This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.
The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers around the world. From magical couches to impossible radio broadcasts, from robotic uprisings to rogue artist AIs, from gigantic alien telepaths to elaborate death trials held on a deadly stage. There is something here for everyone.
The following stories are in the anthology:
For Lack of a Bed
by John Wiswell
The Cold Calculations
by Aimee Ogden
Laughter Among the Trees
by Suzan Palumbo
The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries
by Meg Elison
If the Martians Have Magic
by P. Djèlí Clark
Let All the Children Boogie
by Sam J. Miller
Crazy Beautiful
by Cat Rambo
Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship
by Marie Vibbert
Before, After, and the Space Between
by Kel Coleman
Orumai’s Choice
by Gautam Bhatia
Questions Asked in the Belly of the World
by A.T. Greenblatt
Mulberry and Owl
by Aliette de Bodard
The General’s Turn
by Premee Mohamed
The Music of the Siphorophenes
by C.L. Polk
Just Enough Rain
by P H Lee
Ina’s Spark
by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Red Mother
by Elizabeth Bear
Small Monsters
by E. Lily Yu
Tombs of the Universe
by Han Song, translated by Xueting C. Ni
(emet)
by Lauren Ring
Submergence
by Arula Ratnakar