This is the fifth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readers.The Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totalling over 450 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From science fiction mysteries to studying wish-granting fairies, research on haunted houses to extracting language knowledge from your brain, from sex-changing dinosaurs to survival stories in a wild alien environment. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are: and "Mother Tongues and " by S. Qiouyi Lu and "Field Biology of the Wee Fairies and " by Naomi Kritzer and "Meat and Salt and Sparks and " by Rich Larson and "Sour Milk Girls and " by Erin Roberts and "Asphalt, River, Mother, Child and " by Isabel Yap and "The Starship and the Temple Cat and " by Yoon Ha Lee and "Waterbirds and " by G.V. Anderson and "You Can Make a Dinosaur, but You Can't Help Me and " by K.M. Szpara and "And Yet and " by A.T. Greenblatt and "She Still Loves the Dragon and " by Elizabeth Bear and "An Agent of Utopia and " by Andy Duncan and "A Study in Oils and " by Kelly Robson and "The Substance of My Lives, the Accident of Our Births and " by Jose Pablo Iriarte and "No Flight Without the Shatter and " by Brooke Bolander and "How to Swallow the Moon and " by Isabel Yap and "A World to Die For and " by Tobias S. Buckell and "Thirty-Three Percent Joe and " by Suzanne Palmer and "The Privilege of the Happy Ending and " by Kij Johnson and "The Nearest and " by Greg Egan and "Umbernight and " by Carolyn Ives Gilman