Long List Anthology Published

Long-List-BookCoverebook-200x300The Long List Anthology is now available in print, ebook, and audiobook form. Editor David Steffen’s book, funded by a Kickstarter appeal, collects 21 works of short fiction that received enough nominations for the Hugo Award to be named in the Sasquan committee’s report of voting statistics. Nine would have been finalists but for the efforts of the Sad Puppies.

The book has two of the 10 longlisted novellas, all but one of the novelettes, and all but one of the short stories; also, Annie Bellet’s “Goodnight Stars,” a finalist for which she declined the nomination.

The cover art is by past Hugo-winning artist Galen Dara.  Audiobook production is by Skyboat Media.

Table of Contents

  • “Covenant” by Elizabeth Bear
  • “This Chance Planet” by Elizabeth Bear
  • “Goodnight Stars” by Annie Bellet
  • “The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard
  • “The Truth About Owls” by Amal El-Mohtar
  • “When It Ends, He Catches Her” by Eugie Foster
  • “A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone
  • “Makeisha in Time” by Rachael K. Jones
  • “Toad Words” by T. Kingfisher
  • “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik
  • “The Magician and LaPlace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill
  • “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys
  • “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i” by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • “The Bonedrake’s Penance” by Yoon Ha Lee
  • “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane” by Scott Lynch
  • “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado
  • “We are the Cloud” by Sam J. Miller
  • “Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy” by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu
  • “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson
  • “The Regular” by Ken Liu
  • “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)” by Rachel Swirsky

Print: Amazon (Comes with free ebook version at no additional cost.)

Ebook: Amazon; Kobo; iBooks; Page Foundry

Audiobook (with 12 of the stories plus a Chinese language version of “Spring Festival”): Downpour; Amazon; Audible; iTunes.

16 thoughts on “Long List Anthology Published

  1. Yes, what a great collection of writers that is, and what a great thing to do in response to last year’s mess. It would be nice to see something like this become an annual thing, but I’m sure it’s a ton of work.

  2. “Nine would have been finalists but for the efforts of the Sad Puppies.”

    Wow. What a rousing vote of confidence for those nine authors. “They would have been on the ballot, except for some people who… voted for other stuff?”

    Toni Weisskopf wooda hadda rockit except for that bastige Noah Ward. She wuz robbed!

  3. The cover art is by past Hugo-winning artist Galen Dara

    … who was also one of the Longlist Professional Artists this year.

  4. I downloaded my copy of the ebook, because I was entitled to it as a Kickstarter backer, but I’m waiting for the hardcopy to come in the mail so I can actually start reading it (after I finish my current batch of library books, and not before I finish this semester’s grading, which the Registrar wants by the end of the week). After which I may start participating in the discussion that’s supposed to be happening on another thread somewhere here at File 770

  5. The Phantom: “They would have been on the ballot, except for some people who… voted for other stuff?   gamed the system to stack the ballot with a slate”

  6. What a kind thing to do. What a generous gesture.

    I have it in my shopping basket and am greatly looking forward to reading the short fiction that honest SF fans honestly loved enough to nominate earlier this year.

  7. I mean it should be obvious from being on the long list, but I’ve read most of those and they were great. Enough so that I’ll be getting this to read the rest.

  8. I got my print copy a couple days ago. It’s really well done and heavy. While I backed through Kickstarter I grabbed an ebook from Amazon to make it easy to do share on social media when I’m reading, rating, reviewing using kindle tools.

    David Steffen did a great job. I’d love to see this become a yearly project and am willing to help and back. I love seeing authors get additional pay and recognition for their work.

  9. “gamed the system to stack the ballot with a slate”

    Yeah, and the groundswell of support for Noah was -totally- not slate voting, right? Because… why again?

  10. The Phantom:

    Yeah, and the groundswell of support for Noah was -totally- not slate voting, right? Because… why again?

    Thanks for dropping by, but that question has been answered for you before. All you need to do is page back and reread it.

  11. I bought the e-copy immediately.

    I have not yet had time to *read* it, sigh.

    Class prep. Mumble mumble. Annual evaluation materials.

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