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This inaugural volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-seven stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Ian McDonald, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Robert Reed, Patrick Rothfuss, and many more. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, F&SF, MIT Technology Review, Weird Tales, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magic realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Conents:

• The Year in Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2008 - essay by Rich Horton
• 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss - (2008) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Shoggoths in Bloom - (2008) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
• Glass - (2008) - shortfiction by Daryl Gregory
• The Hiss of Escaping Air - (2008) - novelette by Christopher Golden
• Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake - (2008) - shortstory by Naomi Novik
• We Love Deena - (2008) - shortstory by Alice Sola Kim
• The Art of Alchemy - (2008) - shortstory by Ted Kosmatka
• Falling Angel - (2008) - shortstory by Eugene Mirabelli
• The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross - (2008) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• King Pelles the Sure - (2008) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• Character Flu - (2008) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Gift from a Spring - (2008) - shortfiction by Delia Sherman
• The Region of Unlikeness - (2008) - shortfiction by Rivka Galchen
• Daltharee - (2008) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Ray-Gun: A Love Story - (2008) - novelette by James Alan Gardner
• The God of Au - (2008) - shortfiction by Ann Leckie
• The Fantasy Jumper - (2008) - shortstory by Will McIntosh
• The Magician's House - (2008) - novelette by Meghan McCarron
• Balancing Accounts - (2008) - shortstory by James L. Cambias
• Suicide Drive - (2008) - shortfiction by Charlie Jane Anders
• The Small Door - (2008) - shortstory by Holly Phillips
• The Eyes of God - (2008) - shortstory by Peter Watts
• Firooz and His Brother - (2008) - shortstory by Alex Jeffers
• Infestation - (2008) - novelette by Garth Nix
• A Water Matter - (2008) - novelette by Jay Lake
• The Golden Octopus - (2008) - shortfiction by Beth Bernobich
• Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2: Jack of Diamonds - (2008) - shortfiction by Erik Amundsen
• The Road to Levinshir - (2002) - shortstory by Patrick Rothfuss
• Fixing Hanover - (2008) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• Boojum - (2008) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• The Difficulties of Evolution - (2008) - shortstory by Karen Heuler
• Catherine Drewe - (2008) - shortstory by Paul Cornell
• Silent as Dust - (2008) - shortstory by James Maxey
• Evil Robot Monkey - (2008) - shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal
• If Angels Fight - (2008) - novelette by Richard Bowes
• Spiderhorse - (2008) - shortfiction by Liz Williams
• The Tear - (2008) - novella by Ian McDonald
• Biographies
• Recommended Reading

This second volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Margo Lanagan, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, Sarah Monette, Lucius Shepard, Jo Walton, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, The New Yorker, Tor.com, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• The Year in Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2009 - essay by Rich Horton
• A Story, with Beans - (2009) - shortstory by Steven Gould
• Child-Empress of Mars - (2009) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
• The Logic of the World - (2009) - shortfiction by Robert Kelly
• The Long, Cold Goodbye - (2009) - novelette by Holly Phillips
• The Endangered Camp - (2009) - shortfiction by Ann Leckie
• Dragon's Teeth - (2009) - novelette by Alexander C. Irvine
• As Women Fight - (2009) - shortstory by Sara Genge
• Sylgarmo's Proclamation - (2009) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Three Twilight Tales - (2009) - shortstory by Jo Walton
• Necroflux Day - (2009) - novelette by John Meaney
• The Persistence of Memory, Or, This Space for Sale - (2009) - shortstory by Paul Park
• This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• On the Human Plan - (2009) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• Technicolor - (2009) - novelette by John Langan
• Catalog - (2009) - shortstory by Eugene Mirabelli
• Crimes and Glory - (2009) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
• Eros, Philia, Agape - (2009) - novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor - (2009) - shortstory by Nir Yaniv
• Glister - (2009) - shortstory by Dominic Green
• The Qualia Engine - (2009) - novelette by Damien Broderick
• The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew - (2009) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Wife-Stealing Time - (2009) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Images of Anna - (2009) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Mongoose - (2009) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Living Curiosities - (2009) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• The Death of Sugar Daddy - (2009) - shortfiction by Toiya Kristen Finley
• Secret Identity - (2009) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Bespoke - (2009) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance - (2009) - novelette by John Kessel
• Biographies
• Recommended Reading

This third volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Carol Emshwiller, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Hand, Paul Park, RJ Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Peter Watts, Gene Wolfe, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• The Year in Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2010 - essay by Rich Horton
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain - (2010) - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• Amor Vincit Omnia - (2010) - novelette by K. J. Parker
• The Green Book - (2010) - short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Other Graces - (2010) - short story by Alice Sola Kim
• The Sultan of the Clouds - (2010) - novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
• The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories - (2010) - short story by Christie Yant
• Letter from the Emperor - shortfiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Holdfast - (2010) - shortfiction by Matthew Johnson
• Standard Loneliness Package - (2010) - novelette by Charles Yu
• The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window - (2010) - novella by Rachel Swirsky
• Arvies - (2010) - short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• Merrythoughts - (2010) - short story by Bill Kte'pi
• The Red Bride - (2010) - short story by Samantha Henderson
• Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance - (2010) - novella by Paul Park
• Bloodsport - (2010) - shortfiction by Gene Wolfe
• No Time Like the Present - (2010) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• Braiding the Ghosts - (2010) - shortfiction by C. S. E. Cooney
• The Thing About Cassandra - (2010) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn's Coat - (2010) - shortfiction by Willow Fagan
• The Things - (2010) - short story by Peter Watts
• Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory - (2010) - shortfiction by Paul M. Berger
• Amor Fugit - (2010) - novelette by Alexandra Duncan
• Dead Man's Run - (2010) - novella by Robert Reed
• The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model - (2010) - short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• The Word of Azrael - (2010) - novelette by Matthew David Surridge
• Under the Moons of Venus - (2010) - short story by Damien Broderick
• Abandonware - (2010) - shortfiction by An Owomoyela
• The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon - (2010) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
• Biographies
• Recommended Reading

This fourth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, K.J. Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Rich Horton
• Ghostweight - (2011) - novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Sandal-Bride - (2011) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• The Adakian Eagle - (2011) - novella by Bradley Denton
• The Sighted Watchmaker - (2011) - shortstory by Vylar Kaftan
• The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland, for a Little While - (2011) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• Walking Stick Fires - (2011) - shortstory by Alan DeNiro
• Late Bloomer - (2011) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• The Choice - (2011) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
• East of Furious - (2011) - novelette by Jonathan Carroll
• Martian Heart - (2011) - shortstory by John Barnes
• Pug - (2011) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• Rampion - (2011) - novella by Alexandra Duncan
• "And Weep Like Alexander" - (2011) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
• Widows in the World - (2011) - novelette by Gavin J. Grant
• Younger Women - (2011) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Canterbury Hollow - (2011) - shortstory by Chris Lawson
• The Summer People - (2011) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Mulberry Boys - (2011) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• The Silver Wind - (2011) - shortstory by Nina Allan
• Choose Your Own Adventure - (2011) - shortstory by Kat Howard
• A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong - (2011) - novella by K. J. Parker
• Woman Leaves Room - (2011) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• My Chivalric Fiasco - (2011) - shortstory by George Saunders
• The Last Sophia - (2011) - shortstory by C. S. E. Cooney
• Some of Them Closer - (2011) - shortstory by Marissa Lingen
• Fields of Gold - (2011) - novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• The Smell of Orange Groves - (2011) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees - (2011) - shortstory by E. Lily Yu
• The Man Who Bridged the Mist - (2011) - novella by Kij Johnson
• Biographies

This fifth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-three stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Strange Horizons, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Conents:

• The Year in Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013 - essay by Rich Horton
• Nahiku West - (2012) - novelette by Linda Nagata
• The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring - (2012) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• Under the Eaves - (2012) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• Honey Bear - (2012) - shortstory by Sofia Samatar
• One Day in Time City - (2012) - novelette by David Ira Cleary
• The Black Feminist's Guide to Science Fiction Film Editing - (2012) - shortstory by Sandra McDonald
• The Governess and the Lobster - (2012) - novelette by Margaret Ronald
• Swift, Brutal Retaliation - (2012) - novelette by Meghan McCarron
• Scattered Along the River of Heaven - (2012) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
• Four Kinds of Cargo - (2012) - shortstory by Leonard Richardson
• Elementals - (2012) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Prayer - (2012) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Scrap Dragon - (2012) - shortstory by Naomi Kritzer
• The Contrary Gardener - (2012) - shortstory by Christopher Rowe
• The Castle That Jack Built - (2012) - novelette by Emily Gilman
• In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns - (2012) - novella by Elizabeth Bear
• The Philosophy of Ships - (2012) - shortfiction by Caroline M. Yoachim
• The Keats Variation - (2012) - novelette by K. M. Ferebee
• Fireborn - (2012) - shortstory by Robert Charles Wilson
• One Breath, One Stroke - (2012) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Bernoulli War - (2012) - novelette by Gord Sellar
• Things Greater Than Love - (2012) - shortstory by Kate Bachus
• A Murmuration of Starlings - (2012) - shortstory by Joe Pitkin
• Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream - (2012) - shortstory by Maria Dahvana Headley
• Arbeitskraft - (2012) - novelette by Nick Mamatas
• A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight - (2012) - shortstory by Xia Jia
• Heaven Under Earth - (2012) - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• Sunshine - (2012) - shortfiction by Nina Allan
• Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz - (2012) - shortstory by Marissa Lingen
• The Magician's Apprentice - (2012) - shortstory by Tamsyn Muir
• Twenty-Two and You - (2012) - novelette by Michael Blumlein
• Two Houses - (2012) - novelette by Kelly Link
• The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future - (2012) - novella by Jay Lake
• Biographies - essay
• Recommended Reading - essay
• Publication History - essay

This sixth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Yoon Ha Lee, James Patrick Kelly, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• Social Services - (2013) - shortfiction by Madeline Ashby
• Out in the Dark - (2013) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
• The End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine - (2013) - shortfiction by Harry Turtledove
• The Oracle - (2013) - novelette by Lavie Tidhar
• Call Girl - (2013) - shortstory by Tang Fei
• Ilse, Who Saw Clearly - (2013) - shortstory by E. Lily Yu
• They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass - (2013) - novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• The Wildfires of Antarctica - (2013) - shortstory by Alan DeNiro
• The Discovered Country - (2013) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• A Stranger from a Foreign Ship - (2013) - shortstory by Tom Purdom
• On the Origin of Song - (2013) - shortstory by Naim Kabir
• Effigy Nights - (2013) - shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
• Soulcatcher - (2013) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• Found - (2013) - shortstory by Alex Dally MacFarlane
• The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly - (2013) - shortfiction by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• Loss, with Chalk Diagrams - (2013) - shortstory by E. Lily Yu
• A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel - (2013) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• Kormak the Lucky - (2013) - novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• Grizzled Veterans of Many and Much - (2013) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Rosary and Goldenstar - (2013) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• The Dragonslayer of Merebarton - (2013) - shortfiction by K. J. Parker
• Martyr's Gem - (2013) - novella by C. S. E. Cooney
• Such & Such Said to So & So - (2013) - shortfiction by Maria Dahvana Headley
• Killing Curses, a Caught-Heart Quest - (2013) - shortfiction by Krista Hoeppner Leahy
• A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain - (2013) - shortstory by Karin Tidbeck
• Paranormal Romance - (2013) - novelette by Christopher Barzak
• The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls - (2013) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• Blanchefleur - (2013) - shortfiction by Theodora Goss
• The Memory Book - (2013) - shortfiction by Maureen F. McHugh
• Live Arcade - (2013) - shortstory by Erik Amundsen
• Town's End - (2013) - shortstory by Yukimi Ogawa
• A Window or a Small Box - (2013) - novelette by Jedediah Berry
• Trafalgar and Josefina - (2013) - shortfiction by Angélica Gorodischer
• Firebrand - (2013) - shortfiction by Peter Watts
• Game of Chance - (2013) - shortfiction by Carrie Vaughn

This sixth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors. Editor Rich Horton selects the the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Contents (listed by original publication venue in alphabetical order):

• "Sadness" by Timons Esaias (Analog 7-8/14)
• "Schools of Clay" by Derek Künsken (Asimov's 2/14)
• "Someday" by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 4-5/14)
• "The Instructive Tale of the Archaeologist and his Wife" by Alexander Jablokov (Asimov's 7/14)
• "Heaven Thunders the Truth" by K. J. Parker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/2/14)
• "The Manor of Lost Time" by Richard Parks (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/26/14)
• "Every Hill Ends With Sky" by Robert Reed (Carbide Tipped Pens)
• "Wine" by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/14)
• "Pernicious Romance" by Robert Reed (Clarkesworld 11/14)
• "The Magician and Laplace's Demon" by Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 12/14)
• "The Long Haul" by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld 11/14)
• "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" by Alaya Dawn Johnson (F&SF 7-8/14)
• "Aberration" by Genevieve Valentine (Fearsome Magics)
• "Ghost Story" by John Grant (Interzone 3-4/14)
• "Skull and Hyssop" by Kathleen Jennings (LCRW 12/14)
• "The Endless Sink" by Damien Ober (LCRW 9/14)
• "Drones Don't Kill People" by Annalee Newitz (Lightspeed 12/14)
• "How to Get Back to the Forest" by Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed 3/14)
• "Selfie" by Sandra MacDonald (Lightspeed 5/14)
• "Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" by Theodora
• Goss (Lightspeed 7/14)
• "I Can See Right Through You" by Kelly Link (McSweeney's, #48)
• "The Wild and Hungry Times" by Patricia Russo (Not One of Us)
• "Invisible Planets" by Hannu Rajaniemi (Reach for Infinity)
• "Trademark Bugs: A Legal History" by Adam Roberts (Reach for Infinity)
• "A Better Way to Die" by Paul Cornell (Rogues)
• "Fift and Shria" by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Solaris Rising 3)
• "Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale" by C. S. E. Cooney (Strange Horizons 7/21/14)
• "Grand Jeté (the Great Leap)" by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer/14)
• "The Scrivener" by Eleanor Arnason (Subterranean Winter/14)
• "The Hand is Quicker" by Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)
• "Break! Break! Break!" by Charlie Jane Anders (The End is Nigh)
• "Sleeper" by Jo Walton (Tor.com 8/14)
• "Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts" by Cory Doctorow (Twelve Tomorrows)
• "Collateral" by Peter Watts (Upgraded)

This eighth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, C.C. Finlay, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Meeting Infinity, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• "The Daughters of John Demetrius" by Joe Pitkin (Analog)
• "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Analog)
• "Twelve and Tag" by Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov's)
• "Mutability" by Ray Nayler (Asimov's)
• "Acres of Perhaps" by Will Ludwigsen (Asimov's)
• "Unearthly Landscape by a Lady" by Rebecca Campbell (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "The King in the Cathedral" by Rich Larson (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Little Sisters" by Vonda N. McIntyre (Book View Cafe)
• "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld)
• "Asymptotic" by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld)
• "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld)
• "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld)
• "The Deepwater Bride" by Tamysn Muir (F&SF)
• "The Two Paupers" by C.S.E. Cooney (Fairchild Books)
• "Hello Hello" by Seanan McGuire (Future Visions)
• "The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red, Red Coal" by Chaz Brenchley (Lightspeed)
• "Time Bomb Time" by C.C. Finlay (Lightspeed)
• "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" by Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed)
• "The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club" by Nike Sulway (Lightspeed)
• "My Last Bringback" by John Barnes (Meeting Infinity)
• "Drones" by Simon Ings (Meeting Infinity)
• "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear (Old Venus)
• "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Idea Countness Rathagan" by Ian McDonald (Old Venus)
• "The Graphology of Hemorrhage" by Yoon Ha Lee (Operation Arcana)
• "Capitalism in the 22nd Century" by Geoff Ryman (Stories for Chip)
• "The Game of Smash and Recovery" by Kelly Link (Strange Horizons)
• "This Evening's Performance" by Genevieve Valentine (The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk)
• "Please Undo This Hurt" by Seth Dickinson (Tor.com)
• "Consolation" by John Kessel (Twelve Tomorrows)
• "Folding Beijing" by Hao Jingfang (Uncanny)

Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. This captivating compilation of science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases stories of librarians--mysterious curators, heroic bibliognosts, arcane archivists, catalogers of very special collections--and libraries--repositories of arcane wisdom, storehouses of signals from other galaxies, bastions of culture, the last outposts of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world...

Table of Contents:

• "Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan" by Maggie Clark (Analog)
• "All that Robot Shit" by Rich Larson (Asimov's)
• "Project Empathy" by Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov's)
• "Lazy Dog Out" by Suzanne Palmer (Asimov's)
• "The Visitor from Taured" by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's)
• "Openness" by Alexander Weinstein (Beloit Fiction Journal)
• "In Skander, for a Boy" by Chaz Brenchley (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Laws of Night and Silk" by Seth Dickinson (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Blood Grains Speak Through Memories" by Jason Sanford (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Rager in Space" by Charlie Jane Anders (Bridging Infinity)
• "Ozymandias" by Karin Lowachee (Bridging Infinity)
• "The Bridge of Dreams" by Gregory Feeley (Clarkesworld)
• "Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home" by Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld)
• "Things with Beards" by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld)
• "Innumerable Glimmering Lights" by Rich Larson (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
• "Between Nine and Eleven" by Adam Roberts (Crises and Conflicts)
• "Red of Tooth and Cog" by Cat Rambo (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "The Vanishing Kind" by Lavie Tidhar (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "A Fine Balance" by Charlotte Ashley (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "Empty Planets" by Rahul Kanakia (Interzone)
• "Fifty Shades of Grays" by Steven Barnes (Lightspeed)
• "I've Come to Marry the Princess" by Helena Bell (Lightspeed)
• "RedKing" by Craig deLancey (Lightspeed)
• "A Non-Hero's Guide to The Road of Monsters" by A.T. Greenblatt, (Mothershipship Zeta)
• "Dress Rehearsal" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, (Now We Are Ten)
• "The Plague Givers" by Kameron Hurley, (Patreon)
• "Gorse Daughter, Sparrow Son" by Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan (Strange Horizons)
• "The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory" by Carlos Hernandez (The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria)
• "Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was" by Paul McAuley (Tor.com)
• "That Game We Played During the War" by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com)

This tenth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-four stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Charlie Jane Anders, Tobias S. Buckell, Samuel R. Delany, Karen Joy Fowler, Kameron Hurley, Rich Larson, Yoon Ha Lee, Suzanne Palmer, Robert Reed, Michael Swanwick, Peter Watts, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, Tor.com and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• "Time Travel is Only for the Poor" by S. L. Huang (Analog)
• "Emergency Protocol" by Lettie Prell (Analog)
• "Persephone of the Crows" by Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's)
• "Cupido" by Rich Larson (Asimov's)
• "Winter Timeshare" by Ray Nayler (Asimov's)
• "Soulmates.com", by Will McIntosh (Asimov's)
• "Red Bark and Ambergris" by Kate Marshall (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Whatever Knight Comes" by Ryan Row (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" by Charlie Jane Anders (Boston Review)
• "The Significance of Significance" by Robert Reed (Clarkesworld)
• "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld)
• "The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse" by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Extrasolar)
• "Marley and Marley" by J. R. Dawson (F&SF)
• "The Hermit of Houston" by Samuel R. Delany (F&SF)
• "Rings" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (F&SF)
• "Starlight Express" by Michael Swanwick (F&SF)
• "The Sacrifice of the Hanged Monkey" by Minsoo Kang (Fantastic)
• "ZeroS" by Peter Watts (Infinity Wars)
• "Ugo" by Giovanni de Feo (Lightspeed)
• "Love Engine Optimization" by Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed)
• "This is for You" by Bruce McAllister (Lightspeed)
• "One Hour, Every Seven Years" by Alice Sola Kim (McSweeney's)
• "Montreal, 2014" by Madeline Ray (Mothership Zeta)
• "Sidewalks" by Maureen McHugh (Omni)
• "Shoggoths in Traffic" by Tobias S. Buckell (Patreon)
• "The Fisherman and the Pig" by Kameron Hurley (Patreon)
• "Utopia LOL?" by Jamie Wahls (Strange Horizons)
• "An Account of the Land of Witches" by Sofia Samatar (Tender)
• "Extracurricular Activities" by Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com)
• "The Martian Obelisk" by Linda Nagata (Tor.com)
• "Hexagrammaton" by Hanus Seiner (Tor.com)
• "Though She Be But Little" by C. S. E. Cooney (Uncanny)
• "And Then There Were (N - One)" by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny)
• "Fandom for Robots" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny)

This eleventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features twenty-six stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including David Gerrold, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Rich Larson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yoon Ha Lee, Sarah Pinsker, Justina Robson, Kelly Robson, Lavie Tidhar, Juliette Wade, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Tor.com, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• "Introduction" - essay by Rich Horton
• "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" - short story by Alix E. Harrow
• "Intervention" [The Lucky Peach] - novelette by Kelly Robson
• "The Donner Party" - novelette by Dale Bailey
• "How to Identify an Alien Shark" - short story by Beth Goder
• "The Tale of the Ive-Ojan-Akhar's Death" - novelette by Alex Jeffers
• "Carouseling" - short story by Rich Larson
• "The Starship and the Temple Cat" - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• "Grace's Family" - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• "The Court Magician" - short story by Sarah Pinsker
• "The Persistence of Blood" - novella by Juliette Wade
• "Lime and the One Human" - short story by S. Woodson
• "Bubble and Squeak" [Ripple Effect] - novella by Ctein and David Gerrold
• "Sour Milk Girls" - short story by Erin Roberts
• "The Unnecessary Parts of the Story" - short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• "The Temporary Suicides of Goldfish" - short story by Octavia Cade
• "The Gift" - novelette by Julie Novakova
• "The Buried Giant" - short story by Lavie Tidhar
• "Jump" - short story by Cadwell Turnbull
• "Umbernight" - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• "Today Is Today" - short story by Rick Wilber
• "The Heart of Owl Abbas" - short story by Kathleen Jennings
• "The Spires" - novelette by Alec Nevala-Lee
• "The House by the Sea" - short story by P. H. Lee
• "Foxy and Tiggs" - novelette by Justina Robson
• "Beautiful" - novella by Juliet Marillier
• "Dayenu" - short story by James Sallis
• "Firelight" [Earthsea Cycle] - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin

This twelfth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors. With selections of the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• Science Fiction in a Time of Plague - essay by Rich Horton
• "Green Glass: A Love Story" - short story by E. Lily Yu
• "At the Fall" - novelette by Alec Nevala-Lee
• "The Fine Print" - short story by Chinelo Onwualu
• "Fix That House!" - short story by John Kessel
• "Mighty Are the Meek and the Myriad" - short story by Cassandra Khaw
• "The Savannah Problem" - novella by Adam-Troy Castro
• "How to Kiss a Hojacki" - novelette by Debbie Urbanski
• "Tourists" - short story by Rammel Chan
• "Vis Delendi" - short story by Marie Brennan
• "Cloud-Born" - short story by Gregory Feeley
• "Give the Family My Love" - short story by A. T. Greenblatt
• "The Archronology of Love" - short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• "The Migration Suite: A Study in C Sharp Minor" - short story by Maurice Broaddus
• "Secret Stories of Doors" (2016) - short story by Sofía Rhei
• "The Ocean Between the Leaves" - short story by Ray Nayler
• "The Virtue of Unfaithful Translations" - novelette by Minsoo Kang
• "Shucked" - short story by Sam J. Miller
• "Empty Box" - short story by Allison Mulvihill
• "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear" - short story by Kelly Link
• "Ink, and Breath, and Spring" - short story by Frances Rowat
• "The Death of Fire Station 10" - short story by Ray Nayler
• "Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing" - short story by Andy Dudak
• "Bark, Blood, and Sacrifice" - short story by Alexandra Seidel
• "Mnemosyne" - short story by Catherine MacLeod
• "Cloud" - short story by Michael Swanwick
• "A Country Called Winter" - novelette by Theodora Goss
• "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" - short story by Shiv Ramdas
• "Knowledgeable Creatures" - short story by Christopher Rowe
• "The Visible Frontier" - short story by Grace Seybold
• "A Catalog of Storms" - short story by Fran Wilde
• "At the Old Wooden Synagogue on Janower Street" - short story by Michael Libling
• "Miscellaneous Notes from the Time an Alien Came to Band Camp Disguised as My Alto Sax" - short story by Tina Connolly
• "Anosognosia" - novelette by John Crowley

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas 2015 inaugurates a new annual series of anthologies featuring some of the year's best novella-length science fiction and fantasy. Novellas, longer than short stories but shorter than novels, are a rich and rewarding literary form that can fully explore tomorrow's technology, the far reaches of the future, thought-provoking imaginings, fantastic worlds, and entertaining concepts with the impact of a short story and the detailed breadth of a novel. Gathering a wide variety of excellent SF and fantasy, this anthology of "short novels" showcases the talents of both established masters and new writers.

Table of Contents

• In Her Eyes by Seth Chambers (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2014)
• The Churn: An Expanse Novella by James S. A. Corey (Orbit)
• Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, translated by Liisa Rantalaiho (Tor.com)
• Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)
• Claudius Rex by John P. Murphy (Alembical 3, edited by Lawrence M. Schoen and Arthur Dorrance, Paper Golem)
• The Things We Do For Love by K. J. Parker (Subterranean Press)
• The Mothers of Voorhisville by Mary Rickert (Tor.com)
• The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues, edited by George R. R. Martin, Bantam/Titan)
• Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine (Wyrm Publishing)

The second volume of Prime Books' annual anthology series collecting of some of the year's best novella-length science fiction and fantasy. Novellas, longer than short stories but shorter than novels, are a rich rewarding literary form that can fully explore tomorrow's technology, the far reaches of the future, thought-provoking imaginings, fantastic worlds, and entertaining concepts with all the impact of a short story as well as the detailed depth of a novel. Gathering a wide variety of excellent SF and fantasy, this anthology of "short novels" showcases the talents of both established masters and new writers.

Table of Contents:

• The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2015)
• The Bone Swans of Amandale by C.S.E. Cooney (Bone Swans, Mythic Delirium Books)
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
• The Last Witness by K. J. Parker (Tor.com)
• Johnny Rev by Rachel Pollack (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2015)
• Inhuman Garbage by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's, March 2015)
• Gypsy by Carter Scholz (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)
• The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik (Tor.com)
• What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Bao Shu, translated by Ken Liu (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)