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2025 Clarkesworld Readers' Poll

The following stories and covers were nominated by our readers as their favorites from our 2025 issues. Now you get to help pick the winner in each category. Voting will close on February 15th at 11PM EST and the results will be announced in our March issue. For links to the stories and art, please see: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_26
1.Rank the following short stories in order of preference.
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“The Stone Played at Tengen” by R.H. Wesley
“Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents” by Louis Inglis Hall
“Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim
“Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro
“Pollen” by Anna Burdenko, translated by Alex Shvartsman
“In My Country” by Thomas Ha
“Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You” by Claire Jia-Wen
2.Rank the following novelettes/novellas in order of preference.
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“Still Water” by Zhang Ran, translated by Andy Dudak
“Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins” by Louis Inglis Hall
“The Apologists” by Tade Thompson
“Crabs Don’t Scream” by H.H. Pak
“The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe” by Tia Tashiro
“We, the Fleet” by Alex T. Singer
“Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak
3.Rank the following covers in order of preference.
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“Landscape Painter” by Alex Rommel
“Overgrowth” by Quentin Stipp
“Naï Naï’s Arrival & Rituals” by Thomas Brissot
“Neo Mars” by Guy Warley
“Blue Ship” by Pascal Blanché
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