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Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever – to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen" by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.

Table of Contents:

FANTASY

• "Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters" by Kelly Barnhill from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• "Erase, Erase, Erase" by Elizabeth Bear from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• "Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan" by Christopher Caldwell from Uncanny Magazine
• "The Freedom of the Shifting Sea" by Jaymee Goh from New Suns
• "The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary)" by Gwendolyn Kiste from Nightmare Magazine
• "Up from Slavery" by Victor LaValle from Weird Tales
• "Shape-ups at Delilah's" by Rion Amilcar Scott from The New Yorker
• "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" by Nibedita Sen from Nightmare Magazine
• "Another Avatar" by S.P. Somtow from Amazing Stories
• "The Time Invariance of Snow" by E. Lily Yu from Tor.com

SCIENCE FICTION

• "The Bookstore at the End of America" by Charlie Jane Anders from A People's Future of the United States
• "Life Sentence" by Matthew Baker from Lightspeed Magazine
• "Bullet Point" by Elizabeth Bear from Wastelands: The New Apocalypse
• "The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" by Tobias S. Buckell from New Suns
• "Sacrid's Pod" by Adam-Troy Castro from Lightspeed Magazine
• "Thoughts and Prayers" by Ken Liu from Future Tense Fiction
• "The Robots of Eden" by Anil Menon from New Suns
• "Between the Dark and the Dark" by Deji Bryce Olukotun from Lightspeed Magazine
• "A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy" by Rebecca Roanhorse from The Mythic Dream
• "The Archronology of Love" by Caroline M. Yoachim from Lightspeed Magazine