Finalist, Best Novella, 2024
Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet
He Xi (opens in a new tab) and Alex Woodend (opens in a new tab) (translator)
Sent to watch over a new colony world, the head of a survey team finds that its altered settlers can no longer have children with ordinary humans, and makes a terrible choice.
The ballot
- ThornhedgeT. KingfisherTor, Titan UKWinner
- Mammoths at the GatesNghi VoTordotcomRunner-up
- Seeds of MercuryWang Jinkang, translated by Alex WoodendAdventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers
- The Mimicking of Known SuccessesMalka OlderTordotcom
- Rose/HouseArkady MartineSubterranean