The Long List Anthology: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom.But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology collects 21 tales from that nomination list, totaling almost 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world.Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from near future android stories to steampunk heists, too-plausible dystopias to contemporary vampire stories.There is something here for everyone.Contents: * Foreword (The Long List Anthology) • essay by David Steffen * The Breath of War [Universe of Xuya] / (2014) / short story by Aliette de Bodard * When It Ends, He Catches Her (2014) / short story by Eugie Foster * Toad Words (2014) / short story by Ursula Vernon [as by T. Kingfisher] * Makeisha in Time (2014) / short story by Rachael K. Jones * Covenant (2014) / short story by Elizabeth Bear * The Truth About Owls (2014) / short story by Amal El-Mohtar * A Kiss with Teeth (2014) / short story by Max Gladstone * The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family (2014) / short story by Usman T. Malik * This Chance Planet (2014) / short story by Elizabeth Bear * Goodnight Stars (2014) / short story by Annie Bellet * We Are the Cloud (2014) / novelette by Sam J. Miller * The Magician and Laplace's Demon (2014) / novelette by Tom Crosshill * Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy (2014) / novelette by Xia Jia (trans. of 2044年春节旧事 2013) * The Husband Stitch (2014) / novelette by Carmen Maria Machado * The Bonedrake's Penance (2014) / novelette by Yoon Ha Lee * The Devil in America (2014) / novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson * The Litany of Earth [The Innsmouth Legacy • 0] (2014) / novelette by Ruthanna Emrys * A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i (2014) / novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson * A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014) / novelette by Scott Lynch * The Regular (2014) / novella by Ken Liu * Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) (2014) / novella by Rachel Swirsky