The Long List Anthology Volume 2: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

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This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon.

The Long List Anthology Volume 2 collects 18 fiction stories from that nomination list, along with 2 essays from the book Letters to Tiptree that was also on the nomination list, totaling over 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy and horror, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from android caretakers to Lovecraftian romances, from adventures to quests and more. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone.

The stories included are:
"Damage" by David D. Levine
"Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar
"Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker
"The Women You Didn't See" by Nicola Griffith
"Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer" by Megan Grey
"Wooden Feathers" by Ursula Vernon
"Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard
"Madeleine" by Amal El-Mohtar
"Neat Things" by Seanan McGuire
"Pocosin" by Ursula Vernon
"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong
"So Much Cooking" by Naomi Kritzer
"The Deepwater Bride" by Tamsyn Muir
"The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear
"Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" by Rose Lemberg
"Another Word For World" by Ann Leckie
"The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente
"Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker
"The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik
"The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps" by Kai Ashante Wilson