Second Place
- “The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon”, Elizabeth Hand (Stories)
Finalists
- “Dead Man's Run”, Robert Reed (F&SF Nov/Dec 2010)
- “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain”, Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed Sep 2010)
- “Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance”, Paul Park (F&SF Jan/Feb 2010)
- “A Letter from the Emperor”, Steve Rasnic Tem (Asimov's Jan 2010)
- “Mammoths of the Great Plains”, Eleanor Arnason (Mammoths of the Great Plains)
- “The Night Train”, Lavie Tidhar (Strange Horizons 14 Jun 2010)
- “Troika”, Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
- “Under the Moons of Venus”, Damien Broderick (Subterranean Spr 2010)