The Long List Anthology Volume 4 — Mary Robinette Kowal

This is the fourth 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 readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 4 collects 15 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 300 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From utopian science fiction to dystopian horror, from a society based entirely on personal upvotes/downvotes to one where one's status is defined by enchanted gloves, from a kickass blockade-running spaceship pilot to an artist who can twist the world with his perspective. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are:Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance by Tobias S. BuckellWaiting Out the End of the World at Patty's Place Cafe by Naomi KritzerDon't Press Charges and I Won't Sue by Charlie Jane AndersConfessions of a Con Girl by Nick WolvenUtopia, LOL? by Jamie WahlsThe Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom by Max GladstoneParadox by Naomi KritzerAngel of the Blockade by Alex AcksThe Fisher of Bones by Sarah GaileyCrispin's Model by Max GladstoneThe Dark Birds by Ursula VernonWaiting On a Bright Moon by JY YangPan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics by Jess Barber and Sara SaabA Human Stain by Kelly RobsonThe Worshipful Society of Glovers by Mary Robinette Kowal