through the Inner Worlds
|
Malcolm Deeley
|
| *
|
Owner's Manual
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
Particles and Planets
|
James B. Nicola
|
| *
|
Rapunzel Considers the Desert
|
Jeannine Hall Gailey
|
| *
|
Scent & Sensibility
|
Robert Borski
|
| *
|
Self-Portrait As Dryad, No. 7
|
Marly Youmans
|
| *
|
The Airships Take Us, Even As We Blow Out the Last Candle
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
The Bears Are Working
|
Shweta Narayan
|
| *
|
The Bermuda Triangle
|
Duane Ackerson
|
| *
|
The Bookseller's Tale
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
The Chymical Marriage
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
The Dreamgod
|
Elizabeth Barrette
|
| *
|
The Men All Pause (A Poem on Global Warming)
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
The Mummy Child
|
Elizabeth Barrette
|
| *
|
The Qin Golem
|
Francesca Forrest
|
| *
|
The Time Traveler Takes His Nth Lover at a Point of Departure
|
Bruce Boston
and
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
The Tree of Forgiveness
|
Kristine Ong Muslim
|
| *
|
Triangulation
|
George Moore (I)
|
| *
|
Two Kinds of Time
|
Meliors Simms
|
| *
|
Wishes for Godmothers
|
Mary Alexandra Agner
|
| |
| 2011 |
| 1
|
Peach-Creamed Honey
(variant of Peach Creamed Honey)
|
Amal El-Mohtar
|
| 2
|
Binary Creation Myth
|
Karen A. Romanko
|
| 3
|
Dogstar Men
|
C. S. E. Cooney
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
A few stops on the journey
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
A Holiday in Necropolis
|
Brian Trent
|
| *
|
A Path Without Bones
|
C. S. MacCath
|
| *
|
An Incomplete Map of Death
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| *
|
Anakatabasis
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
By the Dog
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Call of the Wired
|
Angel Favazza
|
| *
|
Cave-Smell
|
Shweta Narayan
|
| *
|
Chronomancy
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Compelling Outward Flight
|
Shelly Bryant
|
| *
|
Cultural Climate
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Domovoi, I Came Back!
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Genetic Memory Comes to Me
|
Nancy Ellis Taylor
|
| *
|
Here We Are/Implied in the Shadows/Cast Upon Saturn's Atmosphere
|
Kendall Evans
|
| *
|
Hoarding Light
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| *
|
Human Fighting Is Illegal
|
Juan Manuel Perez
|
| *
|
I, Cannibal
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
Images in the Dark
|
Patrice M. Wilson
|
| *
|
Imagined World
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
In the Earth in Those Days
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Lizards and Wind
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Midnight Posture
|
Lyn C. A. Gardner
|
| *
|
Minotaur Noir
|
Rachel Manija Brown
|
| *
|
My Bones' Cracked Abacus
|
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
|
| *
|
My Own Ending
|
Michael Fosburg
|
| *
|
Of Ithaca & Ice
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
On Keeping Pluto a Planet
|
Greg Beatty
|
| *
|
Planet Anhedonia
|
Sarah Lindsay
|
| *
|
Putting Off the Past
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Quiet in Her Mind
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Red Magic
|
Robin Spriggs
|
| *
|
Rondel for Apollo 11: Here Men from the Planet Earth
|
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
| *
|
Scrapyard Outpost
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Sightings
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
The Black Lotus
|
R. Paul Sardanas
|
| *
|
The Chain to Her Leg
|
W. S. Merwin
|
| *
|
The Conjuror
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
The Darkness Whispers
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
The Ghosts of Moody St.
|
Adrienne J. Odasso
|
| *
|
The Gospel of the Rope
|
Jane Yolen
|
| *
|
The Legend of the Flying Dutchman
|
B. J. Lee
|
| *
|
The Shoemaker's Daughters
|
Joshua Gage
|
| *
|
The Witch In Your Mirror
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Tinkerbell
|
Stephanie Parent
|
| *
|
Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pit
|
Jaimee Hills
|
| *
|
Twin-Born
|
Rose Lemberg
|
| *
|
Volcanoes on Io
|
Melissa Frederick
|
| *
|
We Took Our Gods
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| *
|
What Mighty Force?
|
Ruth Naylor
|
| *
|
Yuletide
|
Richard L. Tierney
|
| |
| 2012 |
| 1
|
The Library, After
|
Shira Lipkin
|
| 2
|
The Lend
|
Erik Amundsen
|
| 3
|
In Translation
|
Lyn C. A. Gardner
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
A Greater Moon
|
Gerald Warfield
|
| *
|
A Modest Suggestion
|
Neal Wilgus
|
| *
|
Abel
|
Robert Borski
|
| *
|
Angel's Den
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
Bridges
|
|
| *
|
Christogenesis
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
Closure
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
Clothes of Yesterday
|
Angel Favazza
|
| *
|
Dark Matter
|
Timons Esaias
|
| *
|
Dead Hotels
|
Anna Sykora
|
| *
|
Down Cycles
|
Elizabeth R. McClellan
|
| *
|
Dragon
|
Kendall Evans
|
| *
|
Escaping the Dawn
|
Jacqueline West
|
| *
|
Fembot
|
Roz Kaveney
|
| *
|
Fingernails
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
First Loves for the First Time
|
Keith Kennedy
|
| *
|
Folding Money
|
Denise Dumars
|
| *
|
Graffiti Tree
|
Mary A. Turzillo
|
| *
|
Grendel's Mother
|
Heidy Steidlmayer
|
| *
|
idiointerventionist
|
W. Gregory Stewart
|
| *
|
Lanterns
|
Alexandra Seidel
|
| *
|
Lion Heart
|
Tim Pratt
|
| *
|
Love in the Quantum Era
|
Greg Leunig
|
| *
|
Love in the Time of Alien Invasion
|
Joanne Merriam
|
| *
|
Luna Satyricon
|
Tisha Garcia
and
R. Paul Sardanas
|
| *
|
Monkey See
|
James S. Dorr
|
| *
|
Moving to Enceladus
|
Mary A. Turzillo
|
| *
|
Mr. and Mrs. Goodnight
|
John Grey
|
| *
|
My Unicorn
|
Martin Elster
|
| *
|
Nuclear Stockpile Janitor
|
Kurt Newton
|
| *
|
Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
Past Human
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Peter and Alice
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Ravel: An Etymology
|
Matthew Richards
|
| *
|
Red Grown
|
James E. Tolan
|
| *
|
Response to Botticelli
|
Rich Boucher
|
| *
|
Response to Poe's "Sonnet – To Science"
|
Scott Nickel
|
| *
|
slit sea cucumber
|
John W. Sexton
|
| *
|
Taking the Auspices
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Thank God for Proust
|
Dawn McDuffie
|
| *
|
The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light
|
Neile Graham
|
| *
|
The Elusive Language of Purple Birds
|
Robin Spriggs
|
| *
|
The Human Guest
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
The Kite
|
Kyla Lee Ward
|
| *
|
The Magic Walnut
|
|
| *
|
the more space
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
The Music of Robots
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
The Ones Outside Your Door
|
Neile Graham
|
| *
|
The Physics Major Agrees to Take the English Major Stargazing
|
Andrew Rihn
|
| *
|
The Seas of Time
|
Ty Russell
|
| *
|
The Shipwright's Song
|
Elizabeth Barrette
|
| *
|
The Tortoise's Encounter
|
B. J. Lee
|
| *
|
The Witch's Heart
|
Nicole Kornher-Stace
|
| *
|
To the ancients, the sea was a dangerous place
|
Anna Waite
|
| *
|
Vanity
|
Juan M. Perez
|
| *
|
Venus to Her Terraformers
|
Mary Alexandra Agner
|
| *
|
Visitors
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
When I Arrived, This Is What She Said.
|
C. S. MacCath
|
| *
|
World's End
|
Becca De La Rosa
|
| *
|
Yayoi Kusama goes to Iceland
|
Janis Freegard
|
| *
|
Young Miss Frankenstein Regrets
|
Camille Alexa
|
| *
|
Zombie Poet
|
Carolyn Clink
|
| |
| 2013 |
| 1
|
The Cat Star
|
Terry A. Garey
|
| 2
|
Futurity's Shoelaces
|
Marge Simon
|
| 3
|
Sister Philomela Heard the Voices of Angels
|
Megan Arkenberg
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"a rabid bat"
|
LeRoy Gorman
|
| *
|
"dark figure"
|
Carolyn M. Hinderliter
|
| *
|
"we play the lithophones"
|
Dan Smith (poet)
|
| *
|
10 Things to Know About Staple Removers
|
Ian Hunter
|
| *
|
2001
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
A Chorus of Severed Pipes
|
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
|
| *
|
A sea monster tells his story
(variant of A Sea Monster Tells His Story)
|
David Livingstone Clink
|
| *
|
Absent Fiends
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
Beachhead
|
Michael Fosburg
and
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
bell, book, candle
|
Gwynne Garfinkle
|
| *
|
Blind Obedience
|
Dennis M. Lane
|
| *
|
Bliss
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Blueshift
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Burning Down Woods on a Snowy Evening
|
James S. Dorr
|
| *
|
Burnt Lyric
|
Sofia Samatar
|
| *
|
Claws
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Cognizance: A Triptych
|
Kurt MacPhearson
|
| *
|
Conservatory of Shadows
|
Jacie Ragan
|
| *
|
Dear Fairy-Tale Mother
|
Sally Rosen Kindred
|
| *
|
Dream Train
|
B. J. Lee
|
| *
|
Elemental
|
Jeannine Hall Gailey
|
| *
|
First Context
|
John Garrison
|
| *
|
Future History
|
Joe Haldeman
|
| *
|
Give Me Pluto
|
Alexandra Seidel
|
| *
|
Going Viral
|
Mary Turzillo
|
| *
|
Hair
|
Hel Gurney
|
| *
|
I Am Chupacabra
|
Juan Manuel Perez
|
| *
|
In His Eighty-Second Year
|
Dominik Parisien
|
| *
|
Jörmungandr
|
Vajra Chandrasekera
|
| *
|
LOL_ALIENS
|
Elizabeth Barrette
|
| *
|
Moon
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
No Poisoned Comb
|
Amal El-Mohtar
|
| *
|
Nocturne
|
Linda D. Addison
and
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
Not a Metaphor but a Lifestyle
|
Lesley Wheeler
|
| *
|
Parallax
|
Adrienne J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Pavane
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Perversity
|
Stephen D. Rogers
|
| *
|
Prince of Autumn
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Profane Inspiration
|
Marsheila Rockwell
|
| *
|
Red Riding Hood Remembers
|
Andrea Blythe
|
| *
|
Redcap
|
Gemma Files
|
| *
|
Regrets Only
|
Jeannie Tomasko
|
| *
|
Roc
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
Rossum's Universal Robot Rebuts
|
Neil Ellman
|
| *
|
Self-Portrait As a Raccoon
|
Noel Sloboda
|
| *
|
She Walks in Light and Darkness
|
Elizabeth Barrette
|
| *
|
Something Super
|
Mary Alexandra Agner
|
| *
|
Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town
|
John Philip Johnson
|
| *
|
Strangers in This P;ace
|
Stephen M. Wilson
|
| *
|
The Dark
|
Michael Fantina
|
| *
|
The Day That the Screens All Died
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
The Ghosts of Birds
|
Helen Marshall
|
| *
|
The Mermaid's Winter Song
|
Brittany Warman
|
| *
|
The Moon Tripped
|
Angel Favazza
|
| *
|
The Music of a Dead World
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
The Woman Who Caught a Storm in Her Hair
|
Ruby Sara
|
| *
|
The Year of Disasters
|
Sofia Samatar
|
| *
|
The Year of Disasters
|
Sofia Samatar
|
| *
|
Tiger Lily Speaks
|
Sally Rosen Kindred
|
| *
|
Trumpet Vine Love Song
|
Francesca Forrest
|
| *
|
Victory Garden
|
Samantha Henderson
|
| *
|
Vigor Mortis
|
C. W. Johnson
|
| *
|
What Would You Think
|
Theodora Goss
|
| *
|
Zipcar in Heaven
|
Merav Hoffman
|
| |
| 2014 |
| 1
|
Turning the Leaves
|
Amal El-Mohtar
|
| 2
|
Rivers
|
Geoffrey Landis
|
| 3
|
Music of the Stars
|
Bruce Boston
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
A City of Buried Rivers
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
A Virtuous Woman
|
Nancy Hightower
|
| *
|
After the Moons
|
Russell Jones
|
| *
|
Alien Interrogation
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
Apache Chief
|
Sofia Samatar
|
| *
|
Black Bird
|
Stephanie M. Wytovich
|
| *
|
Blackmare
|
Natalia Theodoridou
|
| *
|
Bluebeard's Wife
|
Helen Marshall
|
| *
|
Climbing Up the Sky
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Don't Call Me a Fairy
|
B. J. Lee
|
| *
|
Doppelganger
|
John Light
|
| *
|
Even Cowgirls Spread the News
|
Laurel Winter
|
| *
|
Faerystruck Down
|
Jason Sturner
|
| *
|
From the Soil
|
Anna Sykora
|
| *
|
How Many
|
Ruth Berman
|
| *
|
Indefensible Disclosures
|
William John Watkins
|
| *
|
Irène Joliot-Curie
|
Mary McMyne
|
| *
|
Ivy
|
Adrienne J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Leaving Papa
|
Darrell Lindsey
|
| *
|
Liar, Liar
|
Robert Borski
|
| *
|
My Translation Wouldn't Be the Same As Yours
|
Lesley Wheeler
|
| *
|
Nephology
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Orbit
|
Diane Severson
|
| *
|
Pinocchio in the Toothpick Factory
|
Andrew Kozma
|
| *
|
Re-Obsolete
|
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
|
| *
|
Rhythm of Hoof and Cry
|
S. Brackett Robertson
|
| *
|
Rigel
|
Adrienne J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Singing the Plains
|
Rachael Bundock
|
| *
|
Sleeping Beauty Makes Dinner
|
Sally Rosen Kindred
|
| *
|
The Bed I Haven't Made Yet
(variant of The Bed I Haven't Made)
|
Peg Duthie
|
| *
|
The Bone Cutter's Lament
|
James Frederick William Rowe
|
| *
|
The Captain Speaks
|
Leslie J. Anderson
|
| *
|
The Narrow Hours
|
Gwendolyn Clare
|
| *
|
The Specialist
|
James S. Dorr
|
| *
|
The Waiting
|
Dennis M. Lane
|
| *
|
Topic of Cancer
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| *
|
Triptych
|
Jane Crowley
|
| *
|
Untitled ("imagining")
|
Joshua Gage
|
| *
|
untitled tanka
|
Carolyn Clink
|
| *
|
View from the Oort Cloud
|
Shelly Bryant
|
| *
|
What She Dreams Of
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Wheels
|
Adele Gardner
|
| *
|
While on the Evacuation Shuttle
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
|
Why I Sold My Soul to the Storyteller
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| |
| 2015 |
| 1
|
Shutdown
|
Marge Simon
|
| 2
|
Science Fiction (with apologies to Marianne Moore's "Poetry")
(variant of Science Fiction)
|
Ruth Berman
|
| 3
|
After the Changeling Incantation
|
John Philip Johnson
|
| 3
|
Extinction
|
Joshua Gage
|
| 3
|
I Imagine My Mother's Death
|
Bryan D. Dietrich
|
| 3
|
The Peal Divers
|
Francesca Forrest
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"Cthulhu partners"
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
"daydreaming"
|
Lauren McBride
|
| *
|
A Bulgakov Headache
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
A Universe
|
Timons Esaias
|
| *
|
A Work in Progress
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
After "Dark Matter"
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
After "Signs You're in Trouble"
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
After hours in the op shop
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
At the Dark Matter Zoo
|
Simon Petrie
|
| *
|
Attic Dust
|
Sandi Leibowitz
|
| *
|
Before You Were a Vampire
|
irving
|
| *
|
Beware of the Dog
|
James S. Dorr
|
| *
|
Cinderella Breast
|
Sandra J. Lindow
|
| *
|
Common Language
|
Elizabeth R. McClellan
|
| *
|
Dare I Keep the Body
|
Stephanie M. Wytovich
|
| *
|
Dark Energized
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Dark Matter, Dark Mind
|
Peter C. Venable
|
| *
|
Dragon to Centauri
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
Dualities
|
Rose Lemberg
|
| *
|
Elephants in the Alley
|
Terry A. Garey
|
| *
|
Eventually, You Become Immune
|
Stephanie M. Wytovich
|
| *
|
Field Notes
|
Lola Haskins
|
| *
|
Heere ther be Gods
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Intimate Universes
|
Jason Sturner
|
| *
|
It's a Universal Picture
|
Gwynne Garfinkle
|
| *
|
Keziah (Nahab) Mason
|
Cardinal Cox
|
| *
|
Landwork
|
Rose Lemberg
|
| *
|
Leap
|
Grace Seybold
|
| *
|
Lost
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Main Sequence
|
Saira Ali
|
| *
|
Marvel Word Problems
|
P. Andrew Miller
|
| *
|
Maybe Waldo Had Syphilis
|
Matt Betts
|
| *
|
Morning Sickness
|
Aimee Ogden
|
| *
|
Neuroanatomy Practical
|
Tim Craven
|
| *
|
Odyssey
|
Kim L. Neidigh
|
| *
|
Pauli Neutrino Telescope, Antartica, July 14th, 2033
|
David Barber
|
| *
|
Queen of Cups
|
Adrienne J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Remembering Jean Paul Sartre
|
Jeffrey Zable
|
| *
|
Revelation
|
Robin Spriggs
|
| *
|
Septuagenarian Flashback
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Short Forms
|
David Livingstone Clink
|
| *
|
Sonnet 65,000,000 BC
|
Mary A. Turzillo
|
| *
|
Stalking a Wizard
|
Michael Canfield
|
| *
|
Stephen Hawking
|
Bryan D. Dietrich
|
| *
|
The Cuckoo's Bride
|
Robert Borski
|
| *
|
The Delusions of Trees
|
David Barber
|
| *
|
The Devil Riding Your Back
|
Gabby Reed
|
| *
|
The Old Time Traveler's Song
|
William John Watkins
|
| *
|
The Rat Queen
|
Noel Sloboda
|
| *
|
The Time of Last Scattering
|
Lynette Mejía
|
| *
|
there are signs of Faerie everywhere
|
G. Sutton Breiding
|
| *
|
Worlds Apart
|
Mary Alexandra Agner
|
| *
|
You Are Here
|
Bogi Takács
|
| |
| 2016 |
| 1
|
Time Travel Vocabulary Problems
|
Ruth Berman
|
| 2
|
Tech Support for the Apocalypse
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| 3
|
An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice
|
Sandra J. Lindow
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"hell-bent"
|
Susan Burch
|
| *
|
Abandonarium
|
Stacey Balkun
|
| *
|
Aboard the Transport Tesoro
|
Lisa M. Bradley
|
| *
|
An Unrequited Process Loops
|
Marie Vibbert
|
| *
|
Attack of The Saurus
|
John Reinhart
|
| *
|
B'resheet
|
Julia Burns Liberman
|
| *
|
Before I Kill You (an Arch-Villainelle)
|
David Sklar
|
| *
|
Bone-House
|
A. J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Challenger
|
Bronwyn Lovell
|
| *
|
Couples Therapy
|
Howie Good
|
| *
|
Crater Conundrum Pizza
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
Elegy for WLC
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
Flora and Fauna
|
James Frederick Leach
|
| *
|
Forever Tracking
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Four Chambers
|
Shira Lipkin
|
| *
|
Fried Okra
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
Gaunt
|
Charles Allen Gramlich
|
| *
|
Glinda's Dilemma
|
Gloria Heffernan
|
| *
|
Hard Being a God
|
David Barber
|
| *
|
hard copy
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
He Promised Me the Moon
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
How Eternal Night Was Created
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
In Fits of Wildest Dreaming
|
K. A. Opperman
|
| *
|
Institutional Memory
|
Alexandra Erin
|
| *
|
It Came to Pass
|
Mark Mansfield
|
| *
|
Kraken
|
Tim Jones
|
| *
|
Ligeia
|
Ashley Dioses
|
| *
|
Lola
|
Gabby Reed
|
| *
|
Lot's Wife
|
Michelle Scalise
|
| *
|
luddite's dream
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
Moth and Memory
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
Mummies
|
Richard Hedderman
|
| *
|
Ode to Dorothy Gale
|
|
| *
|
On the Other Hand
|
James Dorr
|
| *
|
Origami Crane / Light-Defying Spaceship
|
Naru Dames Sundar
|
| *
|
Passenger Seat
|
Stephanie M. Wytovich
|
| *
|
Philomela in Seven Movements
|
Natalia Theodoridou
|
| *
|
Pleistocene Park ...
|
Mark Danowsky
|
| *
|
Portrait
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
Post-Apocalyptic Toothbrush
|
Betsy Ladyzhets
|
| *
|
Postlude
|
Nolan Liebert
|
| *
|
raven speaks
|
Michael Spring
|
| *
|
re-entry heat
|
Deborah Kolodji
|
| *
|
Requiem
|
Matt Quinn
|
| *
|
Reversed Polarities
|
Nin Harris
|
| *
|
Rip van Winkle on Mars
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Robot Agonistes
|
Alan Ira Gordon
|
| *
|
Secondary Ghosts
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
Selenites
|
John Philip Johnson
|
| *
|
Serving the Blind Girl
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
The Argument Box
|
J. D. Fox
|
| *
|
The Astronaut's Heart
|
Robert Borski
|
| *
|
The Boats
|
Adele Gardner
|
| *
|
The Case of Trying Too Hard
|
Steve Sneyd
|
| *
|
The Changeling's Gambit
|
Sasha Kim
|
| *
|
The Dreaded Dreadnoughtus
|
B. J. Lee
|
| *
|
The More It Changes...
|
Delbert R. Gardner
|
| *
|
The Only Time Machine
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
The Palace of Phantasies
|
K. A. Opperman
|
| *
|
The Scifaikiu ("hell-bent...")
|
Susan Burch
|
| *
|
The Subtle Arts of Chemistry
|
Elizabeth McClellen
|
| *
|
The Sun Never Rises
|
Michael Coolen
|
| *
|
The Sun Ships
|
Steven Withrow
|
| *
|
The Washerwoman's Daughter
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
The Woman Sings Her Marriage Into Being
|
Lev Mirov
|
| *
|
Transition Metal
|
A. J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Under the Cancer Tree
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| *
|
Untitled ("buried pet turtles...")
|
David Lee Summers
|
| *
|
Venice Letting Go
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
Why Have We Not Been Visited?
|
Martin Elster
|
| *
|
Worlds in Collision
|
Bryan D. Dietrich
|
| |
| 2017 |
| 1
|
George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts
|
Marge Simon
|
| 2
|
Build a Rocketship Contest: Alternative Class A. Instructions and Suggestions
|
Wendy Rathbone
|
| 3
|
Godzilla vs. King Kong
|
James S. Dorr
|
| 3
|
Richard Feynman's Commute
|
Jon Wesick
|
| 3
|
The Box of Dust and Monsters
|
Beth Cato
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| *
|
"3D printer"
|
Francis W. Alexander
|
| *
|
"appendage sale"
|
Susan Burch
|
| *
|
"Christmas on Mars"
|
Carolyn M. Hinderliter
|
| *
|
"The Old Ones gather"
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
|
*For Quick Sale*
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
A Bug in the System
|
Anton Cancre
|
| *
|
A Natural History of Snow
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
Adolescence
|
Ken Poyner
|
| *
|
After
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
Always the Black and White Keys
|
Corrine De Winter
|
| *
|
Annie&Diana/One Canoe
|
Shari Caplan
|
| *
|
Antagonist
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
At the Robot National Convention
|
Alan Ira Gordon
|
| *
|
Black Bull of Norroway
|
Jane Yolen
|
| *
|
Bones Knock in the House
|
Mary McMyne
|
| *
|
Bottle Cast Upon a Dry Sea
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Classification of Folktales
|
Margaret Wack
|
| *
|
Death Rides USAir at Night
|
Jane Yolen
|
| *
|
Descent of the Composer
|
Airea D. Matthews
|
| *
|
Dorothy Delivered
|
Kathleen A. Lawrence
|
| *
|
Exotic Heads Trimmed Neatly
|
John Reinhart
|
| *
|
Falling (A Part )
|
Alexandra Erin
|
| *
|
Feles Alieni Vere Sunt
|
Neile Graham
|
| *
|
Foreign Policy
|
David Barber
|
| *
|
Glastonbury, 1994
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
History Teacher
|
Gary Every
|
| *
|
How Far Does Night Have to Fall?
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
I Left My Heart in San Francisco. I Left Yours Somewhere in Colorado ...
|
Matt Betts
|
| *
|
Ink
|
Akua Lezli Hope
|
| *
|
Invocation of Diana
|
K. A. Opperman
|
| *
|
La Villa de Sirenia
|
Jack Ralls
|
| *
|
Learning the History of War
|
J. J. Steinfeld
|
| *
|
Less Than Human
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
Loose String
|
E. Kristin Anderson
|
| *
|
Love in the Time of Apocalypse
|
Ann Thornfield-Long
|
| *
|
Marginalia on Eiruvin 45b
|
Bogi Takács
|
| *
|
Martian Garden
|
John Philip Johnson
|
| *
|
Memorial (for Jonathan Franzen)
|
Tim Jones
|
| *
|
My Corpse, My Groom
|
Ashley Dioses
|
| *
|
My Pet Alien
|
Dennis Caswell
|
| *
|
Nothing Goes Away
|
A. J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Of My Wounds, There Are Many
|
Stephanie M. Wytovich
|
| *
|
One Canoe
|
Shari Caplan
|
| *
|
Orpheus
|
Ace G. Pilkington
|
| *
|
Past Imperfect
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
| *
|
Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects
|
T. D. Walker
|
| *
|
Propagation
|
Layla Al-Bedawi
|
| *
|
Quack
|
Neal Wilgus
|
| *
|
Quasar
|
Triin Paja
|
| *
|
Returning
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
Riding the Dark
|
B. J. Lee
|
| *
|
Robot Testimonial Z
|
Margaret Rhee
|
| *
|
Rusalka
|
Jane Yolen
|
| *
|
Salome's New King
|
Terry Miller
|
| *
|
Sappho and the Woman of Starlight
|
John W. Sexton
|
| *
|
Selkie
|
E. Kristin Anderson
|
| *
|
Skin
|
Alice Fanchiang
|
| *
|
Song of the Encantado
|
Jeremy Paden
|
| *
|
Space Opera
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
Spoiler Alert
|
Matt Betts
|
| *
|
Star Dust
|
Josh Brown
|
| *
|
Stellar Quake
|
John C. Mannone
|
| *
|
Supercomputer Spends the Night
|
Danielle Zaccagnino
|
| *
|
Sutekh from the Throne
|
Denise Dumars
|
| *
|
Terran Mythology
|
Shannon Connor Winward
|
| *
|
The Architect of Bonfires
|
Tonya Liburd
|
| *
|
The Ash Manifesto
|
Rose Lemberg
|
| *
|
The Bird Prince
|
John W. Sexton
|
| *
|
The birds forget to sing
|
Carl Mayfield
|
| *
|
The Dark Between Stars
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
|
Lev Mirov
|
| *
|
The Fantasy of Hans Christian Andersen
|
KH van Berkum
|
| *
|
The Frog
|
K. Cassandra O'Malley
|
| *
|
The Genius
|
Sara Backer
|
| *
|
The Giantess's Dream
|
Ada Hoffmann
|
| *
|
The Last Woman on Earth
|
Mary Stone
|
| *
|
The Long Run
|
Neil Gaiman
|
| *
|
The Memory Machines
|
Jane Williams
|
| *
|
The Persecution of Witches
|
Ali Trotta
|
| *
|
The Phosphorescent Fungi
|
D. L. Myers
|
| *
|
The Sparrows in Her Hair
|
Hester J. Rook
|
| *
|
The Spook Tree
|
Cindy O'Quinn
|
| *
|
The woman on the bus encounters time dilation
|
Daniel R. Jones
|
| *
|
This Rat
|
Anne Carly Abad
|
| *
|
To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse
|
Burlee Vang
|
| *
|
To the Girl Who Ran Through Crop Circles
|
Karen J. Weyant
|
| *
|
Until Dawn
|
Michael H. Hanson
|
| *
|
Well, Water, Stars
|
Adele Gardner
|
| *
|
What Wants Us
|
Karolina Fedyk
|
| *
|
Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek
|
Timons Esaias
|
| *
|
Widening Gyre
|
A. J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Witch Lord of the Hunt
|
Ashley Dioses
|
| *
|
World's Tiniest Human
|
Muriel Leung
|
| |
| 2018 |
| 1
|
Advice to a Six-Year-Old
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| 2
|
How to Grieve: A Primer for Witches
|
Sara Cleto
|
| 3
|
Gramarye
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| --- Finalists ------- |
| *
|
"late to work"
|
Julie Bloss Kelsey
|
| *
|
"reanimated"
|
Susan Burch
|
| *
|
"scent of blackened"
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
A Net to Snare a Unicorn
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
A Streetcar Named Happily Ever After
|
B. J. Lee
|
| *
|
After Midnight
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
Afterword: Sycorax's Daughters Unveiled
|
Linda D. Addison
|
| *
|
All-Purpose Spell for Banishment
|
Lesley Wheeler
|
| *
|
An Announcement
|
Sara Cleto
and
Brittany Warman
|
| *
|
Apologies from the Moon
|
Lynne Sargent
|
| *
|
Astro-Archaeologist's Log
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
Astronomers
|
Ace G. Pilkington
|
| *
|
Baalberith
|
Robert Beveridge
|
| *
|
Baba Yaga: Her Almost Origin Story
|
Minadora Macheret
|
| *
|
Beware
|
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
|
| *
|
Birth, Place
|
Brandon O'Brien
|
| *
|
Black Star
|
Adam Bolivar
|
| *
|
Circe's Guests
|
Amelia Gorman
|
| *
|
Cosmovore Searches the Animal Shelter
|
Kristi Carter
|
| *
|
Dark Solstice Cold and Deathly
|
Richard L. Tierney
|
| *
|
Dead Bride Philosophy
|
Sara Tantlinger
|
| *
|
Dear Shotgun City
|
Holly Walrath
|
| *
|
early years of transdimensional travel
|
John Reinhart
|
| *
|
Egress
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
End-Times Tables
|
Margarita Tenser
|
| *
|
Endeavour
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Enthusiasts of Ruin
|
Margaret Wack
|
| *
|
First Date
|
David F. Shultz
|
| *
|
Flowers for Asimov
|
William Shaw
|
| *
|
Giger's Children
|
Saba Razvi
|
| *
|
Goodnight
|
David F. Shultz
|
| *
|
Grand Guignol
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Guttersnipe
|
W. C. Roberts
|
| *
|
Hubble's Constant
|
Marian Moore
|
| *
|
In the business of things that don't earn you much
|
Ziad Gadou
|
| *
|
Lycium Barbarum
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
March Madness
|
Francis W. Alexander
|
| *
|
Medusa in Her Mirror
|
Hillary Lyon
|
| *
|
Messiaen Among The Dinosaurs
|
Tim Jones
|
| *
|
Midwest Wonder Expo
|
Amelia Gorman
|
| *
|
My Little Green Secret
|
Clay F. Johnson
|
| *
|
My Response to Your Mayday Call
|
David Clink
and
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
O Terrible Bird
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
One More Attempt at Disaster Preparedness
|
Jeannine Hall Gailey
|
| *
|
Other People's Tragedies
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| *
|
Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song
|
Holly Lyn Walrath
|
| *
|
Pleiades
|
Jenny Blackford
|
| *
|
Poisoned Apple
|
Ann Thornfield-Long
|
| *
|
Quantum Socks
|
R. Gene Turchin
|
| *
|
Radiant Things
|
A. J. Odasso
|
| *
|
Save Our Souls
|
Karen Bovenmyer
|
| *
|
Scorpio
|
Jo Walton
|
| *
|
Sea Legs
|
Milo Gallagher
|
| *
|
secret identities
|
Davian Aw
|
| *
|
Shadowfolk
|
John Philip Johnson
|
| *
|
She traveled back in time
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
|
Small Town Witches
|
Kate Pentecost
|
| *
|
Some Things Never Change
|
Alan Ira Gordon
|
| *
|
Song of a Changeling
|
Adele Gardner
|
| *
|
Starlight
|
Christina Sng
|
| *
|
Supper with the Sphinx
|
Carolyn Clink
|
| *
|
Surreal Bucket List #3
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Syncing Minefields
|
Karen Bovenmyer
|
| *
|
Table of Contents from a Lost Book of Divination
|
Dean Kostos
|
| *
|
The Alchemy of Arsenic
|
Neile Graham
|
| *
|
The Astronaut Nightmare
|
Michael H. Hanson
|
| *
|
The Dead Boy Teaches Me About Godzilla
|
Lana Hechtman Ayers
|
| *
|
The Dead Languages of the Wind
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
The Devil in Boston
|
A. J. Odasso
|
| *
|
The Empty House
|
A. J. Locke
|
| *
|
The Lovers and the Labyrinth
|
Sara Cleto
|
| *
|
The Mushroom Siren
|
K. A. Opperman
|
| *
|
The Mutant Rat
|
Krystal Volney
|
| *
|
The Scratch Inside Your Chest
|
Layla Al-Bedawi
|
| *
|
The Talking River
|
John W. Sexton
|
| *
|
The Witch Woman
|
Alexandra Seidel
|
| *
|
Titan's Magic Islands: Transient Features in the Hydrocarbon Seas
|
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
| *
|
Vaginoplasticine
|
Alison Rumfitt
|
| *
|
Vampirette
|
Kathleen A. Lawrence
|
| *
|
Villain L
|
Azriel Johnson
|
| *
|
Vul Ravin
|
D. L. Myers
|
| *
|
Wayfaring King
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
When the Aliens Come to Tea
|
Mary A. Turzillo
|
| *
|
Yellow Spiders
|
John C. Mannone
|
| |
| 2019 |
| 1
|
After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls
|
Beth Cato
|
| 2
|
What Loves You
|
Jeff Crandall
|
| 3
|
3D-Printed Brother
|
Millie Ho
|
| 3
|
A City Built on Bones
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| --- Finalists ------- |
| *
|
"as if ..."
|
LeRoy Gorman
|
| *
|
Acceptable Documentation
|
Sonya Taaffe
|
| *
|
Alien Interview Questions
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
An Alien Visits an Earth Psychiatrist
|
John Grey
|
| *
|
Beseeching the Kitchen Gods
|
M. C. Childs
|
| *
|
Cardiad
|
Virginia M. Mohlere
|
| *
|
Colorless Reflection
|
Cindy O'Quinn
|
| *
|
Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting
|
August Huerta
|
| *
|
Consumption
|
Jennifer Ruth Jackson
|
| *
|
Curse of Waccasassa Lagoon
|
John Reinhart
|
| *
|
Data Value
|
Patricia Gomes
|
| *
|
Dead-Eye Girl
|
Holly Lyn Walrath
|
| *
|
Dear Creator
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
Divinatory
|
Rose Lemberg
|
| *
|
Down in Windy Hollow
|
Jenny Blackford
|
| *
|
drop some amens
|
Brandon O'Brien
|
| *
|
Echoes of Light from Orbit
|
Megan R. Engelhardt
|
| *
|
Engineered
|
Bruce McAllister
|
| *
|
Entanglement
|
Kendall Evans
and
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Esprit d'escalier
|
May Chong
|
| *
|
Excalibur's Lament
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
Flat Dyson
|
Francis W. Alexander
|
| *
|
Forest Mother
|
Christina Sng
|
| *
|
Fortune Favors the Cold
|
Katherine Inskip
|
| *
|
From Her Tower, the Lady of Shalott Sees the Ice Age Come
|
R. Mac Jones
|
| *
|
Galahad Returns from the Holy Wars
|
David E. Cowen
|
| *
|
Generation Ship
|
David Barber
|
| *
|
Golgothan (Shit Demon's Sonnet)
|
David F. Shultz
|
| *
|
Heart's Desire
|
Lynn White
|
| *
|
Hey Man, Nice Shot
|
Gretchen Tessmer
|
| *
|
Intruders
|
Cindy O'Quinn
|
| *
|
Laika
|
Holly Day
|
| *
|
Lament of the Four Moons
|
Kendall Evans
and
John Philip Johnson
|
| *
|
Lost Memories
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Mars Must Remember
|
Denise Dumars
|
| *
|
Mining Time
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
Monster, Creature, Human
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
My Little Vampire
|
Adele Gardner
|
| *
|
Neuraweb
|
Logan Thrasher Collins
|
| *
|
O Siren
|
Ashley Dioses
|
| *
|
Ode to the Gorgon
|
K. A. Opperman
|
| *
|
Okuri Inu, or the Sending-Off Dog Demon
|
Betsy Aoki
|
| *
|
Our Lady of the Winter Squash
|
Jenny Blackford
|
| *
|
Pan's Descent
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Past Is Present
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
| *
|
Pinocchio Plays the Cotton Club
|
Alan Ira Gordon
|
| *
|
Planck Length
|
David F. Shultz
|
| *
|
Planetary Lensing
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
Planktivorous Fish and the Structure of Pelagic Plankton
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
Pouring the Pennyroyal
|
Andrea Blythe
and
Laura Madeline Wiseman
|
| *
|
Quetzalcoatlus roboti Heads Home
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
Relic
|
Kari Flickinger
|
| *
|
Seraphima
|
Hal Y. Zhang
|
| *
|
Son of Aswang
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
Spatial Arrangement
|
David F. Shultz
|
| *
|
Stand and Wait
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
Station Rain
|
Erik Burdett
|
| *
|
Stephen Hawking
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
That's one small step for (a) man ...
|
Russell Jones
|
| *
|
The Crimson Witch
|
K. A. Opperman
|
| *
|
The Dissolution of Icarus
|
Michelle Muenzler
|
| *
|
The Girl and Her Wolf Dog
|
Christina Sng
|
| *
|
The Ladies of Lancashire
|
Clay F. Johnson
|
| *
|
The Maenad to Her Artist Friend
|
Amal El-Mohtar
|
| *
|
The Mysterious Hermit
|
Krystal Volney
|
| *
|
The Nightmare Thing
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
The Patron Saint of Alien Abductees
|
Noel Sloboda
|
| *
|
The Sea Horse Isles
|
Michael H. Hanson
|
| *
|
The Sea Never Says It Loves You
|
Fran Wilde
|
| *
|
The Southern Lady
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
Things That Go Bump & Smile in the Night
|
Kathleen A. Lawrence
|
| *
|
This Sacred Earth
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
| *
|
Thunderstorm in Glasgow, July 25, 2013
|
Amal El-Mohtar
|
| *
|
Trips to Impossible Cities
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
Try the Veal
|
Robert Beveridge
|
| *
|
Universal Immigrants
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Unstole It
|
Jim Davies
|
| *
|
Venusian Arachnoids
|
David F. Shultz
|
| *
|
Waterworld
|
Terry Persun
|
| *
|
What Is Dead
|
Kristin Garth
|
| *
|
Wraiths
|
Wade German
|
| |
| 2020 |
| 1
|
Taking, Keeping
|
Jessica J. Horowitz
|
| 3
|
Creation: Dark Matter Dating App
|
Sandra J. Lindow
|
| 3
|
The Day the Animals Turned to Sand
|
Tyler Hagemann
|
| --- Finalists ------- |
| *
|
"Aliens declutter"
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
"beyond its two eyes"
|
Juan M. Perez
|
| *
|
"when my father reprograms my mother {"
|
Caroline Mao
|
| *
|
A Purring Cat Is a Time Machine
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
A Rose Waits
|
Adele Gardner
|
| *
|
Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, Pilots the Interstellar Ark
|
Nisa Malli
|
| *
|
All-Father
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
Alternate Galatea
|
Amelia Gorman
|
| *
|
Area 51 Custodian Gets Coffee
|
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
|
| *
|
Blood Moon
|
Sara Backer
|
| *
|
Collie Dogs In Space
|
Debby Feo
|
| *
|
Continuum
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Crimson Faces
|
Maxwell I. Gold
|
| *
|
Disassembly at Auction
|
Robin Wyatt Dunn
|
| *
|
Don't Open the Box!
|
Kyla Lee Ward
|
| *
|
Drag Strip Drag
|
Francine P. Lewis
|
| *
|
Eldritch Horror
|
Katie Manning
|
| *
|
Encore
|
Tim Jones
|
| *
|
Fallen But Not Down
|
Sarah Cannavo
|
| *
|
Fallen Star
|
Clay F. Johnson
|
| *
|
From "Moon Sonnet"
|
Lily Zhou
|
| *
|
Goddamn These Minotaurs
|
Persephone Erin Hudson
|
| *
|
Halstead IV
|
Jeff Crandall
|
| *
|
How to Care for Your Yesterday's Camel
|
Christina Olson
|
| *
|
How to Colonize Ganymede
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
How to Dance with Dark Matter
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
Huitzilopochtli
|
Lorraine Schein
|
| *
|
If All the Seas Were Blood
|
D. L. Myers
|
| *
|
Lady Macbeth's Green Gown
|
Jacqueline West
|
| *
|
Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963)
|
Jesse Randall
|
| *
|
Mary Poppins, 2100
|
Cathy Tenzo
|
| *
|
Mothsong
|
John Philip Johnson
|
| *
|
My Ghost Will Know the Way
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
New Stars
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
No Fairy Tale World
|
Lisa Timpf
|
| *
|
Objects of Desire
|
Gerri Leen
|
| *
|
Ójí Íjè (Kola Journey)
|
Uche Ogbuji
|
| *
|
Phobos and Deimos
|
W. C. Roberts
|
| *
|
Prayer on a Friday Morning
|
L. R. Harvey
|
| *
|
Regarding Me
|
Michael H. Hanson
|
| *
|
Reparation
|
Christina Sng
|
| *
|
Revisiting the Origins of Language
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
|
Robert Goddard at Roswell
|
Alan Ira Gordon
|
| *
|
Samsara
|
Jason O'Toole
|
| *
|
Seven Reasons to Have Hope for a Better Future. Number Five Will Really Get You!
|
Catherine Kyle
|
| *
|
Shoals of Miami
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
Singing Ghost
|
Catherine Kyle
|
| *
|
Sphere
|
Francis W. Alexander
|
| *
|
Steampunk Christmas
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
Styx
|
Christina Sng
|
| *
|
Ten-Card Tarot, Pentacles Wild
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
The Book of Fly
|
John Philip Johnson
|
| *
|
The Certainty of Seeing
|
Michelle Muenzler
|
| *
|
The Ghosts of Those
|
Ron Riekki
|
| *
|
The Girl Who Loved Birds
|
Clara Blackwood
|
| *
|
The Journey
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
| *
|
The Mother Searches for Her Own Story
|
Mary McMyne
|
| *
|
The Night the Unicorn Leapt from the Tapestry
|
Kate Pentecost
|
| *
|
The Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House
|
Kathleen A. Lawrence
|
| *
|
The Planets? Sweet...
|
Harris Coverley
|
| *
|
The Root King's Winter
|
Jessica P. Wick
|
| *
|
The Ruined Library
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
The Sacrifices
|
Mike Allen
|
| *
|
The Snow Globe
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
The Solace of the Farther Moon
|
Allan Rozinski
|
| *
|
The Unseen
|
Fran Wilde
|
| *
|
The Wishing Clock of Gassytown
|
Deborah Wong
|
| *
|
The Wolfman and Space Girl
|
Neil Sloboda
|
| *
|
Three of Swords, King of Cups
|
Ali Trotta
|
| *
|
To Skeptics
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
Wake Up, Little Stevie
|
Christina Olson
|
| *
|
What You Hear When Your Best Friend Falls for a Supervillain
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
Where Have the Space Heroes Gone?
|
Darrell Schweitzer
|
| *
|
Witch
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| |
| 2021 |
| 1
|
Summer Time(lessness)
|
Linda D. Addison
|
| 2
|
Why Did White People Conquer the World for Spices and Then Never Use Them?
|
R. Thursday
|
| 3
|
Darning
|
Sandra J. Lindow
|
| --- Finalists ------- |
| *
|
"fear of police, but as sci-fi, because /that/ you can understand -or, less passive aggressively- get these fucking phasers out of my face"
|
J. C. Rodriguez
|
| *
|
"Flee"--The Last Dispatch from the Jemison Station
|
Maya C. James
|
| *
|
"The dead couple of Blenheim"
|
William Clunie
|
| *
|
A Hand Against My Window
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
| *
|
A Siren Whispered in My Ear One Night
|
Ashley Bao
|
| *
|
A Soldier Writes His Wife
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
A Tempest
|
|
| *
|
A Touch of Lightning in the Soul
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
| *
|
Acacia
|
Holly Lyn Walrath
|
| *
|
an alien axiom
|
Gerald L. Coleman
|
| *
|
Andromeda's Lament
|
Gretchen Tessmer
|
| *
|
Arrival Mind
|
Louis B. Rosenberg
|
| *
|
Athena Holds Up a Mirror to Strength
|
Ali Trotta
|
| *
|
Back Story
|
David Clink
|
| *
|
Bar Scene
|
John Reinhart
|
| *
|
Beneath the Fullest Moon
|
Ashley Dioses
|
| *
|
Black Water, Black Bones
|
Michelle Muenzler
|
| *
|
Cavall
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
Cave Painting
|
Bran Keane
|
| *
|
Cento for Lagahoos
|
Brandon O'Brien
|
| *
|
Chrono-Man
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Chronovisor Wanted
|
Robert Borski
|
| *
|
Dolly Waits
|
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
|
| *
|
Dragons Guard Our Family Fortune
|
Adele Gardner
|
| *
|
Dream Weaver
|
Blaize Kelly Strothers
|
| *
|
End Credits
|
Gretchen Tessmer
|
| *
|
Extinction No. 6
|
Morgan L. Ventura
|
| *
|
Family Historian
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
Fin
|
Terese Mason Pierre
|
| *
|
First Contact
|
Robin Rose Graves
|
| *
|
Form Factor
|
Tim Jones
|
| *
|
Grass Whisperer
|
Lynne M. MacLean
|
| *
|
hand-me-down
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
He Sold What He Had Left
|
Diane Callahan
|
| *
|
Hungry Ghost
|
Millie Ho
|
| *
|
Ignorance, my prophylactic
|
Akua Lezli Hope
|
| *
|
invocation of my guardian angel in six sects
|
Camille Rosas
|
| *
|
Isotopical
|
d'Ores
and
Deja
|
| *
|
It Feels Like Drowning
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
|
Journey's End
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
King Pest
|
Richard L. Tierney
|
| *
|
Kings and Queens of Narnia
|
Meep Matsushima
|
| *
|
Last Contact
|
Jean-Paul L. Garnier
|
| *
|
Lesser Eternity
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Libations
|
Soonest Nathaniel
|
| *
|
Life Goes On
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Like Clockwork
|
Christina M. Rau
|
| *
|
Lovely Ludwig Van
|
Alessandro Manzetti
|
| *
|
Lucky and His Dad
|
Alan Ira Gordon
|
| *
|
Mountain
|
Cindy O'Quinn
|
| *
|
Mouthing Off
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
Of fairy tales--
|
David F. Shultz
|
| *
|
Old Playfellow
|
Noel Sloboda
|
| *
|
On the Edge of Forever
|
Josh Pearce
|
| *
|
People Dropping Dead in the Mall Parking Lot
|
Alan Ray Simmons
|
| *
|
Persephone's Sneakers
|
Amanda Trout
|
| *
|
Posle Nas
|
Rosalie Morales Kerns
|
| *
|
Post-Obit Cautionary Tale
|
G. O. Clark
|
| *
|
Rapunzel at Seventy
|
Sandra J. Lindow
|
| *
|
Requiem
|
Clay F. Johnson
|
| *
|
Riding the Exhale
|
Angela Yuriko Smith
|
| *
|
Sealskin Reclaimed
|
Alison Bainbridge
|
| *
|
Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins
|
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
| *
|
Star Trip(tych)
|
Maria Kelly
|
| *
|
Teddy Bear Diner
|
Michael H. Hanson
|
| *
|
That is not what I meant at all
|
Brian Hugenbruch
|
| *
|
The Cat's Epilogue
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
The Crib
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
The Deer
|
Christina Sng
|
| *
|
The Edge of the Galaxy NGC 4013
|
Warren Brown
|
| *
|
The Forest, in the Full of the Moon
|
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
| *
|
The Krakeness
|
K. A. Opperman
|
| *
|
The Luck Eaters
|
Beth Cato
and
Rhonda Parrish
|
| *
|
The Man with the Corpse on His Shoulders
|
James Cushing
|
| *
|
The Memory of Summer
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| *
|
The Mollusk God
|
Maxwell Ian Gold
|
| *
|
The Monster Maker
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
The Old God Dies
|
Jennifer Crow
|
| *
|
The Paper Effigies Shop
|
Deborah Wong
|
| *
|
The Selkie Wife
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
The Tree of Eyes
|
Colleen Anderson
|
| *
|
The Void Blends in Your Hands
(translation of El vacío se mezcla en tus manos)
|
|
| *
|
The Witch's Cat
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
| *
|
They Made My Face
|
Sara Backer
|
| *
|
Three Triolets
|
Anna Cates
|
| *
|
Timegeddon
|
Francis W. Alexander
|
| *
|
Tree Limbs Block the Road
|
Patricia Gomes
|
| *
|
Unlooping
|
Marie Vibbert
|
| *
|
we are all energy
|
M. Darusha Wehm
|
| *
|
We Sell Skin on Sale
|
Rachel Lachmansingh
|
| *
|
What Phoenixes Read
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
When Change Comes
|
Karen Bovenmyer
|
| *
|
Witching
|
Erin Kirsh
|
| *
|
You Were with Me
|
Cindy O'Quinn
|
| *
|
Zodiac Girl
|
Carolyn Clink
|
| |
| 2022 |
| 1
|
Confessions of a Spaceport AI
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| 2
|
Gravity
|
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
| 3
|
The Butterfly Affect
|
Linda D. Addison
|
| --- Finalists ------- |
| *
|
"deep space Elvis"
|
Greer Woodward
|
| *
|
"shedding photons"
|
Rich Magahiz
|
| *
|
"The empires of old"
|
Robin Wyatt Dunn
|
| *
|
A Banquet of Sugar & Tea
|
Marge Simon
|
| *
|
A Martian Contemplates Earthrise
|
K. B. Nelson
|
| *
|
A Monstrous Life Well Lived
|
Elizabeth R. McClellan
|
| *
|
Adam-Ondi-Ahman
|
Audrey Zheng
|
| *
|
Alice
|
Anna Cates
|
| *
|
Anthony of Egypt, Professional Recluse and Patron Saint of Boneyards
|
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
|
| *
|
As We Were Saying Goodnight
|
Henry Crawford
|
| *
|
Aswang Mango: Santiago's Fantasia
|
Vince Gotera
|
| *
|
Blood Spells
|
Neile Graham
|
| *
|
Chernobyl Litany
|
Gemma Files
|
| *
|
Cherry Blossoms (on Mourning a Distant Mother)
|
E. F. Schraeder
|
| *
|
Cosmic Cooking
|
Gretchen Tessmer
|
| *
|
Crossroads
|
Tiffany Morris
|
| *
|
Curiosity Kills
|
Alison Bainbridge
|
| *
|
Daedalus's Daughter
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
Dracula Among the Ruins
|
Mari Ness
|
| *
|
Dragonrider
|
Marie Vibbert
|
| *
|
Dragonslayer
|
Priya Chand
|
| *
|
Dry Land
|
Maria Zoccola
|
| *
|
Dystopia
|
Aminath Neena
|
| *
|
Even Surrounded by Light, She Disappears
|
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
|
| *
|
Exquisite
|
Lee Murray
|
| *
|
Extrasolar Faeryland
|
Avra Margariti
|
| *
|
Extremophile
|
Lauren Scharhag
|
| *
|
Failed Space Colonists
|
Herb Kauderer
|
| *
|
Field Trip to See the Mermaid
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
Find Me
|
Féi Hernandez
|
| *
|
Flying Horses
|
Debasish Mishra
|
| *
|
Forbidden Haibun: Expand
|
Francis W. Alexander
|
| *
|
Fragment of an Elegy
|
Clay Franklin Johnson
|
| *
|
Futuristic Funerals
|
Dante Novario
|
| *
|
Graffiti Goddess
|
Noel Sloboda
|
| *
|
Gris-Gris
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
| *
|
Hallucinations
|
Amirah Al Wassif
|
| *
|
Heart Tree
|
John Reinhart
|
| *
|
Home's Threnody
|
Olaitan Humble
|
| *
|
House Gravity Physics
|
Sandra Lindow
|
| *
|
How Date Nights Bring You Ever Closer
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
| *
|
How to Find Yourself Again
|
Beth Cato
|
| *
|
In Corfu
|
Irina Moga
|
| *
|
In Memory Yet Green
|
Alan Ira Gordon
|
| *
|
In the Future We Will Live in Broken Houses
|
Sandra Kasturi
|
| *
|
In the Library Annex
|
Bruce Boston
|
| *
|
Ingenuity
|
Deborah P. Kolodji
|
| *
|
Inheritance
|
Geneve Flynn
|
| *
|
Interrupted Journey
|
Tim Jones
|
| *
|
Lights Over the Midnight Desert
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
| *
|
Little Black Box
|
Anna Cates
|
| *
|
Little Red Loves Her Grandma
|
Pankaj Khemka
|
| *
|
Michelangelo Carves David Into Medusa
|
Ellie Howard
|
| *
|
Musée Dupuytren, Paris
|
Carolyn Clink
|
| *
|
No More Prying Eyes
|
Maxwell I. Gold
|
| *
|
Ode
|
P. H. Low
|
| *
|
One of Us
|
Louis Rosenberg
|
| *
|
Orchid Moon
|
Lee Murray
|
| *
|
Our Stitching and Unstitching
|
Hester J. Rook
|
| *
|
Our Translucent Bodies
|
Devin Miller
|
| *
|
Pa and the Devil
|
Susan E. Wagner
|
| *
|
Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation
|
Abu Bakr Sadiq
|
| *
|
Princess Cat Robot Space Pirate
|
Marie Vibbert
|
| *
|
Prologue: The Late Heavy Bombardment
|
Ada Hoffmann
|
| *
|
Psychopomp
|
M. J. Cunniff
|
| *
|
Radiance
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
| *
|
Reasons to Leave the Path
|
Jacqueline West
|
| *
|
Sea Gods
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
| *
|
Sepulcher of Saints
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
| *
|
Snails
|
Denise Dumars
|
| *
|
Sonnet of the South American Sphinx
|
Katherine Quevedo
|
| *
|
Sport on Mars
|
P. S. Cottier
|
| *
|
Stratospherics 2
|
Akua Lezli Hope
|
| *
|
Stress Level Test (Self-Assessment)
|
Pankaj Khemka
|
| *
|
SustainaCrock™
|
Rhian Bowley
|
| *
|
Swipples
|
Craig Kurtz
|
| *
|
Sylvan Succubus
|
Joshua Gage
|
| *
|
Thanks to Stanislav Petrov for Fairytales About Birds
|
Elizabeth R. McClellan
|
| *
|
The Conglomerant
|
David Davies
|
| *
|
The Conqueror Worm(hole)
|
Linda D. Addison
|
| *
|
The Forbidden Path to Forgetting
|
Daniel Ausema
|
| *
|
The Frozen North
|
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
|
| *
|
The Galaxies Have Reversed Their Course and Are Hurtling Towards One Another
|
Andrea Schlecht
|
| *
|
The Other Crusoe
|
David Barber
|
| *
|
The Problem of Bottling Troublesome Spirits
|
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
|
| *
|
The Reality of Ghosts
|
Yilin Wang
|
| *
|
The Tiny Goblin
|
Ann Wuehler
|
| *
|
There can only be one Soul Princess
|
Michelle Muenzler
|
| *
|
Tons of Liquid Oxygen Buckle Too Late Under Strain
|
Eugen Bacon
|
| *
|
Under a Pale Moon
|
Mark Meyer
|
| *
|
Unexpected Malfunction in the Xenobiology Monitoring System at Arcturus-IV
|
Jordan Hirsch
|
| *
|
Wardrobe Malfunction
|
Kyla Lee Ward
|
| *
|
Warrior Over Washington
|
Adam Ford
|
| *
|
Watchmaker
|
Carolyn Clink
|
| *
|
Ways of the Multiverse
|
Vincent Miskell
|
| *
|
What The Time Travellers Stole
|
L. X. Beckett
|
| *
|
What the Weed Whip Wanted
|
Sandra J. Lindow
|
| *
|
When the Martian Wind Blows
|
Lauren McBride
|
| *
|
Witch Flesh
|
Stephanie Ellis
|