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The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6 , Allan Kaster ed.
- “Little Animals” by Nancy Kress
- “Submergence” by Arula Ratnakar
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, Rebecca Roanhorse ed.
- “The Cold Calculations” by Aimee Ogden
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six, Neil Clarke ed.
- “An Important Failure” by Rebecca Campbell
- “AirBody” by Sameem Siddiqui
- “Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City” by Arula Ratnakar
- “The Translator, at Low Tide” by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 2, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “An Important Failure” by Rebecca Campbell
- “AirBody” by Sameem Siddiqui
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “An Important Failure” by Rebecca Campbell
- “Songs of Activation” by Andy Dudak
The Best of British Science Fiction: 2020, Donna Scott ed.
- “The Lori” by Fiona Moore
- “Blue And Blue And Blue And Pink” by Lavie Tidhar
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol. 2, Paula Guran ed.
- “Monster” by Naomi Kritzer
- “To Sail the Black” by A.C. Wise
The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 , Allan Kaster ed.
- “You and Whose Army?” by Greg Egan
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, Veronica Roth ed.
- “One Time, a Reluctant Traveler” by A. T. Greenblatt
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five, Neil Clarke ed.
- “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt
- “The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer
- “Such Thoughts Are Unproductive” by Rebecca Campbell
- “Song Xiuyun” by A Que, translated by Emily Jin
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2020 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “Cloud Born” by Gregory Feeley
- “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt
- “The Visible Frontier” by Grace Seybold
- “Tick Tock” by Xia Jia
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer
The Best of British Science Fiction: 2019, Donna Scott ed.
- “The Final Ascent” by Ian Creasey
- “Witch of the Weave” by Henry Szabranski
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One, Paula Guran ed.
- “Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart” by Sam J. Miller
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four, Neil Clarke ed.
- “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller
- “Umbernight” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
- “Sour Milk Girls” by Erin Roberts
- “The Anchorite Wakes” by R.S.A. Garcia
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2019 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “Carouseling” by Rich Larson
- “The Persistence of Blood” by Juliette Wade
- “Umbernight” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller
The Best of British Science Fiction: 2018, Donna Scott ed.
- “The Miracle Lambs of Minane” by Finbarr O’Reilly
- “The Veilonaut’s Dream” by Henry Szabranski
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019, Paula Guran ed.
- “Sour Milk Girls” by Erin Roberts
The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 5, David Afsharirad ed.
- “Thirty-three Percent Joe” by Suzanne Palmer
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “Pan Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics” by Jessica Barber and Sara Saab
- “Waiting out the end of the World in Patty’s Place Café” by Naomi Kritzer
- “The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon” by Finbarr O’Reilly
- “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
- “We Who Live in the Heart” by Kelly Robson
- “Assassins” by Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three, Neil Clarke ed.
- “The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon” by Finbarr O’Reilly
- “The Secret Life of Bots” by Suzanne Palmer
- “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
- “We Who Live in the Heart” by Kelly Robson
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “The Significance of Significance” by Robert Reed
- “The Secret Life of Bots” by Suzanne Palmer
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “The Secret Life of Bots” by Suzanne Palmer
- “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prased
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin ed.
- “Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities” by Lettie Prell
The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 4, David Afsharirad ed.
- “The Ghost Ship Anastasia” by Rich Larson
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
- “Jonas and the Fox” by Rich Larson
- “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller
- “One Sister, Two Sisters, Three” by James Patrick Kelly
- “Checkerboard Planet” by Eleanor Arnason
- “A Tower for the Coming World” by Maggie Clark
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two, Neil Clarke ed.
- “Extraction Request” by Rich Larson
- “And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices” by Margaret Ronald
- “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller
- “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “The Bridge of Dreams” by Gregory Feeley
- “Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home” by Genevieve Valentine
- “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
- “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller
- “Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home” by Genevieve Valentine
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, Charles Yu ed.
- “Teenagers from Outer Space” by Dale Bailey
- “Everyone From Themis Sends Letters Home” by Genevieve Valentine
The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 3, David Afsharirad ed.
- “Sephine and the Leviathan” by Jack Schouten
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight” by Aliette de Bodard
- “Ice” by Rich Larson
- “Meshed” by Rich Larson
- “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson
- “Today I am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One, Neil Clarke ed.
- “Meshed” by Rich Larson
- “Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer
- “So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer
- “Today I am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild” by Catherynne M. Valente
- “Asymptotic” by Andy Dudak
- “Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer
- “Today I am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “The Empress in Her Glory” by Robert Reed
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition, Paula Guran ed.
- “Cassandra” by Ken Liu
- “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson
The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 2015, David Afsharirad ed.
- “Morrigan in Shadow” by Seth Dickinson
- “For the Love of Sylvia City” by Andrea M. Pawley
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Karen Joy Fowler ed.
- “The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary” by Kij Johnson
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009” by Ken Liu
- “Communion” by Mary Anne Mohanraj
- “Weather” by Susan Palwick
- “Passage of Earth” by Michael Swanwick
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine, Jonathan Strahan ed.
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “The Magician and Laplace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill
- “Wine” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009” by Ken Liu
- “Pernicious Romance” by Robert Reed
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition, Paula Guran ed.
- “Water in Springtime” by Kali Wallace
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, Joe Hill ed.
- “Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable” by Cat Rambo
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “The Promise of Space” by James Patrick Kelly
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The Promise of Space” by James Patrick Kelly
- “Mystic Falls” by Robert Reed
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2014 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “Soulcatcher” by James Patrick Kelly
- “Found” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition, Paula Guran ed.
- “The Creature Recants” by Dale Bailey
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “Astrophilia” by Carrie Vaughn
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard
- “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
- “Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente
- “A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones” by Genevieve Valentine
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2013 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard
- “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia
- “Prayer” by Robert Reed
- “Honey Bear” by Sofia Samatar
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition, Paula Guran ed.
- “England Under the White Witch” by Theodora Goss
- “Everything Must Go” by Brooke Wonders
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five, Ellen Datlow ed.
- “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “A Militant Peace” by David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell
- “Ghostweight” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The Smell Of Orange Groves” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Silently and Very Fast” (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio: Part I, Part II, Part III)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 6 , Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)” by Nnedi Okorafor
- “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “Ghostweight” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The Smell Of Orange Groves” by Lavie Tidhar
- “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 Edition, Paula Guran ed.
- “Conservation of Shadows” by Yoon Ha Lee
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “The Architect of Heaven” by Jason Chapman
- “Tying Knots” by Ken Liu
- “Staying Behind” by Ken Liu
- “The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from the Great Book)” by Nnedi Okorafor
- “Frozen Voice” by An Owomoyela
- “Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know” by Cat Rambo
- “Pack” by Robert Reed
- “Troix Morceaux En Forme de Mechanika” by Gord Sellar
- “Semiramis” by Genevieve Valentine
- “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “The Things” by Peter Watts
- “My Father’s Singularity” by Brenda Cooper
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “The Things” by Peter Watts
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “The Things” by Peter Watts
Year’s Best SF 16, David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer ed.
- “Futures in the Memory Market” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 Edition, Paula Guran ed.
- “The Things” by Peter Watts
The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3, Allan Kaster ed.
- “The Things” by Peter Watts
Wilde Stories 2011: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, Steve Berman ed.
- “Beach Blanket Spaceship” by Sandra McDonald
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3, Ellen Datlow ed.
- “The Things” by Peter Watts
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “Laying the Ghost” by Eric Brown
- “A Jar of Goodwill” by Tobias S. Buckell
- “Paper Cradle” by Stephen Gaskell
- “Torquing Vacuum” by Jay Lake
- “Between Two Dragons” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The Cull” by Robert Reed
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “The History Within Us” by Matthew Kressel
- “Between Two Dragons” by Yoon Ha Lee
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 4, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “Spar” by Kij Johnson
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” by Catherynne M. Valente
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2010, Paula Guran ed.
- “White Charles” by Sarah Monette
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “Celadon” by Desirina Boskovich
- “Placa del Fuego” by Tobias S. Buckell
- “Brief Candle” by Jason K. Chapman
- “Teaching Bigfoot to Read” by Geoffrey W. Cole
- “Spar” by Kij Johnson
- “White Charles” by Sarah Monette
- “Night, in Dark Perfection” by Richard Parks
- “The Mermaids Singing Each to Each” by Cat Rambo
- “Of Melei, of Ulthar” by Gord Sellar
- “The Dying World” by Lavie Tidhar
- “The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” by Catherynne M. Valente
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “Spar” by Kij Johnson
- “Rolling Steel” by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
- “White Charles” by Sarah Monette
- “The Dying World” by Lavie Tidhar
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
Unplugged: The Year’s Best Online Fiction, Rich Horton ed.
- “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica” by Catherynne M. Valente
Year’s Best Fantasy 9, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer ed.
- “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica” by Catherynne M. Valente
Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Ellen Datlow ed.
- “When the Gentlemen Go By” by Margaret Ronald
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “Teeth” by Stephen Dedman
- “After Moreau” by Jeffrey Ford
- “Clockwork Chickadee” by Mary Robinette Kowal
- “Blue Ink” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “The River Boy” by Tim Pratt
- “When the Gentlemen Go By” by Margaret Ronald
- “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antartica” by Catherynne Valente
- “Can You See Me Now?” by Eric Witchey
Unplugged: The Year’s Best Online Fiction, Rich Horton ed.
- “The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black” by Jay Lake
- “When the Gentlemen Go By” by Margaret Ronald
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2009 Edition, Rich Horton ed.
- “The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue into the Black” by Jay Lake
- “When the Gentlemen Go By” by Margaret Ronald
- “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antartica” by Catherynne Valente
Best Horror of the Year, Volume 1, Ellen Datlow ed.
- “Teeth” by Stephen Dedman
- “Captain’s Lament” by Stephen Graham Jones
Fantasy Best of the Year 2008, Rich Horton ed.
- “Something in the Mermaid Way” by Carrie Laben
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan ed.
- “Orm the Beautiful” by Elizabeth Bear
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #19, Stephen Jones ed.
- “The Ape’s Wife” by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year’s Gay Speculative Fiction, Steve Berman ed.
- “Acid and Stoned Reindeer” by Rebecca Ore
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “Orm the Beautiful” by Elizabeth Bear
- “Automatic” by Erica L. Satifka
- “Chewing Up the Innocent” by Jay Lake
- “The Third Bear” by Jeff VanderMeer
- “Qubit Conflicts” by Jetse De Vries
- “The Oracle Spoke” by Holly Phillips
- “I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said” by Cat Rambo
- “The Beacon” by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
- “The Ape’s Wife” by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- “Lost Soul” by M P Ericson
- “A Dance Across Embers” by Lisa Mantchev
- “Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky” by Ken Scholes
- “Acid and Stoned Reindeer” by Rebecca Ore
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant ed.
- “Orm the Beautiful” by Elizabeth Bear
- “Clockmaker’s Requiem” by Barth Anderson
- “Something in the Mermaid Way” by Carrie Laben
- “The Third Bear” by Jeff VanderMeer
- “The Oracle Spoke” by Holly Phillips
- “Moon Over Yodok” by David Charlton
- “I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said” by Cat Rambo
- “The Ape’s Wife” by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- “There’s No Light Between Floors” by Paul Tremblay
Best American Fantasy 2, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ed.
- “Acid and Stoned Reindeer” by Rebecca Ore
“Stylishly written and usually faintly perverse fantasy is also available at Clarkesworld Magazine” — Gardner Dozois, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection
Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, Paula Guran ed.
- “A Light in Troy” by Sarah Monette
Horror: Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, Sean Wallace and John Gregory Betancourt ed.
- “Lydia’s Body” by Vylar Kaftan
Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant and Kelly Link ed.
- “304, Adolph Hitler Strasse” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Lydia’s Body” by Vylar Kaftan
- “Urchins, While Swimming” by Catherynne M. Valente
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois ed.
- “A Light in Troy” by Sarah Monette
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