Note: Listing of Asimov's Science Fiction best published material of 2016 as voted on by the magazine's readers. Bold is are the winners, duplicated numbers are ties. Best Novella: • 1.) Lazy Dog Out by Suzanne Palmer. 2.) Einstein's Shadow by Allen M. Steele. 3.) Where There Is Nothing, There Is God by David Erik Nelson. 4.) What We Hold Onto by Jay O'Connell. 5.) Choose Poison, Choose Life by Michael Blumlein. Best Novelette: • 1.) I Married a Monster from Outer Space by Dale Bailey. 2.) Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man by Suzanne Palmer. 3.) Matilda by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 3.) They All Have One Breath by Karl Bunker. 4.) President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut by Sandra McDonald. Best Short Story: • 1.) The Mutants Men Don't See by James Alan Gardner. 1.) All That Robot ... by Rich Larson. 2.) Dome of the Prairie by Robert Reed. 2.) White Dust by Nathan Hillstrom. 3.) Exceptional Forces by Sean McMullen. Best Poem: • 1.) After by Herb Kauderer. 2.) The Robot Grows Old by Geoffrey A. Landis. 3.) Nice Touch by Jane Yolen. 4.) Long Argument, The Longest by Jane Yolen. 5.) Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman by Ron Koertge. 5.) Old Women of the Wood by Jane Yolen. 5.) The Ambassador's Daughter by Megan Arkenberg. 5.) Your Clone Excels at You by Robert Frazier. Best Cover: • 1.) January by Donato Giancola. 2.) September by Michael Whelan. 3.) March by Fred Gambino. 4.) February by Alejandro Colucci. 5.) August by Kinuko Craft.