When the stone eagle flies / Bill Johnson. Touring with the alien / Carolyn Ives Gilman -- Patience lake / Matthew Claxton -- Jonas and the fox / Rich Larson -- Prodigal / Gord Sellar -- Kit: some assembly required / Kathe Koja & Carter Scholz -- Vortex / Gregory Benford -- Elves of Antarctica / Paul McAuley -- The baby eaters / Ian McHugh -- A salvaging of ghosts / Aliette de Bodard -- Those shadows laugh / Geoff Ryman -- Redking / Craig DeLancey -- Things with beards / Sam J. Miller -- Fieldwork / Shariann Lewitt -- The further adventures of Mr. Costello / David Gerrold -- Innumerable glimmering lights / Rich Larson -- Fifty shades of grays / Steven Barnes -- Sixteen questions for Kamala Chatterjee / Alastair Reynolds -- Cold comfort / Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty -- The art of space travel / Nina Allan -- Flight from the ages / Derek Kusken -- My generations shall praise / Samantha Henderson -- Mars abides / Stephen Baxter -- The visitor from Taured / Ian R. MacLeod -- When the stone eagle flies / Bill Johnson. The iron tactician / Alastair Reynolds. One sister, two sisters, three / James Patrick Kelly -- Dispatches from the cradle: the hermit - forty-eight hours in the sea of Massachusetts / Ken Liu -- Checkerboard planet / Eleanor Arnason -- They have all one breath / Karl Bunker -- Mika model / Paolo Bacigalupi -- That game we played during the war / Carrie Vaughn -- Because change was the ocean and we lived by her mercy / Charlie Jane Anders -- The one who isn't / Ted Kosmatka -- Those brighter stars / Mercurio D. Rivera -- A tower for the coming world / Maggie Clark -- Firstborn, lastborn / Melissa Scott -- Women's Christmas / Ian McDonald -- The iron tactician / Alastair Reynolds.
Summary:
Presents some of the best science fiction short stories written in 2016.
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