The Best Science Fiction of the YearNeil Clarke From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single paperback volume. Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more―a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year’s writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome “sensawunda” that the genre has to offer. |
Contents
All the Time Weve Left to SpendAlyssa Wong | |
Domestic ViolenceMadeline Ashby | |
Ten Landscapes of Nili FossaeIan McDonald | |
Traces of UsVanessa Fogg | |
Theories of FlightLinda Nagata | |
The Buried GiantLavie Tidhar | |
The Anchorite WakesR S A Garcia | |
Entropy WarYoon Ha | |
Quantifying TrustJohn | |
Hard MarySofia Samatar | |
Freezing Rain a Chance of FallingL X Beckett | |
Okay GloryElizabeth Bear | |
Heavy LiftingA T Greenblatt | |
Lab Bx201315Nick Wolven | |
Sour Milk GirlsErin Roberts | |
Mother TonguesS Qiouyi | |
Nine Last Days on Planet EarthDaryl Gregory | |
Lions and GazellesHannu Rajaniemi | |
Different SeasAlastair Reynolds | |
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