The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 Edition
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“Three Bodies at Mitanni”, Seth Dickinson (Analog, 6/15)
“The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s, 12/15)
“The New Mother”, E. J. Fischer (Asimov’s, 3-4/15)
“In Panic Town on the the Backward Moon”, Michael F. Flynn, (Mission: Tomorrow)
“And All Are Donkeys were in Vain”, Tom Gerencer (Galaxy’s Edge, 5/15)
“Entanglements”, David Gerrold (F&SF, 5-6/15)
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (Open Road/PS Publishing)
“Let Baser Things Devise”, Berrien C. Henderson (Clarkesword, 5/15)
“Egg Island”, Karen Heuler (Clarkesworld, 10/15)
“Jamaica Ginger”, Nalo Hopkinson & Nisi Shawl (Stories for Chip)
“History’s Best Places to Kiss”, Nik Houser (F&SF, 1-2/15)
“If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler”, Xia Jia (Clarkesworld, 11/15)
“An Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary”, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 1/15)
“Emergence”, Gwyneth Jones (Meeting Infinity)
“Here is My Thinking on a Situation That Affects Us All”, Rahul Kanakia (Lightspeed, 11/15)
“A Residence for Friendless Ladies”, Alice Sola Kim (F&SF, 3-4/15)
“An Evolutionary Myth”, Bo-Young Kim (Clarkesworld, 5/15)
“Midnight Hour”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny, 7-8/15)
“Ghost Pictures”, Derek Künsken (Asimov’s, 2/15)
“Pollen from a Future Harvest”, Derek Künsken (Asimov’s, 07/15)
“An Exile of the Heart”, Jay Lake, (Clarkesworld, 1/15)
“Prototype”, Sarah Langan (The End Has Come)
“Ice”, Rich Larson (Clarkesworld, 10/15)
“Another Word for World”, Ann Leckie (Future Visions)
“Court Bindings”, Karalynn Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 6/25/15)
“Variations on an Apple”, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com, 10/15)
“Werewolf Loves Mermaid”, Heather Lindsley (Lightspeed, 9/15)
“Points of Origin”, Marissa Lingen, (Tor.com, 11/15)
“Blue Ribbon”, Marissa Lingen (Analog, 3/15)
“Frost on Glass”, Ian R. Macleod (Frost on Glass)
“We Never Sleep”, Nick Mamatas, (The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk)
“Jellyfish Dreaming”, D. K. McCutchen (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 7/15)
“The Falls: A Luna Story”, Ian McDonald (Meeting Infinity)
“The Adjunct Professor’s Guide to Life After Death”, Sandra McDonald (Asimov’s, 10-11/15)
“Fiber”, Seanan McGuire, (Tor.com, 12/15)
“A Thousand Nights Till Morning”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s, 8/15)
“The Ninth Seduction”, Sean McMullen, (Lightspeed, 9/15)
“Alloy Point”, Sam J. Miller, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 12/25/14)
“Ghosts of Home”, Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed, 8/15)
“Union”, Tamsyn Muir, (Clarkesworld, 12/15)
“No Rez”, Jeff Noon (Interzone, 9-10/15)
“Outsider”, An Owomoyela (Meeting Infinity)
“The Snake-Oil Salesman and the Prophet’s Head”, Shannon Peavey (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 4/30/15)
“The Punctuality Machine; or, A Steampunk Libretto”, Bill Powell (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 5/14/15)
“Ether”, Zhang Ran (Clarkesworld, 1/15)
“The City of Your Soul”, Robert Reed (F&SF, 11-12/15)
“The Empress in her Glory”, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld, 4/15)
Sunset Mantle, Alter S. Reiss (Tor)
“A Murmuration”, Alastair Reynolds (Interzone, 3-4/15)
Slow Bullets, Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon)
“Murder Goes Hungry”, Margaret Ronald (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 9/17/15)
“Auburn”, Joanna Ruocco (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 6/15)
“The Old Man in the Kitchen”, Patricia Russo (The Dark, 8/15)
“Trapping the Pleistocene”, James Sarafin (F&SF, 5-6/15)
“Of Golden Birds and Caged Dreams”, Ken Scholes (Blue Yonders, Grateful Pies & Other Fanciful Feasts)
“Gypsy”, Carter Scholz (Gypsy)
“The Exile of the Eldest Son of the Family Ysanne”, Kendra Leigh Spedding (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 8/6/15)
“Trickier With Each Translation”, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Lightspeed, 6/15)
“The Pyramid of Krakow”, Michael Swanwick (Tor.com, 09/30/15)
“Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters, H’ard and Andy are Come to Town”, Michael Swanwick and Gregory Frost (Asimov’s, 4-5/15)
“Tea Time”, Rachel Swirsky (Lightspeed, 12/15)
“The Boatman’s Cure”, Sonya Taaffe (Ghost Signs)
“Acrobatic Duality”, Tamara Valdomskaya, (Tor.com, 2/15)
“The Lily and the Horn”, Catherynne M. Valente (Fantasy, 12/15)
“On the Road with the American Dead”, James Van Pelt (Black Static, 7-8/15)
“Bannerless”, Carrie Vaughn (The End Has Come)
“Sinseerly a Friend & Yr. Obed’t”, Thomas M. Waldroon (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 4/16/15)
“Builders of Leaf Houses”, Catherine Wells (Analog, 12/15)
“The Beast Unknown to Heraldry”, Henry Wessells (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 6/15)
“Walking to Boston”, Rick Wilber (Asimov’s Oct/Nov)
“Kaiju Maximus®: ‘So Various, so Beautiful, so New’ ”, Kai Ashante Wilson, (Fantasy, 12/15)
“On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers”, Nick Wolven (Asimov’s, 2/15)
“No Placeholder for You”, My Love”, Nick Wolven (Asimov’s, 8/15)
“Incubator”, Gene Wolfe (Onward, Drake!)
“Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 11/15)
“Seven Wonders of the Once and Future World”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, 9/15)
“Partible”, K. J. Zimring (Analog, 4/15)
Publication History
“Mutability” by Ray Nayler. © by Ray Nayler. Originally published in Asimov’s, June 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander. © by Brooke Bolander. Originally published in Lightspeed, February 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer. © by Naomi Kritzer. Originally published in Clarkesworld, January 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Capitalism in the 22nd Century, or Air” by Geoff Ryman. © by Geoff Ryman. Originally published in Stories for Chip. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild” by Catherynne M. Valente. © by Catherynne M. Valente. Originally published in Clarkesworld, January 2015, February 2015, March 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“My Last Bringback” by John Barnes. © by John Barnes. Originally published in Meeting Infinity. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Please Undo This Hurt” by Seth Dickinson. © by Seth Dickinson. Originally published in Tor.com, 15 September 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Time Bomb Time” by C.C. Finlay. © by C.C. Finlay. Originally published in Lightspeed, May 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Graphology of Hemorrhage” by Yoon Ha Lee. © by Yoon Ha Lee. Originally published in Operation Arcana. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Game of Smash and Recovery” by Kelly Link. © by Kelly Link. Originally published in Strange Horizons, 17 October 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Acres of Perhaps” by Will Ludwigsen. © by Will Ludwigsen. Originally published in Asimov’s, July 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Little Sisters” by Vonda N. McIntyre. © by Vonda N. McIntyre. Originally published in Book View Cafe. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang. © by Hao Jingfang. Originally published in Uncanny, January/February 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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nbsp; “Today I Am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker. © by Martin L. Shoemaker. Originally published in Clarkesworld, August 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The King in the Cathedral” by Rich Larson. © by Rich Larson. Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 5 February 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Drones” by Simon Ings. © by Simon Ings. Originally published in Meeting Infinity. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club” by Nike Sulway. © by Nike Sulway. Originally published in Lightspeed, October 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Endless Forms Most Beautiful” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. © by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. Originally published in Analog, September 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“This Evening’s Performance” by Genevieve Valentine. © by Genevieve Valentine. Originally published in The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Consolation” by John Kessel. © by John Kessel. Originally published in Twelve Tomorrows. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Heart’s Filthy Lesson” by Elizabeth Bear. © by Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in Old Venus. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Daughters of John Demetrius” by Joe Pitkin. © by Joe Pitkin. Originally published in Analog, October 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Unearthly Landscape by a Lady” by Rebecca Campbell. © by Rebecca Campbell. Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 15 October 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red, Red Coal” by Chaz Brenchley. © by Chaz Brenchley. Originally published in Lightspeed, June 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Hello, Hello” by Seanan McGuire. © by Seanan McGuire. Originally published in Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft. It should be noted that the story is being reprinted by permission of Microsoft in addition to the author.
“Twelve and Tag” by Gregory Norman Bossert. © by Gregory Norman Bossert. Originally published in Asimov’s, March 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Deepwater Bride” by Tamysn Muir. © by Tamysn Muir. Originally published in F&SF, July-August 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Idea Countness Rathagan” by Ian McDonald. © by Ian McDonald. Originally published in Old Venus. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Asymptotic” by Andy Dudak. © by Andy Dudak. Originally published in Clarkesworld, June 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Two Paupers” by C.S.E. Cooney. © by C.S.E. Cooney. Originally published by Fairchild Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
About the Editor
Rich Horton is an associate technical fellow in software for a major aerospace corporation and the reprint editor for the Hugo Award-winning semiprozine Lightspeed. He is also a columnist for Locus and for Black Gate. He edits a series of best of the year anthologies for Prime Books, and also for Prime Books he has co-edited Robots: The Recent A.I. and War & Space: Recent Combat.