Finalists
- The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts (Tachyon)
- The Loosening Skin, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
- Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice (ECW)
- Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)
- Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
- A Spy in Time, Imraan Coovadia (Rare Bird)
- Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman (Europa Editions)
- Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com)
- Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)