Hello everyone. In case you are eligible to nominate and/or vote for genre fiction awards, here for your consideration are the stories first published by Cast of Wonders in 2017.

All of these stories fall into the Short Story category for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Cast of Wonders is eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo award. Our editor, Marguerite Kenner, is eligible in the Best Editor: Short Form Hugo category.

2017 reprints:

• “A Complex Filament of Light” by S. Qiouyi Lu (originally published in Anathema Vol. 1, April 2017)

2017 first publications:

• “Wished” by Amanda Helms
• “Why I’m Asking For An Extension On My Paper” by Jennifer Hykes
• “Beats” by Brent C. Smith
• “More Than Machines Will Fall to Rust” by Rachael K. Jones
• “A Coat of Salt and Sand” by Katherine Inskip
• “She and I” by J. Lily Corbie
• “The Absolute Temperature of Outer Space” by Sandra M. Odell (an Artemis Rising 3 story!)
• “Hackers’ Faire” by Rati Mehrotra (an Artemis Rising 3 story!)
• “Cross The Street” by Marie Vibbert (an Artemis Rising 3 story!)
• “Mr. Quacky in Space” by Amanda Helms (an Artemis Rising 3 story!)
• “Multiple Choice” by Anica Lewis
• “Remember the Ifrit” by Rajiv Moté
• “Not-So-Stock Photos” by KB Sluss
• “The Tentacles Never Lie” by J.W. Alden
• “Old Teacups and Kitchen Witches” by Kate Baker
• “Lost in Translation” by Afalstein Kloosterman
• “Blood and Water” by Jason Kimble
• “Why They’re Never About The Good Ones” by Evan Dicken
• “The Finder” by Raymond Ziemer
• “The Forty Gardens of Calliope Grey” by Aimee Ogden
• “Single Parent” by Sarah Gailey
• “Phalium arium ssp. anams” by Victoria Sandbrook
• “Chrysalis” by Jennifer Lee Rossman
• “The Black Veils” by Jenny Rae Rappaport
• “Moments in the Crawl” by Evan Berkow
• “Even Death” by Christine Lucas
• “Seer’s Salad” by Barbara A. Barnett
• “Contractual Obligations” by Jaime O. Mayer
• “Twice” by Imaani Cain
• “A Coat For Aodh” by Ika Koeck
• “The Best Busker In The World” by R.K. Duncan
• “The Sherd” by Ryan Schapals
• “A Wish and a Hope and a Dream” by M. Darusha Wehm
• “The Immobile God of Secrets” by Jamie Lackey
• “For” by Sandra M. Odell (a Banned Books Week story!)
• “Below The Serapeum” by Kelsey Dean (a Banned Books Week story!)
• “The Scent That Treason Brings” by Holly Schofield (a Banned Books Week story!)
• “Bibliopothecary” by Dani Atkinson (a Banned Books Week story!)
• “The Lives Beneath” by Katherine Inskip (a Banned Books Week story!)
• “The Forbidden Books of Da Lin Monastery” by Andrew K. Hoe (a Banned Books Week story!)
• “The Wayfinder & His Sister” By Maria Haskins (a Banned Books Week story!)
• “Perdita, Meaning Lost” by Edd Vick
• “A Secret of Devils” by Cassandra Khaw
• “Brothers in Stitches” by Dantzel Cherry
• “Outburst” by B. Morris Allen