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For the first time ever, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has assembled the best science fiction and the best fantasy stories of the year in one volume. More than just two books for the price of one, this book brings together over 200,000 words of the best genre fiction anywhere. Strahan's critical eye and keen editorial instincts have served him well for earlier best of the year round-ups in the Best Short Novels, Science Fiction: Best of and Fantasy: Best of series, and this is his most impressive effort yet.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties - (2006) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• El Regalo - (2006) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• I, Row-Boat - (2006) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• In the House of the Seven Librarians - (2006) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• Another Word for Map is Faith - (2006) - shortstory by Christopher Rowe
• Under Hell, Over Heaven - (2006) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• Incarnation Day - (2006) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
• The Night Whiskey - (2006) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• A Siege of Cranes - (2006) - novelette by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Halfway House - (2006) - shortstory by Frances Hardinge
• The Bible Repairman - (2006) - shortstory by Tim Powers
• Yellow Card Man - (2006) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) - (2006) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The American Dead - (2006) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• The Cartesian Theater - (2006) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• Journey into the Kingdom - (2006) - novelette by M. Rickert
• Eight Episodes - (2006) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• The Wizards of Perfil - (2006) - novella by Kelly Link
• The Saffron Gatherers - (2006) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• D. A. - (2006) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Femaville 29 - (2006) - shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
• Sob in the Silence - (2006) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The House Beyond Your Sky - (2006) - shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• The Djinn's Wife - (2006) - novelette by Ian McDonald

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2008) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - (2007) - novelette by Ted Chiang
• The Last and Only, or Mr. Moskowitz Becomes French - (2007) - shortfiction by Peter S. Beagle
• Trunk and Disorderly - (2007) - novelette by Charles Stross
• Glory - (2007) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Dead Horse Point - (2007) - shortstory by Daryl Gregory
• The Dreaming Wind - (2007) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Coat of Stars - (2007) - shortstory by Holly Black
• The Prophet of Flores - (2007) - novelette by Ted Kosmatka
• Wizard's Six - (2007) - novelette by Alexander C. Irvine
• The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics - (2007) - novelette by Daniel Abraham
• By Fools Like Me - (2007) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Kiosk - (2007) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Singing of Mount Abora - (2007) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• The Witch's Headstone - (2007) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Last Contact - (2007) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Jesus Christ, Reanimator - (2007) - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• Sorrel's Heart - (2007) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
• Urdumheim - (2007) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Holiday - (2007) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• The Valley of the Gardens - (2007) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• Winter's Wife - (2007) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small - (2007) - novelette by Chris Roberson
• Orm the Beautiful - (2007) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
• The Constable of Abal - (2007) - shortstory by Kelly Link

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer. Jonathan Strahan has edited more than twenty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards, The New Space Opera, The Jack Vance Treasury, and a number of year's best annuals. He has won the Ditmar, William J. Atheling Jr., and Peter McNamara Awards for his work as an anthologist, and is the reviews editor for Locus.

Contents:

• Introduction - Jonathan Strahan
• Exhalation - Ted Chiang
• Shoggoths in Bloom - Elizabeth Bear
• Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel - Peter S. Beagle
• Fixing Hanover - Jeff VanderMeer
• The Gambler - Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Dust Assassin - Ian McDonald
• Virgin - Holly Black
• Pride and Prometheus - John Kessel
• The Thought War - Paul McAuley
• Beyond the Sea Gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarskoe - Garth Nix
• The Small Door - Holly Phillips
• Turing's Apples - Stephen Baxter
• The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates - Stephen King
• Five Thrillers - Robert Reed
• The Magician's House - Megan McCarron
• Goblin Music - Joan Aiken
• Machine Maid - Margo Lanagan
• The Art of Alchemy - Ted Kosmatka
• 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss - Kij Johnson
• Marry the Sun - Rachel Swirsky
• Crystal Nights - Greg Egan
• His Master's Voice - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Special Economics - Maureen McHugh
• Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment - M Rickert
• From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled... - Michael Swanwick
• If Angels Fight - Rick Bowes
• The Doom of Love in Small Spaces - Ken Scholes
• Pretty Monsters - Kelly Link

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• It Takes Two - (2009) - novelette by Nicola Griffith
• Three Twilight Tales - (2009) - shortstory by Jo Walton
• The Night Cache - (2009) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
• Ferryman - (2009) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• "A Wild and a Wicked Youth" - (2009) - novelette by Ellen Kushner
• The Pelican Bar - (2009) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Spar - (2009) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Going Deep - (2009) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - (2009) - novelette by Holly Black
• Zeppelin City - (2009) - novelette by Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick
• Dragon's Teeth - (2009) - novelette by Alexander C. Irvine
• This Wind Blowing, and This Tide - (2009) - novelette by Damien Broderick
• By Moonlight - (2009) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Black Swan - (2009) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• As Women Fight - (2009) - shortstory by Sara Genge
• The Cinderella Game - (2009) - shortstory by Kelly Link
• Formidable Caress: A Tale of Old Earth - (2009) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Blocked - (2009) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• Truth and Bone - (2009) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Eros, Philia, Agape - (2009) - novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• The Motorman's Coat - (2009) - shortstory by John Kessel
• Mongoose - (2009) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Echoes of Aurora - (2009) - shortstory by Ellen Klages
• Before My Last Breath - (2009) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• JoBoy - (2009) - shortstory by Diana Wynne Jones
• Utriusque Cosmi - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• A Delicate Architecture - (2009) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles - (2009) - novelette by Kij Johnson
• Recommended Reading - essay by Jonathan Strahan

The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2010) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Elegy for a Young Elk - (2010) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains - (2010) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots - (2010) - shortstory by Sandra McDonald
• The Spy Who Never Grew Up - (2010) - novelette by Sarah Rees Brennan
• The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue - (2010) - shortstory by Holly Black
• Under the Moons of Venus - (2010) - shortstory by Damien Broderick
• The Fool Jobs - (2010) - shortfiction by Joe Abercrombie
• Alone - (2010) - novella by Robert Reed
• Names for Water - (2010) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Fair Ladies - (2010) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• Plus or Minus - (2010) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• The Man with the Knives - (2010) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
• The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening - (2010) - shortfiction by Cory Doctorow
• The Maiden Flight of Mccauley's Bellerophon - (2010) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
• The Miracle Aquilina - (2010) - shortfiction by Margo Lanagan
• The Taste of Night - (2010) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• The Exterminator's Want-Ad - (2010) - shortfiction by Bruce Sterling
• Map of Seventeen - (2010) - novelette by Christopher Barzak
• The Naturalist - (2010) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• Sins of the Father - (2010) - shortstory by Sara Genge
• The Sultan of the Clouds - (2010) - novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Iteration - (2010) - shortstory by John Kessel
• The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn - (2010) - novelette by Diana Peterfreund
• The Night Train - (2010) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) - (2010) - shortfiction by Ian Tregillis
• Amor Vincit Omnia - (2010) - novelette by K. J. Parker
• The Things - (2010) - shortstory by Peter Watts
• The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball - (2010) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window - (2010) - novella by Rachel Swirsky

An ancient society of cartographer wasps create delicately inscribed maps; a bodyjacking parasite is faced with imminent extinction; an AI makes a desperate gambit to protect its child from a ravenous dragon; a professor of music struggles with the knowledge that murder is not too high a price for fame; living origami carries a mother's last words to her child; a steam girl conquers the realm of imagination; aliens attack Venus, ignoring an incredulous earth; a child is born on Mars...

The science fiction and fantasy fiction fields continue to evolve, setting new marks with each passing year. For the sixth year in a row, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan has collected stories that captivate, entertain, and showcase the very best the genre has to offer. Critically acclaimed, and with a reputation for including award-winning speculative fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is the only major "best of" anthology to collect both fantasy and science fiction under one cover.

Jonathan Strahan has edited more than twenty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards (with Charles N. Brown), The New Space Opera (with Gardner Dozois), and The Starry Rift. He has won the Ditmar, William J. Atheling Jr., and Peter McNamara awards for his work as an anthologist and reviewer, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for his editorial work. Strahan is currently the reviews editor for Locus.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Case of Death and Honey - (2011) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees - (2011) - shortstory by E. Lily Yu
• Tidal Forces - (2011) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Younger Women - (2011) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• White Lines on a Green Field - (2011) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• All That Touches the Air - (2011) - shortstory by An Owomoyela
• What We Found - (2011) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The Server and the Dragon - (2010) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• The Choice - (2011) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
• Malak - (2010) - shortstory by Peter Watts
• Old Habits - (2011) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong - (2011) - novella by K. J. Parker
• Valley of the Girls - (2011) - shortstory by Kelly Link
• The Brave Little Toaster - (2011) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• The Dala Horse - (2011) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece - (2011) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• The Paper Menagerie - (2011) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• Steam Girl - (2011) - novelette by Dylan Horrocks
• After the Apocalypse - (2011) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• Underbridge - (2011) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Relic - (2011) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• The Invasion of Venus - (2010) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Woman Leaves Room - (2011) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Restoration - (2011) - shortfiction by Robert Shearman
• The Onset of a Paranormal Romance - (2011) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Catastrophic Disruption of the Head - (2011) - novelette by Margo Lanagan
• The Last Ride of the Glory Girls - (2011) - novelette by Libba Bray
• The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) - (2011) - novelette by Nnedi Okorafor
• Digging - (2011) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• The Man Who Bridged the Mist - (2011) - novella by Kij Johnson
• Goodnight Moons - (2011) - shortstory by Ellen Klages

In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted writers are boldly exploring the mythic past, the paranormal present, and the promises and perils of myriad alternate worlds and futures. There are almost too many new and intriguing stories published every year for any reader to be able to experience them all. So how to make sure you haven't missed any future classics?

Award-winning editor and anthologist Jonathan Strahan has surveyed the expanding universes of modern sf and fantasy to find the brightest stars in today's dazzling literary firmament. From the latest masterworks by the acknowledged titans of the field to fresh visions from exciting new talents, this outstanding collection is a comprehensive showcase for the current state of the art in both science fiction and fantasy. Anyone who wants to know where the future of imaginative short fiction is going, and treat themselves to dozens of unforgettable stories, will find this year's edition of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy to be just what they're looking for!

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Contrary Gardener - (2012) - shortstory by Christopher Rowe
• The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times - (2012) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• Close Encounters - (2012) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Great-Grandmother in the Cellar - (2012) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• The Easthound - (2012) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• Goggles (c.1910) - (2012) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Bricks, Sticks, Straw - (2012) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones - (2012) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• The Grinnell Method - (2012) - novelette by Molly Gloss
• Beautiful Boys - (2012) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• The Education of a Witch - (2012) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden - (2012) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• What Did Tessimond Tell You? - (2012) - shortstory by Adam Roberts
• Adventure Story - (2012) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Katabasis - (2012) - novella by Robert Reed
• Troll Blood - (2012) - novelette by Peter Dickinson
• The Color Least Used by Nature - (2012) - novelette by Ted Kosmatka
• Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls - (2012) - novelette by Rachel Pollack
• Two Houses - (2012) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Blood Drive - (2012) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• Mantis Wives - (2012) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Immersion - (2012) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
• About Fairies - (2012) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• Let Maps to Others - (2012) - novella by K. J. Parker
• Joke in Four Panels - (2012) - shortstory by Robert Shearman
• Reindeer Mountain - (2012) - shortstory by Karin Tidbeck
• Domestic Magic - (2012) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
• Swift, Brutal Retaliation - (2012) - novelette by Meghan McCarron
• Nahiku West - (2012) - novelette by Linda Nagata
• Fade to White - (2012) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• Significant Dust - (2012) - novelette by Margo Lanagan
• Mono no Aware - (2012) - shortstory by Ken Liu

The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. The series moves to its new publishing home, Solaris, with this eighth annual volume of the celebrated and popular series.

DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE!

The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past twelve months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan. This highly popular series now reaches volume eight and will include stories from both the biggest names in the field and the most exciting new talents.

Previous volumes have included stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Adam Robets, Ellen Klages, and many many more.

With this volume the series comes to a new home at Solaris, publishers of Jonathan Strahan's award-winning original Infinities SF anthologies and the and Fearsome fantasy anthologies.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
• "Some Desperado", Joe Abercrombie (Dangerous Women)
• "Zero for Conduct", Greg Egan (Twelve Tomorrows)
• "Effigy Nights", Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
• "Rosary and Goldenstar", Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
• "The Sleeper and the Spindle", Neil Gaiman (Rags and Bones)
• "Cave and Julia", M. John Harrison (Kindle Singles)
• "The Herons of Mer de l'Ouest", M Bennardo (Lightspeed)
• "Water", Ramez Naam (An Aura of Familiarity)
• "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling", Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
• "The Ink Readers of Doi Saket", Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor.com)
• "Cherry Blossoms on the River of Souls", Richard Parks (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Rag and Bone", Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
• "The Book Seller", Lavie Tidhar (Interzone)
• "The Sun and I", K J Parker (Subterranean)
• "The Promise of Space", James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld)
• "The Master Conjurer", Charlie Jane Anders (Lightspeed)
• "The Pilgrim and the Angel", E. Lily Yu (McSweeney's 45)
• "Entangled", Ian R Macleod (Asimov's)
• "Fade to Gold", Benjanun Sriduangkaew (End of the Road)
• "Selkies Stories are for Losers", Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons)
• "In Metal, In Bone", An Owomoyela (Eclipse Online)
• "Kormack the Lucky", Eleanor Arnason (F&SF)
• "Sing", Karin Tidbeck (Tor.com)
• "Social Services", Madeline Ashby (An Aura of Familiarity)
• "The Road of Needles", Caitlín R Kiernan (Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales)
• "Mystic Falls", Robert Reed (Clarkesworld)
• "The Queen of Night's Aria", Ian McDonald (Old Mars)
• "The Irish Astronaut", Val Nolan (Electric Velocipede)

The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.

DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past twelve months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan. This highly popular series now reaches volume nine and will include stories from both the biggest names in the field and the most exciting new talents. Previous volumes have included stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Adam Robets, Ellen Klages, and many many more.

Table of Contents:
(stories which can be read online for free are linked)

• "Tough Times All Over" - Joe Abercrombie
• "The Scrivener" - Eleanor Arnason - read
• "Moriabe's Children" - Paolo Bacigalupi
• "Covenant" - Elizabeth Bear
• "Slipping" - Lauren Beukes
• "Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (The Successful Kind)" - Holly Black - read
• "Shadow Flock" - Greg Egan
• "The Truth About Owls" - Amal El-Mohtar - read
• "Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" - Theodora Goss - read
• "Cold Wind" - Nicola Griffith - read
• "Someday" - James Patrick Kelly
• "Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No.8)" - Caitlin R Kiernan
• "Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They are Terrifying" - Alice Sola Kim
• "Amicae Aeternum" - Ellen Klages - read
• "Calligo Lane" - Ellen Klages - read
• "The Lady and the Fox" - Kelly Link
• "The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION" - The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" - Ken Liu - read
• "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" - Usman T Malik - read
• "Four Days of Christmas" - Tim Maughan - read
• "The Fifth Dragon" - Ian McDonald - read
• "Shay Corsham Worsted" - Garth Nix
• "I Met a Man Who Wasn't There" - K. J. Parker - read
• "Kheldyu" - Karl Schroeder
• "Tawny Petticoats" - Michael Swanwick
• "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" - Rachel Swirsky - read
• "The Insects of Love" - Genevieve Valentine - read
• "Collateral" - Peter Watts
• "The Devil in America" - Kai Ashante Wilson - read

The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan

DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past twelve months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan. This highly popular series now reaches volume nine and will include stories from both the biggest names in the field and the most exciting new talents. Previous volumes have included stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Adam Robets, Ellen Klages, and many many more.

Table of Contents:

• "City of Ash", Paolo Bacigalupi
• "The Heart's Filthy Lesson", Elizabeth Bear
• "The Machine Starts", Greg Bear
• "The Winter Wraith", Jeffrey Ford
• "Black Dog", Neil Gaiman
• "Jamaica Ginger", Nalo Hopkinson & Nisi Shawl
• "Drones", Simon Ings
• "Emergence", Gwyneth Jones
• "Dancy vs. the Pterosaur", Caitlin R. Kiernan
• "Another Word for World", Anne Leckie
• "The Game of Smash and Recovery", Kelly Link
• "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn", Usman T. Mailk
• "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan", Ian McDonald
• "Little Sisters", Vonda McIntyre
• "Calved", Sam J. Miller
• "Ghosts of Home", Sam J. Miller
• "The Deepwater Bride", Tamsyn Muir
• "The Empress in Her Glory", Robert Reed
• "A Murmuration", Alastair Reynolds
• "Oral Argument", Kim Stanley Robinson
• "Water of Versailles", Kelly Robson
• "Capitalism in the 22nd Century", Geoff Ryman
• "The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club", Nike Sulway
• "The Lily and the Horn", Catherynne Valente
• "Blood, Ash, Braids", Genevieve Valentine
• "Kaiju maximus®: 'So Various, So Beautiful, So New'", Kai Ashante Wilson
• "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers", Alyssa Wong

The internationally-acclaimed Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year series moves into its second decade with the very best science fiction and fantasy from around the world. Hard science fiction, space opera, epic fantasy, dystopia, alternate history, swords and sorcery - you can find it all in the more than two dozen stories carefully chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan to give readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Previous volumes have included stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Adam Robets, Ellen Klages, and many many more.

Table of Contents:

• "Two's Company", Joe Abercrombie (Sharp Ends)
• "The Art of Space Travel", Nina Allan (Tor.com)
• "Seasons of Glass and Iron", Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit wood)
• "Mika Model", Paolo Bacigalupi (Slate)
• "A Salvaging of Ghosts", Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 01/03/16)
• "Laws of Night and Silk", Seth Dickinson (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 26 May 2016)
• "Touring with the Alien", Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 115, 4/16)
• "Red as Blood and White as Bone", Theodora Goss (Tor.com)
• "Even the Crumbs Were Delicious", Daryl Gregory (The Starlit Wood)
• "Number Nine Moon", Alex Irvine (F&SF, 1/16)
• "Red Dirt Witch", N.K. Jemisin (Fantasy/PoC Destroy Fantasy)
• "Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)", Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest 125, 7/16)
• "Successor, Usurper, Replacement", Alice Sola Kim (Buzzfeed, 10/26/16)
• "You Make Pattaya", Rich Larson (Interzone 247)
• "Foxfire Foxfire", Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016)
• "Seven Birthdays", Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)
• "The Visitor from Taured", Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's, 9/16)
• "Elves of Antarctica", Paul McAuley (Drowned Worlds)
• "Things with Beards", Sam J Miller (Clarkesworld 117, 6/16)
• "Spinning Silver", Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)
• "Those Shadows Laugh", Geoff Ryman (F&SF, 9-10/16)
• "The Great Detective", Delia Sherman (Tor.com)
• "Terminal", Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com, 04/16)
• "The Future is Blue", Catherynne M Valente (Drowned Worlds)
• "Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home", Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld)
• "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay", Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 10, 5-6/16)
• "Fable", Charles Yu (The New Yorker, 5/30/16)
• "The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight", E Lily Yu (Uncanny 12)

Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.

Table of Contents:

• "The Mocking Tower", Daniel Abraham (The Book of Swords)
• "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue", Charlie Jane Anders (Boston Review)
• "Probably Still the Chosen One", Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed)
• "My English Name", R. S. Benedict (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance", Tobias Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
• "Though She Be But Little", C.S.E. Cooney (Uncanny)
• "The Moon is Not a Battlefield", Indrapramit Das (Infinity Wars)
• "The Hermit of Houston", Samuel R. Delany (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine", Greg Egan (Asimov's Science Fiction)
• "Crispin's Model", Max Gladstone (Tor.com)
• "Come See the Living Dryad", Theodora Goss (Tor.com)
• "Bring Your Own Spoon", Saad Z. Hossain (The Djinn Falls in Love)
• "Babylon", Dave Hutchison, 2084
• "The Faerie Tree", Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed)
• "Fairy Tale of Wood Street", Caitlin R Kiernan (Sirenia Digest)
• "The Worshipful Society of Glovers", Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny)
• "An Evening with Severyn Grimes", Rich Larson (Asimov's Science Fiction)
• "The Chameleon's Gloves", Yoon Ha Lee (Cosmic Powers)
• "The Smoke of Gold is Glory", Scott Lynch (The Book of Swords)
• "Sidewalks", Maureen McHugh (Omni)
• "Concessions", Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Strange Horizons)
• "The Martian Obelisk", Linda Nagata (Tor.com)
• "The Secret Life of Bots", Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld)
• "A Series of Steaks", Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld)
• "Belladonna Nights", Alastair Reynolds (The Weight of Words)
• "Eminence", Karl Schroeder (Chasing Shadows)
• "The Lamentation of their Women", Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)
• "Confessions of a Con Girl", Nick Wolven (Asimov's Science Fiction)
• "Carnival Nine", Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

A librarian helps a desperate student find the door into a book; Sir Thomas Moore's head is stolen and a messy rescue ensues; a mother sells a piece of her memory so her daughter can afford an education.

Science fiction is the story of what if and what comes next. It's more playful, more inclusive and more entertaining than it has ever been before and as the world falls apart around us, it offers us a chance to understand how things could be better, or just how a great story can get us through another night.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen brings together the very best clashes between zombies and unicorns, robots and fairies, spaceships and more in a definitive volume that takes us everywhere from the distant future and the moons of our own solar system, to one last visit to Earthsea...

Table of Contents:

• "Dreadful Young Ladies", Kelly Barnhill (Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories)
• "Okay, Glory", Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
• "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again", Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, 11/31/18)
• "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington", P Djeli Clark (Fireside Magazine)
• "Flint and Mirror", John Crowley (The Book of Magic)
• "An Agent of Utopia", Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
• "The Bookcase Expedition", Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs. Fairies)
• "Nine Last Days on Planet Earth", Daryl Gregory (Tor.com)
• "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies", Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine)
• "You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I'll Pretend Like I Never Met You", Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed,)
• "When We Were Starless", Simone Heller (Clarkesworld)
• "The Woman Who Destroyed Us", SL Huang (Twelve Tomorrows)
• "Golgotha ", Dave Hutchinson (2001: An Odyssey in Words)
• "The Storyteller's Replacement", N K Jemisin (How Long Till Black Future Month?)
• "The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society", T. Kingfisher (Uncanny)
• "Field Biology of the Wee Fairies", Naomi Kritzer (Apex, 9/4/18)
• "Meat and Salt and Sparks", Rich Larson (Tor.com)
• "Firelight", Ursula K Le Guin (The Paris Review 225)
• "The Starship and the Temple Cat", Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Quality Time", Ken Liu (Robots vs. Fairies)
• "A Brief and Fearful Star", Carmen Maria Machado (Slate)
• "The Blue Fairy's Manifesto", Annalee Newitz (Robots vs. Fairies)
• "The Staff in the Stone", Garth Nix (The Book of Magic)
• "Blessings", Naomi Novik (Uncanny)
• "Mother Tongues", S. Qiouyi Lu (Asimov's Science Fiction)
• "Intervention", Kelly Robson (Infinity's End)
• "Widdam", Vandana Singh (F&SF)
• "Yard Dog", Tade Thompson (Fiyah #7)
• "Olivia's Table", Alyssa Wong (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)