The top choices for Asimov’s 38th Annual Readers’ Award 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

• Gravesend, or Everyday Life in the Anthropocene, Paul McAuley, March/April 2023
• Lemuria 7 Is Missing, Allen M. Steele, May/June 2023
• The Break In, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, September/October 2023
• The Death Hole Bunker, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, July/August 2023
• The Ghosts of Mars, Dominica Phetteplace, November/December 2023

BEST NOVELETTES

• Ernestine, Octavia Cade, March/April 2023
• Planetstuck, Sam J. Miller, March/April 2023
• The Case of the Blood-Stained Tower, Ray Nayler, March/April 2023
• The Fifteenth Saint, Ursula Whitcher, May/June 2023
• The Less Than Divine Invasion, Peter Wood, January/February 2023
• The Nameless Dead, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, March/April 2023

BEST SHORT STORIES

• Berb by Berb, Ray Nayler, November/December 2023
• Embot’s Lament, James Patrick Kelly, November/December 2023
• Hope Is the Thing With Feathers, Karawynn Long, July/August 2023
• Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel, Derek Künsken, September/October 2023
• The Pit of Babel,  Kofi Nyameye, September/October 2023

BEST POEMS

• Masters of the Future, Bruce Boston, July/August 2023
• Sphinx, Mary Soon Lee, September/October 2023
• The Next Step, Timons Esaias, January/February 2023
• The Treachery of Images, Mary Soon Lee, March/April 2023
• Three Hearts as One, G.O. Clark, May/June 2023

BEST COVERS

[Thanks to JJ for the story.]