With the manuscript safely in the hands of my editor in Oxfordshire, I’m happy to announce the final table of contents for The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 12. As anthologists always do, I wish I’d had more space to include other stories that I loved published during the year, especially novellas, but I think that these selections are very strong.
- “The Mocking Towerâ€, Daniel Abraham (The Book of Swords)
- “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sueâ€, Charlie Jane Anders (Boston Review)
- “Probably Still the Chosen Oneâ€, Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed)
- “My English Nameâ€, R. S. Benedict (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenanceâ€, Tobias Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
- “Though She Be But Littleâ€, C.S.E. Cooney (Uncanny)
- “The Moon is Not a Battlefieldâ€, Indrapramit Das (Infinity Wars)
- “The Hermit of Houstonâ€, Samuel R. Delany (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machineâ€, Greg Egan (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
- “Crispin’s Modelâ€, Max Gladstone (Tor.com)
- “Come See the Living Dryadâ€, Theodora Goss (Tor.com)
- “Bring Your Own Spoonâ€, Saad Z. Hossain (The Djinn Falls in Love)
- “Babylonâ€, Dave Hutchison, 2084
- “The Faerie Treeâ€, Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed)
- “Fairy Tale of Wood Streetâ€, Caitlin R Kiernan (Sirenia Digest)
- “The Worshipful Society of Gloversâ€, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny)
- “An Evening with Severyn Grimesâ€, Rich Larson (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
- “The Chameleon’s Glovesâ€, Yoon Ha Lee (Cosmic Powers)
- “The Smoke of Gold is Gloryâ€, Scott Lynch (The Book of Swords)
- “Sidewalksâ€, Maureen McHugh (Omni)
- “Concessionsâ€, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Strange Horizons)
- “The Martian Obeliskâ€, Linda Nagata (Tor.com)
- “The Secret Life of Botsâ€, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld)
- “A Series of Steaksâ€, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld)
- “Belladonna Nightsâ€, Alastair Reynolds (The Weight of Words)
- “Eminenceâ€, Karl Schroeder (Chasing Shadows)
- “The Lamentation of their Womenâ€, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)
- “Confessions of a Con Girlâ€, Nick Wolven (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
- “Carnival Nineâ€, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
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 2018.
Note: The cover above is a partial. I’ll post the full cover when I have author’s names etc on the cover finalised.
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