Year | Author | Work | Publisher/publication | Ref. |
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1982 | Parke Godwin* | "The Fire When It Comes" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [11] |
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C. J. Cherryh | Ealdwood | Donald M. Grant | [11] |
Robert Holdstock | "Mythago Wood" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [11] |
Karl Edward Wagner | "The River of Night's Dreaming" | Whispers III (Doubleday) | [11] |
1983 | Charles L. Grant* | "Confess the Seasons" | Perpetual Light (Warner Books) | [12] |
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Karl Edward Wagner* | "Beyond Any Measure" | Whispers | [12] |
Stephen King | "The Breathing Method" | Different Seasons (Viking Press) | [12] |
Fritz Leiber | "Horrible Imaginings" | Death (Playboy Press) | [12] |
Charles L. Grant | "Night's Swift Dragons" | Nightmare Seasons (Doubleday) | [12] |
1984 | Kim Stanley Robinson* | "Black Air" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [13] |
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Scott Baker | "The Lurking Duck" | Omni | [13] |
Michael Bishop | "The Monkey's Bride" | Heroic Visions (Ace Books) | [13] |
Tanith Lee | "Nunc Dimittis" | The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror (Dodd, Mead and Company) | [13] |
Elizabeth A. Lynn | The Red Hawk | Cheap Street | [13] |
1985 | Geoff Ryman* | "The Unconquered Country" | Interzone | [14] |
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Stephen King | "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [14] |
Gerald Pearce | "In the Sumerian Marshes" | Amazing Stories | [14] |
Clive Barker | "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament" | Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vol. II (Sphere Books) | [14] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [14] |
1986 | T. E. D. Klein* | "Nadelman's God" | Dark Gods (Viking Press) | [15] |
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David Morrell | "Dead Image" | Night Visions 2 (Dark Harvest) | [15] |
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?" | Shadows 8 (Doubleday) | [15] |
Peter Dickinson | "Flight" | Imaginary Lands (Ace Books) | [15] |
Kate Wilhelm | "The Gorgon Field" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [15] |
1987 | Orson Scott Card* | "Hatrack River" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [16] |
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Connie Willis | "Chance" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [16] |
Clive Barker | "The Hellbound Heart" | Night Visions 3 (Dark Harvest) | [16] |
Tim Powers | Night Moves | Axolotl Press | [16] |
J. N. Williamson | "The Night Seasons" | Night Cry | [16] |
1988 | Ursula K. Le Guin* | "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [17] |
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Robert R. McCammon | "Best Friends" | Night Visions 4 (Dark Harvest) | [17] |
Alan Rodgers | "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead" | Masques II (Maclay & Associates) | [17] |
Alan Moore | "A Hypothetical Lizard" | Liavek: Wizard's Row (Ace Books) | [17] |
Scott Baker | "Nesting Instinct" | The Architecture of Fear (Arbor House) | [17] |
George R. R. Martin | "The Pear-Shaped Man" | Omni | [17] |
Lucius Shepard | "Shades" | In the Field of Fire (Tor Books) | [17] |
1989 | George R. R. Martin* | "The Skin Trade" | Night Visions 5 (Dark Harvest) | [18] |
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Jane Yolen | "The Devil's Arithmetic" | Viking Kestrel | [18] |
Sheri S. Tepper | "The Gardener" | Night Visions 6 (Dark Harvest) | [18] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [18] |
1990 | John Crowley* | "Great Work of Time" | Novelty (Doubleday) | [19] |
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Michael Bishop | Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana | Axolotl Press | [19] |
Howard Waldrop | A Dozen Tough Jobs | Mark V. Ziesing | [19] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Father of Stones" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [19] |
Joe R. Lansdale | "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks" | Book of the Dead (Bantam Books) | [19] |
1991 | Pat Murphy* | "Bones" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [20] |
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F. Paul Wilson | "The Barrens" | Lovecraft's Legacy (Tor Books) | [20] |
Jonathan Carroll | Black Cocktail | Legend Press | [20] |
Joe Haldeman | "The Hemingway Hoax" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [20] |
1992 | Robert Holdstock* | "The Ragthorn" | A Whisper of Blood (William Morrow and Company) | [21] |
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Garry Kilworth* |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch | The Gallery of His Dreams | Axolotl Press | [21] |
C. J. Cherryh | "Gwydion and the Dragon" | Once Upon a Time (Legend Press) | [21] |
Charles de Lint | Our Lady of the Harbour | Axolotl Press | [21] |
S. P. Somtow | "The Pavilion of Frozen Women" | Cold Shocks (Avon) | [21] |
Darrell Schweitzer | "To Become a Sorcerer" | Weird Tales | [21] |
1993 | Peter Straub* | "The Ghost Village" | MetaHorror (Abyss) | [22] |
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Charles de Lint | "Paperjack" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [22] |
Bradley Denton | "The Territory" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [22] |
Jonathan Carroll | "Uh-Oh City" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [22] |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Unmasking | Axolotl Press | [22] |
1994 | Terry Lamsley* | "Under the Crust" | Under the Crust (Wendigo) | [23] |
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Elizabeth Hand | "The Erl-King" | Full Spectrum 4 (Bantam Spectra) | [23] |
Harlan Ellison | Mefisto in Onyx | Mark V. Ziesing | [23] |
Jack Cady | "The Night We Buried Road Dog" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [23] |
Walter Jon Williams | "Wall, Stone, Craft" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [23] |
1995 | Elizabeth Hand* | "Last Summer at Mars Hill" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [24] |
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Peter Straub | "Fee" | Borderlands 4 (Borderlands Press) | [24] |
Brian W. Aldiss | "The God Who Slept With Women" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [24] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Last Time" | Little Deaths (Millennium) | [24] |
Kim Newman | "Out of the Night, When the Full Moon Is Bright..." | The Mammoth Book of Werewolves (Carroll & Graf Publishers) | [24] |
Robert Devereaux | "A Slow Red Whisper of Sand" | Love In Vein (HarperPrism) | [24] |
1996 | Michael Swanwick* | "Radio Waves" | Omni | [25] |
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Ursula K. Le Guin | "Ether OR" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [25] |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman | "Home for Christmas" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [25] |
Jonathan Lethem | "The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" | Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam Spectra) | [25] |
Michael Marshall Smith | "More Tomorrow" | Dark Terrors (Victor Gollancz) | [25] |
Tim Powers | Where They Are Hid | Charnel House | [25] |
1997 | Mark Helprin* | A City in Winter | Viking Ariel | [26] |
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Suzy McKee Charnas | "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [26] |
George R. R. Martin | "Blood of the Dragon" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [26] |
Susan Palwick | "GI Jesus" | Starlight 1 (Tor Books) | [26] |
Michael Marshall Smith | "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself" | Dark Terrors 2 (Victor Gollancz) | [26] |
1998 | Richard Bowes* | "Streetcar Dreams" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [27] |
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Kim Newman | "Coppola's Dracula" | The Mammoth Book of Dracula (Robinson Publishing) | [27] |
Brian Hodge | "The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins" | Love In Vein II (HarperPrism) | [27] |
Ellen Kushner | "The Fall of the Kings" | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (White Wolf Publishing) | [27] |
Delia Sherman |
Douglas E. Winter | "The Zombies of Madison County" | Dark of the Night (Pumpkin Books) | [27] |
1999 | Ian R. MacLeod* | "The Summer Isles" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [28] |
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A. S. Byatt | "Cold" | Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (Chatto & Windus) | [28] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | "Dragonfly" | Legends (Voyager Books) | [28] |
George R. R. Martin | "The Hedge Knight" | Legends (Voyager Books) | [28] |
Peter Straub | "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" | Murder for Revenge (Delacorte Press) | [28] |
2000 | Laurel Winter* | "Sky Eyes" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [29] |
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Jeff VanderMeer* | "The Transformation of Martin Lake" | Palace Corbie Eight (Merrimack Books) | [29] |
Lucius Shepard | "Crocodile Rock" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [29] |
Tanith Lee | "Scarlet and Gold" | Weird Tales | [29] |
Connie Willis | "The Winds of Marble Arch" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [29] |
Michael Meddor | "The Wizard Retires" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [29] |
2001 | Steve Rasnic Tem* | The Man on the Ceiling | American Fantasy Press | [30] |
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Melanie Tem* |
Michael Bishop | "Blue Kansas Sky" | Blue Kansas Sky (Golden Gryphon Press) | [30] |
Elizabeth Hand | "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" | Sci Fiction | [30] |
Glen Hirshberg | "Mr. Dark's Carnival" | Shadows and Silence (Ash-Tree Press) | [30] |
Susanna Clarke | "Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower" | Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Avon Publications) | [30] |
David Case | "Pelican Cay" | Dark Terrors 5 (Victor Gollancz) | [30] |
Ted Chiang | "Seventy-Two Letters" | Vanishing Acts (Tor Books) | [30] |
2002 | S. P. Somtow* | "The Bird Catcher" | The Museum of Horrors (Leisure Books) | [31] |
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Elizabeth Hand | "Cleopatra Brimstone" | Redshift (Roc Books) | [31] |
Lucius Shepard | "Eternity and Afterward" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [31] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Finder" | Tales from Earthsea (Harcourt) | [31] |
Paul Di Filippo | "Karuna, Inc." | Fantastic Stories of the Imagination | [31] |
Glen Hirshberg | "Struwwelpeter" | Sci Fiction | [31] |
2003 | Zoran Živković* | "The Library" | Leviathan 3 (The Ministry of Whimsy Press) | [32] |
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Neil Gaiman | Coraline | HarperCollins | [32] |
Elizabeth Hand | "The Least Trumps" | Conjunctions | [32] |
Charles de Lint | Seven Wild Sisters | Subterranean Press | [32] |
Paul Di Filippo | A Year in the Linear City | PS Publishing | [32] |
2004 | Greer Gilman* | "A Crowd of Bone" | Trampoline (Small Beer Press) | [33] |
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Glen Hirshberg | "Dancing Men" | The Dark (Tor Books) | [33] |
Jeffrey Ford | "The Empire of Ice Cream" | Sci Fiction | [33] |
Simon Clark | "Exorcising Angels" | Exorcising Angels (Earthling Publications) | [33] |
Tim Lebbon |
Kelly Link | "The Hortlak" | The Dark (Tor Books) | [33] |
2005 | Michael Shea* | "The Growlimb" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [34] |
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Gene Wolfe | "Golden City Far" | Flights (Roc Books) | [34] |
Lisa Tuttle | My Death | PS Publishing | [34] |
Kim Newman | "Soho Golem" | Sci Fiction | [34] |
Leena Krohn | Tainaron: Mail from Another City | Prime Books | [34] |
2006 | Joe Hill* | Voluntary Committal | Subterranean Press | [35] |
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Simon Morden | Another War | Telos Publishing | [35] |
Laird Barron | "The Imago Sequence" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [35] |
Michael Cunningham | "In the Machine" | Specimen Days (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | [35] |
Kelly Link | "Magic for Beginners" | Magic for Beginners (Small Beer Press) | [35] |
Tanith Lee | "UOUS" | The Fair Folk (Science Fiction Book Club) | [35] |
2007 | Jeffrey Ford* | "Botch Town" | The Empire of Ice Cream (Golden Gryphon Press) | [36] |
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Norman Partridge | Dark Harvest | Cemetery Dance Publications | [36] |
Ysabeau S. Wilce | "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [36] |
Kim Newman | "The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train" | The Man from the Diogenes Club (MonkeyBrain Books) | [36] |
M. Rickert | "Map of Dreams" | Map of Dreams (Golden Gryphon Press) | [36] |
2008 | Elizabeth Hand* | Illyria | PS Publishing | [37] |
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Kim Newman | "Cold Snap" | The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (MonkeyBrain Books) | [37] |
Ian R. MacLeod | "The Master Miller's Tale" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [37] |
Robert Edric | The Mermaids | PS Publishing | [37] |
Lucius Shepard | "Stars Seen through Stone" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [37] |
2009 | Richard Bowes* | "If Angels Fight" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [38] |
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Nisi Shawl | "Good Boy" | Filter House (Aqueduct Press) | [38] |
Neil Gaiman | Odd and the Frost Giants | Bloomsbury Publishing | [38] |
Albert E. Cowdrey | "The Overseer" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [38] |
Peter S. Beagle | "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel" | Strange Roads (DreamHaven Books) | [38] |
2010 | Margo Lanagan* | "Sea-Hearts" | X 6 (Coeur de Lion Publishing) | [39] |
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Paul Witcover | "Everland" | Everland and Other Stories (PS Publishing) | [39] |
Richard Bowes | "I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [39] |
Steve Duffy | "The Lion's Den" | Cern Zoo (Megazanthus Press) | [39] |
Andy Duncan | The Night Cache | PS Publishing | [39] |
Kage Baker | The Women of Nell Gwynne's | Subterranean Press | [39] |
2011 | Elizabeth Hand* | "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" | Stories (William Morrow and Company) | [40] |
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Elizabeth Bear | Bone and Jewel Creatures | Subterranean Press | [40] |
Michael Byers | The Broken Man | PS Publishing | [40] |
Rachel Swirsky | The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window | Subterranean Press | [40] |
George R. R. Martin | "The Mystery Knight" | Warriors (Tor Books) | [40] |
Tim Lebbon | The Thief of Broken Toys | ChiZine Publications | [40] |
2012 | K. J. Parker* | "A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong" | Subterranean Magazine | [41] |
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Elizabeth Hand | "Near Zennor" | A Book of Horrors (Jo Fletcher Books) | [41] |
Robert Shearman | "Alice Through the Plastic Sheet" | A Book of Horrors (Jo Fletcher Books) | [41] |
Lucius Shepard | "Rose Street Attractors" | Ghosts by Gaslight (Harper Voyager) | [41] |
Catherynne M. Valente | "Silently and Very Fast" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [41] |
2013 | K. J. Parker* | "Let Maps to Others" | Subterranean Magazine | [42] |
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Laird Barron | "Hand of Glory" | The Book of Cthulhu II (Night Shade Books) | [42] |
Brandon Sanderson | The Emperor's Soul | Tachyon Publications | [42] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Skull" | The Dragon Griaule (Subterranean Press) | [42] |
Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press) | [42] |
2014 | Andy Duncan* | "Wakulla Springs" | Tor.com | [43] |
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Ellen Klages* |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | Black Helicopters | Subterranean Press | [43] |
K. J. Parker | "The Sun and I" | Subterranean Magazine | [43] |
Veronica Schanoes | "Burning Girls" | Tor.com | [43] |
Catherynne M. Valente | Six-Gun Snow White | Subterranean Press | [43] |
2015 | Daryl Gregory* | We Are All Completely Fine | Tachyon Publications | [5] |
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Kai Ashante Wilson | "The Devil in America" | Tor.com | [5] |
Rachel Swirsky | "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" | Subterranean Magazine | [5] |
Michael Libling | "Hollywood North" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [5] |
Mary Rickert | "The Mothers of Voorhisville" | Tor.com | [5] |
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen | "Where the Trains Turn" | Tor.com | [5] |
2016 | Kelly Barnhill* | The Unlicensed Magician | PS Publishing | [6] |
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Bud Webster | "Farewell Blues" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
Kim Newman | "Guignol" | Horrorology (Jo Fletcher Books) | [6] |
Usman T. Malik | "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | Tor.com | [6] |
Kelly Robson | "Waters of Versailles" | Tor.com | [6] |
2017 | Kij Johnson* | The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe | Tor.com Publishing | [44] |
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Victor LaValle | The Ballad of Black Tom | Tor.com Publishing | [44] |
Paul F. Olson | "Bloodybones" | Whispered Echoes (Cemetery Dance Publications) | [44] |
Seanan McGuire | Every Heart a Doorway | Tor.com Publishing | [44] |
Kai Ashante Wilson | A Taste of Honey | Tor.com Publishing | [44] |
2018 | Ellen Klages* | Passing Strange | Tor.com Publishing | [7] |
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JY Yang | The Black Tides of Heaven | Tor.com Publishing | [7] |
Peter S. Beagle | In Calabria | Tachyon Publications | [7] |
Stephen Graham Jones | Mapping the Interior | Tor.com Publishing | [7] |
Simon Avery | The Teardrop Method | TTA Press | [7] |
2019 | Kij Johnson* | "The Privilege of the Happy Ending" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [45] |
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Brooke Bolander | The Only Harmless Great Thing | Tor.com Publishing | [45] |
P. Djèlí Clark | The Black God's Drums | Tor.com Publishing | [45] |
Aliette de Bodard | The Tea Master and the Detective | Subterranean Press | [45] |
Seanan McGuire | Beneath the Sugar Sky | Tor.com Publishing | [45] |
2020 | Emily Tesh* | Silver in the Wood | Tor.com Publishing | [46] |
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Nathan Ballingrud | "The Butcher's Table" | Wounds (Saga Press) | [46] |
Rivers Solomon | The Deep | Saga Press | [46] |
Daveed Diggs |
William Hutson |
Jonathan Snipes |
C. S. E. Cooney | Desdemona and the Deep | Tor.com Publishing | [46] |
Seanan McGuire | In an Absent Dream | Tor.com Publishing | [46] |
2021 | Tochi Onyebuchi* | Riot Baby | Tor.com Publishing | [47] |
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Kathleen Jennings | Flyaway | Tor.com Publishing | [47] |
R. B. Lemberg | The Four Profound Weaves | Tachyon Publications | [47] |
P. Djèlí Clark | Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times | Tor.com Publishing | [47] |
Leah Cypess | "Stepsister" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [47] |
2022 | Premee Mohamed* | And What Can We Offer You Tonight | Neon Hemlock Press | [48] |
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Isabel Yap | "A Canticle for Lost Girls" | Never Have I Ever (Small Beer Press) | [48] |
A. M. Muffaz | Finches | Vernacular Books | [48] |
Elizabeth Hand | "For Sale by Owner" | When Things Get Dark (Penguin Random House) | [48] |
Cassandra Khaw | Nothing But Blackened Teeth | Nightfire Books | [48] |
2023 | Priya Sharma* | Pomegranates | Absinthe Books | [49] |
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Naseem Jamnia | The Bruising of Qilwa | Tachyon Publications | [49] |
C. L. Polk | Even Though I Knew the End | Tordotcom | [49] |
Naben Ruthnum | Helpmeet | Undertow Publications | [49] |
Dennis Mombauer | The House of Drought | Stelliform Press | [49] |