The Long List Anthology Volume 5: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

This is the fifth 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 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 science fiction mysteries to studying wish-granting fairies, research on haunted houses to extracting language knowledge from your brain, from sex-changing dinosaurs to survival stories in a wild alien environment. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are:Mother Tongues by S. Qiouyi LuField Biology of the Wee Fairies by Naomi KritzerMeat and Salt and Sparks by Rich LarsonSour Milk Girls by Erin RobertsAsphalt, River, Mother, Child by Isabel YapThe Starship and the Temple Cat by Yoon Ha LeeWaterbirds by G.V. AndersonYou Can Make a Dinosaur, but You Can't Help Me by K.M. SzparaAnd Yet by A.T. GreenblattShe Still Loves the Dragon by Elizabeth BearAn Agent of Utopia by Andy DuncanA Study in Oils by Kelly RobsonThe Substance of My Lives, the Accident of Our Births by José Pablo IriarteNo Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke BolanderHow to Swallow the Moon by Isabel YapA World to Die For by Tobias S. BuckellThirty-Three Percent Joe by Suzanne PalmerThe Privilege of the Happy Ending by Kij JohnsonThe Nearest by Greg EganUmbernight by Carolyn Ives Gilman