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Neil Clarke


The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Book 1

Neil Clarke

To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more -- a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the inaugural volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.

The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor in chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Book 2

Neil Clarke

To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more--a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.

Table of Contents:

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Book 3

Neil Clarke

To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more?a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.

The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor in chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Book 4

Neil Clarke

A human detective and their partner, an enhanced chimpanzee, investigate a strange murder on the subway... a smart home goes into lockdown, turning a man's own home into his prison... at a robot factory, something has caused the machines to attempt to escape... mysterious seeds raining down from deep space could be the first sign of an alien invasion... a woman seeks to restore a broken AI, hoping it can help return humanity to better days...

For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-nine of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2018.

Table of Contents:

  • "When We Were Starless" by Simone Heller (Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2018)
  • "Intervention" by Kelly Robson (Infinity's End, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
  • "All the Time We've Left to Spend" by Alyssa Wong (Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe)
  • "Domestic Violence" by Madeline Ashby (Slate, March 26, 2018)
  • "Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae" by Ian McDonald (2001: An Odyssey in Words, edited by Ian Whates and Tom Hunter)
  • "Prophet of the Roads" by Naomi Kritzer (Infinity's End, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
  • "Traces of Us" by Vanessa Fogg (GigaNotoSaurus, March 2018)
  • "Theories of Flight" by Linda Nagata (Asimov's Science Fiction, November/December 2018)
  • "Lab B-15" by Nick Wolven (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2018)
  • "Requiem" by Vandana Singh (Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, Small Beer Press)
  • "Sour Milk Girls" by Erin Roberts (Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2018)
  • "Mother Tongues" by S. Qiouyi Lu (Asimov's Science Fiction, January/February 2018)
  • "Singles' Day" by Samantha Murray (Interzone, September/October 2018)
  • "Nine Last Days on Planet Earth" by Daryl Gregory (Tor.com, September 19, 2018)
  • "The Buried Giant" by Lavie Tidhar (Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe)
  • "The Anchorite Wakes" by R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2018)
  • "Entropy War" by Yoon Ha Lee (2001: An Odyssey in Words, edited by Ian Whates and Tom Hunter)
  • "An Equation of State" by Robert Reed (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2018)
  • "Quantifying Trust" by John Chu (Mother of Invention, edited by Rivqa Rafael and Tansy Rayner Roberts)
  • "Hard Mary" by Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018)
  • "Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling" by L.X. Beckett (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2018)
  • "Okay, Glory" by Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush)
  • "Heavy Lifting" by A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine, September/October 2018)
  • "Lions and Gazelles" by Hannu Rajaniemi (Slate, September 27, 2018)
  • "Different Seas" by Alastair Reynolds (Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush)
  • "Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger's Steps" by Aliette de Bodard (Mechanical Animals, edited by Selena Chambers and Jason Heller)
  • "Byzantine Empathy" by Ken Liu (Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush)
  • "Meat and Salt and Sparks" by Rich Larson (Tor.com, June 6, 2018)
  • "Umbernight" by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2018)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Book 5

Neil Clarke

Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more -- a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.

The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

  • "Moonlight" - short story by Cixin Liu
  • "Permafrost" - novella by Alastair Reynolds
  • "Give the Family My Love" - short story by A. T. Greenblatt
  • "At the Fall" - novelette by Alec Nevala-Lee
  • "Sympathizer" - short fiction by Karin Lowachee
  • "The Painter of Trees" - short story by Suzanne Palmer
  • "Cratered" - novelette by Karen Osborne
  • "The Work of Wolves" - novella by Tegan Moore
  • "The Ocean Between the Leaves" - novelette by Ray Nayler
  • "Rescue Party" [Xuya] - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
  • "By the Warmth of Their Calculus" - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell
  • "The Empty Gun" - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
  • "In the Stillness Between the Stars" - novelette by Mercurio D. Rivera
  • "On the Shores of Ligeia" - short story by Carolyn Ives Gilman
  • "The Justified" - short fiction by Ann Leckie
  • "Kali_Na" - short fiction by Indrapramit Das
  • "Close Enough for Jazz" - short fiction by John Chu
  • "Deriving Life" - novelette by Elizabeth Bear
  • "Old Media" - short story by Annalee Newitz
  • "Painless" - short story by Rich Larson
  • "Emergency Skin" - novelette by N. K. Jemisin
  • "Song Xiuyun" - novelette A Que
  • "The River of Blood and Wine" - novelette by Kali Wallace
  • "Knit Three, Save Four" - short story by Marie Vibbert
  • "Such Thoughts Are Unproductive" - short story by Rebecca Campbell
  • "Mother Ocean" - short story by Vandana Singh
  • "The Little Shepherdess" - short story by Gwyneth Jones
  • "One Thousand Beetles in a Jumpsuit" - novelette by Dominica Phetteplace

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Book 6

Neil Clarke

Visit a future where you can rent out your body, just like an apartment....

Join a robot dog repurposed for mining as it fights to stay alive after being judged as defective....

Follow a woman who must race across the surface of an alien world alone and through deadly flora and fauna to save the life of her mentor....

Discover what happens when an autonomous undersea drone sent to find life on Enceladus begins demonstrating signs of an emerging consciousness....

Find out what happens when you have your boyfriend test out your newest playbot.

For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and 33 of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2020.

Table of Contents:

  • Scar Tissue - short story by Tobias S. Buckell
  • Eyes of the Forest - short story by Ray Nayler
  • Sinew and Steel and What They Told - short story by Carrie Vaughn
  • An Important Failure - novelette by Rebecca Campbell
  • The Long Iapetan Night - novelette by Julie Novakova
  • AirBody - short story by Sameem Siddiqui
  • The Bahrain Underground Bazaar - novelette by Nadia Afifi
  • Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City - novelette by Arula Ratnakar
  • Your Boyfriend Experience - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
  • Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars - novelette by Mercurio D. Rivera
  • The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade - novelette by Bogi Takács
  • Oannes, From the Flood - short story by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Yellow and the Perception of Reality - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
  • Exile's End - novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
  • Invisible People - novelette by Nancy Kress
  • Red_Bati - short story by Dilman Dila
  • Textbooks in the Attic - short fiction by S. B. Divya
  • Seeding the Mountain - novelette by Maggie Clark
  • "Knock, Knock" Said the Ship - short story by Rati Mehrotra
  • Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air - short story by Matthew Kressel
  • Tunnels - [Lydia Duluth] - novelette by Eleanor Arnason
  • Test 4 Echo - short story by Peter Watts
  • Uma - short story by Ken Liu
  • Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love - short story by Usman T. Malik
  • The Translator, at Low Tide - short story by Vajra Chandrasekera
  • Fairy Tales for Robots - novelette by Sofia Samatar
  • This World Is Made for Monsters - short story by M. Rickert
  • Elsewhere - short story by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck [as by James S. A. Corey]
  • Salvage - novelette by Andy Dudak
  • The Long Tail - short story by Aliette de Bodard
  • Rhizome, by Starlight - short story by Fran Wilde
  • How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar? - novelette by Rich Larson

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Book 7

Neil Clarke

Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more--a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.

The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Book 8

Neil Clarke

Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more - a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.

The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year’s writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome “sensawunda” that the genre has to offer.

Contents

  • “The Dragon Project by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, March 2022)
  • “Nobody Ever Goes Home to Zhenzhu by Grace Chan (Lightspeed, 44682)
  • “The Ship Cat of the Suzaku Maru by S.L. Huang (Bridge to Elsewhere, edited by Alana Joli Abbott and Julia Rios)
  • “Give Me English by Ai Jiang (F&SF, May/June 2022)
  • “Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist by Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld, July 2022)
  • “If We Make It Through This Alive by A.T. Greenblatt (Slate Future Tense Fiction, January 29, 2022)
  • “We Built This City by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld, June 2022)
  • “Forty-eight Minutes at the Trainview Café by M. Bennardo (Asimov’s, November/December 2022)
  • “The Historiography of Loss by Julianna Baggott (Lightspeed, March 2022)
  • “The Plastic People by Tobias S. Buckell (Lightspeed, 44682)
  • “All That Burns Unseen by Premee Mohamed (Slate Future Tense Fiction, July 30, 2022)
  • “Mender of Sparrows by Ray Nayler (Asimov’s, March/April 2022)
  • “Falling Off the Edge of the World by Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s, November/December 2022)
  • “When the Tide Rises by Sarah Gailey (Tomorrow’s Parties, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
  • “The Past Life Reconstruction Service by Zen Cho (Someone in Time, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
  • “A Brief History of Beinakan Disasters as Told in a Sinitic Language by Nian Yu translated by Ru-Ping Chen (The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang)
  • “Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man by Rich Larson (Tor.com, September 21, 2022)
  • “Bishop’s Opening by R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld, January 2022)
  • “Things to Do in Deimos When You’re Dead by Alastair Reynolds (Asimov’s, September/October 2022)
  • “A Dream of Electric Mothers by Wole Talabi (Africa Risen, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight)
  • “By Those Hands by Congyun ‘Mu Ming’ Gu translated by Judith Huang (New Voices in Chinese SF, edited by Neil Clarke, Xia Jia, and Regina Kanyu Wang)
  • “Solidity by Greg Egan (Asimov’s, September/October 2022)
  • “Optimist Cleaver’s Last Transmission by J.C. Hsyu (F&SF, November/December 2022)
  • “Down and Out in Exile Park by Tade Thompson (Tomorrow’s Parties, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
  • “Two Spacesuits by Leonard Richardson (Clarkesworld, April 2022)
  • “Nonstandard Candles by Yoon Ha Lee (Sunday Morning Transport, March 6, 2022)
  • “Inheritance by Hannah Yang (Analog, September/October 2022)
  • “A Hole in the Light by Annalee Newitz (Sunday Morning Transport, October 2, 2022)
  • “Letters to My Mother by Chinelo Onwualu (Meteotopia: Futures of Climate (In)Justice, edited by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Ana Rüsche, and Francesco Verso)
  • “In the Dream by Meg Elison (F&SF, September/October 2022)
  • “Aconie’s Bees by Jessica Reisman (Analog, May/June 2022)

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