Analog Magazine has posted the 2021 AnLab Readers’ Award Finalists, the works from last year that finished in the top slots in each category of the Analog Analytical Laboratory. The winners will be revealed in Analog’s July/August issue.

There are links to PDF files (where provided) that will allow you to read the finalists.

BEST NOVELLAS

• Invasive Species – Catherine Wells (March/April 2021)
• The Silence Before I Sleep – Adam-Troy Castro (September/October 2021)
• The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station – Marie Vibbert (July/August 2021)
• Uploading Angela – Lettie Prell (May/June 2021)

BEST NOVELETTES

• A Shot in the Dark – Deborah Davitt (January/February 2021)
• No Stranger to Native Shores – Matt McHugh (November/December 2021)
• Sample Return – C. Stuart Hardwick (July/August 2021)
• The Hunger – Marco Frassetto (September/October 2021)
• The Next Frontier – Rosemary Claire Smith (July/August 2021)

BEST SHORT STORIES

• Heart of Stone – Tom Jolly (May/June 2021)
• My Hypothetical Friend – Harry Turtledove (January/February 2021)
• Room to Live – Marie Vibbert (September/October 2021)
• The Last Science Fiction Story – Adam-Troy Castro (January/February 2021)
• The Trashpusher of Planet 4 – Brenda Kalt (March/April 2021)

BEST FACT ARTICLE

• Constructing a Habitable Planet – Julie Novakova (January/February 2021)
• Possible Signs of Life on Venus – David L. Clements (May/June 2021)
• Return to the Golden Age: Why Venus Might Actually Once Have Been Habitable – Richard A. Lovett (July/August 2021)

BEST POEMS

• A Daguerreotype of the Moon – Jennifer Crow (July/August 2021)
• Hidden Things – Jennifer Crow (January/February 2021)
• If – Bruce McAllister (January/February 2021)
• Quantum Entanglement – Ken Poyner (September/October 2021)
• What We Forget – Bruce McAllister (November/December 2021)
• When I think of My Father – Bruce McAllister (July/August 2021)

BEST COVERS

March/April 2021
Maurizio Manzieri

July/August 2021
Tomislav Tikulin 

September/October 2021
Kurt Huggins