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The definitive guide and a must-have collection of the best short science fiction and speculative fiction of 2019, showcasing brilliant talent and examining the cultural moment we live in, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.

With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this collection displays the top talent and the cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories. The list of authors is truly star-studded, including New York Times bestseller Ted Chiang (author of the short story that inspired the movie Arrival), N. K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, and many more incredible talents.

Contents:

• The Bookstore at the End of America by Charlie Jane Anders - short story
• The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex by Tobias S. Buckell - short story
• Kali_Na by Indrapramit Das - novelette
• Song of the Birds by Saleem Haddad - short story
• The Painter of Trees by Suzanne Palmer - short story
• The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir by Karin Tidbeck - short story
• Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders by Malka Older - short story
• It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning by Ted Chiang - short story
• Contagion's Eve at the House Noctambulous by Rich Larson - novelette
• Submarines by Han Song - short story
• As the Last I May Know by S. L. Huang - short story
• A Catalog of Storms by Fran Wilde - short story
• The Robots of Eden by Alice Sola Kim - short story
• Cyclopterus by Peter Watts - short story
• Dune Song by Suyi Davies Okungbowa - short story
• The Work of Wolves by Tegan Moore - novella
• Soft Edges by Elizabeth Bear - short story
• Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin - novelette
• Thoughts and Prayers by Ken Liu - short story
• At the Fall by Alec Nevala-Lee - novelette
• Reunion by Vandana Singh - short story
• Green Glass: A Love Story by E. Lily Yu - short story
• Secret Stories of Doors by Sofia Rhei - short story
• This Is Not the Way Home by Greg Egan - novelette
• What the Dead Man Said by Chinelo Onwualu - short story
• I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we're getting married by Fonda Lee - short story
• The Archronology of Love by Caroline Yoachim - novelette

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

For more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best collected the finest short stories from that series and became a benchmark in the SF field. Now, for the first time ever, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozios sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels from his legendary series.

Included are such notable short novels as:

• Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
  In the fiftieth century, people of Earth are able to create entire cities on a whim, including those of mythology and legend. When twentieth-century traveler Charles Philip accidentally lands in this aberrant time period, he is simultaneously obsessed with discovering more about this alluring world and getting back home. But in a world made entirely of man's creation, things are not always as they seem on the surface.
• Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin
  Le Guin returns to her Hainish-settled interstellar community, the Ekumen, to tell the tale of two star-crossed lovers who are literally worlds apart in this story of politics, violence, religion, and cultural disparity.
• Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds
  On a sea-wold planet covered with idyllic tropical oceans, peace seems pervasive. Beneath the placid water lurks an ominous force that has the potential to destroy all tranquility.

Contributors include: Greg Egan; Joe Haldeman; James Patrick Kelly; Nancy Kress; Ursula K. Le Guin; Ian R. MacLeod; Ian McDonald; Maureen F. McHugh; Frederick Pohl; Alastair Reynolds; Robert Silverberg; Michael Swanwick; Walter Jon Williams.

With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best, Volume 2 stands as the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels ever published in the world.

Table of Contents:

• Robert Silverberg: "Sailing To Byzantium"
• Walter Jon Williams: "Surfacing"
• Joe Haldeman: "The Hemingway Hoax"
• James Patrick Kelly: "Mr. Boy"
• Nancy Kress: "Beggars In Spain"
• Michael Swanwick: "Griffin's Egg"
• Frederick Pohl: "Outnumbering The Dead"
• Ursula K. LeGuin: "Forgiveness Day"
• Maureen F. McHugh: "The Cost To Be Wise"
• Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
• Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "New Light On The Drake Equation"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Turquoise Days"

Contains Nebula-winning Novella "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang and Nebula-nominated Novella "Trinity" by Nancy Kress

For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection.

With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.

Table of Contents:

• Greg Bear: "Blood Music"
• Gene Wolfe: "A Cabin on the Coast"
• Lucius Shepard: "Salvador"
• Nancy Kress: "Trinity"
• Howard Waldrop: "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll"
• Bruce Sterling: "Dinner in Audoghast"
• Pat Cadigan: "Roadside Rescue"
• John Crowley: "Snow"
• William Gibson: "The Winter Market"
• John Kessel: "The Pure Product"
• Eileen Gunn: "Stable Strategies for Middle Management"
• Mike Resnick: "Kirinyaga"
• Robert Silverberg: "Tales from the Venia Woods"
• Terry Bisson: "Bears Discover Fire"
• Connie Willis: "Even the Queen"
• Robert Reed: "Guest of Honor"
• Joe Haldeman: "None So Blind"
• Brian Stableford: "Mortimer Gray's History of Death"
• Maureen F. McHugh: "The Lincoln Train"
• Greg Egan: "Wang's Carpets"
• Ursula K. LeGuin: "Coming of Age in Karhide"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Dead"
• Ian McDonald: "Recording Angel"
• Tony Daniel: "A Dry, Quiet War"
• William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
• Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
• Ted Chiang: "Story of Your Life"
• Stephen Baxter: "People Came From Earth"
• David Marusek: "The Wedding Album"
• James Patrick Kelly: "1016 To 1"
• Walter Jon Williams: "Daddy's World"
• Steven Utley: "The Real World"
• Geoff Ryman: "Have Not Have"
• Charles Stross: "Lobsters"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "Breathmoss"
• Molly Gloss: "Lambing Season"

For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre.

For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection, including short fiction from authors such as Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, and any many more.

Table of Contents

• The Potter of Bones [Hwarhath] (2002) - novella by Eleanor Arnason
• The Little Goddess [India 2047] (2005) - novella by Ian McDonald
• Tin Marsh (2006) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Rogue Farm (2003) - short story by Charles Stross
• Good Mountain (2005) - novella by Robert Reed
• Glory (2007) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Finisterra (2007) - novelette by David Moles
• Where the Golden Apples Grow [Mars] (2006) - novella by Kage Baker
• The Sledge-Maker's Daughter (2007) - short story by Alastair Reynolds
• The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm (2008) - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance (2009) - novelette by John Kessel
• Utriusque Cosmi (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• The Things (2010) - novelette by Peter Watts
• The Emperor of Mars [Near Space] (2010) - novelette by Allen M. Steele
• Mongoose [Boojum] (2009) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Hair (2009) - novelette by Adam Roberts
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain (2010) - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Invasion of Venus (2010) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• Martian Heart (2011) - short story by John Barnes
• Useless Things (2009) - short story by Maureen McHugh
• Weep for Day (2012) - novelette by Indrapramit Das
• The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi (2012) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• The Memcordist [Solar System] (2012) - short story by Lavie Tidhar
• The Discovered Country (2013) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Best We Can (2013) - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• Dead Men Walking [The Quiet War] (2006) - novelette by Paul McAuley
• Pathways (2013) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Someday (2014) - short story by James Patrick Kelly
• The Hand Is Quicker (2014) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight [Universe of Xuya] (2015) - short story by Aliette de Bodard
• Calved (2015) - short story by Sam J. Miller
• Rates of Change (2015) - short story by James S. A. Corey
• Emergence (2015) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• The Long Haul, from The Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 (2014) - short story by Ken Liu
• KIT: Some Assembly Required (2016) - short story by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
• Winter Timeshare (2017) - short story by Ray Nayler
• Jonas and the Fox (2016) - novelette by Rich Larson
• My English Name (2017) - novelette by R. S. Benedict

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Summation: 1983 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Cicada Queen - (1983) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Beyond the Dead Reef - (1983) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Slow Birds - (1983) - novelette by Ian Watson
• Vulcan's Forge - (1983) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Man-Mountain Gentian - (1983) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• Hardfought - (1983) - novella by Greg Bear
• Manifest Destiny - (1983) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Full Chicken Richness - (1983) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Multiples - (1983) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Cryptic - (1983) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
• The Sidon in the Mirror - (1983) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Golden Gate - (1982) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Blind Shemmy - (1983) - novelette by Jack Dann
• In the Islands - (1983) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• Nunc Dimittis - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Her Furry Face - (1983) - shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
• Knight of Shallows - (1983) - novelette by Rand B. Lee
• The Cat - (1983) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Monkey Treatment - (1983) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Nearly Departed - (1983) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine - (1983) - novelette by John Kessel
• Carrion Comfort - (1983) - novelette by Dan Simmons
• Gemstone - (1983) - novelette by Vernor Vinge
• Black Air - (1983) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Honorable Mentions: 1983 - essay by Gardner Dozois

A consistently award-winning collection once again provides the best science fiction stories of the year, featuring work by veterans and newcomers including Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Geoff Ryman, Brian Stableford, and many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Summation: 1984 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• Promises to Keep - (1984) - novelette by Jack McDevitt
• Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• Blued Moon - (1984) - novelette by Connie Willis
• A Message to the King of Brobdingnag - (1984) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• The Affair - (1984) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
• New Rose Hotel - (1984) - shortstory by William Gibson
• The Map - (1984) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Interlocking Pieces - (1984) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
• Trojan Horse - (1984) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Bad Medicine - (1984) - novelette by Jack Dann
• At the Embassy Club - (1984) - shortstory by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• Pursuit of Excellence - (1984) - novelette by Rena Yount
• The Kindly Isle - (1984) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Rock On - (1984) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Sunken Gardens - (1984) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Trinity - (1984) - novella by Nancy Kress
• The Trouble With the Cotton People - (1984) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Twilight Time - (1984) - novelette by Lewis Shiner
• Black Coral - (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Friend - (1984) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
• Foreign Skins - (1984) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Company in the Wings - (1983) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• A Cabin on the Coast - (1984) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Lucky Strike - (1984) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Honorable Mentions: 1984 - essay by Gardner Dozois

A consistently award-winning collection once again provides the best science fiction stories of the year, featuring work by veterans and newcomers including Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Geoff Ryman, Brian Stableford, and many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Summation: 1985 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• The Jaguar Hunter - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Dogfight - (1985) - novelette by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
• Fermi and Frost - (1985) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Green Days in Brunei - (1985) - novella by Bruce Sterling
• Snow - (1985) - shortstory by John Crowley
• The Fringe - (1985) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things - (1985) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Solstice - (1985) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Duke Pasquale's Ring - (1985) - novella by Avram Davidson
• More Than the Sum of His Parts - (1985) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Out of All Them Bright Stars - (1985) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Side Effects - (1985) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• The Only Neat Thing to Do - (1985) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Dinner in Audoghast - (1985) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Under Siege - (1985) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Flying Saucer Rock & Roll - (1985) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• A Spanish Lesson - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Roadside Rescue - (1985) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Paper Dragons - (1985) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
• Magazine Section - (1985) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The War at Home - (1985) - shortstory by Lewis Shiner
• Rockabye Baby - (1985) - novelette by S. C. Sykes
• Green Mars - (1985) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Honorable Mentions: 1985 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Summation: 1986 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• R & R - (1986) - novella by Lucius Shepard
• Hatrack River - (1986) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Strangers on Paradise - (1986) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Pretty Boy Crossover - (1986) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Against Babylon - (1986) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes - (1986) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
• Into Gold - (1986) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Sea Change - (1986) - shortstory by Scott Baker
• Covenant of Souls - (1986) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• The Pure Product - (1986) - novelette by John Kessel
• Grave Angels - (1986) - novelette by Richard Kearns
• Tangents - (1986) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• The Beautiful and the Sublime - (1986) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Tattoos - (1986) - novelette by Jack Dann
• Night Moves - (1986) - novelette by Tim Powers
• The Prisoner of Chillon - (1986) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Chance - (1986) - novelette by Connie Willis
• And so to Bed - (1986) - shortstory by Harry Turtledove
• Fair Game - (1986) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Video Star - (1986) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• Sallie C. - (1986) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• Jeff Beck - (1986) - shortstory by Lewis Shiner
• Surviving - (1986) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• Down and Out in the Year 2000 - (1986) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Snake-Eyes - (1986) - shortstory by Tom Maddox
• The Gate of Ghosts - (1986) - novelette by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Winter Market - (1985) - novelette by William Gibson
• Honorable Mentions: 1986 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Summation: 1987 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Rachel in Love - (1987) - novelette by Pat Murphy
• Dream Baby - (1987) - novelette by Bruce McAllister
• Flowers of Edo - (1987) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Forever Yours, Anna - (1987) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball - (1987) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• Dinosaurs - (1987) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• The Temporary King - (1987) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Perpetuity Blues - (1987) - novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1987) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Pardoner's Tale - (1987) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Glass Cloud - (1987) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• The Evening and the Morning and the Night - (1987) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• Night of the Cooters - (1987) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• Angel - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Shades - (1987) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• The Faithful Companion at Forty - (1987) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Candle in a Cosmic Wind - (1987) - novelette by Joseph Manzione
• The Emir's Clock - (1987) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• Ever After - (1987) - novelette by Susan Palwick
• The Forest of Time - (1987) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
• The Million-Dollar Wound - (1987) - shortstory by Dean Whitlock
• The Moon of Popping Trees - (1987) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Diner - (1987) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• All the Hues of Hell - (1987) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Halley's Passing - (1987) - shortstory by Michael McDowell
• America - (1987) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - (1987) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• Mother Goddess of the World - (1987) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Honorable Mentions: 1987 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Summation: 1988 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Surfacing - (1988) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
• Home Front - (1988) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady - (1988) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Peaches for Mad Molly - (1988) - novelette by Steven Gould
• The Last Article - (1988) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• Stable Strategies for Middle Management - (1988) - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
• In Memoriam - (1988) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Kirinyaga - (1988) - novelette by Mike Resnick
• The Girl Who Loved Animals - (1988) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• The Last of the Winnebagos - (1988) - novella by Connie Willis
• Love in Vain - (1988) - novelette by Lewis Shiner
• The Hob - (1988) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• Our Neural Chernobyl - (1988) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• House of Bones - (1988) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Schrödinger's Kitten - (1988) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? - (1988) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• The Growth of the House of Usher - (1988) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Glacier - (1988) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Sanctuary - (1988) - novelette by Alan Dean Foster
• The Dragon Line - (1988) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner - (1988) - shortstory by John Kessel
• Emissary - (1988) - novelette by Stephen Kraus
• It Was the Heat - (1988) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Skin Deep - (1988) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Dying in Hull - (1988) - shortstory by David Alexander Smith
• Distances - (1988) - novelette by Kathe Koja
• Famous Monsters - (1988) - shortstory by Kim Newman
• The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter - (1988) - novella by Lucius Shepard
• Honorable Mentions: 1988 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1989 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Tiny Tango - (1989) - novella by Judith Moffett
• Out of Copyright - (1989) - shortstory by Charles Sheffield
• For I Have Touched the Sky - (1989) - novelette by Mike Resnick
• Alphas - (1989) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• At the Rialto - (1989) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Skin Deep - (1989) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• The Egg - (1989) - novella by Steven Popkes
• Tales from the Venia Woods - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Visiting the Dead - (1989) - shortstory by William King
• Dori Bangs - (1989) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• The Ends of the Earth - (1989) - novella by Lucius Shepard
• The Price of Oranges - (1989) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Lottery Night - (1989) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
• A Deeper Sea - (1989) - novella by Alexander Jablokov
• The Edge of the World - (1989) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man - (1989) - novelette by Megan Lindholm
• The Third Sex - (1989) - shortstory by Alan Brennert
• Winter on the Belle Fourche - (1989) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another - (1989) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Relationships - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Sampson
• Just Another Perfect Day - (1989) - shortstory by John Varley
• The Loch Moose Monster - (1989) - novelette by Janet Kagan
• The Magic Bullet - (1989) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• The Odd Old Bird - (1988) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Great Work of Time - (1989) - novella by John Crowley
• Honorable Mentions: 1989 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Annually assembling the best science fiction of the year, this series continues to live up to its name with the most original, innovative, and wonderful short fiction published in 1990. A thorough summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading round out this volume, rendering it the one book for every reader.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1990 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Mr. Boy - (1990) - novella by James Patrick Kelly
• The Shobies' Story - (1990) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Caress - (1990) - novelette by Greg Egan
• A Braver Thing - (1990) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
• We See Things Differently - (1989) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• And the Angels Sing - (1990) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• Past Magic - (1990) - shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod
• Bears Discover Fire - (1990) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• The All-Consuming - (1990) - novelette by Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
• Personal Silence - (1990) - novelette by Molly Gloss
• Invaders - (1990) - novelette by John Kessel
• The Cairene Purse - (1990) - novella by Michael Moorcock
• The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk - (1990) - novelette by Dafydd ab Hugh
• Tower of Babylon - (1990) - novelette by Ted Chiang
• The Death Artist - (1990) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• The First Since Ancient Persia - (1990) - novelette by John Brunner
• Inertia - (1990) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Learning to Be Me - (1990) - shortstory by Greg Egan
• Cibola - (1990) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Walking the Moons - (1990) - shortfiction by Jonathan Lethem
• Rainmaker Cometh - (1989) - shortstory by Ian McDonald
• Hot Sky - (1990) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• White City - (1990) - shortstory by Lewis Shiner
• Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates - (1990) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• The Hemingway Hoax - (1990) - novella by Joe Haldeman
• Honorable Mentions: 1990 - essay by Gardner Dozois

In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois produces another volume in the series that Locus calls 'the field's real anthology-of-record.' With a unique combination of foresight and perspective, Dozois continues to collect outstanding work by newcomers and established authors alike, reflecting the present state of the genre while suggesting its future directions.

With the editor's annual summary of the year in the field, and his appendix of recommended reading, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1991 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Beggars in Spain - (1991) - novella by Nancy Kress
• Living Will - (1991) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• A Just and Lasting Peace - (1991) - shortstory by Lois Tilton
• Skinner's Room - (1991) - shortstory by William Gibson
• Prayers on the Wind - (1991) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
• Blood Sisters - (1991) - shortstory by Greg Egan
• The Dark - (1991) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Marnie - (1991) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• A Tip on a Turtle - (1991) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Übermensch! - (1991) - shortstory by Kim Newman
• Dispatches from the Revolution - (1991) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Pipes - (1991) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Matter's End - (1989) - novella by Gregory Benford
• A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations - (1991) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Gene Wars - (1991) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• The Gallery of His Dreams - (1991) - novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• A Walk in the Sun - (1991) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria - (1991) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• Angels in Love - (1991) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• Eyewall - (1991) - novelette by Rick Shelley
• Pogrom - (1991) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• The Moat - (1991) - shortstory by Greg Egan
• Voices - (1991) - shortstory by Jack Dann
• FOAM - (1991) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Jack - (1991) - novella by Connie Willis
• La Macchina - (1991) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
• One Perfect Morning, with Jackals - (1991) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• Desert Rain - (1991) - novella by Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy
• Honorable Mentions: 1991 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Collecting twenty-eight of the best short stories and novellas from science fiction veterans and new talents, including Frederick Pohl and Robert Silverberg, this anthology also includes a summary of the year in SF and a recommended reading list.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1992 - (1993) - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Griffin's Egg - (1991) - novella by Michael Swanwick
• Even the Queen - (1992) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• The Round-Eyed Barbarians - (1992) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp
• Dust - (1992) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Two Guys from the Future - (1992) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• The Mountain to Mohammed - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• The Coming of Vertumnus - (1992) - novelette by Ian Watson
• A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple - (1992) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Hammer of God - (1992) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Grownups - (1992) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
• Graves - (1992) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• The Glowing Cloud - (1992) - novella by Steven Utley
• Gravity's Angel - (1992) - shortstory by Tom Maddox
• Protection - (1992) - novella by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee - (1992) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• Birth Day - (1992) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Naming Names - (1992) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa - (1992) - shortstory by Jonathan Lethem and Lukas Jaeger
• The Territory - (1992) - novella by Bradley Denton
• The Best and the Rest of James Joyce - (1992) - shortfiction by Ian McDonald
• Naming the Flowers - (1992) - novella by Kate Wilhelm
• Snodgrass - (1992) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• By the Mirror of My Youth - (1992) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• Outnumbering the Dead - (1990) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• Honorable Mentions: 1992 - (1993) - essay by Gardner Dozois

The eleventh annual collection of the most distinguished science fiction writing of the past year includes stories by leading writers, such as Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, and Terry Bisson, and features a summary of the year in science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1993 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Papa - (1993) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• Sacred Cow - (1993) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Dancing on Air - (1993) - novella by Nancy Kress
• A Visit to the Farside - (1993) - shortstory by Don Webb
• Alien Bootlegger - (1993) - novella by Rebecca Ore
• Death on the Nile - (1993) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Friendship Bridge - (1993) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Into the Miranda Rift - (1993) - novella by G. David Nordley
• Mwalimu in the Squared Circle - (1993) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• Guest of Honor - (1993) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Love Toys of the Gods - (1993) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Chaff - (1993) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Georgia on My Mind - (1993) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
• Cush - (1993) - novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• On the Collection of Humans - (1994) - shortfiction by Mark Rich
• There and Then - (1993) - novelette by Steven Utley
• The Night We Buried Road Dog - (1993) - novella by Jack Cady
• Feedback - (1993) - novelette by Joe Haldeman
• Lieserl - (1993) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Flashback - (1993) - novelette by Dan Simmons
• A Child's Christmas in Florida - (1993) - shortstory by William Browning Spencer
• Whispers - (1993) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh and David B. Kisor
• Wall, Stone, Craft - (1993) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
• Honorable Mentions: 1993 - essay by Gardner Dozois

A consistently award-winning collection once again provides the best science fiction stories of the year, featuring work by veterans and newcomers including Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Geoff Ryman, Brian Stableford, and many others.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1994 - (1995) - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Forgiveness Day - (1994) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Remoras - (1994) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Nekropolis - (1994) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• Margin of Error - (1994) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Cilia-of-Gold - (1994) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Going After Old Man Alabama - (1994) - shortstory by William Sanders
• Melodies of the Heart - (1994) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
• The Hole in the Hole - (1994) - novelette by Terry Bisson
• Paris in June - (1994) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Flowering Mandrake - (1994) - novelette by George Turner
• None So Blind - (1994) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Cocoon - (1994) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - (1994) - novella by Mike Resnick
• Dead Space for the Unexpected - (1994) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• Cri de Coeur - (1994) - novella by Michael Bishop
• The Sawing Boys - (1994) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• The Matter of Seggri - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ylem - (1994) - novelette by Eliot Fintushel
• Asylum - (1994) - novella by Katharine Kerr
• Red Elvis - (1994) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• California Dreamer - (1994) - shortstory by Mary Rosenblum
• Split Light - (1994) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• Les Fleurs Du Mal - (1994) - novella by Brian Stableford
• Honorable Mentions: 1994 - (1995) - essay by Gardner Dozois

The thirteenth volume of this popular annual collection offers tales by such famed writers as Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Stableford, Ian MacLeod, and Nancy Kress.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1995 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• A Woman's Liberation - (1995) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Starship Day - (1995) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• A Place with Shade - (1995) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Luminous - (1995) - novelette by Greg Egan
• The Promise of God - (1995) - shortstory by Michael F. Flynn
• Death in the Promised Land - (1995) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• For White Hill - (1995) - novella by Joe Haldeman
• Some Like It Cold - (1995) - shortstory by John Kessel
• The Death of Captain Future - (1995) - novella by Allen Steele
• The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy - (1995) - novella by David Marusek
• Radio Waves - (1995) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Wang's Carpets - (1995) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Casting at Pegasus - (1995) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Looking for Kelly Dahl - (1995) - novella by Dan Simmons
• Think Like a Dinosaur - (1995) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Coming of Age in Karhide - (1995) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Genesis - (1995) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Feigenbaum Number - (1995) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Home - (1995) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• There Are No Dead - (1995) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Recording Angel - (1995) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Elvis Bearpaw's Luck - (1995) - novelette by William Sanders
• Mortimer Gray's "History of Death" - (1995) - novella by Brian Stableford
• Honorable Mentions: 1995 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Join twenty-eight of today's finest writers for a host of imaginative tours through worlds as fabulous as the farthest galaxy and as strange as life on earth can be.

Gardener Dozois's summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of honorable mentions round out this volume, making it the one book for anyone who's interested in SF today.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1996 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Immersion - (1996) - novella by Gregory Benford
• The Dead - (1996) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Flowers of Aulit Prison - (1996) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• A Dry, Quiet War - (1996) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• Thirteen Phantasms - (1996) - shortstory by James P. Blaylock
• Primrose and Thorn - (1996) - novelette by Bud Sparhawk
• The Miracle of Ivar Avenue - (1996) - novelette by John Kessel
• The Last Homosexual - (1996) - shortstory by Paul Park
• Recording Angel - (1996) - shortstory by Ian McDonald
• Death Do Us Part - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Spade of Reason - (1996) - shortstory by Jim Cowan
• The Cost to Be Wise - (1996) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• Bicycle Repairman - (1996) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• The Weighing of Ayre - (1996) - novelette by Gregory Feeley
• The Longer Voyage - (1996) - novelette by Michael Cassutt
• The Land of Nod - (1996) - novelette by Mike Resnick
• Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland - (1996) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• The Lady Vanishes - (1996) - shortstory by Charles Sheffield
• Chrysalis - (1996) - novelette by Robert Reed
• The Wind Over the World - (1996) - novelette by Steven Utley
• Changes - (1996) - shortstory by William Barton
• Counting Cats in Zanzibar - (1996) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• How We Got In Town and Out Again - (1996) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance - (1996) - novelette by Cherry Wilder
• Schrödinger's Dog - (1996) - novelette by Damien Broderick
• Foreign Devils - (1996) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• In the MSOB - (1996) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• The Robot's Twilight Companion - (1996) - novella by Tony Daniel
• Honorable Mentions: 1996 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois, science fiction's foremost editor, consistently selects the field's best work each year with this showcase anthology. This year's collection presents sterling work from veterans and newcomers alike, including Stephen Baxter, Alan Brennert, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Geoffrey A. Landis, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, William Sanders, Howard Waldrop, and many others.

Rounded out with Dozois's insightful Summation of the Year in SF and a long list of Honorable Mentions, this anthology is the book for every science fiction fan.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1997 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Beauty in the Night - (1997) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Second Skin - (1997) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• Steamship Soldier on the Information Front - (1997) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Reasons to Be Cheerful - (1997) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Moon Six - (1997) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• We Will Drink a Fish Together ... - (1997) - novelette by Bill Johnson
• Escape Route - (1997) - novella by Peter F. Hamilton
• Itsy Bitsy Spider - (1997) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• A Spy in Europa - (1997) - shortstory by Alastair Reynolds
• The Undiscovered - (1997) - novelette by William Sanders
• Echoes - (1997) - novelette by Alan Brennert
• Getting to Know You - (1997) - novelette by David Marusek
• Balinese Dancer - (1997) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• Marrow - (1997) - novella by Robert Reed
• Heart of Whitenesse - (1997) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• The Wisdom of Old Earth - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Pipes of Pan - (1997) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Crossing Chao Meng Fu - (1997) - novelette by G. David Nordley
• Yeyuka - (1997) - shortstory by Greg Egan
• Frost Painting - (1997) - shortstory by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Lethe - (1997) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• Winter Fire - (1997) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Nevermore - (1997) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• Open Veins - (1997) - shortstory by Simon Ings
• After Kerry - (1997) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• The Masque of Agamemnon - (1997) - novelette by Sean Williams and Simon Brown
• Gulliver at Home - (1997) - novelette by John Kessel
• A Cold Dry Cradle - (1997) - novella by Elisabeth Malartre and Gregory Benford
• Honorable Mentions: 1997 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Long regarded as the premier annual collection of science fiction stories, Gardner Dozois's latest volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction continues this tradition of excellence with twenty-five representing the finest offerings in the field.

Among the gems included here are:

• "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, in which the story of alien contact and a very human drama merge beautifully
• "The Island of the Immortals" by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which a brave traveler investigates the reasons why people shun the exotic island
• "Approaching Perimelasma" by Geoffrey A. Landis, which boldly takes us into a black hole and through the stunning changes that ensue
• "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling, a wildly inventive tale of future spies in a Lost World
• "The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod, a moving novella reflecting an alternate history in which the Great War turned out a bit differently

Completing the collection are Dozois's insightful survey of the year in science fiction and a long list of Honorable Mentions.

With its explorations of outer space and inner space, with its examinations of what it means to be human today and tomorrow, and with its love of a good yarn, this volume remains the single best source for science fiction stories.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 1998 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Oceanic - (1998) - novella by Greg Egan
• Approaching Perimelasma - (1998) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Craphound - (1998) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• Jedella Ghost - (1998) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Taklamakan - (1998) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• The Island of the Immortals - (1998) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Sea Change, with Monsters - (1998) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
• Divided by Infinity - (1998) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• US - (1998) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• The Days of Solomon Gursky - (1998) - novella by Ian McDonald
• The Cuckoo's Boys - (1998) - novella by Robert Reed
• The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness - (1998) - shortstory by William Browning Spencer
• The Very Pulse of the Machine - (1998) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Story of Your Life - (1998) - novella by Ted Chiang
• Voivodoi - (1998) - shortstory by Liz Williams
• Saddlepoint: Roughneck - (1998) - novella by Stephen Baxter
• This Side of Independence - (1998) - shortstory by Rob Chilson
• Unborn Again - (1998) - shortstory by Chris Lawson
• Grist - (1998) - novella by Tony Daniel
• La Cenerentola - (1998) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• Down in the Dark - (1998) - novelette by William Barton
• Free in Asveroth - (1998) - shortstory by Jim Grimsley
• The Dancing Floor - (1998) - novelette by Cherry Wilder
• The Summer Isles - (1998) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
• Honorable Mentions: 1998 - essay by Gardner Dozois

In science fiction's early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty-first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever... and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

• David Marusek: "The Wedding Album"
• James Patrick Kelly: "10¹⁶ to 1"
• Robert Reed: "Winemaster"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Galactic North"
• Eleanor Arnason: "Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance"
• Stephen Baxter: "People Came from Earth"
• Richard Wadholm: "Green Tea"
• Karl Schroeder: "The Dragon of Pripyat"
• Chris Lawson: "Written in Blood"
• Frederik Pohl: "Hatching the Phoenix"
• M. John Harrison: "Suicide Coast"
• Sage Walker: "Hunting Mother"
• Ben Bova: "Mount Olympus"
• Greg Egan: "Border Guards"
• Michael Swanwick: "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur"
• Robert Silverberg: "A Hero of the Empire"
• Paul J. McAuley: "How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen"
• Charles Sheffield: "Phallicide"
• Walter Jon Williams: "Daddy's World"
• Kim Stanley Robinson: "A Martian Romance"
• Tanith Lee: "The Sky-Green Blues"
• Hal Clement: "Exchange Rate"
• Geoff Ryman: "Everywhere"
• Mike Resnick: "Hothouse Flowers"
• Sean Williams: "Evermore"
• Robert Grossbach: "Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops"
• Kage Baker: "Son Observe the Time"

The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.

Supplementing the stories is the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

• John Kessel: "The Juniper Tree"
• Charles Stross: "Antibodies"
• Ursula K. LeGuin: "The Birthday Of the World"
• Nancy Kress: "Savior"
• Paul J. McAuley: "Reef"
• Susan Palwick: "Going After Bobo"
• Albert E. Cowdrey: "Crux"
• Severna Park: "The Cure For Everything"
• Peter F. Hamilton: "The Suspect Genome"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o"
• Lucius Shepard: "The Radiant Green Star"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Great Wall of Mars"
• Eliot Fintushel: "Milo and Sylvie"
• Brian Stableford: "Snowball In Hell"
• Stephen Baxter: "On the Orion Line"
• Greg Egan: "Oracle"
• Rick Coon and Ernest Hogan: "Obsidian Harvest"
• Tananarive Due: "Patient Zero"
• Charles Stross: "A Colder War"
• Steven Utley: "The Real World"
• M. Shayne Bell: "The Thing About Benny"
• Robert Charles Wilson: "The Great Goodbye"
• Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"

The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results.

Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:

• "On K2 with Kanakaredes" by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company.
• "The Human Front" by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be.
• "Glacial" by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction.

The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

• Ian R. MacLeod: "New Light On the Drake Equation"
• Michael Cassutt: "More Adventures On Other Planets"
• Dan Simmons: "On K2 With Kanakaredes"
• William Sanders: "When This World Is All On Fire"
• Nancy Kress: "Computer Virus"
• Geoff Ryman: "Have Not Have"
• Charles Stross: "Lobsters"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Dog Said Bow-Wow"
• Andy Duncan: "The Chief Designer"
• Paul Di Filippo: "Neutrino Drag"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Glacial"
• Allen M. Steele: "The Days Between"
• Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy: "One-Horse Town"
• Eleanor Arnason: "Moby Quilt"
• Robert Reed: "Raven Dream"
• James Patrick Kelly: "Undone"
• Carolyn Ives Gilman: "The Real Thing"
• Maureen F. McHugh: "Interview: On Any Given Day"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "Isabel Of the Fall"
• Jim Grimsley: "Into Greenwood"
• Michael Blumlein: "Know How, Can Do"
• Simon Ings: "Russian Vine"
• Paul McAuley: "The Two Dicks"
• Brenda W. Clough: "May Be Some Time"
• Chris Beckett: "Marcher"
• Ken MacLeod: "The Human Front"

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing.

This year's volume includes many talented authors of SF as well as thorough summations of the year and a recommended reading list.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 2002 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Breathmoss - (2002) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Most Famous Little Girl in the World - (2002) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• The Passenger - (2002) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• The Political Officer - (2002) - novella by Charles Coleman Finlay
• Lambing Season - (2002) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
• Coelacanths - (2002) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Presence - (2002) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• Halo - (2002) - novelette by Charles Stross
• In Paradise - (2002) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars - (2002) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• Stories for Men - (2002) - novella by John Kessel
• To Become a Warrior - (2002) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
• The Clear Blue Seas of Luna - (2002) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• V.A.O. - (2002) - novella by Geoff Ryman
• Winters Are Hard - (2002) - novelette by Steven Popkes
• At the Money - (2002) - novelette by Richard Wadholm
• Agent Provocateur - (2002) - shortstory by Alexander C. Irvine
• Singleton - (2002) - novella by Greg Egan
• Slow Life - (2002) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• A Flock of Birds - (2002) - shortstory by James Van Pelt
• The Potter of Bones - (2002) - novella by Eleanor Arnason
• The Whisper of Disks - (2002) - novelette by John Meaney
• The Hotel at Harlan's Landing - (2002) - shortstory by Kage Baker
• The Millennium Party - (2002) - shortfiction by Walter Jon Williams
• Turquoise Days - (2002) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
• Honorable Mentions: 2002 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow.

This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

• William Barton: "Off On A Starship"
• John Kessel: "It's All True"
• Charles Stross: "Rogue Farm"
• Steven Popkes: "The Ice"
• Nancy Kress: "Ej-Es"
• John Varley: "The Bellman"
• Judith Moffett: "The Bear's Baby"
• Howard Waldrop: "Calling Your Name"
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "June Sixteenth at Anna's"
• Walter Jon Williams: "The Green Leopard Plague"
• Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Fluted Girl"
• Jack Skillingstead: "Dead Worlds"
• Michael Swanwick: "King Dragon"
• Paul Melko: "Singletons In Love"
• M. Shayne Bell: "Anomalous Structures Of My Dreams"
• Vernor Vinge: "The Cookie Monster"
• Harry Turtledove: "Joe Steele"
• Geoff Ryman: "Birth Days"
• John C. Wright: "Awake In the Night"
• James Van Pelt: "The Long Way Home"
• Geoffrey A. Landis: "The Eyes Of America"
• Kage Baker: "Welcome To Olympus, Mr. Hearst"
• Robert Reed: "Night Of Time"
• William Shunn: "Strong Medicine"
• Dominic Green: "Send Me a Mentagram"
• Paul Di Filippo: "And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon"
• Terry Dowling: "Flashmen"
• Nick DiChario: "Dragonhead"
• Terry Bisson: "Dear Abbey"

Long considered a necessary read for fans of science fiction, the 2004 Locus Award-winning anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction is the best collection of short SF stories this side of the universe. The twenty-second edition of this venerable collection continues to uphold its traditional standard of excellence.

Table of Contents:

• Pat Murphy: "Inappropriate Behavior"
• Benjamin Rosenbaum: "Start the Clock"
• David Moles: "The Third Party"
• Christopher Rowe: "The Voluntary State"
• Nancy Kress: "Shiva in Shadow"
• Paolo Bacigalupi: "The People of Sand and Slag"
• Michael F. Flynn: "The Clapping Hands of God"
• M. John Harrison: "Tourism"
• Terry Bisson: "Scout's Honor"
• James Patrick Kelly: "Men Are Trouble"
• Kage Baker: "Mother Aegypt"
• Vernor Vinge: "Synthetic Serendipity"
• Mary Rosenblum: "Skin Deep"
• Vandana Singh: "Delhi"
• Albert E. Cowdrey: "The Tribes of Bela"
• William Sanders: "Sitka"
• Daniel Abraham: "Leviathan Wept"
• Colin P. Davies: "The Defenders"
• Stephen Baxter: "Mayflower II"
• Caitlin R. Kiernan: "Riding the White Bull"
• Brendan DuBois: "Falling Star"
• Robert Reed: "The Dragons of Summer Gulch"
• James Cambias: "The Ocean of the Blind"
• Eleanor Arnason: "The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance"
• Peter F. Hamilton: "Footvote"
• Paul Di Filippo: "Sisyphus and the Stranger"
• Paul Melko: "Ten Sigmas"
• Walter Jon Williams: "Investments"

In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow.

In The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-third Annual Collection, our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world with such compelling stories as:

• "Beyond the Aquila Rift": Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds takes readers to the edge of the universe, where no voyager has dared to travel before---or so we think.
• "Comber": Our world is an ever-changing one, and award-winning author Gene Wolfe explores the darker side of our planet's fluidity in his own beautiful and inimitable style.
• "Audubon in Atlantis": In a world not quite like our own, bestselling author Harry Turtledove shows us that there are reasons some species have become extinct.

The twenty-nine stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

• Ian McDonald: "The Little Goddess"
• Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Calorie Man"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Beyond the Aquila Rift"
• Daryl Gregory: "Second Person, Present Tense"
• Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold: "The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back From the Stars"
• Michael Swanwick: "Triceratops Summer"
• Robert Reed: "Camouflage"
• Ken MacLeod: "A Case of Consilience"
• Bruce Sterling: "The Blemmye's Strategem"
• William Sanders: "Amba"
• Mary Rosenblum: "Search Engine"
• Chris Beckett: "Picadilly Circus"
• David Gerrold: "In the Quake Zone"
• Liz Williams: "La Malcontenta"
• Stephen Baxter: "The Children of Time"
• Vonda N. McIntyre: "Little Faces"
• Gene Wolfe: "Comber"
• Harry Turtledove: "Audubon in Atlantis"
• Hannu Rajaniemi: "Deus Ex Homine"
• Steven Popkes: "The Great Caruso"
• Neal Asher: "Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Zima Blue"
• David Moles: "Planet of the Amazon Women"
• Dominic Green: "The Clockwork Atom Bomb"
• Chris Roberson: "Gold Mountain"
• Gwyneth Jones: "The Fulcrum"
• Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy: "Mayfly"
• Elizabeth Bear: "Two Dreams on Trains"
• Joe Haldeman: "Angel of Light"
• James Patrick Kelly: "Burn"

The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Gardner Dozois has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, during which time he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times.

The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, to the realm of the gods and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

• Cory Doctorow: "I, Row-boat"
• Robert Charles Wilson: "Julian: A Christmas Story"
• Michael Swanwick: Tin Marsh"
• Ian McDonald: "The Djinn's Wife"
• Benjamin Rosenbaum: "The House Beyond Your Sky"
• Kage Baker: "Where the Golden Apples Grow"
• Bruce McAllister: "Kin"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Signal To Noise"
• Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold: "The Big Ice"
• Gregory Benford: "Bow Shock"
• Justin Stanchfield: "In the River"
• Walter Jon Williams: "Incarnation Day"
• Greg van Eekhout: "Far As You Can Go"
• Robert Reed: "Good Mountain"
• David D. Levine: "I Hold My Father's Paws"
• Paul J. McAuley: "Dead Men Walking"
• Mary Rosenblum: "Home Movies"
• Daryl Gregory: "Damascus"
• Jack Skillingstead: "Life On the Reservation"
• Paolo Bacigalupi: "Yellow Card Man"
• Greg Egan: "Riding the Crocodile"
• Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette: "The Ile of Dogges"
• Ken MacLeod: "The Highway Men"
• Stephen Baxter: "The Pacific Mystery"
• Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Okanoggan Falls"
• John Barnes: "Every Hole Is Outlined"
• A. M. Dellamonica: "The Town On Blighted Sea"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Nightingale"

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.

And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

• David Moles: "Finisterra"
• Ken MacLeod: "Lighting Out"
• John Barnes: "The Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away"
• Gwyneth Jones: "Saving Tiamaat"
• James Van Pelt: "Of Late I Dreamt of Venus"
• Ian McDonald: "Verthandi's Ring"
• Una McCormack: "Sea Change"
• Chris Roberson: "The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small"
• Greg Egan: "Glory"
• Robert Silverberg: "Against the Current"
• Neal Asher: "Alien Archeology"
• Ted Chiang: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" which went on to win the 2008 Hugo award for best novelette
• Justin Stanchfield: "Beyond the Wall"
• Bruce Sterling: "Kiosk"
• Stephen Baxter: "Last Contact"
• Alastair Reynolds: "The Sledge-Maker's Daughter"
• Ian McDonald: "Sanjeev and Robotwallah"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Skysailor's Tale"
• Vandana Singh: "Of Love and Other Monsters"
• Greg Egan: "Steve Fever"
• Kage Baker: "Hellfire at Twilight"
• Brian Stableford: "The Immortals of Atlantis"
• Pat Cadigan: "Nothing Personal"
• Elizabeth Bear: "Tideline" which went on to win the 2008 Hugo award for best short story
• Keith Brooke: "The Accord"
• Nancy Kress: "Laws of Survival"
• Tom Purdom: "The Mists of Time"
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "Craters"
• Ted Kosmatka: "The Prophet of Flores"
• Benjamin Rosenbaum & David Ackert: "Stray"
• Robert Reed: "Roxie"
• Gregory Benford: "Dark Heaven"

The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 2008 - (2009) - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Turing's Apples - (2008) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled - (2008) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Gambler - (2008) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Boojum - (2008) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• The Six Directions of Space - (2008) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
• N-Words - (2008) - shortstory by Ted Kosmatka
• An Eligible Boy - (2008) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• Shining Armour - (2008) - shortstory by Dominic Green
• The Hero - (2008) - novelette by Karl Schroeder
• Evil Robot Monkey - (2008) - shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Five Thrillers - (2008) - novelette by Robert Reed
• The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black - (2008) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• Incomers - (2008) - shortfiction by Paul J. McAuley
• Crystal Nights - (2008) - novelette by Greg Egan
• The Egg Man - (2008) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• His Master's Voice - (2008) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• The Political Prisoner - (2008) - novella by Charles Coleman Finlay
• Balancing Accounts - (2008) - shortstory by James L. Cambias
• Special Economics - (2008) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• Days of Wonder - (2008) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• City of the Dead - (2008) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• The Voyage Out - (2007) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm - (2008) - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• G-Men - (2008) - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Erdmann Nexus - (2008) - novella by Nancy Kress
• Old Friends - (2008) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• The Ray-Gun: A Love Story - (2008) - novelette by James Alan Gardner
• Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues - (2008) - novelette by Gord Sellar
• Butterfly, Falling At Dawn - (2008) - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• The Tear - (2008) - novella by Ian McDonald
• Honorable Mentions: 2008 - (2009) - essay by Gardner Dozois

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.

This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field and includes an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 2009 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Utriusque Cosmi - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• A Story, with Beans - (2009) - shortstory by Steven Gould
• Under the Shouting Sky - (2009) - shortstory by Karl Bunker
• Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance - (2009) - novelette by John Kessel
• Useless Things - (2009) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• Black Swan - (2009) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Crimes and Glory - (2009) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
• Seventh Fall - (2009) - novelette by Alexander C. Irvine
• Butterfly Bomb - (2009) - shortstory by Dominic Green
• Infinities - (2008) - novelette by Vandana Singh
• Things Undone - (2009) - novelette by John Barnes
• On the Human Plan - (2009) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
• The Integrity of the Chain - (2009) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• Lion Walk - (2009) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction - (2009) - shortstory by Jo Walton
• Three Leaves of Aloe - (2009) - novelette by Rand B. Lee
• Mongoose - (2009) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Paradiso Lost - (2009) - novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
• It Takes Two - (2009) - novelette by Nicola Griffith
• Blocked - (2009) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• Solace - (2009) - shortstory by James Van Pelt
• Act One - (2009) - novella by Nancy Kress
• Twilight of the Gods - (2009) - novelette by John C. Wright
• Blood Dauber - (2009) - novelette by Michael Poore and Ted Kosmatka
• This Wind Blowing, and This Tide - (2009) - novelette by Damien Broderick
• Hair - (2009) - novelette by Adam Roberts
• Before My Last Breath - (2009) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• One of Our Bastards Is Missing - (2009) - novelette by Paul Cornell
• Edison's Frankenstein - (2009) - novelette by Chris Roberson
• Erosion - (2009) - shortstory by Ian Creasey
• Vishnu at the Cat Circus - (2009) - novella by Ian McDonald
• Honorable Mentions: 2009 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Forthcoming...

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.

This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Carrie Vaughn, Ian R. MacLeod and Cory Doctorow. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 2010 - (2011) - essay by Gardner Dozois
• A History of Terraforming - (2010) - novella by Robert Reed
• The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String - (2010) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• The Emperor of Mars - (2010) - novelette by Allen Steele
• The Things - (2010) - shortstory by Peter Watts
• The Sultan of the Clouds - (2010) - novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
• The Books - (2010) - shortstory by Kage Baker
• Re-Crossing the Styx - (2010) - shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod
• And Ministers of Grace - (2010) - novelette by Tad Williams
• Mammoths of the Great Plains - (2010) - novella by Eleanor Arnason
• Sleeping Dogs - (2010) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Jackie's Boy - (2010) - novella by Steven Popkes
• Flying in the Face of God - (2010) - shortstory by Nina Allan
• Chicken Little - (2009) - novella by Cory Doctorow
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain - (2010) - shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
• Return to Titan - (2010) - novella by Stephen Baxter
• Under the Moons of Venus - (2010) - shortstory by Damien Broderick
• Seven Years from Home - (2010) - novelette by Naomi Novik
• The Peacock Cloak - (2010) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
• Amaryllis - (2010) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
• Seven Cities of Gold - (2010) - novella by David Moles
• Again and Again and Again - (2010) - shortstory by Rachel Swirsky
• Elegy for a Young Elk - (2010) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• Libertarian Russia - (2010) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Night Train - (2010) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• My Father's Singularity - (2010) - shortstory by Brenda Cooper
• The Starship Mechanic - (2010) - shortstory by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes
• Sleepover - (2010) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• The Taste of Night - (2010) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Blind Cat Dance - (2010) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• The Shipmaker - (2010) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
• In-Fall - (2010) - shortstory by Ted Kosmatka
• Chimbwi - (2010) - shortstory by Jim Hawkins
• Dead Man's Run - (2010) - novella by Robert Reed
• Honorable Mentions: 2010 - (2011) - essay by Gardner Dozois

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 2011 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• The Choice - (2011) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
• A Soldier of the City - (2010) - novelette by David Moles
• The Beancounter's Cat - (2011) - novelette by Damien Broderick
• Dolly - (2011) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
• Martian Heart - (2011) - shortstory by John Barnes
• Earth Hour - (2011) - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• Laika's Ghost - (2010) - novelette by Karl Schroeder
• The Dala Horse - (2011) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Way It Works Out and All - (2011) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• The Ice Owl - (2011) - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• The Copenhagen Interpretation - (2011) - novelette by Paul Cornell
• The Invasion of Venus - (2010) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Digging - (2011) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• Ascension Day - (2011) - shortfiction by Alastair Reynolds
• After the Apocalypse - (2011) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• Silently and Very Fast - (2011) - novella by Catherynne M. Valente
• A Long Way Home - (2011) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• The Incredible Exploding Man - (2011) - shortfiction by Dave Hutchinson
• What We Found - (2011) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• A Response from EST17 - (2011) - novelette by Tom Purdom
• The Cold Step Beyond - (2011) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• A Militant Peace - (2011) - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell and David Klecha
• The Ants of Flanders - (2011) - novella by Robert Reed
• The Vicar of Mars - (2011) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• The Smell of Orange Groves - (2011) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• The Iron Shirts - (2011) - novelette by Michael F. Flynn
• Cody - (2011) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again - (2011) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Ghostweight - (2011) - novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• Digital Rites - (2011) - shortfiction by Jim Hawkins
• The Boneless One - (2011) - novelette by Alec Nevala-Lee
• Dying Young - (2011) - novelette by Peter M. Ball
• Canterbury Hollow - (2011) - shortstory by Chris Lawson
• The Vorkuta Event - (2011) - novelette by Ken MacLeod
• The Man Who Bridged the Mist - (2011) - novella by Kij Johnson
• Honorable Mentions: 2011 - essay by Gardner Dozois

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world through their short stories. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual compilation of the year's best science fiction stories.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 2012 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Weep for Day - (2012) - novelette by Indrapramit Das
• The Man - (2012) - shortfiction by Paul J. McAuley
• The Stars Do Not Lie - (2012) - novella by Jay Lake
• The Memcordist - (2012) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi - (2012) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Holmes Sherlock - (2012) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light - (2012) - novella by Richard A. Lovett and William Gleason
• Close Encounters - (2012) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• The Finite Canvas - (2012) - novelette by Brit Mandelo
• Steamgothic - (2012) - novelette by Sean McMullen
• In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns - (2012) - novella by Elizabeth Bear
• Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden - (2012) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• Twenty Lights to "The Land of Snow" - (2012) - novella by Michael Bishop
• Astrophilia - (2012) - novelette by Carrie Vaughn
• What Did Tessimond Tell You? - (2012) - shortstory by Adam Roberts
• Old Paint - (2012) - novelette by Megan Lindholm
• Chitai Heiki Koronbin - (2012) - shortstory by David Moles
• Katabasis - (2012) - novella by Robert Reed
• The Water Thief - (2012) - shortstory by Alastair Reynolds
• Nightside on Callisto - (2012) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
• Under the Eaves - (2012) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• Sudden, Broken, and Unexpected - (2012) - novella by Steven Popkes
• Fireborn - (2012) - shortstory by Robert Charles Wilson
• Ruminations in an Alien Tongue - (2012) - shortstory by Vandana Singh
• Tyche and the Ants - (2012) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward" - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Invisible Men - (2012) - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
• Ship's Brother - (2012) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
• Eater-of-Bone - (2012) - novella by Robert Reed
• Honorable Mentions: 2012 - essay by Gardner Dozois

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world in the year's best short stories. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

• "The Discovered Country" by Ian R. MacLeod
• "The Book Seller" by Lavie Tidhar
• "Pathways" by Nancy Kress
• "A Heap of Broken Images" by Sunny Moraine
• "Rock of Ages" by Jay Lake
• "Rosary and Goldenstar" by Geoff Ryman
• "Gray Wings" by Karl Bunker
• "The Best We Can" by Carrie Vaughn
• "Transitional Forms" by Paul McAuley
• "Precious Mental" by Robert Reed
• "Martian Blood" by Allen M. Steele
• "Zero For Conduct" by Greg Egan
• "The Waiting Stars" by Aliette de Bodard
• "A Map of Mercury" by Alastair Reynolds
• "One" by Nancy Kress
• "Murder on the Aldrin Express" by Martin L. Shoemaker
• "Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince" by Jake Kerr
• "The Plague" by Ken Liu
• "Fleet" by Sandra McDonald
• "The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin" by Michael Swanwick
• "Bad Day on Boscobel" by Alexander Jablokov
• "The Irish Astronaut" by Val Nolan
• "The Other Gun" by Neal Asher
• "Only Human" by Lavie Tidhar
• "Entangled" by Ian R. MacLeod
• "Earth 1″ by Stephen Baxter
• "Technarion" by Sean McMullen
• "Finders" by Melissa Scott
• "The Queen of Night's Aria" by Ian McDonald
• "Hard Stars" by Brendan DuBois
• "The Promise of Space" by James Patrick Kelly
• "Quicken" by Damien Broderick

Table of Contents:

• The Fifth Dragon, Ian McDonald - (Reach for Infinity)
• The Rider, Jérôme Cigut - (F&SF)
• The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile, Aliette de Bodard - (Subterranean Online)
• The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini, Chaz Brenchley - (Subterranean Online)
• The Regular, Ken Liu - (Upgraded)
• The Woman from the Ocean, Karl Bunker - (Asimov's)
• Shooting the Apocalypse, Paolo Bachigalupi - (The End Is Nigh)
• Weather, Susan Palwick - (Clarkesworld)
• The Hand Is Quicker, Elizabeth Bear - (The Book of Robert Silverberg)
• The Man Who Sold the Moon, Cory Doctorow - (Hieroglyph)
• Vladimir Chong Chooses To Die, Lavie Tidhar - (Analog)
• Beside the Damned River, D.J. Cockburn - (Interzone)
• The Colonel, Peter Watts - (Tor.com)
• Entanglement, Vandana Singh - (Hieroglyph)
• White Curtain, Pavel Amnuel - (F&SF)
• Slipping, Lauren Beukes - (Twelve Tomorrows)
• Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick - (Clarkesworld)
• Amicae Aeternum, Ellen Klages - (Reach for Infinity)
• In Babelsberg, Alastair Reynolds - (Reach for Infinity)
• Sadness, Timons Esaias - (Analog)
• West to East, Jay Lake - (Subterranean Online)
• Grand Jeté - (The Great Leap), Rachel Swirsky - (Subterranean Online)
• Covenant, Elizabeth Bear - (Hieroglyph)
• Jubilee, Karl Schroeder - (Tor.com)
• Los Pirates del Mar de Plastico - (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean), Paul Graham Raven - (Twelve Tomorrows)
• Red Lights, and Rain, Gareth L. Powell - (Solaris Rising 3)
• Coma Kings, Jessica Barber - (Lightspeed)
• The Prodigal Son, Allen M. Steele - (Asimov's)
• God Decay, Rich Larson - (Upgraded)
• Blood Wedding, Robert Reed - (Asimov's)
• The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu - (Clarkesworld)
• Shadow Flock, Greg Egan - (Coming Soon Enough)
• Thing and Sick, Adam Roberts - (Solaris Rising 3)
• Communion, Mary Anne Mohanraj - (Clarkesworld)
• Someday, James Patrick Kelly - (Asimov's)
• Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress - (Tachyon)

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation of short stories has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

• "The Falls: A Luna Story," by Ian McDonald
• "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight," by Aliette de Bodard
• "Ruins," by Eleanor Arnason
• "Gypsy," by Carter Scholz
• "Emergence," by Gwyneth Jones
• "Calved," by Sam J. Miller
• "Meshed," by Rich Larson
• "Bannerless," by Carrie Vaughn
• "The Astrakhan, the Homberg, and the Red Red Coat," by Chaz Brenchley
• "Another Word for World," by Ann Leckie
• "City of Ash," by Paolo Bacigalupi
• "The Muses of Shuyedan-18," by Indrapramit Das
• "The Audience," by Sean McMullen
• "Consolation," by John Kessel
• "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan," by Ian McDonald
• "Rates of Change," by James S.A. Corey
• "The Children of Gal," by Allen M. Steele
• "Today I Am Paul," by Martin L. Shoemaker
• "Trapping the Pleistecene," by James Sarafin
• "Machine Learning," by Nancy Kress
• "Silence Like Diamonds," by John Barnes
• "Inhuman Garbage," by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Planet of Fear," by Paul McAuley
• "It Takes More Than Muscles to Frown," by Ned Beauman
• "The Daughters of John Demetrius," by Joe Pitkin
• "Hello, Hello," by Seanan McGuire
• "Capitalism in the 22nd Century," by Geoff Ryman
• "Ice," by Rich Larson
• "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill," by Kelly Robson
• "In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon," by Michael F. Flynn
• "The First Gate of Logic," by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• "Billy Tumult," by Nick Harkaway
• "No Placeholder for You, My Love," by Nick Wolven
• "The Game of Smash and Recovery," by Kelly Link
• "A Stopped Clock," by Madeline Ashby
• "Citadel of Weeping Pearls," by Aliette de Bodard

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection of 2016 works brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

• "Terminal" by Lavie Tidhar (Tor.Com, April)
• "Touring With The Alien" by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld, April)
• "Patience Lake" by Matthew Claxton (Asimov's, August)
• "Jonas And The Fox" by Rich Larson (Clarkesworld, May)
• "Prodigal" by Gord Sellar (Analog, December)
• "Kit: Some Assembly Required" by Kathe Koja & Carter Scholz (Asimov's, August)
• "Vortex" by Gregory Benford (Fantasy & Science Fiction, January-February)
• "Elves Of Antarctica" by Paul McAuley (Drowned Worlds)
• "The Baby Eaters" by Ian Mchugh (Asimov's, January)
• "A Salvaging Of Ghosts" by Aliette De Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March)
• "Those Shadows Laugh" by Geoff Ryman (Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October)
• "Redking" by Craig DeLancey (Lightspeed, March)
• "Things With Beards" by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld, June)
• "Fieldwork" by Shariann Lewit (To Shape The Dark)
• "The Further Adventures Of Mr. Costello" by David Gerrold (Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October)
• "Innumerable Glimmering Lights" by Rich Larson (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
• "Fifty Shades Of Grays" by Steven Barnes (Lightspeed POC Destroy SF, June)
• "Sixteen Questions For Kamala Chatterjee" by Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)
• "Cold Comfort" by Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty (Bridging Infinity)
• "The Art Of Space Travel" by Nina Allan (Tor.Com, July)
• "Flight From The Ages" by Derek Künsken (Asimov's, April-May)
• "My Generations Will Praise" by Samantha Henderson (Interzone, November)
• "Mars Abides" by Stephen Baxter (Obelisk)
• "The Visitor From Taured" by Ian R. Macleod (Asimov's, September)
• "When The Stone Eagle Flies" by Bill Johnson (Analog, June)
• "The Vanishing Kind" by Lavie Tidhar (Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August)
• "One Sister, Two Sisters, Three" by James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld, October)
• "Dispatches From The Cradle: The Hermit -- Forty-Eight Hours In The Sea Of Massachusetts" by Ken Liu (Drowned Worlds)
• "Checkerboard Planet" by Eleanor Arnason (Clarkesworld, December)
• "They Have All One Breath" by Karl Bunker (Asimov's, December)
• "Mika Model" by Paolo Bacigalupi (Slate, April)
• "That Game We Played During The War" by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.Com, March)
• "Because Change Was The Ocean And We Lived By Her Mercy" by Charlie Jane Anders (Drowned Worlds)
• "The One Who Isn't" by Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed, July)
• "Those Brighter Stars" by Mercurio D. Rivera (Lightspeed, August)
• "A Tower For The Coming World" by Maggie Clark (Clarkesworld, December)
• "Firstborn, Lastborn" by Melissa Scott (To Shape The Dark)
• "Women's Christmas" by Ian Mcdonald (Now We Are Ten)
• "The Iron Tactician" by Alastair Reynolds (Newcon Press)

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: 2017 - essay by Gardner Dozois
• The Moon Is Not a Battlefield - (2017) - novelette by Indrapramit Das
• My English Name - (2017) - novelette by R. S. Benedict
• An Evening with Severyn Grimes - (2017) - short story by Rich Larson
• Vanguard 2.0 - (2017) - short story by Carter Scholz
• Starlight Express - (2017) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• The Martian Obelisk - (2017) - short story by Linda Nagata
• We Who Live in the Heart - (2017) - novelette by Kelly Robson
• Winter Timeshare - (2017) - short story by Ray Nayler
• Dear Sarah - (2017) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Night Passage - (2017) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun - (2017) - short story by Aliette de Bodard
• Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty's Place Cafe - (2017) - short story by Naomi Kritzer
• The Hunger After You're Fed - (2017) - short story by James S. A. Corey
• Assassins - (2017) - short story by Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier
• The Martian Job - (2017) - novella by Jaine Fenn
• The Road to the Sea - (2017) - short story by Lavie Tidhar
• Uncanny Valley - (2017) - novelette by Greg Egan
• The Worldless - (2017) - short story by Indrapramit Das
• Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics - (2017) - novelette by Jess Barber and Sara Saab
• Zigeuner - (2017) - short story by Harry Turtledove
• The Proving Ground - (2017) - novella by Alec Nevala-Lee
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance - (2017) - short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• The Influence Machine - (2017) - novelette by Sean McMullen
• Canoe - (2017) - short story by Nancy Kress
• The History of the Invasion Told in Five Dogs - (2017) - short story by Kelly Jennings
• Prime Meridian - (2017) - novella by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Triceratops - (2017) - short story by Ian McHugh
• Mines - (2017) - short story by Eleanor Arnason
• There Used to Be Olive Trees - (2017) - novelette by Rich Larson
• Whending My Way Back Home - (2017) - novelette by Bill Johnson
• Death on Mars - (2017) - novelette by Madeline Ashby
• Elephant on Table - (2017) - short story by Bruce Sterling
• Number Thirty-Nine Skink - (2017) - short story by Suzanne Palmer
• A Series of Steaks - (2017) - novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon - (2017) - short story by Finbarr O'Reilly
• The Residue of Fire - (2017) - short story by Robert Reed
• Sidewalks - (2017) - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• Nexus - (2017) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
• Honorable Mentions: 2017 - essay by Gardner Dozois

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)

Award-winning anthologists Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielsen Hayden have combed through a year's worth of books and magazines and websites to find the most outstanding fantasy and science fiction stories of 2004--and collected them into a single volume aimed specifically at teens and young adults.

Many of today's most popular authors are represented here, including:
* Garth Nix, author of Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, who presents an unforgettable tale of two swords, two daughters, and two endings....
* S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of Time, sends a likeable young barbarian across the Channel to Alba, for a confrontation with a wizard from faraway Nantucket that will change his life forever...
* David Gerrold, creator of "The Trouble with Tribbles," who takes you to a remote countryside surrounded by a mysterious darkness, whose secret has yet to be revealed...

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Jane Yolen
• Blood Wolf - (2004) - novelette by S. M. Stirling
• The Faery Handbag - (2004) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Sleeping Dragons - (2004) - shortstory by Lynette Aspey
• Endings - (2004) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• Dancer in the Dark - (2004) - novelette by David Gerrold
• A Piece of Flesh - (2004) - novelette by Adam Stemple
• CATNYP - (2004) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• "They" - (1904) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Wings of Meister Wilhelm - (2004) - novelette by Theodora Goss
• Displaced Persons - (2004) - shortstory by Leah Bobet
• Sergeant Chip - (2004) - novella by Bradley Denton
• Honor Roll 2004: The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens - essay by uncredited