The winners of the Asimov’s 36th Annual Readers’ Awards Poll were named earlier this month by editor Sheila Williams.

BEST NOVELLA 

1. A blessing of Unicorns; Elizabeth Bear
2. A Rocket for Dimitrios; Ray Nayler
3. Glitch; Alex Irvine
4. Light Up the Clouds; Greg Egan
5. The Realms of Water; Robert Reed

BEST NOVELETTE 

1. Table Etiquette for Diplomatic Personnel, in Seventeen Scenes; Suzanne Palmer
2. Año Nuevo; Ray Nayler
3. Billie the Kid; Rick Wilber
4. Philly Killed His Car; Will McIntosh
5. The Hazmat Sisters; L.X. Beckett

BEST SHORT STORY 

1. MUALLIM; Ray Nayler
2. My Heart Is at Capacity; T.J. Berry
3. Alien Ball; Kristine Kathryn Rusch
4. Flowers Like Needles; Derek Künsken
5. (tie) Bread and Circuits; Misha Lenau
6. (tie) Sentient Being Blues; Christopher Mark Rose          

BEST POEM 

1. Mars Rover, Curiosity; Jane Yolen
2. When I’m Thirty I Receive a Box Full of Your Steel Bones; Avra Margariti
3. In the Library Annex; Bruce Boston
4. Your Memories Are Sponsored by a Fossil Fuel Company; Matt Thompson
5. Chalk and Carbon; Marissa Lingen

BEST COVER

1.  January/February; Donato Giancola
2. September/October; Eldar Zakirov
3. November/December; Maurizio Manzieri