Asimov’s Reader Poll Finalists

Asimov’s has announced the finalists for their thirty-first annual reader’s poll and invites readers to read the stories. The winners will be announced the weekend of May 18-21 at the SFWA Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh. Editor Sheila Williams notes that they intend to make the finalists available on-line each year from now on.

Novellas

• “Choose Poison, Choose Life,” by Michael Blumlein
• “Where There Is Nothing, There Is God,” by David Erik Nelson
• “What We Hold Onto,” by Jay O’Connell
• “Lazy Dog Out,” by Suzanne Palmer
• “Einstein’s Shadow,” by Allen M. Steele

Novelettes

• “I Married a Monster from Outer Space,” by Dale Bailey
• “They Have All One Breath,” by Karl Bunker
• “President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut,” by Sandra McDonald
• “Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man,” by Suzanne Palmer
• “Matilda,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Short Stories

• “The Mutants Men Don’t See,” by James Alan Gardner
• “White Dust,” by Nathan Hillstrom
• “All That Robot…,” by Rich Larson
• “Exceptional Forces,” by Sean McMullen
• “Dome on the Prairie,” by Robert Reed

Poetry

• “The Abassador’s Daughter,” by Megan Arkenberg
• “Your Clone Excels at You,” by Robert Frazier
• “After,” by Herb Kauderer
• “Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman,” by Ron Koertge
• “The Robot Grows Old,” by Geoffrey A. Landis
• “Long Argument, the Longest,” by Jane Yolen
• “Nice Touch,” by Jane Yolen
• “Old Women of the Wood,” by Jane Yolen

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