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2025 — Issues 220-231

Award Winners

Award Nominations

  • 2025 BSFA Award Finalist for Best Shorter Fiction: “Descent” by Wole Talabi
  • 2025 BSFA Award Finalist for Best Translated Short Fiction: “Beyond Everything” by Wang Yanzhong, translated by Stella Jiayue-Zhu
  • 2025 BSFA Award Finalist for Best Translated Short Fiction: “Pollen” by Anna Burdenko, translated by Alex Shvartsman
  • 2025 BSFA Award Finalist for Best Translated Short Fiction: “Bodyhoppers” by Rocío Vega, translated by Sue Burke
  • 2025 BSFA Award Finalist for Best Translated Short Fiction: “Still Water” by Zhang Ran, translated by Andy Dudak
  • 2025 Nebula Award Finalist for Best Short Story: “In My Country” by Thomas Ha
  • 2025 Nebula Award Finalist for Novelette: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue
  • 2025 Nebula Award Finalist for Novelette: “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak
  • 2025 Nebula Award Finalist for Novella: “Descent” by Wole Talabi
  • 2026 Ditmar Award Finalist for Short Story: “Through These Moments, Darkly” by Samantha Murray
  • 2026 Aurora Award Finalist for Best Short Story: “The Stone Played at Tengen” by R.H. Wesley
  • 2026 Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist for Best Short Story: “The Cold Burns” by Anne Wilkins
  • 2026 Locus Award Finalist for Best Short Story: “Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim
  • 2026 Locus Award Finalist for Best Short Story: “Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro
  • 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story: “In My Country” by Thomas Ha
  • 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story: “Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro
  • 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story: “Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim
  • 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novelette: “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak
  • 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Editor Short Form: Neil Clarke
  • 2025 Te Pae Tawhiti Award Finalist for Outstanding Achievement for a Short Story: “The Cold Burns” by Anne Wilkins
  • 2026 Ignyte Award Finalist for Outstanding Novella: “Descent” by Wole Talabi
  • 2026 Ignyte Award Finalist for Outstanding Novelette: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue
  • 2026 Ignyte Award Finalist for Outstanding Novelette: “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak
  • 2026 Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist: “Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim
  • 2026 Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist: “We, the Fleet” by Alex T. Singer
  • 2026 Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist: “Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro

Other Distinctions

  • “Those Uncaring Waves” by Yukimi Ogawa, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novella)
  • “Descent” by Wole Talabi, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novella)
  • “The Apologists” by Tade Thompson, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novella)
  • “Heart of Thunder” by Raahem Alvi, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “We, the Fleet” by Alex T. Singer, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe” by Tia Tashiro, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “Mindtrips” by Tlotlo Tsamaase, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “Symbiotic” by Carolyn Zhao, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “In My Country” by Thomas Ha, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “The Last Lunar New Year” by Derek Künsken, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “The Library of the Apocalypse” by Rati Mehrotra, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro, 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)

2024 — Issues 198-219

Award Winners

Award Nominations

Other Distinctions

2023 — Issues 196-207

Award Winners

  • 2024 Locus Award for Best Editor, Neil Clarke
  • 2024 Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form), Neil Clarke
  • 2024 Hugo Award for Best Short Story: “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer
  • 2024 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novelette: “Happiness” by Octavia Cade
  • 2024 Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover: “Autumn Pond” by Sergio Rebolledo

Award Nominations

Year’s Best Selections

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, Hugh Howey ed.

The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 4, Allan Kaster ed.

Other Distinctions

  • “To Sail Beyond the Botnet” by Suzanne Palmer, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (novella)
  • “Such Is My Idea of Happiness” by David Goodman, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “An Ode to Stardust” by R.P. Sand, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (novelette)
  • “Thin Ice” by Kemi Ashing-Giwa short, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “Window Boy” by Thomas Ha, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “Day Ten Thousand” by Isabel J. Kim, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “Zeta-Epsilon” by Isabel J. Kim, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “Pinocchio Photography” by Angela Liu, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “Stones” by Nnedi Okorafor, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)
  • “Bird-Girl Builds a Machine” by Hannah Yang, 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List (short story)

2022 — Issues 184-195

Award Winners

  • 2023 WSFA Small Press Award, “The Dragon Project” by Naomi Kritzer
  • 2023 Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form), Neil Clarke
  • 2023 Chesley Award for Best Art Director: Neil Clarke

Award Nominations

Year’s Best Selections

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Eight, Neil Clarke ed.

The Year’s Best Fantasy, Vol. 2, Paula Guran ed.

The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 7, Allan Kaster ed.

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, Rebecca Roanhorse ed.

Other Distinctions

2021 — Issues 172-183

Award Winners

Award Nominations

Year’s Best Selections

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Seven, Neil Clarke ed.

The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6 , Allan Kaster ed.

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, Rebecca Roanhorse ed.

Other Distinctions

2020 — Issues 160-171

Award Winners

  • 2021 Winner: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “An Important Failure” by Rebecca Campbell
  • 2021 Winner: Chesley Award for Best Cover: Magazine, “Ancient Stones” by Francesca Resta

Award Nominations

  • 2021 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novelette, “Helicopter Story” by Isabel Fall (withdrawn from publication at author’s request)
  • 2021 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novelette, “Monster”
  • 2021 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form), Neil Clarke
  • 2021 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “The Translator, at Low Tide” by Vajra Chandrasekera
  • 2021 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “AirBody” by Sameem Siddiqui
  • 2021 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Novelette: “A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential” by JY Neon Yang
  • 2021 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld
  • 2021 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Editor: Neil Clarke
  • 2020 Finalist: Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novella, “Jigsaw Children” by Grace Chan
  • 2020 Finalist: Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novella, “Generation Gap” by Thoraiya Dyer
  • 2020 Finalist: Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella, “Generation Gap” by Thoraiya Dyer
  • 2021 Finalist: Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella, “The Immolation of Kev Magee” by L.X. Beckett
  • 2021 Finalist: Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella, “An Important Failure” by Rebecca Campbell
  • 2021 Finalist: Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella, “To Sail the Black” by A.C. Wise
  • 2021 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover: Magazine, “51” by Rodion Shaldo
  • 2021 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover: Magazine, “Alien Scout” by Arjun Amky
  • 2021 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Art Director: Neil Clarke

Year’s Best Selections

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six, Neil Clarke ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 2, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Best of British Science Fiction: 2020, Donna Scott ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol. 2, Paula Guran ed.

The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 , Allan Kaster ed.

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, Veronica Roth ed.

Other Distinctions

2019 — Issues 148-159

Award Winners

Award Nominations

  • 2020 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
  • 2020 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt
  • 2020 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer
  • 2020 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld
  • 2020 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Editor: Neil Clarke
  • 2020 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award, “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt
  • 2020 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award, “The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer
  • 2020 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
  • 2020 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Editor: Neil Clarke
  • 2020 Finalist: Asteroid Award for Best Science Fiction: Clarkesworld Magazine

Year’s Best Selections

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five, Neil Clarke ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2020 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Best of British Science Fiction: 2019, Donna Scott ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One, Paula Guran ed.

Other Distinctions

2018 — Issues 136-147

Award Winners

  • 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson
  • 2019 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award: Neil Clarke
  • 2019 Chesley Award for Best Art Director: Neil Clarke
  • 2019 Chesley Award for Best Magazine Illustration, “Meeting” by Arthur Haas
  • 2019 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction, “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller

Award Nominations

  • 2019 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novelette, “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller
  • 2019 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
  • 2019 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “Umbernight” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
  • 2019 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller
  • 2019 Finalist: BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction, “The Gift of Angels: an Introduction” by Nina Allan
  • 2019 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Novella, “Umbernight” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
  • 2019 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld
  • 2019 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Editor: Neil Clarke
  • 2019 Finalist: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Illustration, “The Storkfriars” by Sean Andrew Murray

Year’s Best Selections

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four, Neil Clarke ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2019 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Best of British Science Fiction: 2018, Donna Scott ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019, Paula Guran ed.

The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 5, David Afsharirad ed.

Other Distinctions

2017 — Issues 124-135

Award Winners

Award Nominations

  • 2018 Finalist Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Short Story, “The Stone Weta” by Octavia Cade
  • 2017 Finalist: Nebula Award for Best Novelette, “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
  • 2018 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novelette, “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
  • 2018 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
  • 2018 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “The Secret Life of Bots” by Suzanne Palmer
  • 2018 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
  • 2018 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, “We Who Live in the Heart” by Kelly Robson
  • 2018 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Illustration, “Darkness” by Julie Dillon
  • 2018 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Illustration, “Genetics Lab” by Eddie Mendoza
  • 2018 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Illustration, “Jungle Deep” by Sergei Sarichev
  • 2018 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
  • 2018 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Editor: Neil Clarke

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three, Neil Clarke ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan ed.

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin ed.

The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 4, David Afsharirad ed.

Other Distinctions

2016 — Issues 112-123

Award Winners

Award Nominations

  • 2016 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story, “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller
  • 2016 Nominee: Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story, “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller
  • 2017 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novelette, “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
  • 2017 Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
  • 2017 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Art Director: Neil Clarke
  • 2017 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Short Story, “Afrofuturist 419” by Nnedi Okorafor
  • 2017 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
  • 2017 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Editor: Neil Clarke

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two, Neil Clarke ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan ed.

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, Charles Yu ed.

The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 3, David Afsharirad ed.

Other Distinctions

2015 — Issues 100-111

Award Winners

Award Nominations

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One, Neil Clarke ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 2015, David Afsharirad ed.

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Karen Joy Fowler ed.

Other Distinctions

2014 — Issues 88-99

Award Winners

Award Nominations

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, Joe Hill ed.

Other Distinctions

2013 — Issues 76-87

Award Winners

  • 2014 Winner: World Fantasy Award, Special Award Non-Professional, Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, and Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld Magazine
  • 2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine

Award Nominations

  • 2014 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: “Mystic Falls” by Robert Reed
  • 2014 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: “The Urashima Effect” by E. Lily Yu
  • 2014 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction: “Bits” by Naomi Kritzer
  • 2014 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
  • 2014 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
  • 2014 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, “Elliptic” by Julie Dillon
  • 2014 Nominee: World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story: “Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2014 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

Other Distinctions

2012 — Issues 64-75

Award Winners

  • 2013 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld Magazine
  • 2012 Nebula Award for Best Short Story: “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard
  • 2013 Locus Award for Best Short Story: “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard
  • 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story: “The Wisdom of Ants” by Thoraiya Dyer
  • 2013 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story: “The Wisdom of Ants” by Thoraiya Dyer
  • 2013 Winner: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, “New World” by Ken Barthelmey

Award Nominations

  • 2012 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story: “Robot” by Helena Bell
  • 2012 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Short Story: “Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes” by Tom Crosshill
  • 2012 Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Novelette: “Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente
  • 2012 Nominee: BSFA Award for Best Short Story: “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard
  • 2013 Aurora Award Nominee for Best Short Fiction - English: “Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop” by Suzanne Church
  • 2013 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard
  • 2013 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard
  • 2013 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award: “(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky” by E. Catherine Tobler
  • 2013 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Short Story: “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
  • 2013 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld Magazine
  • 2013 Nominee: Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards, Short Form “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu
  • 2013 Finalist: WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction: “Astrophilia” by Carrie Vaughn
  • 2013 Finalist: Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History: “Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente
  • 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Short Story: “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard
  • 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Short Story: “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
  • 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Novelette: “Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente
  • 2013 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form): Neil Clarke
  • 2013 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, “Breaking Through” by Julie Dillon
  • 2013 Nominee: Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration: Magazine, “Space Journey” by Martin Faragasso

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2013 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five, Ellen Datlow ed.

Other Distinctions

2011 — Issues 52-63

Award Winners

Award Nominations

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 6 , Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

Honorable Mentions

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

Other Distinctions

2010 — Issues 40-51

Award Winners

  • 2011 Winner: Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
  • 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction “The Things” by Peter Watts

Award Nominations

  • 2011 Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Short Story “The Things” by Peter Watts
  • 2010 Finalist: Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form) : “The Things” by Peter Watts, read by Kate Baker
  • 2010 Nominee: BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction : “The Things” by Peter Watts
  • 2011 Finalist: Theodore Sturgeon Award “The Things” by Peter Watts
  • 2011 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Short Story : “The Things” by Peter Watts
  • 2011 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Short Story : “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time” by Catherynne M. Valente
  • 2011 Finalist: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover “Warm” by Sergio Rebolledo.
  • 2011 Finalist: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover “Honeycomb” by Julie Dillon.
  • 2011 Finalist: Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover “Soulhunter” by Andrey Lazarev.

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

Year’s Best SF 16, David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 Edition, Paula Guran ed.

The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3, Allan Kaster ed.

Wilde Stories 2011: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, Steve Berman ed.

Honorable Mentions

The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3, Ellen Datlow ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

Other Distinctions

2009 — Issues 28-39

Award Winners

  • 2010 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
  • 2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : “Spar” by Kij Johnson

Award Nominations

  • 2010 World Fantasy Award : Special Award Non-Professional
  • 2010 Finalist: Locus Award for Best Magazine
  • 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N.K. Jemisin
  • 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : “Spar” by Kij Johnson
  • 2010 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Short Story: “Spar” by Kij Johnson
  • 2010 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Magazine: Clarkesworld
  • 2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story: “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N.K. Jemisin
  • 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist: “Spar” by Kij Johnson [Kij, a juror for this award, withdrew the story]
  • 2010 Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover “Brain Tower” by Kazuhiko Nakamura.

Year’s Best Selections

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 4, Jonathan Strahan ed.

  • “Spar” by Kij Johnson

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2010, Paula Guran ed.

Honorable Mentions

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

Other Distinctions

2008 — Issues 16-27

Award Winners

  • 2009 Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover “Floating Fish” by Mats Minnhagen.

Award Nominations

  • 2009 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
  • 2009 World Fantasy Award : Special Award Non-Professional
  • 2009 World Fantasy Award : Best Short Story “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica” by Catherynne M. Valente

Year’s Best Selections

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

Unplugged: The Year’s Best Online Fiction, Rich Horton ed.

Year’s Best Fantasy 9, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer ed.

Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Ellen Datlow ed.

Honorable Mentions

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

Unplugged: The Year’s Best Online Fiction, Rich Horton ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2009 Edition, Rich Horton ed.

Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Ellen Datlow ed.

Other Distinctions

2007 — Issues 4-15

Award Nominations

Year’s Best Selections

Fantasy Best of the Year 2008, Rich Horton ed.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan ed.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #19, Stephen Jones ed.

Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year’s Gay Speculative Fiction, Steve Berman ed.

Honorable Mentions

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant ed.

Best American Fantasy 2, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ed.

Other Distinctions

  • SciFi.com Site of the Week: August 29, 2007
  • “Orm the Beautiful” by Elizabeth Bear, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List
  • “The Third Bear” by Jeff VanderMeer, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List
  • “Clockmaker’s Requiem” by Barth Anderson, 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List

2006 — Issues 1-3

Awards

  • Million Writers Award for Best New Online Magazine
  • Million Writers Award for Best Online Short Story for “Urchins, While Swimming” by Catherynne M. Valente

Year’s Best Selections

Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, Paula Guran ed.

Horror: Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, Sean Wallace and John Gregory Betancourt ed.

Honorable Mentions

Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant and Kelly Link ed.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.

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