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Synopsis

The most celebrated science fiction short story editor of our time, multi-award-winning editor and Locus Magazine critic Jonathan Strahan presents the definitive collection of best short science fiction of 2020.

With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this science fiction collection displays the top talent and cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories. These brilliant authors examine the way we live now, our hopes, and struggles, all through the lens of the future.

An assemblage of future classics, this star-studded anthology is a must-read for anyone who enjoys the vast and exciting world of science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• "The Bahrain Underground Bazaar" by Nadia Afifi from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November-December 2020
• "If You Take My Meaning" by Charlie Jane Anders from Tor.com, February 12, 2020
• "It Came From Cruden Farm" by Max Barry from Slate Future Tense, February 29, 2020
• "The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie" by Pat Cadigan from Avatars Inc., edited by Ann VanderMeer
• "An Important Failure" by Rebecca Campbell from Clarkesworld Magazine Issue #167, August 2020
• "Schrödinger's Catastrophe" by Gene Doucette from Lightspeed Magazine Issues #126-127, November/December 2020
• "Midstrathe Exploding" by Andy Dudak from Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March-April 2020
• "The Pill" by Meg Elison, from the collection Big Girl
• "GO. NOW. FIX. " by Timons Esaias from Asimov's Science Fiction, January-February 2020
• "Drones to Ploughshares" by Sarah Gailey from Vice Motherboard, April 2, 2020
• "The Transition of OSOOSI" by Ozzie M. Gartrell from FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction Issue #13, Winter 2020
• "Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" by A.T. Greenblatt from Uncanny Magazine Issue #34, May-June 2020
• "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar" by Rich Larson from Tor.com, January 15, 2020
• "The Mermaid Astronaut" by Yoon Ha Lee from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #298, February 27, 2020
• "50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know" by Ken Liu from Uncanny Magazine Issue #37, November-December 2020
• "Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love" by Usman T. Malik from WIRED Magazine, December 11, 2020
• "Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh from Tor.com, July 22, 2020
• "A Mastery of German" by Marian Denise Moore from Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald and Zelda Knight
• "Father" by Ray Nayler from Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2020
• "How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary" by Tochi Onyebuchi from Slate Future Tense, August 29, 2020
• "Don't Mind Me" by Suzanne Palmer from Entanglements: Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends, edited by Sheila Williams
• "A Guide for Working Breeds" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad from Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• "Polished Performance" by Alastair Reynolds from Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• "The Suicide of Our Troubles" by Karl Schroeder from Slate Future Tense, November 28, 2020
• "Airbody" by Sameem Siddiqui from Clarkesworld Magazine Issue #163, April 2020
• "Sparklybits" by Nick Wolven from Entanglements: Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends, edited by Sheila Williams
• "The Search for [Flight X]" by Neon Yang from Avatars Inc., edited by Ann VanderMeer

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