Runner-up, Best Novella, 2024

Mammoths at the Gates

Nghi Vo (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 128 pages

The cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills abbey, to find the mammoths of a queen at its gate, come to take away the body of a dead archivist.

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The ballot

ThornhedgeT. KingfisherTor, Titan UKWinner
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
Life Does Not Allow Us to MeetHe Xi, translated by Alex WoodendAdventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers