Finalist, Best Novella, 2020
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
Ted Chiang (opens in a new tab)
Devices that let people talk to their other selves in branching worlds become a business, and the people who sell them have to face the lives they did not lead.
The ballot
- This Is How You Lose the Time WarAmal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneSaga Press; Jo Fletcher BooksWinner
- In an Absent DreamSeanan McGuireTor.com PublishingRunner-up
- To Be Taught, If FortunateBecky ChambersHarper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015P. Djèlí ClarkTor.com Publishing
- The DeepRivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan SnipesSaga Press/Gallery