The citadel of weeping pearls / Aliette de Bodard. Three cups of grief, by starlight / Aliette de Bodard -- Ruins / Eleanor Arnason -- Another word for world / Ann Leckie -- Meshed / Rich Larson -- Emergence / Gwyneth Jones -- Gypsy / Carter Scholz -- The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coat / Chaz Brenchley -- The muses of Shuyedan-18 / Indrapramit Das -- Bannerless / Carrie Vaughn -- The audience / Sean McMullen -- Rates of change / James S.A. Corey -- Calved / Sam J. Miller -- Botanica Veneris: Thirteen papercuts by Ida Countess Rathagan / Ian McDonald -- Consolation / John Kessel -- The children of Gal / Allen M. Steele -- Today I am Paul / Martin L. Shoemaker -- City of ash / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Trapping the Pleistecene / James Sarafin -- Machine learning / Nancy Kress -- Inhuman garbage / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Planet of fear / Paul J. McAuley -- It takes more muscles to frown / Ned Beauman -- The daughters of John Demetrius / Joe Pitkin -- Silence like diamonds / John Barnes -- Billy Tumult / Nick Harkaway -- Hello, hello; can you hear me, hello / Seanan McGuire -- Capitalism in the 22nd century of A.I.R / Geoff Ryman -- Ice / Rich Larson -- The First Gate of Logic / Benjamin Rosenbaum -- In Panic Town, on the backward moon / Michael F. Flynn -- The three resurrections of Jessica Churchill / Kelly Robson -- No placeholder for you, my love / Nick Wolven -- The game of smash and recovery / Kelly Link -- A stopped clock / Madeline Ashby -- The citadel of weeping pearls / Aliette de Bodard.
Summary:
Presents some of the best science fiction short stories written in 2015.
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