Analog magazine has made its 2023 Analytical Laboratory Finalists available to read online.

The winners will be announced in the July/August issue.

BEST NOVELLAS

• Flying Carpet, Rajnar Vajra, November/December 2023
• Poison, Jay Werkheiser & Frank Wu, May/June 2023
• The Elephant-Maker, Alec Nevala-Lee, January/February 2023
• The Tinker and the Timestream, Carolyn Ives Gilman, March/April 2023
• To Fight the Colossus, Adam-Troy Castro, July/August 2023

BEST NOVELETTES

• Apollo in Retrograde, Rosemary Claire Smith, November/December 2023
• Didicosm, Greg Egan, July/August 2023
• Recruit, Stephen L. Burns, July/August 2023
• The Deviltree, Monalisa Foster, September/October 2023
• The House on Infinity Street, Allen M. Steele, March/April 2023

BEST SHORT STORIES

• An Infestation of Blue, Wendy N. Wagner, November/December 2023
• Blowout, Wole Talabi, July/August 2023
• Cornflower, Victoria Navarra, January/February 2023
• Second Sight, Gray Rinehart, September/October 2023
• The Echo of a Will, Marie Vibbert, January/February 2023

BEST SCIENCE FACT

• Astronautical Explanations for ‘Oumuamua, Duncan Lunan, May/June 2023
• Dune and Superdune, Kevin Walsh, November/December 2023
• Fish Kill on the Tanis, Richard A. Lovett, September/October 2023
• Life, but not Quite as We Know It?, Christina de la Rocha, January/February 2023
• The Passenger Pigeon and the Great Filter, Howard V. Hendrix, March/April 2023

BEST POEMS

• How to Conquer Gravity,  Mary Turzillo, September/October 2023
• I Dreamt an Alien Was in Love With my Ex-Girlfriend, Don Raymond, January/February 2023
• Object Permanence,  Marissa Lingen, September/October 2023
• The Observer, Bruce Boston, March/April 2023
• What Xenologists Read, Mary Soon Lee, November/December 2023