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