The Long List Anthology Volume 6 — Mary Robinette Kowal

This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readers The Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From deepfake girlfriends to death-defying magicians, alternate history space programs to dead mothers haunting their surviving children, from vast alien libraries to modern spins on ancient mythology.  There are a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone.   The stories included are: Give the Family My Love by A.T. Greenblatt Beyond the El by John Chu Articulated Restraint by Mary Robinette Kowal I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we're getting married by Fonda Lee A Bird, a Song, a Revolution by Brooke Bolander The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power by Karen Osborne Fisher-Bird by T. Kingfisher How the Trick is Done by A.C. Wise Lest We Forget by Elizabeth Bear Shucked by Sam J. Miller Circus Girl, the Hunter, and Mirror Boy by JY Neon Yang Deriving Life by Elizabeth Bear His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light by M. Evan MacGriogair Dave's Head by Suzanne Palmer Nice Things by Ellen Klages A Strange Uncertain Light by G.V. Anderson Blood, Bone, Seed, Spark by Aimee Ogden Erase, Erase, Erase by Elizabeth Bear Glass Cannon by Yoon Ha Lee