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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Award-Nominated Short Fiction Read in 2020

Award-Nominated Short Fiction Read in 2020

This challenge is for those who wish to read all of the year's award-nominated short fiction, or to delve into award-nominated short fiction from the past.

Following are links to some of the finalist listings for various awards at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Listings for other awards can be found there as well.

Hugo Awards
Nebula Awards
Sturgeon Awards

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2020 – December 2020

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Novice = 12 books + 2 reviews
 Apprentice = 25 books + 4 reviews
 Journeyman = 36 books + 6 reviews
 Master = 50 books + 8 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.
Adele1967

Adele1967

Alice Payne Arrives
And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead
Angel
Aurora in Four Voices
Binti
Bloodchild
The Day Before the Revolution
The Death of Captain Future
The Deep
Escape Route
Even the Queen
Every Heart a Doorway
Fire Watch
The Flowers of Vashnoi
The Game of Rat and Dragon
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
It's a Good Life
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
Out of All Them Bright Stars
Painwise
Sur
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Badseedgirl

Badseedgirl

Beneath the Sugar Sky
Graves
The Hemingway Hoax
The Litany of Earth
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
None So Blind
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5
4
3
2
1
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Appropriate Love
The Axiom of Choice
Axiomatic
The Birthday of the World
The Box
The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead
The Calling
Carnival Nine
Chaff
Chatting with Anubis
The Choice
Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand
Closer
Crystal Nights
Dirty Old Town
The Face of Twilight
Fandom for Robots
Forgiveness Day
A Human Stain
The Ice Owl
Into Darkness
Lady Madonna
The Last Novelist: (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)
A Man of the People
Metalica
The Migratory Pattern of Dancers
Mountain Ways
Movement
Night They Missed the Horror Show
Old Music and the Slave Women
Oracle
Paradises Lost
Quarry
Ray of Light
Reasons to Be Cheerful
The Red Tower
Sauerkraut Station
The Scent of Vinegar
A Series of Steaks
Singleton
Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time
Stephen
Two Hearts
Uncanny Valley
Unchosen Love
Utopia, LOL?
Weaponized Math
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™
What We Found
A Woman's Liberation
Hneite

Hneite

Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13
Angel
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
As the Last I May Know
The Axiom of Choice
Basilisk
A Catalog of Storms
The Day Before the Revolution
The Deathbird
Delusion for a Dragon Slayer
Even the Queen
Exhalation
The Giving Plague
Johnny Mnemonic
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Mountain Ways
Omphalos
On the Downhill Side
Out of All Them Bright Stars
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society
Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
Slow Tuesday Night
The Star
They Will Dream In the Garden
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
A Walk in the Sun
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™
Window
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5
4
3
2
1
illegible_scribble

illegible_scribble

3-adica
Amnesty
And Now His Lordship Is Laughing
Angel
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
Cassandra
The Chameleon's Gloves
Chance
Craphound
The Deep
Exhalation
The Game of Rat and Dragon
Generation Gap
Give the Family My Love
Good News from the Vatican
The Gorilla in a Tutu Principle or, Pecan Pie at Minnie and Earl’s
Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds
The Great Silence
Gremlin
Harrison Bergeron
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Omphalos
Out of All Them Bright Stars
Return to Pleasure Island
The Savannah Problem
Shatterdown
Sleeper
Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's
Sur
Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
The Ungoverned
Waterlines
What's Expected of Us
The Work of Wolves
ManyMoons

ManyMoons

25
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2
1
Momosnyx

Momosnyx

50
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Parzival1977

Parzival1977

Field Biology of the Wee Fairies
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington
STET
A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies
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1
thereddeath

thereddeath

All Systems Red
11
10
9
8
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6
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13
Allamagoosa
Barnacle Bill the Spacer
The Beast that Shouted Love
Beggars in Spain
The Bicentennial Man
The Big Front Yard
The Borderland of Sol
Cassandra
Catch That Zeppelin!
The Court Magician
The Darfsteller
Death on the Nile
The Deathbird
Down in the Bottomlands
Eurema's Dam
Even the Queen
Exploration Team
Eyes of Amber
Flowers for Algernon
Georgia on My Mind
The Girl Who Was Plugged In
Goat Song
Gold
Gonna Roll the Bones
The Hole Man
Hunter's Moon
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Ill Met in Lankhmar
Inconstant Moon
Jeffty Is Five
The Longest Voyage
The Meeting
Neutron Star
Nightwings
No Truce With Kings
The Nutcracker Coup
Or All the Seas with Oysters
The Queen of Air and Darkness
'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman
Riders of the Purple Wage
The Sharing of Flesh
Ship of Shadows
Slow Sculpture
The Star
That Hell-Bound Train
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
Tricentennial
A Walk in the Sun
Weyr Search