The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven
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“Kit: Some Assembly Required”, Kathe Koja & Carter Scholtz (Asimov’s, 8/16)
“The One Who Isn’t”, Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed, 07/16)
“Postcards from Natalie”, Carrie Laben (The Dark, 7/16)
“The Finest, Fullest Flowering”, Marc Laidlaw (Nightmare 45)
“Masked”, Rich Larson (Asimov’s, 7/16)
“Sparks Fly”, Rich Larson (Lightspeed, 03/16)
“The Ballad of Black Tom”, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
“Shadows Weave”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 05/25/16)
“Discards”, David D. Levine (Tor.com, 3/30/16)
“Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts”, Ken Liu (Drowned Worlds)
“The Snow Train”, Ken Liu (Genius Loci)
“Ozymandias”, Karin Lowachee (Bridging Infinity)
“My Body, Herself”, Carmen Maria Machado (Uncanny 9-10/16)
“In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro”, Usman T. Malik (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu)
“The Wreck at Goat’s Head”, Alexandra Manglis (Strange Horizons 11/16)
“Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was”, Paul McAuley ( Tor.com, 07/20)
“Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands”, Seanan McGuire (Uncanny 10, 5-6/16)
“This Census-taker”, China Mieville (Del Rey)
“Last Gods”, Sam J. Miller (Drowned Worlds)
“Only Ten Shopping Days Left Until Ragnarok”, James Morrow (Drowned Worlds)
“Cold Comfort”, Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty (Bridging Infinity)
“Pair of Ugly Sisters, Three of a Kind”, Garth Nix (The Grim Future)
“With Her Diamond Teeth”, Pear Nuallak (The Dark, 11/16)
“Afrofuturist 419”, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 122, 11/16)
“The Charge and the Storm”, An Owomoyela (Asimov’s, 6/16)
“Unauthorized Access”, An Owomoyela (Lightspeed, 09/16)
“Between Dragons and Their Wrath”, An Owomoyela & Rachel Swirsky (Clarkesworld 113, 2/16)
“Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s, 8/16)
“Ash”, Susan Palwick (F&SF, 05-06/16)
“Blind Spot”, Paul Park (Conjunctions 69: Other Aliens)
“The Devil You Know”, K.J. Parker (Tor.com Publishing)
“Told by an Idiot”, K.J. Parker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 02/04/16)
“Spells Are Easy If You Have the Right Psychic Energy”, Dominica Phettaplace (F&SF, 07-08/16)
“Project Symmetry”, Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov’s, 6/16)
“Project Empathy”, Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov’s, 3/16)
“Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, 02/16)
“Under One Roof”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny)
“Left Behind”, Cat Rambo (Clarkesworld)
“Parables of Infinity”, Robert Reed (Bridging Infinity)
“Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee”, Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)
“The Iron Tactician”, Alastair Reynolds (Newcon Press)
“Between Nine and Eleven”, Adam Roberts (Crises and Conflicts)
“And Then, One Day, the Air Was Full of Voices”, Margaret Ronald (Clarkesworld 117, 6/16)
“The Bog Girl”, Karen Russell ( The New Yorker, 06/20/16)
“The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle”, Sofia Samatar (The Starlit Wood)
“Prodigal”, Gord Sellar (Analog, 12/16)
“Inheritance, or the Ruby Tear”, Priya Sharma (Black Static 53)
“Vulcanization”, Nisi Shawl (Nightmare Magazine, 1/16)
“The Best Story I Can Manage Under the Circumstances”, Robert Shearman (Five Stories High)
“Finnegan’s Field”, Angela Slatter (Tor.com, Jan-16)
“Under She Who Devours Suns”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 07/21/16)
“Sgt. Augmento”, Bruce Sterling (Terraform, 8/17/16)
“The Process Is a Process All Its Own”, Peter Straub (Conjunctions 69: Other Aliens)
“Front Row Seat to the End of the World”, E.J Swift (Now We Are Ten)
“Drowned”, Lavie Tidhar (Drowned Worlds)
“The Vanishing Kind”, Lavie Tidhar (F&SF, 07-08/16)
“Snow Day”, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 11, 7-8/16)
“The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek; or, The Luminescence of Debauchery”, Catherynne M. Valente (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 05/25/16)
“Familiaris”, Genevieve Valentine (The Starlit Wood)
“That Game We Played During the War”, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com, 03/16)
“The Mind Is Its Own Place”, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s, 9/16)
“Dragon Brides”, Nghi Vo (Lightspeed, 04/16)
“Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left”, Fran Wilde (Shimmer 09/16)
“A Taste of Honey”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)
“The Metal Demimonde”, Nick Wolven (Analog, 6/16)
“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong (Tor. com, 03/02/16)
“Secondhand Bodies”, J Y Yang (Lightspeed, 01/16)
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Selection and “Introduction” by Jonathan Strahan. Copyright © 2017 by Jonathan Strahan.
“Two’s Company” by Joe Abercrombie. © Copyright 2016 Joe Abercrombie. Originally published in Sharp Ends (Gollancz). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan. © Copyright 2016 Nina Allan. Originally published in Tor.com, 27 July 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Mika Model” by Paolo Bacigalupi. © Copyright 2016 Windup Stories Inc. Originally published in Slate, 26 April 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard. © Copyright 2016 Aliette de Bodard. Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 3 January 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Laws of Night and Silk” by Seth Dickinson. © Copyright 2016 Seth Dickinson. Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 26 May 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar. © Copyright 2016 Amal El-Mohtar. Originally published in The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Saga). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman. © Copyright 2016 Carolyn Ives Gilman. Originally published in Clarkesworld 115, April 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Red as Blood and White as Bone” by Theodora Goss. © Copyright 2016 Theodora Goss. Originally published in Tor.com, 4 May 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Even the Crumbs Were Delicious” by Daryl Gregory. © Copyright 2016 Daryl Gregory. Originally published in The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Saga). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Number Nine Moon” by Alex Irvine. © Copyright 2016 Alex Irvine. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Red Dirt Witch” by N.K. Jemisin. © Copyright 2016 N.K. Jemisin. Originally published in Fantasy 60, December 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan. © Copyright 2016 Caitlín R. Kiernan. Originally published in Sirenia Digest 125, July 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Successor, Usurper, Replacement” by Alice Sola Kim. © Copyright 2016 Alice Sola Kim. Originally published in BuzzFeed, 26 October 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“You Make Pattaya” by Rich Larson. © Copyright 2016 Rich Larson. Originally published in Interzone 267, November-December 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Foxfire, Foxfire” by Yoon Ha Lee. © Copyright 2016 Yoon Ha Lee. Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 3 March 2016. Reprinted by k
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“Seven Birthdays” by Ken Liu. © Copyright 2016 Ken Liu. Originally published in Bridging Infinity (Solaris). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“The Visitor from Taured” by Ian R. MacLeod. © Copyright 2016 Ian R. MacLeod. Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Elves of Antarctica” by Paul McAuley. © Copyright 2016 Paul McAuley. Originally published in Drowned Worlds (Solaris). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller. © Copyright 2016 Sam J. Miller. Originally published in Clarkesworld 117, June 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Spinning Silver” by Naomi Novik. © Copyright 2016 Temeraire LLC. Originally published in The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Saga). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Those Shadows Laugh” by Geoff Ryman. © Copyright 2016 Geoff Ryman. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“The Great Detective” by Delia Sherman. © Copyright 2016 Delia Sherman. Originally published in Tor.com, 17 February 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar. © Copyright 2016 Lavie Tidhar. Originally published in Tor.com, 13 April 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“The Future is Blue” by Catherynne M. Valente. © Copyright 2016 Catherynne M. Valente. Originally published in Drowned Worlds (Solaris). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home” by Genevieve Valentine. © Copyright 2016 Genevieve Valentine. Originally published in Clarkesworld 121, October 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong. © Copyright 2016 Alyssa Wong. Originally published in Uncanny 10, May-June 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Fable” by Charles Yu. © Copyright 2016 Charles Yu. Originally published in The New Yorker, 30 May 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight” by E. Lily Yu. © Copyright 2016 E. Lily Yu. Originally published in Uncanny 12, September-October 2016. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
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