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As if 17-year-old Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder isn't enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet that is on a collision course with Earth. The holograms, claiming to be humans from the future, bring the promise of safety. But without the ability to verify their story, Alex is forced to consider what is best for her friends, her family, and herself. To stay or to go. A decision must be made. With the deadline of the holograms' prophecy fast approaching, Alex feels as though she is living on a ticking time bomb, until she discovers it is much, much worse.

The holograms lied to everyone on Earth and only Alexandra Lucas knows the truth. Now she's trapped in the year 2359 without family or friends--worse, without her anxiety medication. Alex attempts to reconcile the marvelous scenery, technological advances, and luxurious living with the knowledge that the holograms weren't being completely honest--what else are they lying about? With a secret that could shatter her society, Alex tries to find her place among strangers, convicts, and a rebellion striving to bring the holograms down. Alex struggles to find the best way to reveal the truth and reunite with those she loves. But when surrounded by beauty and every convenience, Alex wonders if truth becomes irrelevant in a perfect world.

The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom.

But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology collects 21 tales which were originally published in 2014 from the 2015 nomination list, totaling almost 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world.

Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from near future android stories to steampunk heists, too-plausible dystopias to contemporary vampire stories.

Table of Contents:

Cover Art

• "A City On Its Tentacles", illustration by Galen Dara

Short Stories

• "Covenant" by Elizabeth Bear (Slate.com)
• "This Chance Planet" by Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com)
• "Goodnight Stars" by Annie Bellet (The End is Now, edited by John Joseph Adams)
• "The Breath of War" by Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar (Strange Horizons)
• "When It Ends, He Catches Her" by Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction)
• "A Kiss With Teeth" by Max Gladstone (Tor.com)
• "Makeisha in Time" by Rachael K. Jones (Crossed Genres)
• "Toad Words" by T. Kingfisher, aka Ursula Vernon (author's website)
• "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" by Usman T. Malik (Medium.com)

Novelettes

• "The Magician and LaPlace's Demon" by Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld)
• "The Litany of Earth" [Innsmouth Legacy] by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com)
• "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" by Alaya Dawn Johnson (author's website)
• "The Bonedrake's Penance" by Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "A Year and a Day in Old Theradane" by Scott Lynch (Uncanny Magazine)
• "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (Granta)
• "We are the Cloud" by Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed Magazine)
• "Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy" by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld)
• "The Devil in America" by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)

Novellas

• "The Regular" by Ken Liu (Forever Magazine)
• "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Press)

The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following longlist entries, but they are available to read for free online:

• "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon (short story, Apex Magazine)
• "Each to Each" by Seanan McGuire (novelette, Lightspeed Magazine)
• "The Mothers of Voorhisville" by Mary Rickert (novella, Tor.com)
• "Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome" by John Scalzi (novella, Tor.com)
• "Where the Trains Turn" by Pasi Jääskeläinen (novella, Tor.com)

The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following longlist novella entries which are not available online:

• "The Slow Regard of Silent Things" by Patrick Rothfuss (Gollancz / DAW Books)
• "Yesterday's Kin" [Yesterday's Kin] by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)
• "We Are All Completely Fine" by Daryl Gregory (Tachyon Publications)
• "Dream Houses" by Genevieve Valentine (WSFA Press)
• "Legion: Skin Deep" by Brandon Sanderson (Subterranean Press)

The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom.

But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology 2 collects 20 tales which were originally published in 2015 from the 2016 nomination list, totaling almost 550 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world.

Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from near future android stories to steampunk heists, too-plausible dystopias to contemporary vampire stories.

Table of Contents:

Cover Art

• Illustration by Galen Dara

Essays

• The Women You Didn't See by Nicola Griffith (Letters to Tiptree, Twelfth Planet Press)
• Neat Things by Seanan McGuire (Letters to Tiptree, Twelfth Planet Press)

Short Stories

• Damage by David D. Levine (Tor.com, January 21, 2015)
• Pockets by Amal El-Mohtar (Uncanny Magazine, Jan-Feb 2015)
• Today I Am Paul by Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld #107, August 2015)
• Tuesdays with Molakesh the Destroyer by Megan Grey (Fireside, January 2015)
• Wooden Feathers by Ursula Vernon (Uncanny Magazine, Nov-Dec 2015)
• Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight [Xuya Universe] by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)
• Madeleine by Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015)
• Pocosin by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2015)
• Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong (Nightmare Magazine, October 2015)

Novelettes

• So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld #110, November 2015)
• The Deepwater Bride by Tamsyn Muir (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul-Aug 2015)
• The Heart's Filthy Lesson by Elizabeth Bear (Old Venus, edited by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin)
• Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds [Birdverse] by Rose Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175, June 2015)
• Another Word for World by Ann Leckie (Future Visions, edited by Jennifer Henshaw and Allison Linn)
• The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild by Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)
• Our Lady of the Open Road by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov's, June 2015)

Novellas

• The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik (Tor.com, April 22, 2015)
• The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following novella longlist entries, but they are available to read online for free:

• Waters of Versailles by Kelly Robson (Tor.com, June 10, 2015)
• The Bone Swans of Amandale by C.S.E. Cooney (Lightspeed Magazine, August 2016)
• The New Mother by Eugene Fischer (Asimov's, Apr-May 2015)

The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following longlist novelette entries which are not available online:

• Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald (Old Venus, edited by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin)
• Entanglements by David Gerrold (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul-Aug 2015)

The editor was unable to obtain publishing rights for the following longlist novella entries which are not available online:

• The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's, Oct-Nov 2015)
• Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred by Greg Egan (Asimov's, December 2015)
• Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant (Subterranean Press)
• Fear of the Unknown and Self-Loathing in Hollywood by Nick Cole (Tales of Tinfoil, edited by David Gatewood)