Analog Science Fiction and Fact has revealed the 2024 Analytical Laboratory Finalists. The magazine has also made many of these stories available to read either in part or whole.

Below are the works that finished in the top five slots for Best Novelette, Best Short Story, Best Fact Article, and Best Poem, and the those that finished in the top three for Best Novella and Best Cover.

The winners will be announced in Analog’s July/August issue.

BEST NOVELLAS

• Ganny Goes to War, David Gerrold, March/April 2024
• Minnie and Earl Have a Kitten, Adam-Troy Castro, September/October 2024
• The Last Days of Good People, A.T. Sayre, July/August 2024
• Uncle Roy’s Computer Repairs and Robot Parts, Martin L. Shoemaker May/June 2024

BEST NOVELETTES

• Best Practices for Safe Asteroid Handling, David Goodman, September/October 2024
• Daisy and Maisie, External Hull Maintenance Experts, Sean Monaghan, March/April 2024
• Enough, William Ledbetter, March/April 2024
• That Far, Uncharted Ocean, Auston Habershaw, November/December 2024
• Vouch for Me, Greg Egan, July/August 2024

BEST SHORT STORIES

• Music of a Different Sphere, Stanley Schmidt, January/February 2024
• Susan Rose Sees Mars as the First Frontier, Charles Velasquez-Witosky, May/June 2024
• Tepid War, Jay Werhkeiser, January/February 2024
• The Dark at the End of the Tunnel, Edward M. Lerner, May/June 2024
• The Handmaiden Alchemist, Marie Vibbert, January/February 2024

BEST SCIENCE FACT

Genetic Memory, Clones, and Epigenetics, Kelly Lagor, March/April 2024
In Praise of Third-Class Worlds, Kevin Walsh, July/August 2024
The Science Behind “Apollo in Retrograde,” Rosemary Claire Smith, January/February 2024
The Science Behind “Project Desert Sparrow,” Chana Kohl, May/June 2024
“Unfutured” Race: Neanderthal Science and Fiction, Kelly Lagor, September/October 2024

BEST POEMS

• Gravity, Pamela Yve Simon, May/June 2024
• Ode to Carl Saga, Kelsey Hutton, January/February 2024
• Panthalassa, Marissa Lingen, July/August 2024
• Pioneers, Holly Day, July/August 2024
• So This Is Mars, Mary Soon Lee, September/October 2024

BEST COVERS