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Highest Ranked Anthologies published in 2021

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.
Place Score Title Type Authors
1 149 When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson ANTHOLOGY Ellen Datlow
2 120 Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition) ANTHOLOGY Charlatan Bardot and Eric J. Guignard
3 120 The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021): Volume 1 ANTHOLOGY Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
4 105 There Is No Death, There Are No Dead ANTHOLOGY Aaron J. French and Jess Landry
5 102 Relics, Wrecks & Ruins ANTHOLOGY Aiki Flinthart
6 100 We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 ANTHOLOGY C. L. Clark and Charles Payseur
7 100 Reckoning 5 ANTHOLOGY Leah Bobet and
Cécile Cristofari?Cecile Cristofari
8 95 Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology ANTHOLOGY Sarah Rafael Garcia and Matthew David Goodwin and Alex Hernandez
9 86 Tortured Willows: Bowed, Bent, Unbroken ANTHOLOGY Geneve Flynn and Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith and Christina Sng
10 78 Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness ANTHOLOGY Dave Ring
11 69 Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction ANTHOLOGY Xueting Christine Ni
12 55 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 2 ANTHOLOGY Paula Guran
13 51 Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories ANTHOLOGY Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
14 50 Blood on the Blade: Ten Tales of Slashing Swords and Sinister Sorcery ANTHOLOGY Jim Beard and John C. Bruening
15 50 Outros Brasis da Ficção Científica ANTHOLOGY Davenir Viganon
16 35 Stitched Lips: An Anthology of Horror from Silenced Voices ANTHOLOGY Ken MacGregor
17 35 Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures ANTHOLOGY Rajat Chaudhuri and Deborah Cleland and Christoph Rupprecht and Norie Tamura and Sarena Ulibarri
18 35 It Came from the Trailer Park ANTHOLOGY William Joseph Roberts
19 35 Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign ANTHOLOGY James Chambers
20 35 Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology ANTHOLOGY Steven M. Long and S. D. Vassallo
21 35 Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies ANTHOLOGY Deborah Sheldon
22 35 Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales ANTHOLOGY Poppy Nwosu
23 35 Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: V3 ANTHOLOGY Marie Hodgkinson
24 35 Out of the Darkness ANTHOLOGY Dan Coxon
25 35 Dreamland: Other Stories ANTHOLOGY Sophie Essex
26 35 Attack from the '80s ANTHOLOGY Eugene Johnson
27 35 Who Sleuthed It? ANTHOLOGY Lindy Cameron
28 35 Food of My People ANTHOLOGY Candas Jane Dorsey and Ursula Pflug
29 35 Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand ANTHOLOGY Craig Gamble
30 35 Robots ANTHOLOGY
Fabrice Carré?Fabrice Carre
and Alexandre Marcinkowski
31 35 La machine à indifférence et autres nouvelles ANTHOLOGY Tony Sanchez and Denis Taillandier
32 30 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 ANTHOLOGY Jonathan Strahan
33 27 The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 ANTHOLOGY Veronica Roth
34 26 The Best of World SF: Volume 1 ANTHOLOGY Lavie Tidhar
35 25 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen ANTHOLOGY Ellen Datlow
36 23 Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices ANTHOLOGY Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington
37 22 Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror ANTHOLOGY Ellen Datlow
38 21 The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2 ANTHOLOGY Tarun K. Saint
39 18 Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future ANTHOLOGY Gideon Lichfield
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