The year is moving a little closer to done. Yesterday afternoon I sent the manuscript for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen to my wonderful editor, David Thomas Moore. There are still some things to do – copyedits and so on – but it is complete.

I could easily have added more stories – especially more novellas – but any book has to fit between a single set of covers and I’m very happy with these selections:

• “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)

My sincere thanks to all of the authors, agents, and editors who’ve helped make the book possible.  The book will be out in April 2019.

Note: The cover has placeholder names on it. This ToC is accurate.

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