(Last updated 10 November 2020)

This page lists awards, accolades, and reprints for works we have published.

Table of Contents

• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000

Works published in 2019

Awards

• Winner, Ignyte Award, The Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre: Strange Horizons
• Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons
• Winner, Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry
  • A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampiao and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institue Circa Mid-20th Century, by Woody Dismukes
• Finalist, Ignyte Award for Best Short Story
  • And Now His Lordship Is Laughing, by Shiv Ramdas
• Finalist, Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry
  • Those Who Tell The Stories, by Davian Aw
  • Heaven is Expensive, by Ruben Reyes, Jr.
• Winner, 2020 Ditmar Award for Best Short Fiction
  • Whom My Soul Loves, by Rivqa Rafael
• Finalist, 2019 Nebula Award for Short Story
  • And Now His Lordship Is Laughing, by Shiv Ramdas
• Finalist, 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
  • And Now His Lordship Is Laughing, by Shiv Ramdas
• BSFA Awards Longlist Nominee, Short Fiction
  • • 2086, by TK Lê
• BSFA Awards Longlist Nominees, Non-Fiction
  • Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times, by Jaymee Goh
  • “Post” for Whom? Examining the Socioeconomics of a Post-Apocalypse, by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
• Nominee, Aurealis Award for Fantasy Short Story / Horror Short Story
  • Whom My Soul Loves, by Rivqa Rafael
• Second Place in the Rhysling Award, Short Poem Category
  • when my father reprograms my mother {, by Caroline Mao

Recommended Reading

• 2019 Locus Recommended Reading List
  • Many-Hearted Dog and Heron Who Stepped Past Time, by Alex Yuschik

Works published in 2018

Awards

• Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons
• Winner, 2019 Sunburst Short Story Award
  • The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls, by Senaa Ahmad
• Third Place in the Rhysling Award, Short Poem Category (Tie)
  • 3D-Printed Brother, by Millie Ho
• Finalist, 2019 Chelsey Award for Magazine Illustration
  • Cindy Fan, Illustration for Toothsome Things by Chimedum Ohaegbu
• 2019 Otherwise Award Honor List
  • Of Warps and Wefts, by Innocent Chizaram Ilo

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019, ed. John Joseph Adams and Carmen Maria Machado
  • Variations on a Theme from Turandot, by Ada Hoffmann

Notable Mentions

• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2018, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019, ed. John Joseph Adams and Carmen Maria Machado
  • De MotherJumpers, by Celeste Rita Baker
  • Princess Mine, by Darby Harn

Works published in 2017

Awards

• Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons
• Winner, 2018 World Fantasy Award, Short Fiction
  • The Birding: A Fairy Tale, by Natalia Theodoridou
• Nominee, 2017 Nebula Award for Best Short Story,
  • Utopia, LOL?, by Jamie Wahls
• Nominee, 2017 BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction,
  • These Constellations Will Be Yours, by Elaine Cuyegkeng
• Nominee, 2017 BSFA Award for Best Artwork
  • Galen Dara, Illustration for These Constellations Will Be Yours, by Elaine Cuyegkeng
• Nominee, 2017 BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction
  • The Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement, by Vandana Singh

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Twelve, ed. Jonathan Strahan
  • Concessions, by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Them Boys, by Nora Anthony
  • They Will Take You From You, by Brandon O'Brien

Notable Mentions

• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2017, selected by John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, ed. N. K. Jemisin and John Joseph Adams
  • Concessions, by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

Works published in 2016

Awards

• Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons
• Nominee, 2016 British Fantasy Awards, Magazine: Strange Horizons
• Winner, 2017 World Fantasy Award, Short Fiction
  • Das Steingeschöpf, by G.V. Anderson
• Shortlisted for the 2017 BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction,
  • Boucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven, by Erin Horáková
• Nominee, 2016 British Fantasy Awards, Non-Fiction,
  • Matrilines Columns, by Kari Sperring
• Shortlisted for the 2017 Sunburst Short Story Award,
  • La Corriveau, K. T. Bryski
• Shortlisted for the WSFA Small Press Award 2017
  • The Witch's Knives, by Margaret Ronald

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017, ed. Rich Horton
  • Gorse Daughter, Sparrow Son, by Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Applied Cenotaphics in the Long, Long Longitudes, by Vajra Chandrasekera
  • The Wreck at Goat's Head, by Alexandra Manglis
  • Bull of Heaven, by Gabriel Murray
  • The Opening of the Bayou Saint John, by Shawn Scarber
  • The Godbeard, by Lavie Tidhar
  • Heroes, by Lavie Tidhar

Notable Mentions

• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2016, selected by John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, ed. Charles Yu and John Joseph Adams
  • One Giant Leap, by Jay Werkheiser

Works published in 2015

Awards

• Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons
• Nominee, 2015 Locus Award, Magazine: Strange Horizons
• Winner, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
  • The Game of Smash and Recovery, by Kelly Link

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • The Game of Smash and Recovery, by Kelly Link
• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, ed. Rich Horton
  • The Game of Smash and Recovery, by Kelly Link
• Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, ed. Jonathan Strahan
  • The Game of Smash and Recovery, by Kelly Link
• Reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, ed. Karen Joy Fowler and John Joseph Adams
  • The Game of Smash and Recovery, by Kelly Link
  • By Degrees and Dilatory Time, by S.L. Huang

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Among the Sighs of the Violoncellos, by Daniel Ausema
  • Needle on Bone, by Helena Bell
  • Winds That Stir Vermillion Sands, by David Bowles
  • The Truth About Owls, by Amal El-Mohtar
  • Utrechtenaar, by Paul Evanby
  • Telling the Bees, by T. Kingfisher
  • It Brought Us All Together, by Marissa Lingen
  • At Whatever Are Their Moons, by Sunny Moraine
  • The Visitor, by Karen Myers
  • Hundred Eye, by Yukimi Ogawa
  • Let's Tell Stories of the Death of Children, by Margaret Ronald

Recommended Reading

• 2015 Recommended Reading List, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One, ed. Neil Clarke
  • Liminal Grid, by Jaymee Goh

Notable Mentions

• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2015, selected by John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, ed. Karen Joy Fowler and John Joseph Adams
  • Even The Mountains Are Not Forever, by Laurie Tom

Works published in 2014

Awards

• Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons
• Nominee, BSFA Award
  • The State of British SF and Fantasy: A Symposium, by Juliet E. McKenna, Kari Sperring, Nina Allan, Dan Hartland, Martin Lewis, and Maureen Kincaid Speller
• Third Place in the Rhysling Award, Short Poem Category (Four-Way Tie)
  • The Peal Divers, by Francesca Forrest
  • After the Changeling Incantation, by John Philip Johnson
• Honor List, Tiptree Award (in 2016)
  • Sarah's Child, by Susan Jane Bigelow

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale, by C. S. E. Cooney
• Reprinted in Speculative Fiction 2014, ed. Renee Williams and Shaun Duke
  • Review of The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, by Adam Roberts

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • The Great Detective, by Sarah Brooks
  • Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale, by C. S. E. Cooney
  • Pavlov's House, by Malcolm Cross
  • A Moon for the Unborn, by Indrapramit Das
  • Lysistrata of Mars, by Tory Hoke
  • The Air We Breathe Is Stormy, Stormy, by Rich Larson
  • She Commands Me and I Obey, by Ann Leckie
  • The Suitcase Aria, by Marissa Lingen
  • Cold as the Moon, by Sunny Moraine
  • The Innocence of a Place, by Margaret Ronald
  • Chambered Nautilus, by Élisabeth Vonarburg
  • Santos de Sampaguitas, by Alyssa Wong

Recommended Reading:

• Recommended Reading, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • The Great Detective, by Sarah Brooks
  • She Commands Me and I Obey, by Ann Leckie
  • The Innocence of a Place, by Margaret Ronald

Works published in 2013

Awards

• Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons
• Nominee, Hugo Award
  • Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar
• Nominee, Nebula Award
  • Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar
  • In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind, by Sarah Pinsker
• Nominee, World Fantasy Award
  • Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar
• Nominee, BSFA Award
  • Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar
• Winner, Theodore Sturgeon Award
  • In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind, by Sarah Pinsker
• Third place, storySouth Million Writers Award
  • Inventory, by Carmen Maria Machado
• Nominee, 2014 Aurora Award for Best Poem/Song in English,
  • Lost, by Amal El-Mohtar

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight, ed. Jonathan Strahan
  • Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar
• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Live Arcade, by Erik Amundsen
  • Town's End, by Yukimi Ogawa
• Reprinted in Speculative Fiction 2013, ed. Ana Grilo and Thea James
  • Review of Hair Side, Flesh Side by Helen Marshall, by Nina Allan
  • Communities: You Got Your Industry in My Fanwork, by Renay
  • Recentering Science Fiction and the Fantastic, by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • The Mythology of Salt, by Octavia Cade
  • The Witches of Athens, by Lara Elena Donnelly
  • Hiding on the Red Sands of Mars, by Anaea Lay
  • Din Ba Din, by Kate MacLeod
  • Event Horizon, by Sunny Moraine
  • The Long Road to the Deep North, by Lavie Tidhar
• Recommended reading, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Complicated and Stupid, by Charlie Jane Anders
  • Din Ba Din, by Kate MacLeod
  • Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar
  • Jinki and the Paradox, by Sathya Stone

Works published in 2012

Awards

• Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons
• Winner, WSFA Small Press Award
  • Good Hunting, by Ken Liu
• Winner, Theodore Sturgeon Award
  • The Grinnell Method, by Molly Gloss
• Finalist, Theodore Sturgeon Award
  • Things Greater Than Love, by Kate Bachus

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Seven, ed. Jonathan Strahan
  • The Grinnell Method, by Molly Gloss
• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Four Kinds of Cargo, by Leonard Richardson
  • The Keats Variation, by K. M. Ferebee
  • Things Greater Than Love, by Kate Bachus
• Reprinted in Speculative Fiction 2012, ed. Jared Shurin and Justin Landon
  • Review of Faith by John Love, by Katherine Farmar
  • Review of Theft of Swords by Michael J Sullivan, by Liz Bourke
  • Review of The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R Kiernan, by Niall Alexander

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Things Greater Than Love, by Kate Bachus
  • The Chastisement of Your Peace, by Tracy Canfield
  • The Keats Variation, by K. M. Ferebee
  • The Grinnell Method, by Molly Gloss
  • Beside Calais, by Samantha Henderson
  • Over the Waves, by Louise Hughes
  • Household Management, by Ellen Klages
  • He Reminds Us, by Jennifer Linnaea
  • Good Hunting, by Ken Liu
  • Bright Lights, by Robert Reed
  • Four Kinds of Cargo, by Leonard Richardson
  • Elsewhere, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
  • The Lord of Discarded Things, by Lavie Tidhar
  • Recognizing Gabe: un cuento de hadas, by Alberto Yáñez
  • The Fourth Exam, by Dorothy Yarros
• Recommended reading, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Wing, by Amal El-Mohtar
  • The Grinnell Method, by Molly Gloss
  • Beside Calais, by Samantha Henderson
  • Tiger Stripes, by Nghi Vo
  • The Fourth Exam, by Dorothy Yarros

Works published in 2011

Awards

• Winner, Rhysling Award
  • The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages, by Megan Arkenberg

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • The Last Sophia, by C.S.E. Cooney
  • Widows in the World, by Gavin Grant

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Source Decay, by Charlie Jane Anders
  • One-Eyed Jack's, by Tracy Canfield
  • The Last Sophia, by C.S.E. Cooney
  • Widows in the World, by Gavin Grant
  • Pataki, by Nisi Shawl
  • A Box of Thunder, by Lewis Shiner
  • Souvenir, by Genevieve Valentine

Works published in 2010

Awards

• Finalist, 2010 Aurealis Award
  • The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling, by Elizabeth Carroll
• Finalist, 2011 Locus Award
  • The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, by Theodora Goss
• Finalist, 2011 Sturgeon Award
  • The Night Train, by Lavie Tidhar
• Honor List, Tiptree Award (in 2012)
  • Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots, by Sandra McDonald
• Long List, Tiptree Award (in 2012)
  • No Return Address, by Sigrid Ellis
  • WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!, by Meghan McCarron

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • The Night Train, by Lavie Tidhar
• Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Five, ed. Jonathan Strahan
  • The Night Train, by Lavie Tidhar
  • Iteration, by John Kessel
  • Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots, by Sandra McDonald
• Reprinted in Year’s Best SF 16, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
  • Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra, by Vandana Singh
• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Merrythoughts, by Bill Kte'pi
  • The Red Bride, by Samantha Henderson

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions, by Saladin Ahmed
  • Small Burdens, by Paul M. Berger
  • Zookrollers Winkelden Ook, by Tracy Canfield
  • The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling, by Elizabeth Carroll
  • The Mad Scientist's Daughter, by Theodora Goss
  • Worlds Apart, by Marlaina Gray
  • The Red Bride, by Samantha Henderson
  • Iteration, by John Kessel
  • Where It Ends, by Swapna Kishore
  • Merrythoughts, by Bill Kte'pi
  • WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!, by Meghan McCarron
  • Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots, by Sandra McDonald
  • Blood, Blood, by Abbey Mei Otis
  • Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra, by Vandana Singh
  • Aphrodisia, by Lavie Tidhar
• Recommended reading, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling, by Elizabeth Carroll
  • Household Spirits, by C.S.E. Cooney
  • After We Got Back the Lights, by Eric Del Carlo
  • Lily, by Emily Gilman
  • The Mad Scientist's Daughter, by Theodora Goss
  • The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu, by Grady Hendrix
  • The Freedom, by K M Lawrence
  • WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!, by Meghan McCarron
  • Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots, by Sandra McDonald
  • Waiting, by Eilis O'Neal

Works published in 2009

Awards

• Winner of the 2010 World Fantasy Award, Special Award: Non-Professional
  • Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
• Nominated for the 2010 World Fantasy Award, Short Story
  • A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, by Helen Keeble
• Winner of the Rhysling Award, Short Poem category
  • To Theia, by Ann K. Schwader
• Second Place in the Rhysling Award, Long Poem category
  • Rattlebox III, by Mike Allen, Kendall Evans, & David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• Honor List, Tiptree Award (in 2010)
  • Beautiful White Bodies, by Alice Sola Kim
• Long List, Tiptree Award (in 2010)
  • A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, by Helen Keeble
  • Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut, by Cat Rambo
  • Nira and I, by Shweta Narayan
• Honor List, Tiptree Award (in 2011, after story was reprinted in a collection in 2010)
  • Diana Comet, by Sandra McDonald

Reprints

• Reprinted in Year's Best SF 15, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
  • On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk, by Peter M. Ball
• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Bespoke, by Genevieve Valentine
• To be reprinted in 2011 in The Apex Book of World SF, Volume II, ed. Lavie Tidhar
  • Nira and I, by Shweta Narayan
• Reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2010 Edition, ed. Paula Guran
  • Everything Dies, Baby, by Nadia Bulkin

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • The Shangri-La Affair, by Lavie Tidhar
  • This Must Be the Place, by Elliott Bangs
  • Diana Comet, by Sandra McDonald
  • The Rising Waters, by Benjamin Crowell
  • Second-Hand Information, by Jennifer Linnaea
  • Another End of the Empire, by Tim Pratt
  • River of Heaven, by Rachel Manija Brown
  • Salt's Father, by Eric Gregory
  • The Yeast of Eire, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut, by Cat Rambo
  • True Names, by Stephanie Burgis
  • A Brief Investigation of the Process of Decay, by Genevieve Valentine
  • Beautiful White Bodies, by Alice Sola Kim (listed under its pre-publication title)
• Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two, ed. Ellen Datlow
  • Obedience, by Brenna Yovanoff
  • Husbandry, by Eugene Fischer
  • True Names, by Stephanie Burgis
  • Beautiful White Bodies, by Alice Sola Kim (listed under its pre-publication title)
• StorySouth magazine notable stories. StorySouth listed the following SH stories as notable stories as part of this year's Million Writers Award process:
  • Greetings from Kampala by Angela Ambroz
  • The Shangri-La Affair, by Lavie Tidhar (also shortlisted for top ten stories of the year)
  • Nira and I, by Shweta Narayan (also shortlisted for top ten stories of the year)
  • Salt's Father, by Eric Gregory
  • The Yeast of Eire, by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Works published in 2008

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3, ed. Jonathan Strahan
  • The Magician's House, by Meghan McCarron
• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • We Love Deena, by Alice Sola Kim
  • The Magician's House, by Meghan McCarron
• Reprinted in Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download, ed. Rich Horton
  • Linkworlds, by Will McIntosh

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • The End of Tin, by Bill Kte'pi
  • How to Hide Your Heart, by Deborah Coates
  • Linkworlds, by Will McIntosh
  • Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy, by A.M. Dellamonica
  • The Gadgey, by Alan Campbell
  • The Magician's House, by Meghan McCarron
  • Called Out to Snow Crease Farm, by Constance Cooper
• Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume One, ed. Ellen Datlow
  • Dead, by Haddayr Copley-Woods
  • On the Eyeball Floor, by Tina Connolly
  • Nine Sundays in a Row, by Kris Dikeman
• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • The End of Tin, by Bill Kte'pi
  • How to Hide Your Heart, by Deborah Coates
  • Valiant on the Wing, by Chris Szego
  • The Gadgey, by Alan Campbell
  • Linkworlds, by Will McIntosh
  • Down the Well, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • The Same Old Story, by Naomi Bloch
• Honorable Mention, Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download, ed. Rich Horton
  • The End of Tin, by Bill Kte'pi
  • How to Hide Your Heart, by Deborah Coates
  • We Love Deena, by Alice Sola Kim
  • Valiant on the Wing, by Chris Szego
  • The Gadgey, by Alan Campbell
  • The Magician's House, by Meghan McCarron
  • Down the Well, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • The Same Old Story, by Naomi Bloch
• Recommended Reading, Best American Fantasy 3: Real Unreal (early 2010 edition), ed. Kevin Brockmeier and Matthew Cheney
  • We Love Deena, by Alice Sola Kim
• StorySouth magazine notable stories. StorySouth listed six SH stories as notable stories as part of this year's Million Writers Award process:
  • Until Forgiveness Comes, by K. Tempest Bradford (also shortlisted for top ten)
  • The Secret Identity, by Richard Butner
  • Nine Sundays in a Row, by Kris Dikeman (also selected as one of top ten stories of the year)
  • Down the Well, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • We Love Deena, by Alice Sola Kim
  • The Magician's House, by Meghan McCarron (also shortlisted for top ten)

Works published in 2007

Reprints

• Reprinted in Year's Best SF 13, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
  • Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt
• Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2008 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt
• Reprinted in Running With the Pack, ed. Ekaterina Sedia
  • Locked Doors, by Stephanie Burgis

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Somewhere in Central Queensland, by Grace Dugan
  • Dead. Nude. Girls., by Lori Selke
  • Foam on the Water, by Cat Rambo
  • What the Thunder Said, by Lavie Tidhar
  • Ferryman's Reprieve, by Kate Bachus
  • The Hide, by Liz Williams
  • The Leaving Sweater, by Ruth Nestvold
  • Limits, by Donna Glee Williams
  • Wake-Up Call, by Leslie Brown
  • Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt
  • Practicing My Sad Face, by Marc Schultz
  • How the Little Rabbi Grew, by Eliot Fintushel
  • Catherine and the Satyr, by Theodora Goss
  • The Master, by Lavie Tidhar
  • Goat Eschatologies, by Margaret Ronald
• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twenty-First Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link[Unknown at present. To be added.]
• Recommended Reading, The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Fourth Annual Volume, ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt
  • The Perfume Eater, by R. J. Astruc
• StorySouth magazine notable stories. StorySouth listed three SH stories as notable stories as part of this year's Million Writers Award process:
  • Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt
  • Making Payments, by Jason Stoddard
  • The Hide, by Liz Williams

Works published in 2006

Awards

• Nominated for a Hugo Award in 2007
  • The House Beyond Your Sky, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Nominated for a Nebula Award in 2007
  • Pip and the Fairies, by Theodora Goss (published in 2005)
• Finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2007
  • The House Beyond Your Sky, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Short Fiction in 2007
  • Sounding, by Elizabeth Bear
  • The House Beyond Your Sky, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Winner of the Rhysling Award, Long Poem category
  • The Journey to Kailash, by Mike Allen
• Nominated in 2007 for the World Fantasy Award, Special Award: Non-Professional
  • Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • The Town on Blighted Sea, by A. M. Dellamonica
  • The House Beyond Your Sky, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Twentieth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant
  • Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery, by John Schoffstall
• Reprinted in Year's Best SF 12, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
  • The Women of Our Occupation, by Kameron Hurley
• Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 1, ed. Jonathan Strahan
  • The House Beyond Your Sky, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • The House Beyond Your Sky, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • The Water-Poet and the Four Seasons, by David J. Schwartz
• Reprinted in Best American Fantasy (2007 edition), ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer and Matthew Cheney
  • The Flying Woman, by Meghan McCarron
  • Draco Campestris, by Sarah Monette
• Reprinted in Best New Fantasy 2, ed. Sean Wallace
  • We Are Never Where We Are, by Gavin J. Grant
  • Magnificent Pigs, by Cat Rambo
• Reprinted in Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, ed. Paula Guran
  • The Desires of Houses, by Haddayr Copley-Woods
  • Smoke & Mirrors, by Amanda Downum
• Reprinted in The 2007 Rhysling Anthology, ed. Drew Morse
  • Fallen, by Sheree Renée Thomas
• Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk (2012), ed. Sean Wallace
  • Cinderella Suicide, by Samantha Henderson

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Spinning Out, by Jamie Barras
  • Love Among the Talus, by Elizabeth Bear
  • Sounding, by Elizabeth Bear
  • My Termen, by Eliot Fintushel
  • We Are Never Where We Are, by Gavin J. Grant
  • The Women of Our Occupation, by Kameron Hurley
  • Mayfly, by Heather Lindsley
  • Draco Campestris, by Sarah Monette
  • Magnificent Pigs, by Cat Rambo
  • Ignis Fatuus, by Eliani Torres
  • Winnowing the Herd, by Carrie Vaughn
• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link[Unknown at present. To be added.]
• Recommended Reading, Best American Fantasy (2007 edition), ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer and Matthew Cheney
  • Magnificent Pigs, by Cat Rambo
• StorySouth magazine notable stories. StorySouth listed four SH stories as notable stories as part of this year's Million Writers Award process:
  • Ignus Fatuus, by Eliani Torres
  • Spinning Out, by Jamie Barras
  • The Town on Blighted Sea, by A. M. Dellamonica
  • The Women of Our Occupation, by Kameron Hurley

Works published in 2005

Awards

• Nominated for a Nebula Award in 2007
  • Pip and the Fairies, by Theodora Goss
• Winner of the Rhysling Award, Short Poem category
  • The Strip Search, by Mike Allen
• Honorable mention for the SLF Fountain Award
  • Pip and the Fairies, by Theodora Goss
• Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Non-Fiction
  • Speculative Poetry: A Symposium, by Mike Allen, Alan DeNiro, Theodora Goss, and Matthew Cheney

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Two Dreams on Trains, by Elizabeth Bear
  • La Malcontenta, by Liz Williams
  • Planet of the Amazon Women, by David Moles
• Reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 6, ed. David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
  • Shard of Glass, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • Magic in a Certain Slant of Light, by Deborah Coates
  • Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane, by Jonathon Sullivan
• Reprinted in Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, ed. Jonathan Strahan
  • Pip and the Fairies, by Theodora Goss
  • Intelligent Design, by Ellen Klages
• Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • The Jenna Set, by Daniel Kaysen
  • A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story, by Douglas Lain
• Reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, ed. Rich Horton
  • Pip and the Fairies, by Theodora Goss
• Reprinted in Best New Paranormal Romance (2006 Edition), ed. Paula Guran
  • Magic in a Certain Slant of Light, by Deborah Coates

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story, by Douglas Lain
  • Moons Like Great White Whales, by Charles Coleman Finlay
  • The Jenna Set, by Daniel Kaysen
  • Magic in a Certain Slant of Light, by Deborah Coates
  • Archipelago, by Anil Menon
  • Happily Ever Awhile, by Ruth Nestvold
  • Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane, by Jonathon Sullivan
  • Exception, by Jason Stoddard
  • Pip and the Fairies, by Theodora Goss
  • The Moon Is Always Full, by Charles Coleman Finlay
  • Adventures in Dog-Walking in Downtown Philadelphia, by John Schoffstall
  • Bearing Witness, by Marguerite Reed
• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link
  • Picasso's Rapture, by Mike Allen
  • They Fight Crime!, by Leah Bobet
  • Magic in a Certain Slant of Light, by Deborah Coates
  • The Fall of Changes, by Becca De La Rosa
  • The Disappearance of James H___, by Hal Duncan
  • Pip and the Fairies, by Theodora Goss
  • Huntswoman, by Merrie Haskell
  • Torn, by Daniel Kaysen
  • Close to You, by Meghan McCarron
  • Tales of the Chinese Zodiac, by Jenn Reese
  • Adventures in Dog-Walking in Downtown Philadelphia, by John Schoffstall
  • La Malcontenta, by Liz Williams
• StorySouth magazine notable stories. StorySouth declared Strange Horizons to be the best online publication for 2005, an honor given to the publication with the largest number of "notable stories." Specifically, StorySouth listed seven SH stories as notable:
  • Tales of the Chinese Zodiac, by Jenn Reese
  • A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story, by Douglas Lain
  • Magic in a Certain Slant of Light, by Deborah Coates
  • Close to You, by Meghan McCarron
  • A Field Guide to Ugly Places, by Patrick Samphire
  • Pip and the Fairies, by Theodora Goss
  • Bone Women, by Eliot Fintushel

Works published in 2004

Awards

• Recognized in the Rhysling Awards in 2005
  • Soul Searching, by Tim Pratt (1st place, long poem category)
  • Making Monsters, by Tim Pratt (2nd place, long poem category)
  • Rich & Strange, by Ann K. Schwader (3rd place, short poem category)

Reprints

• Reprinted in Year's Best SF 10, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
  • The Algorithms for Love, by Ken Liu

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link
  • Alone in the House of Mims, by Barth Anderson
  • Snow and Salt, by Genevieve Cogman
  • Tetrarchs, by Alan DeNiro
  • The Floating Otherworld, by Tom Doyle
  • Louisa, Johnny, and the North Shore Huldre, by S. Evans
  • Women Are Ugly, by Eliot Fintushel
  • For Now It's Eight O'Clock, by Alex Irvine
  • Iron Ankles, by David J. Schwartz
  • Three Tales from Sky River, by Vandana Singh
  • Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, by Lucy A. Snyder
  • 2:30, by Leslie What
• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • The Great Old Pumpkin, by John Aegard
  • Echo, Sonar, by Kate Bachus
  • The War of the Flowers, by Brenda Cooper
  • Women Are Ugly, by Eliot Fintushel
  • Hold Tight, by Gavin J. Grant
  • Rapture, by Sally Gwylan
  • For Now It's Eight O'Clock, by Alex Irvine
  • The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages
  • You Can Walk on the Moon if the Mood's Right, by Bill Kte'pi
  • The Algorithms for Love, by Ken Liu
  • Doctor Mighty and the Case of Ennui, by Paul Melko
  • Prisoners of Uqbaristan, by Chris Nakashima-Brown
  • Three Tales from Sky River, by Vandana Singh
  • Why I Am Not Gorilla Girl, by Daniel Starr
  • Magic Carpets (reprint), by Leslie What
  • Century to Starboard, by Liz Williams
  • The Pale, by Liz Williams

Works published in 2003

Awards

• Nominated for a Nebula Award in 2005
  • In the Late December, by Greg van Eekhout
• Runners-up for the Rhysling Award in 2004
  • A Portrait of the Artist, by Vandana Singh (2nd place, long poem category)
  • How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves, by Mike Allen (3rd place, short poem category)

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link
  • L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars), by Dean Francis Alfar
• Reprinted in The Apex Book of World SF, ed. Lavie Tidhar (2009)
  • L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars), by Dean Francis Alfar

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Interrupt, by Jeff Carlson
  • Indra's Rice, by S. Evans
  • You and Me, by Gavin J. Grant
  • The Central Tendency, by Daniel Kaysen
  • Start with Color, by Bill Kte'pi
  • The Cleansing Fire of God, by Jay Lake
  • Lost and Found, by Sandra McDonald
  • Fetch, by David Moles
  • Momi Watu, by Nisi Shawl
  • In the Late December, by Greg van Eekhout
• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link
  • Poison, by Beth Bernobich
  • Children of the Mutant Rain Forest, by Bruce Boston
  • The Ice Princess, by Jae Brim
  • The Book of Things Which Must Not Be Remembered, by C. Scavella Burrell
  • Sunfast, Shadowplay, and Saintswalk, by Rudi Dornemann
  • Sleeping with Bears, by Theodora Goss
  • Dead Letter, by Samantha Henderson
  • Circus of Regret, by Aynjel Kaye
  • Shopping at the End of the World, by Douglas Lain
  • The Book of Jashar, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
  • Famishing, by Heather Shaw
  • Drowned Men Can't Have Kids, by Karina Sumner-Smith
  • Beguiling Mona, by M. Thomas

Works published in 2002

Awards

• Nominated for a Nebula Award in 2003
  • Little Gods, by Tim Pratt

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Agent Provocateur, by Alexander Irvine
• Reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 3, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
  • Travel Agency, by Ellen Klages
  • Comrade Grandmother, by Naomi Kritzer

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • Confounding Mr. Newton, by James Allison
  • Bringweather and the Portal of Giving and Taking, by Barth Anderson
  • Talisman, by Tracina Jackson-Adams
  • Travel Agency, by Ellen Klages
  • The Bear Dancer, by Lee Kottner
  • Comrade Grandmother, by Naomi Kritzer
  • Other Villas, by Erika Peterson
  • Little Gods, by Tim Pratt
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Boy, by Ray Vukcevich
• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Coyotes, Cats, and Other Creatures, by Karen L. Abrahamson
  • Counterpoint, by Jennifer de Guzman
  • Wantaviewer, by Michael J. Jasper
  • Travel Agency, by Ellen Klages
  • Jack's House, by Jay Lake
  • Princes and Priscilla, by Ruth Nestvold
  • Little Gods, by Tim Pratt
  • Show and Tell, by Greg van Eekhout

Works published in 2001

Awards

• Runners-up for the Rhysling Award in 2002
  • Threnody at Sea, by Mark Rudolph (2nd place, short poem category)
  • A Crash Course in Lemon Physics, by Robert Frazier (3rd place, long poem category)

Reprints

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling
  • Plenty, by Christopher Barzak
• Reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 2, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
  • On the Wall, by Jo Walton
• Reprinted in The Best of the Rest 3, ed. Brian Youmans
  • Right Size, by ML Konett
  • The Calcium Efflux Conspiracy, by Joe Murphy

Honorable mentions

• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
  • Underground, by Jennifer de Guzman
  • Crossing the Camp, by Michael J. Jasper
• Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling
  • Somewhere Down the River, by Simon Bewick
  • The Franks, by C. A. Conrad
  • Spontaneous Generation, by Shikhar Dixit
  • Other Moments, by Daniel Goss
  • The Cruel Brother, by Justine Larbalestier
  • Pale Foxes, by Meredith L. Patterson
  • Waiting, by John R. Platt
  • Mask, by Tim Pratt

Works published in 2000

Reprints

• Reprinted in the ebook edition of Robert Silverberg's novel The Longest Way Home
  • Interview: Robert Silverberg, by David Horwich

Honorable mentions

Whom My Soul Loves, by Rivqa Rafael

• • Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
    • Little Brother™, by Bruce Holland Rogers
    • Occurrence at Arroyo de Buho Bridge, by Chuck Rothman
    • Words of Love, Soft and Tender, by Mark Rudolph
    • Triage, by Tamela Viglione
  • Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling
    • The Palm Tree Bandit, by Nnedi Okorafor
    • Little Brother™, by Bruce Holland Rogers