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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Award-Nominated Short Fiction Read in 2022

Award-Nominated Short Fiction Read in 2022

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 2022 – December 2022

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.
asbailey

asbailey

Elder Race
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Badseedgirl

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
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daxxh

daxxh

The 43 Antarean Dynasties
Article of Faith
Custom Options Available
Exhalation
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Margin of Error
On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog
Paladin of the Lost Hour
'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman
The Star Pit
When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?
devilinlaw

devilinlaw

26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
The 43 Antarean Dynasties
Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea
Article of Faith
Artifice and Intelligence
Barnaby in Exile
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence
A Boy and His Dog
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
The Clockwork Atom Bomb
Craphound
Distant Replay
Don Ysidro
Down Memory Lane
Dragonfly
Eight Episodes
Ej-Es
Evil Robot Monkey
Exhalation
The Finder
Forgiveness Day
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled…
The Giving Plague
Hawksbill Station
The House Beyond Your Sky
Impossible Dreams
In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns
In the Late December
Joe Steele
Kin
A Man of the People
Margin of Error
The Matter of Seggri
Nano Comes to Clifford Falls
The New Mother
Old Music and the Slave Women
Paradises Lost
Robots Don't Cry
Schwartz Between the Galaxies
Seventy-Five Years
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast
A Small Room in Koboldtown
Start the Clock
Tideline
Tk'tk'tk
Travels with My Cats
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
When We Went to See the End of the World
Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?
A Woman's Liberation
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

An Agent of Utopia
And Yet
Another Orphan
Big Girl
Black Glass
The Black God's Drums
The Bones of the Earth
Burning Chrome
Catfish Lullaby
Cleopatra Brimstone
Comfort Me With Apples
Corridors
The Court Magician
Daddy's World
The Deep
Dinosaurs
Dragonfly
Echo
The Elizabeth Complex
The Faithful Companion at Forty
The Finder
Fire Ant
Fire Watch
Food Man
The Green Leopard Plague
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
How to Swallow the Moon
Interview for the End of the World
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
The Least Trumps
A Letter from the Clearys
Lieserl
The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon
Messenger
Near Zennor
The Only Harmless Great Thing
The Pill
The Pope of the Chimps
Prayers on the Wind
Red as Blood and White as Bone
The Return of the Sorceress
The Rule of Three
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington
Souls
A Spindle Splintered
The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births
Surfacing
Swarm
Wall, Stone, Craft
A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies
Hneite

Hneite

26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything
And Then There Were (N – One)
The Annual Migration of Clouds
Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea
The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary
Approaching Oblivion
Article of Faith
The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolingui
Barnaby in Exile
The Beast that Shouted Love
Birth Days
Blue and Gold
A Boy and His Dog
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Craphound
Custom Options Available
Diana Comet and the Disappearing Lover
Dirty Computer
Dragonfly
The Finder
The Firebird's Nest
The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Green Mars
Hardfought
Helicopter Story
Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon
A Man of the People
A Martian Romance
The Matter of Seggri
Mira's Last Dance
Old Music and the Slave Women
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Paradises Lost
Penric's Mission
Riders of the Purple Wage
Sexual Dimorphism
Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
Skin Folk
Something to Hitch Meat To
Spar
A Spindle Splintered
The State of the Art
A Study in Emerald
Sur
They Will Dream In the Garden
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
A Woman's Liberation
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illegible_scribble

Carpe Glitter
A Deskful of Girls
The Scapegoat
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Parzival1977

Parzival1977

Do You Like to Look at Monsters?
Fire Watch
For He Can Creep
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thereddeath

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Weesam

Weesam

As Women Fight
Barnaby in Exile
A Billion Eves
Bronte's Egg
The Cartesian Theater
The Chief Designer
Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance
Finisterra
Give the Family My Love
It's All True
The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir
The Little Goddess
Lobsters
Lord Weary's Empire
Magic for Beginners
The Master Miller's Tale
Memorare
Memory Dog
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
Omphalos
On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog
Over Yonder
Radiant Green Star
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story
Sergeant Chip
Shatterdown
Sheena 5
Singleton
The Tear
Tendeléo's Story
Things Undone
This Wind Blowing, and This Tide
Undone
Waterlines
The Wedding Album: Love is Just Science Fiction
When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis