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In case you are eligible to nominate and/or vote for science fiction awards, please consider the stories first published by Escape Pod in 2017, or reprinted in Escape Pod and first published elsewhere in 2017. All of these stories fall into the Short Story category for the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Escape Pod is also eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award. In 2017, our editors were Mur Lafferty, S.B. Divya, and Norm Sherman.

2017 first publications:

• “Impossibility Crow” by Remy Nakamura
• “Vegetablemen in Peanut Town” by August Marion
• “Run” by C.R. Hodges
• “Trusted Messenger” by Kevin Wabaunsee
• “The Zombee Project 3.0” by Allison Mulder
• “Honey and Bone” by Madeline Alvey
• “Baro Parrajmos, or Love in the Vardo” by Eileen Gunnell Lee
• “Dr. Mbalu and the Butcher’s Daughter” by Megan Chaudhuri
• “Safe Harbour” by Kristine Perron
• “What Good is a Glass Warrior?” by G. Scott Huggins
• “Beetle-Cleaned Skulls” by J.E. Bates
• “Nothing to See Here” by Arthur Doweyko
• “Whatever Tower, However High” by Julia K. Patt
• “Yosemite” by D.S. McNab
• “Red Kelly Owns the Moon” by Shaenon K. Garrity
• “The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make For Yourself” by Matt Dovey
• “Cherry Squid” by Celeste Hollister
• “Texts from the Ghost War” by Alex Yuschik
• “Nozizwe and Almahdi” by J.R. Dawson
• “Unit Two Does Her Makeup” by Laura Duerr
• “The Librarian” by Andrew Kozma
• “We All Scream” by Marie Vibbert
• “Seb Dreams of Reincarnation” by Aimee Ogden
• “When All the Clocks are Wrong” by Beth Goder
• “The Spice Portrait” by J.M. Evenson
• “Islands in the Dark” by Sarah Goldman
• “The Wind You Touch When You Run” by James Beamon
• “Miss Figgle-DeBitt’s Home for Wayward A.I.’s” by Kurt Pankau
• “An Equal Share of the Bone” by Karen Osborne

2017 reprints:

• “Planetbound” by Nancy Fulda, originally appeared in CHASING SHADOWS, edited by David Brin and Stephen W. Potts, January 2017