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The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 ed. Neil Clarke (Night Shade Books, January 25, 2022, 978-1-949102-52-9, $34.99, xxviii+593pp, hc, an, cover by Pascal Blanché)     Details taken from online listing. vii · A State of the Short SF Field in 2020 · Neil Clarke · in 1 · Scar Tissue · Tobias S. Buckell · ss Slate May 30 2020 14 · Eyes of the Forest · Ray Nayler · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2020 29 · Sinew and Steel and What They Told [Graff] · Carrie Vaughn · ss Tor.com February 26 2020 41 · An Important Failure · Rebecca Campbell · nv Clarkesworld #167, August 2020 63 · The Long Iapetan Night · Julie Novakova · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction November/December 2020 95 · AirBody · Sameem Siddiqui · nv Clarkesworld #163, April 2020 106 · The Bahrain Underground Bazaar · Nadia Afifi · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2020 124 · Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City · Arula Ratnakar · nv Clarkesworld #168, September 2020 145 · Your Boyfriend Experience · James Patrick Kelly · nv Entanglements ed. Sheila Williams, The MIT Press, 2020 172 · Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars · Mercurio D. Rivera · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction March/April 2020 193 · The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade · Bogi Takács · nv Rebuilding Tomorrow ed. Tsana Dolichva, Twelfth Planet Press, 2020 214 · Oannes, From the Flood · Adrian Tchaikovsky · ss Avatars Inc. ed. Ann VanderMeer, XPRIZE, 2020 223 · Yellow and the Perception of Reality · Maureen F. McHugh · nv Tor.com July 22 2020 243 · Exile’s End · Carolyn Ives Gilman · nv Tor.com August 12 2020 277 · Invisible People · Nancy Kress · nv Entanglements ed. Sheila Williams, The MIT Press, 2020 299 · Red_Bati · Dilman Dila · ss Dominion ed. Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald & Zelda Knight, Aurelia Leo, 2020 309 · Textbooks in the Attic · S. B. Divya · ss Rebuilding Tomorrow ed. Tsana Dolichva, Twelfth Planet Press, 2020 325 · Seeding the Mountain · Maggie Clark · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact September/October 2020 359 · “Knock, Knock” Said the Ship · Rati Mehrotra · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2020 374 · Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air · Matthew Kressel · ss Lightspeed #123, August 2020 388 · Tunnels [Lydia Duluth] · Eleanor Arnason · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction May/June 2020 430 · Test 4 Echo · Peter Watts · ss Made to Order ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris US, 2020 447 · Uma · Ken Liu · ss Avatars Inc. ed. Ann VanderMeer, XPRIZE, 2020 457 · Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love · Usman T. Malik · ss Wired (online) December 11 2020 465 · The Translator, at Low Tide · Vajra Chandrasekera · ss Clarkesworld #164, May 2020 474 · Fairy Tales for Robots · Sofia Samatar · nv Made to Order ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris US, 2020 496 · This World Is Made for Monsters · M. Rickert · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2020 501 · Elsewhere · James S. A. Corey · ss Avatars Inc. ed. Ann VanderMeer, XPRIZE, 2020 509 · Salvage · Andy Dudak · nv Interzone #285, January/February 2020 537 · The Long Tail · Aliette de Bodard · ss Wired (online) November 30 2020 549 · Rhizome, by Starlight · Fran Wilde · ss Rebuilding Tomorrow ed. Tsana Dolichva, Twelfth Planet Press, 2020 558 · How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar · Rich Larson · nv Tor.com January 15 2020 591 · 2020 Recommended Reading List · Neil Clarke · ms

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7 ed. Neil Clarke (Night Shade Books, September 5, 2023, 978-1-949102-69-7, $19.99, 624pp, tp, an)     A hardcover edition (-71-0, $34.99) was announced but not seen. Details taken from Table of Contents. vii · A State of the Short SF Field in 2021 · Neil Clarke · in 1 · Muallim · Ray Nayler · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction November/December 2021 14 · Dark Waters Still Flow · Alice Towey · ss Clarkesworld #182, November 2021 26 · Proof by Induction · José Pablo Iriarte · ss Uncanny Magazine #40, May/June 2021 43 · Integral Nothings · Robert Reed · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2021 60 · The Price of Attention · Karl Schroeder · ss Make Shift ed. Gideon Lichfield, The MIT Press, 2021 76 · Paley’s Watch · Anil Menon · ss The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2 ed. Tarun K. Saint, Hachette India, 2021 90 · Among the Marithei · Mary Anne Mohanraj · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction May/June 2021 98 · A Different Sea · Vandana Singh · ss The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2 ed. Tarun K. Saint, Hachette India, 2021 114 · The Pizza Boy · Meg Elison · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2021 122 · Ice Fishing on Europa · Erin Barbeau · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2021 133 · Vaccine Season · Hannu Rajaniemi · ss Make Shift ed. Gideon Lichfield, The MIT Press, 2021 146 · Where There Are Cities, These Dissolve Too · S. Qiouyi Lu · ss Speculative Los Angeles ed. Denise Hamilton, Akashic Books, 2021 164 · Without Lungs or Limbs to Stay · Shauna O’Meara · nv Interzone #290/291, 2021 182 · I’m Waiting for You · Bo-Young Kim · nv I’m Waiting for You and Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young, Harper Voyager, 2021 translated from the Korean. 216 · Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma · R. S. A. Garcia · na Clarkesworld #172, January 2021 275 · Hānai · Gregory Norman Bossert · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction November/December 2021 307 · The Equations of the Dead · An Owomoyela · ss Lightspeed #131, April 2021 330 · A Necessary Being · Indrapramit Das · ss Make Shift ed. Gideon Lichfield, The MIT Press, 2021 345 · Qiankun and Alex · Hao Jingfang; translated by Xueting Christine Ni · ss Sinopticon ed. Xueting Christine Ni, Solaris, 2021 translated from the Chinese. 353 · The Trolley Solution · Shiv Ramdas · ss Slate March 27 2021 369 · Aptitude · Cooper Shrivastava · nv Tor.com August 4 2021 388 · The Tide of Moon City · Regina Kanyu Wang; translated by Xueting Christine Ni · ss Sinopticon ed. Xueting Christine Ni, Solaris, 2021 translated from the Chinese. 413 · A Rocket for Dimitrios [Disintegration Loops] · Ray Nayler · na Asimov’s Science Fiction January/February 2021 455 · Jaunt · Ken Liu · ss Make Shift ed. Gideon Lichfield, The MIT Press, 2021 473 · The Streams Are Paved with Fish Traps · Octavia Cade · ss Multispecies Cities ed. Rajat Chaudhuri, Deborah Cleland, Christoph Rupprecht, Norie Tamura & Sarena Ulibarri, World Weaver Press, 2021 483 · The Water Beneath Our Feet · Alice Towey · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact November/December 2021 495 · Elegba’s Valley · Tade Thompson · ss Upshot ed. Lauren Beukes, Riscura, 2021 510 · He Leaps for the Stars, He Leaps for the Stars · Grace Chan · ss Clarkesworld #178, July 2021 524 · Complete Exhaustion of the Organism · Rich Larson · ss Lightspeed #131, April 2021 537 · Mulberry and Owl [Xuya] · Aliette de Bodard · nv Uncanny Magazine #42, September/October 2021 557 · Bots of the Lost Ark [Bots] · Suzanne Palmer · nv Clarkesworld #177, June 2021 591 · 2021 Recommended Reading List · Neil Clarke · bi

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8 ed. Neil Clarke (Night Shade Books, September 10, 2024, 978-1-949102-70-3, $19.99, 624pp, tp, an)     A hardcover edition (-74-1, $34.99) was announced but not seen. Details taken from ebook Table of Contents. · A State of the Short SF Field in 2022 · Neil Clarke · in · The Dragon Project · Naomi Kritzer · ss Clarkesworld #186, March 2022 · Nobody Ever Goes Home to Zhenzhu · Grace Chan · ss Lightspeed #144, May 2022 · The Ship Cat of the Suzaku Maru · S. L. Huang · ss Bridge to Elsewhere ed. Alana Joli Abbott & Julia Rios, Outland Entertainment, 2022 · Give Me English · Ai Jiang · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2022 · Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist · Isabel J. Kim · ss Clarkesworld #190, July 2022 · If We Make It Through This Alive · A. T. Greenblatt · ss Slate January 29 2022 · We Built This City · Marie Vibbert · nv Clarkesworld #189, June 2022 · Forty-Eight Minutes at the Trainview Café · M. Bennardo · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction November/December 2022 · The Historiography of Loss · Julianna Baggott · ss Lightspeed #142, March 2022 · The Plastic People · Tobias S. Buckell · ss Lightspeed #144, May 2022 · All That Burns Unseen · Premee Mohamed · ss Slate July 30 2022 · Mender of Sparrows [Istanbul Protectorate] · Ray Nayler · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction March/April 2022 · Falling Off the Edge of the World · Suzanne Palmer · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction November/December 2022 · When the Tide Rises · Sarah Gailey · ss Tomorrow’s Parties ed. Jonathan Strahan, The MIT Press, 2022 · The Past Life Reconstruction Service · Zen Cho · ss Someone in Time ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris US, 2022 · A Brief History of Beinakan Disasters as Told in a Sinitic Language · Nian Yu; translated by Ru-Ping Chen · ss The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories ed. Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang, Tor.com, 2022 translated from the Chinese (2018). · Quandary Aminu vs the Butterfly Man · Rich Larson · nv Tor.com September 21 2022 · Bishop’s Opening · R. S. A. Garcia · na Clarkesworld #184, January 2022 · Things to Do in Deimos When You’re Dead · Alastair Reynolds · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction September/October 2022 · A Dream of Electric Mothers · Wole Talabi · nv Africa Risen ed. Sheree Ren^e'e Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, Tor.com, 2022 · By Those Hands · Congyun “Mu Ming” Gu; translated by Judith Huang · ss New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction ed. Neil Clarke, Regina Kanyu Wang & Xia Jia, Clarkesworld Books, 2022 translated from the Chinese (2019). · Solidity · Greg Egan · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction September/October 2022 · Optimist Cleaver’s Last Transmission · J. C. Hsyu · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2022 · Down and Out in Exile Park · Tade Thompson · ss Tomorrow’s Parties ed. Jonathan Strahan, The MIT Press, 2022 · Two Spacesuits · Leonard Richardson · ss Clarkesworld #187, April 2022 · Nonstandard Candles · Yoon Ha Lee · ss The Sunday Morning Transport March 6 2022 · Inheritance · Hannah Yang · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact September/October 2022 · A Hole in the Light · Annalee Newitz · ss The Sunday Morning Transport October 10 2022 · Letters to My Mother · Chinelo Onwualu · ss Meteotopia ed. Francesco Verso, Associazione Future Fiction, 2022 · In the Dream · Meg Elison · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2022 · Aconie’s Bees · Jessica Reisman · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact May/June 2022 · 2022 Recommended Reading List · Neil Clarke · bi

Clarkesworld: Year 3 ed. Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace (Wyrm Publishing, February 2013, 978-1-890464-20-2, $14.95, 261pp, tp, an, cover by Pascal Blanché)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Neil Clarke · in 9 · Non-Zero Probabilities · N. K. Jemisin · ss Clarkesworld #36, September 2009 17 · The Second Gift Given [The Psalms of Isaak] · Ken Scholes · ss Clarkesworld #29, February 2009 27 · Walking with a Ghost · Nick Mamatas · ss Clarkesworld #33, June 2009 33 · Celadon · Desirina Boskovich · ss Clarkesworld #28, January 2009 45 · Teaching Bigfoot to Read · Geoffrey W. Cole · ss Clarkesworld #28, January 2009 53 · The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew · Catherynne M. Valente · ss Clarkesworld #35, August 2009 63 · The Jisei of Mark VIII · Berrien C. Henderson · ss Clarkesworld #29, February 2009 69 · Passwords · John A. McDermott · ss Clarkesworld #25, October 2008 77 · Idle Roomer · Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn · ss Clarkesworld #26, November 2008 87 · From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 · Nnedi Okorafor · ss Clarkesworld #32, May 2009 99 · Gift of the Kites · Jim C. Hines · ss Clarkesworld #25, October 2008 111 · Batch 39 and the Deadman’s Switch · Simon DeDeo · ss Clarkesworld #26, November 2008 115 · Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story · Jay Lake & Shannon Page · ss Clarkesworld #31, April 2009 129 · The Completely Rechargeable Man · Karen Heuler · ss Clarkesworld #27, December 2008 137 · Episode 72 · Don Webb · ss Clarkesworld #27, December 2008 145 · Placa del Fuego · Tobias S. Buckell · nv Clarkesworld #34, July 2009 165 · Herding Vegetable Sheep · Ekaterina Sedia · ss Clarkesworld #30, March 2009 173 · The Devonshire Arms · Alex Dally MacFarlane · ss Clarkesworld #32, May 2009 181 · The Loyalty of Birds · Rachel Sobel · ss Clarkesworld #30, March 2009 189 · The Giving Heart · Corie Ralston · ss Clarkesworld #33, June 2009 197 · White Charles [Kyle Murchison Booth] · Sarah Monette · ss Clarkesworld #36, September 2009 215 · On the Lot and in the Air · Lisa L. Hannett · ss Clarkesworld #34, July 2009 223 · A Woman’s Best Friend · Robert Reed · ss Clarkesworld #27, December 2008 231 · The Dying World · Lavie Tidhar · ss Clarkesworld #31, April 2009 241 · Advection · Genevieve Valentine · ss Clarkesworld #35, August 2009

Clarkesworld: Year Four ed. Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace (Wyrm Publishing, June 2013, 978-1-890464-22-6, $14.95, 277pp, tp, an, cover by Georgi Markov)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Neil Clarke · in 9 · Between Two Dragons · Yoon Ha Lee · ss Clarkesworld #43, April 2010 19 · The Cull · Robert Reed · ss Clarkesworld #48, September 2010 31 · The Mermaids Singing Each to Each · Cat Rambo · ss Clarkesworld #38, November 2009 45 · Of Melei, of Ulthar · Gord Sellar · ss Clarkesworld #37, October 2009 53 · Night, in Dark Perfection · Richard Parks · ss Clarkesworld #39, December 2009 61 · The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy · Marissa Lingen · ss Clarkesworld #39, December 2009 69 · Brief Candle · Jason K. Chapman · ss Clarkesworld #38, November 2009 79 · All the King’s Monsters · Megan Arkenberg · ss Clarkesworld #40, January 2010 85 · Torquing Vacuum [Sunspin] · Jay Lake · ss Clarkesworld #41, February 2010 99 · The Language of the Whirlwind · Lavie Tidhar · ss Clarkesworld #41, February 2010 107 · A Sweet Calling [Ao Tienwei] · Tony Pi · ss Clarkesworld #44, May 2010 119 · Alone with Gandhari · Gord Sellar · ss Clarkesworld #42, March 2010 135 · The History Within Us · Matthew Kressel · nv Clarkesworld #42, March 2010 149 · January · Becca De La Rosa · ss Clarkesworld #43, April 2010 159 · Messenger · J. M. Sidorova · ss Clarkesworld #47, August 2010 173 · A Jar of Goodwill · Tobias S. Buckell · ss Clarkesworld #44, May 2010 191 · Futures in the Memories Market [MemMod World] · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Clarkesworld #45, June 2010 199 · My Father’s Singularity · Brenda Cooper · ss Clarkesworld #45, June 2010 205 · Beach Blanket Spaceship · Sandra McDonald · ss Clarkesworld #46, July 2010 213 · The Association of the Dead · Rahul Kanakia · ss Clarkesworld #46, July 2010 227 · Spar · Kij Johnson · ss Clarkesworld #37, October 2009 233 · Paper Cradle · Stephen Gaskell · ss Clarkesworld #48, September 2010 239 · Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time · Catherynne M. Valente · ss Clarkesworld #47, August 2010 251 · The Things · Peter Watts · nv Clarkesworld #40, January 2010

Clarkesworld: Year Five ed. Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace (Wyrm Publishing, December 2013, 978-1-890464-24-0, $14.95, 293pp, tp, an, cover by Ferdinand D. Ladera)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Neil Clarke · in 9 · Ghostweight · Yoon Ha Lee · ss Clarkesworld #52, January 2011 27 · Perfect Lies · Gwendolyn Clare · ss Clarkesworld #54, March 2011 41 · Tying Knots · Ken Liu · ss Clarkesworld #52, January 2011 53 · Seeing · Genevieve Valentine · ss Clarkesworld #50, November 2010 65 · Salvaging Gods · Jacques Barcia · ss Clarkesworld #49, October 2010 75 · Laying the Ghost [Salvageman Ed] · Eric Brown · ss Clarkesworld #49, October 2010 89 · The Children of Main Street · A. C. Wise · ss Clarkesworld #51, December 2010 99 · Diving After the Moon · Rachel Swirsky · ss Clarkesworld #53, February 2011 109 · Three Oranges · D. Elizabeth Wasden · ss Clarkesworld #53, February 2011 117 · Matchmaker · Erin M. Hartshorn · ss Clarkesworld #55, April 2011 131 · Trickster · Mari Ness · ss Clarkesworld #57, June 2011 149 · The Book of Phoenix (excerpted from The Great Book) · Nnedi Okorafor · ss Clarkesworld #54, March 2011 165 · The Architect of Heaven · Jason K. Chapman · ss Clarkesworld #56, May 2011 177 · Frozen Voice · An Owomoyela · ss Clarkesworld #58, July 2011 185 · Trois Morceaux en Forme de Mechanika · Gord Sellar · ss Clarkesworld #58, July 2011 195 · Pack · Robert Reed · ss Clarkesworld #60, September 2011 205 · Semiramis · Genevieve Valentine · ss Clarkesworld #57, June 2011 215 · Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know · Cat Rambo · ss Clarkesworld #56, May 2011 225 · The Taxidermist’s Other Wife · Kelly Barnhill · ss Clarkesworld #51, December 2010 233 · On the Banks of the River Lex · N. K. Jemisin · ss Clarkesworld #50, November 2010 243 · Signals in the Deep · Greg Mellor · ss Clarkesworld #60, September 2011 255 · The Fish of Lijiang · Chen Qiufan; translated by Ken Liu · ss Clarkesworld #59, August 2011 translated from the Chinese (2006). 267 · Conservation of Shadows · Yoon Ha Lee · ss Clarkesworld #59, August 2011 275 · The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees · E. Lily Yu · nv Clarkesworld #55, April 2011 283 · About the Authors · Neil Clarke · bg