The year is racing towards its usual conclusion. Here at the ends of the world, as temperatures rise, deadlines loom and projects need to be finished so the New Year can begin.  The first thing to be done is finishing the latest volume in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year series. Volume 11 has be to be delivered by the end of the month, which means moving from reading to writing. Introductions, notes etc.  And of course, the table of contents.
Here is the table of contents for this year:
- “Two’s Companyâ€, Joe Abercrombie (Sharp Ends)
- “The Art of Space Travelâ€, Nina Allan (Tor.com)
- “Seasons of Glass and Ironâ€, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit wood)
- “Mika Modelâ€, Paolo Bacigalupi (Slate)
- “A Salvaging of Ghostsâ€, Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 01/03/16)
- “Laws of Night and Silkâ€, Seth Dickinson (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 26 May 2016)
- “Touring with the Alienâ€, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 115, 4/16)
- “Red as Blood and White as Boneâ€, Theodora Goss (Tor.com)
- “Even the Crumbs Were Deliciousâ€, Daryl Gregory (The Starlit Wood)
- “Number Nine Moonâ€, Alex Irvine (F&SF, 1/16)
- “Red Dirt Witchâ€, N.K. Jemisin (Fantasy/PoC Destroy Fantasy)
- “Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)â€, CaitlÃn R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest 125, 7/16)
- “Successor, Usurper, Replacementâ€, Alice Sola Kim (Buzzfeed, 10/26/16)
- “You Make Pattayaâ€, Rich Larson (Interzone 247)
- “Foxfire Foxfireâ€, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016)
- “Seven Birthdaysâ€, Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)
- “The Visitor from Tauredâ€, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s, 9/16)
- “Elves of Antarcticaâ€, Paul McAuley (Drowned Worlds)
- “Things with Beardsâ€, Sam J Miller (Clarkesworld 117, 6/16)
- “Spinning Silverâ€, Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)
- “Those Shadows Laughâ€, Geoff Ryman (F&SF, 9-10/16)
- “The Great Detectiveâ€, Delia Sherman (Tor.com)
- “Terminalâ€, Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com, 04/16)
- “The Future is Blueâ€, Catherynne M Valente (Drowned Worlds)
- “Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Homeâ€, Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld)
- “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay “, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 10, 5-6/16)
- “Fableâ€, Charles Yu (The New Yorker, 5/30/16)
- “The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knightâ€, E Lily Yu (Uncanny 12)
Many thanks to all of the writers who are involved, and to their agents etc. Â Dominic Harman, who did the covers for the first three books from Solaris, is back with another terrific cover. That will be revealed soon. Â And, just as I’m finishing up this year’s book and I’m already reading for next year’s. Happily I’m contracted for a couple more years, so the series will continue hopefully for many years to come!
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