Finalists
- “Childfinder”, Octavia E. Butler (Unexpected Stories)
- “The Cryptic Age”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Dec 2014)
- “The Fifth Dragon”, Ian McDonald (Reach for Infinity)
- “Herd Immunity”, Tananarive Due (The End is Now)
- “A Hotel in Antarctica”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Hieroglyph)
- “In Her Eyes”, Seth Chambers (F&SF Jan/Feb 2014)
- “Lady With Fox”, Gregory Benford (Carbide Tipped Pens)
- “The Lightness of the Movement”, Pat MacEwen (F&SF Mar/Apr 2014)
- “The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
- “Shatterdown”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov's Jun 2014)
- We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
- “We Are the Cloud”, Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed Sep 2014)
- “When it Ends, He Catches Her”, Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction 26 Sep 2014)
- Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)