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The Long List Anthology Volume 8: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

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Editor's Note:
This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers around the world. From magical couches to impossible radio broadcasts, from robotic uprisings to rogue artist AIs, from gigantic alien telepaths to elaborate death trials held on a deadly stage. There is something here for everyone.The following stories are in the anthology:"For Lack of a Bed" by John Wiswell"The Cold Calculations" by Aimee Ogden"Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo"The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries" by Meg Elison"If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark"Let All the Children Boogie" by Sam J. Miller"Crazy Beautiful" by Cat Rambo"Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship" by Marie Vibbert"Before, After, and the Space Between" by Kel Coleman"Orumai's Choice" by Gautam Bhatia"Questions Asked in the Belly of the World" by A.T. Greenblatt"Mulberry and Owl" by Aliette de Bodard"The General's Turn" by Premee Mohamed"The Music of the Siphorophenes" by C.L. Polk"Just Enough Rain" by P H Lee"Ina's Spark" by Mary Robinette Kowal"The Red Mother" by Elizabeth Bear"Small Monsters" by E. Lily Yu"Tombs of the Universe" by Han Song, translated by Xueting C. Ni"(emet)" by Lauren Ring"Submergence" by Arula Ratnakar

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