2021 Asimov's Readers' Poll


Best Novella
1	Take a Look at the Five and Ten	Connie Willis
2	Semper Augustus	Nancy Kress
3	Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County	Derek Künsken^?Derek Kunsken Derek Kuensken
4	Maelstrom	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
5	Nic and Viv's Compulsory Courtship	Will McIntosh

Best Novelette
1	The Hind	Kevin J. Anderson and Rick Wilber
2	The Long Iapetan Night	Julie Novakova
3	Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars	Mercurio D. Rivera
3	The Beast Adjoins	Ted Kosmatka
5	Tunnels	Eleanor Arnason

Best Short Story
1	Go. Now. Fix.	Timons Esaias
2	Father	Ray Nayler
3	Return to the Red Castle	Ray Nayler
4	Return to Glory	Jack McDevitt
5	Rena in the Desert	Lia Swope Mitchell
5	The Conceptual Shark	Rich Larson

Best Poem
1	Ode to Cassini	Jane Yolen
2	The Hot New Collectible	Suzanne Palmer
3	Incomplete Adaptation	Bruce Boston
4	After a Year of Solitude	Lora Gray
4	Relic	Jane Yolen
4	Unlooping	Marie Vibbert

Best Cover Art
1	Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2020 (variant of Gateway)	John Picacio
2	Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2020	Maurizio Manzieri
3	Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2020	Eldar Zakirov