Saturday 19 May, during the Nebula Awards weekend, Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction announced their readers’ award winners (voted by the readers from their 2011 issues) at their annual breakfast event at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia.
The winners of Analog’s Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards are:
Best Novella: “With Unclean Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro (November)
Best Novelette (tie):
“Jak and the Beanstalk” by Richard A. Lovett (July-August)
“Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms” by John G. Hemry (March)
Best Short Story: “Julie is Three” by Craig DeLancey (March)
Best Fact: “Smart SETI” by Gregory and James Benford (April)
Best Cover: December 2011 by Bob Eggleton (for “Ray of Light”)
The winners of Asimov’s Readers’ Awards are:
Best Novella: “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (October-November)
Best Novelette: “All About Emily” by Connie Willis (December)
Best Short Story: “Movement” by Nancy Fulda (March)
Best Poem: “Five Pounds of Sunlight” by Geoffrey A. Landis (January)
Best Cover Artist: Paul Youll for “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” (October-November)