The Long List Anthology Volume 2: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. 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 Volume 2 collects 18 fiction stories from that nomination list, along with 2 essays from the book Letters to Tiptree that was also on the nomination list, totaling over 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 and horror, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from android caretakers to Lovecraftian romances, from adventures to quests and more. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone.Contents: * Foreword (The Long List Anthology: Volume 2) • essay by David Steffen * Damage (2015) / short story by David D. Levine * Pockets (2015) / short story by Amal El-Mohtar * Today I Am Paul [Today I Am] (2015) / short story by Martin L. Shoemaker ** The Women You Didn't See (2015) • essay by Nicola Griffith * Tuesdays with Molakesh the Destroyer (2015) / short story by Megan Walker [as by Megan Grey] * Wooden Feathers (2015) / short story by Ursula Vernon * Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight [Universe of Xuya] (2015) / short story by Aliette de Bodard * Madeleine (2015) •/ short story by Amal El-Mohtar ** Neat Things (2015) • essay by Seanan McGuire * Pocosin (2015) / short story by Ursula Vernon * Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (2015) / short story by Alyssa Wong * So Much Cooking (2015) / novelette by Naomi Kritzer * The Deepwater Bride (2015) / novelette by Tamsyn Muir * The Heart's Filthy Lesson (2015) / novelette by Elizabeth Bear * Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds [Birdverse] (2015) / novelette by Rose Lemberg * Another Word for World (2015) / novelette by Ann Leckie * The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (2015) / novelette by Catherynne M. Valente * Our Lady of the Open Road [A Song for a New Day] (2015) / novelette by Sarah Pinsker * The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn (2015) / novella by Usman T. Malik * The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps [The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps Universe • 1] (2015) / novel by Kai Ashante Wilson