The Long List Anthology is designed to recognize the short works that were nominated for the 2015 Hugo Awards but did not make it into the top five shortlist for the final ballot. Thus, voted into the Hugo Award's long list of works -- the top fifteen works nominated for each category -- were these nine short stories and three novelettes, now made available to a wider audience by award-winning narrators.
The short stories included in this collection are: ''Toad Words'' by T. Kingfisher ''When It Ends, He Catches Her'' by Eugie Foster ''The Truth about Owls'' by Amal El-Mohtar ''Covenant'' by Elizabeth Bear ''This Chance Planet'' by Elizabeth Bear ''Makeisha in Time'' by Rachael K. Jones ''The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family'' by Usman T. Malik ''The Breath of War'' by Aliette de Bodard ''A Kiss with Teeth'' by Max Gladstone
The three novellas in this collection are: We Are the Cloud by Sam J. Miller The Magician and LaPlace's Demon by Tom Crosshill Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu