Best Novella, 2024

Thornhedge

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Paperback, 120 pages

A fairy keeps watch over a sleeping princess behind a hedge of thorns, and the story is not the one people know.

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Mammoths at the GatesNghi VoTordotcomRunner-up
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The Mimicking of Known SuccessesMalka OlderTordotcom
Rose/HouseArkady MartineSubterranean
Life Does Not Allow Us to MeetHe Xi, translated by Alex WoodendAdventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers