This is the fourth 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 4 collects 15 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, stories by writers from all corners of the world. From utopian science fiction to dystopian horror, from a society based entirely on personal upvotes/downvotes to one where one's status is defined by enchanted gloves, from a kickass blockade-running spaceship pilot to an artist who can twist the world with his perspective. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone.

Contents:
—Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance / short story by Tobias S. Buckell
—Waiting Out the End of the World at Patty's Place Cafe / short story by Naomi Kritzer
—Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue / short story by Charlie Jane Anders
—Confessions of a Con Girl / short story by Nick Wolven
—Utopia, LOL? / short story by Jamie Wahls
—The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom / short story by Max Gladstone
—Paradox / short story by Naomi Kritzer
—Angel of the Blockade / short story by Alex Acks
—The Fisher of Bones / short story by Sarah Gailey
—Crispin's Model / short story by Max Gladstone
—The Dark Birds / short story by Ursula Vernon
—Waiting On a Bright Moon / short story by JY Yang
—Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics / short story by Jess Barber, Sara Saab
—A Human Stain / short story by Kelly Robson
—The Worshipful Society of Glovers / short story by Mary Robinette Kowal