The top five choices for Asimov’s 34th Annual Readers’ Awards Poll are online. There are links that will allow you to read all the finalists. The winners chosen by readers will be revealed at a later date.

BEST NOVELLAS

• Gremlin—Carrie Vaughn (May/June 2019)
• Surfers at the End of Time—Rudy Rucker and Marc Laidlaw (November/December 2019)
• The Work of Wolves—Tegan Moore (July/August 2019)
• Waterlines—Suzanne Palmer (July/August 2019)
• Winter Wheat—Gord Sellar (September/October 2019)

BEST NOVELETTES

• Charlie Tells Another One—Andy Duncan (September/October 2019)
• How I Found Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers—Lawrence Watt-Evans (March/April 2019)
• In the Stillness Between the Stars—Mercurio D. Rivera (September/October 2019)
• SeeApp—James Van Pelt (November/December 2019)
• Taking Icarus Home—Suzanne Palmer (January/February 2019)

BEST SHORT STORIES

• Ardy’s Choice—Maggie Shen King (July/August 2019)
• Can You Watch My Stuff—Rich Larson (September/October 2019)
• Personal Space—Lawrence Watt-Evans (September/October 2019)
• Sacrificial Iron—Ted Kosmatka (podcast) (May/June 2019)
• The Lights Go Out, One by One—Kofi Nyameye (March/April 2019)

BEST POEMS

• A Street Away—Jane Yolen (January/February 2019)
• Nine Hypotheses Concerning a Mysterious Lump Under the Rug on the Foyer Floor—Jenny Blackford (September/October 2019)
• The Dogs of the Soviet Space Program—Christopher Cokinos (March/April 2019)
• The Other SETI—David Barber (May/June 2019)
• The Ruined Library—Bruce Boston (July/August 2019)

BEST COVER

• January/February 2019 – Michael Whelan
• March/April 2019 – Eldar Zakirov
• May/June 2019 – NASA
• July/August 2019 – Maurizio Manzieri
• September/October 2019 – Dominic Harman
• November/December 2019 – Donato Giancola

[Via the loveliness that is Locus Online.]