2025 Clarkesworld Readers' Poll - Nomination Phase Survey

Welcome to the two-day nomination phase of the annual Clarkesworld Magazine poll. In this phase, you'll pick your favorite covers, short stories, and novelettes/novellas published in Clarkesworld in 2025. The works with the most nominations will go on to be our 2025 finalists and a winner will be determined by a second round of voting scheduled for February. Links to all stories and artwork can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_01_26/ (Link will open in a new window.) Works are listed in order of publication.

NOMINATIONS WILL CLOSE ON THURSDAY JANUARY 22th, 2025 3:00PM EST.

*1.Favorite Short Story (select up to six)(Required.)

“When There Are Two of You: A Documentary” by Zun Yu Tan

“Child of the Mountain” by Gunnar De Winter

“Autonomy” by Meg Elison

“Bodyhoppers” by Rocío Vega, translated by Sue Burke

“King of the Castle” by Fiona Moore

“The Hanging Tower of Babel” by Wang Zhenzhen, translated by Carmen Yiling Yang

“Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents” by Louis Inglis Hall

“Celestial Migrations” by Claire Jia-Wen

“From Enceladus, with Love” by Ryan Cole

“Pollen” by Anna Burdenko, translated by Alex Shvartsman

“Hook and Line” by Koji A. Dae

“The Sound of the Star” by Ren Zeyu, translaed by Jay Zhang

“Funerary Habits of Low Entropy Entities” by Damián Neri

“Through These Moments, Darkly” by Samantha Murray

“The Seed” by Sheri Singerling

“In My Country” by Thomas Ha

“An Even Greater Cold to Come” by Rich Larson

“Brainstem Disco, 2191” by Angela Liu

“The Library of the Apocalypse” by Rati Mehrotra

“Oh Time Thy Pyramids” by Ann LeBlanc

“Proxima One” by Caryanna Reuven, translated by Sue Burke

“Yarn Theory” by Marie Vibbert

“Emily of Emerald Starship” by Ng Yi-Sheng

“If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow” by Claire Jia-Wen

“In the Shells of Broken Things” by A. T. Greenblatt

“The Last to Survive” by Rita Chang-Eppig

“The Last Lunar New Year” by Derek Künsken

“Outlier” by R.L. Meza

“Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro

“The Walled Garden” by Fiona Moore

“Bits and Pieces on This Floor” by Eric Del Carlo

“A Land Called Folly” by Amal Singh

“Hunter Harvester” by Bam Bruin

“A Shaky Bridge” by Marissa Lingen

“And The Planet Loved Him” by L Chan

“Sleeper” by R.T. Ester

“Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost” by Ai Jiang

“A Dream of Twin Sunsets” by Ryan Cole

“Vwooom!” by Uchechukwu Nwaka

“Abstraction is when I design giant death creatures and Attraction is when I do it for you” by Claire Jia-Wen

“Wireworks” by Sheri Singerling

“The Fury of the Glowmen” by David McGillveray

“Five Impossible Things” by Koji A. Dae

“A World of Their Own” by Robert Falco

“Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim

“The Cancer Wolves” by Fiona Moore

“Giant Grandmother” by Liu Maijia, translated by Blake Stone-Banks

“The Job Interview” by Carrie Vaughn

“In Luck’s Panoply Clad, I Stand” by Phoebe Barton

“The Stone Played at Tengen” by R.H. Wesley

“Trees at Night” by Ramiro Sanchiz, translated by Sue Burke

“Prerequisites for the Creation of a Possible Predicted World” by Chisom Umeh

“Ratlines” by Brent Baldwin

“The Fire Burns Anyway” by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

“Tomorrow. Today.” by R.T. Ester

“Imperfect Simulations” by Michelle Z. Jin

“The Cold Burns” by Anne Wilkins

“This Sepulchral Aegis” by Rob Gillham

“Home Grown” by Madeleine Vigneron

*2.Favorite Novelette/Novella (select up to four)(Required.)

“Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak

“The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe” by Tia Tashiro

“Beyond Everything” by Wang Yanzhong, Stella

“We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue

“A Planet Full of Sorrows” by M. L. Clark

“Mindtrips” by Tlotlo Tsamaase

“Aegiopolis Testudo” by Gordon Li

“Still Water” by Zhang Ran, translated by Andy Dudak

“Symbiotic” by Carolyn Zhao

“We, the Fleet” by Alex T. Singer

“The Eighth Pyramid” by Louis Inglis Hall

“Faces of the Antipode” by Matthew Marcus

“Welcome to Kearney” by Gary Kloster

“Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman

“Sea of Fertility” by Bella Han

“Heart of Thunder” by Raahem Alvi

“Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins” by Louis Inglis Hall

“Aperture” by Alexander Jablokov

“Crabs Don’t Scream” by H.H. Pak

“Understudies” by Greg Egan

“Jade Fighter” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

“The Hole” by Ferenc Samsa

“Between Here and Everywhere” by Robert Reed

“Those Uncaring Waves” by Yukimi Ogawa

“Descent” by Wole Talabi

“The Apologists” by Tade Thompson

*3.Favorite Cover (Select up to three)(Required.)

“Landscape Painter” by Alex Rommel

“Deploying for a Mission” by Hamish Frater

“Joust” by Pascal Blanché

“Naï Naï’s Arrival & Rituals” by Thomas Brissot

“Jungleman II” by Arthur Haas

“Azarax” by Marcel Deneuve

“Alone” by Matt Dixon

“Blue Ship” by Pascal Blanché

“The Key” by Ninja Jo

“Overgrowth” by Quentin Stipp

“Neo Mars” by Guy Warley

“The Brood” by Kristin Kest

Current Progress,

0 of 3 answered