Vote for Apex Magazine’s Story of the Year

Apex Magazine is asking readers to vote for the best original story published in the magazine in 2009. The 21 finalists:

“59 Beads” (4300) by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Overclocking” (2600) by James L. Sutter
“After the Fire” (2900) by Aliette De Bodard
“Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys” (2100) by Nir Yaniv
“A Poor Man’s Roses” (2400) by Alethea Kontis
“To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Lament” (5500) by Peter M. Ball
“Fungal Gardens” (6100) by Ekaterina Sedia
“Advertising at the End of the World” (4100) by Keffy R.M. Kehrli
“Kenny 149″ (2700) by Brad Becraft
“Pimp My Airship” (6000) by Maurice Broaddus
“She Called Me Sweetie” (4500) by Glenn Lewis Gillette
“…That Has Such People in It” (2300) by Jennifer Pelland
“Hideki and the Gnomes” (500) by Mark Lee Pearson
“Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens” (7500) by Peter M. Ball
“Waiting for Jakie” (3000) by Barbara Krasnoff
“Hindsight, in Neon” (2400) by Jamie Todd Rubin
“The Mind of a Pig” (3000) by Ekaterina Sedia
“The Puma” (6700) by Theodora Goss
“Dark Planet” (4300) by Lavie Tidhar
“Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands” (4500) by Gord Sellar
“On the Shadow Side of the Beast” (3900) by Ruth Nestvold
“Starter House” (5000) by Jason Palmer

Vote here. My vote went for Peter M. Ball’s brilliantly steampunk “Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens”.