The Year's Best Science Fiction--Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection

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by Gardner Dozois


  Kai Ashante Wilson, “A Taste of Honey,” Tor.com.

  A. C. Wise, “A Guide to Birds (After Death),” Clockwork Phoenix 5.

  ______, “How Objects Behave on the Edge of a Black Hole,” Strangers Among Us.

  ______, “Seven Cups of Coffee,” Clarkesworld, March.

  Nick Wolven, “Caspar D. Lukinbill, What Are You Going to Do?” F&SF, January/February.

  ______, “In the Midst of Life,” Clarkesworld, Febraury.

  ______, “The Metal Deminonde,” Analog, July/August.

  ______, “Passion Summer,” Asimov’s, February.

  Peter Wood, “Academic Circles,” Asimov’s, September.

  Alyssa Wong, “Natural Skin,” Lightspeed, November.

  ______, “You’ll Surely Drown If You Stay Here,” Uncanny 10.

  Frank Wu, “In the Absense of Instructions,” Analog, November.

  J. V. Yang, “Secondhand Bodies,” Lightspeed, January.

  E. Lily Yu, “The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight,” Uncanny 12.

  Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, “e^h,” Humanity 2.0.

  ______, “Prayers to the Sun by a Dying Person,” This Way to the End Times.

  ______, “Wyslomg,” Cyber World.

  ALSO BY GARDNER DOZOIS

  ANTHOLOGIES

  A DAY IN THE LIFE

  ANOTHER WORLD

  BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR #6–10

  THE BEST OF ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE

  TIME-TRAVELERS FROM ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE

  TRANSCENDENTAL TALES FROM ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S ALIENS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S MARS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S SF LITE

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S WAR

  ROADS NOT TAKEN (with Stanley Schmidt)

  THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #1–32

  FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (with Mike Resnick)

  FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER SOUTH AMERICAN SKIES (with Mike Resnick)

  RIPPER! (with Susan Casper)

  MODERN CLASSIC SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION

  MODERN CLASSICS OF FANTASY

  KILLING ME SOFTLY

  DYING FOR IT

  THE GOOD OLD STUFF

  THE GOOD NEW STUFF

  EXPLORERS

  THE FURTHEST HORIZON

  WORLDMAKERS

  SUPERMEN

  COEDITED WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S PLANET EARTH

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S ROBOTS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S VALENTINES

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S SKIN DEEP

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S GHOSTS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S VAMPIRES

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S MOONS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S CHRISTMAS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S CAMELOT

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S WEREWOLVES

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S SOLAR SYSTEM

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S DETECTIVES

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S CYBERDREAMS

  COEDITED WITH JACK DANN

  ALIENS!

  UNICORNS!

  MAGICATS!

  MAGICATS 2!

  BESTIARY!

  MERMAIDS!

  SORCERERS!

  DEMONS!

  DOGTALES!

  SEASERPENTS!

  DINOSAURS!

  LITTLE PEOPLE!

  DRAGONS!

  HORSES!

  UNICORNS 2

  INVADERS!

  ANGELS!

  DINOSAURS II

  HACKERS

  TIMEGATES

  CLONES

  NANOTECH

  IMMORTALS

  FICTION

  STRANGERS

  THE VISIBLE MAN (COLLECTION)

  NIGHTMARE BLUE (with George Alec Effinger)

  SLOW DANCING THROUGH TIME (with Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Susan Casper, and Jack C. Haldeman II)

  THE PEACEMAKER

  GEODESIC DREAMS (collection)

  NONFICTION

  THE FICTION OF JAMES TIPTREE,JR.

  About the Editor

  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. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  TITLE PAGE

  COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  DEDICATION

  PERMISSIONS

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  SUMMATION: 2016

  TERMINAL • Lavie Tidhar

  TOURING WITH THE ALIEN • Carolyn Ives Gilman

  PATIENCE LAKE • Matthew Claxton

  JONAS AND THE FOX • Rich Larson

  PRODIGAL • Gord Sellar

  KIT: SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED • Kathe Koja & Carter Scholz

  VORTEX • Gregory Benford

  ELVES OF ANTARCTICA • Paul McAuley

  THE BABY EATERS • Ian McHugh

  A SALVAGING OF GHOSTS • Aliette de Bodard

  THESE SHADOWS LAUGH • Geoff Ryman

  REDKING • Craig DeLancey

  THINGS WITH BEARDS • Sam J. Miller

  FIELDWORK • Shariann Lewitt

  THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MR. COSTELLO • David Gerrold

  INNUMERABLE GLIMMERING LIGHTS • Rich Larson

  FIFTY SHADES OF GRAYS • Steven Barnes

  SIXTEEN QUESTIONS FOR KAMALA CHATTERJEE • Alastair Reynolds

  COLD COMFORT • Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty

  THE ART OF SPACE TRAVEL • Nina Allan

  FLIGHT FROM THE AGES • Derek Kȕsken

  MY GENERATIONS SHALL PRAISE • Samantha Henderson

  MARS ABIDES • Stephen Baxter

  THE VISITOR FROM TAURED • Ian R. MacLeod

  WHEN THE STONE EAGLE FLIES • Bill Johnson

  THE VANISHING KIND • Lavie Tidhar

  ONE SISTER, TWO SISTERS, THREE • James Patrick Kelly

  DISPATCHES FROM THE CRADLE: THE HERMIT—FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN THE SEA OF MASSACHUSETTS • Ken Liu

  CHECKERBOARD PLANET • Eleanor Arnason

  THEY HAVE ALL ONE BREATH • Karl Bunker

  MIKA MODEL • Paolo Bacigalupi

  THAT GAME WE PLAYED DURING THE WAR • Carrie Vaughn

  BECAUSE CHANGE WAS THE OCEAN AND WE LIVED BY HER MERCY • Charlie Jane Anders

  THE ONE WHO ISN’T • Ted Kosmatka

  THOSE BRIGHTER STARS • Mercurio D. Rivera

  A TOWER FOR THE COMING WORLD • Maggie Clark

  FIRSTBORN, LASTBORN • Melissa Scott

  WOMEN’S CHRISTMAS • Ian McDonald

  THE IRON TACTICIAN • Alastair Reynolds

  HONORABLE MENTIONS: 2016

  ALSO BY GARDNER DOZOIS

  ABOUT THE EDITOR

  COPYRIGHT

  These short stories are works of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.

  THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL COLLECTION. Copyright © 2017 by Gardner Dozois. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover illustration by James Burns

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  ISBN 978-1-250-11923-0 (hardcover)

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