The Long List Anthology was created to recognize the short works that were nominated for the 2015 Hugo Awards but didn’t make it in to the top five shortlist for the final ballot. Therefore, voted in to the Hugo Award’s lengthy set of works-the best fifteen works nominated for each category-were these nine brief stories and three novelettes, right now distributed around a wider market by award-winning narrators.

The short stories included in this collection are:

“Toad Words” by T. Kingfisher

“When It Ends, He Catches Her” by Eugie Foster

“The Truth about Owls” by Amal El-Mohtar

“Covenant” by Elizabeth Keep

“This Chance Planet” by Elizabeth Keep

“Makeisha in Time” by Rachael K. Jones

“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik

“The Breathing of Battle” by Aliette de Bodard

“A Kiss with Tooth” by Max Gladstone

The three novellas with this collection are:

We Are the Cloud by Sam J. Miller

The Magician and LaPlace’s Demon by Tom Crosshill

Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Like, Sorrow, Pleasure by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu