Muallim / Ray Nayler -- Dark waters still flow / Alice Towey -- Proof by induction / Jose Pablo Iriarte -- Integral nothings / Robert Reed -- The price of attention / Karl Schroeder -- Paley's watch / Anil Menon -- Among the Marithei / Mary Anne Mohanraj -- A different sea / Vandana Singh -- The pizza boy / Meg Elison -- Ice fishing on Europa / Erin Barbeau -- Vaccine season / Hannu Rajaniemi -- Where there are cities, these dissolve too / S. Qiouyi Lu -- Without lungs or limbs to stay / Shauna O'Meara -- I'm waiting for you / Kim Bo-Young -- Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma / R.S.A. Garcia -- Hānai / Gregory Norman Bossert -- The equations of the dead / An Owomoye -- A necessary being / Indrapramit Das -- Qiankun and Alex / Hao Jingfang -- The trolley solution / Shiv Ramdas -- Aptitude / Cooper Shrivastava -- The tide of Moon City / Regina Kanyu Wang -- A rocket for Dimitrios / Ray Nayler -- Jaunt / Ken Liu -- The streams are paved with fish traps / Octavia Cade -- The water beneath our feet / Alice Towey -- Elegba's valley / Tade Thompson -- He leaps for the stars, he leaps for the stars / Grace Chan -- Complete exhaustion of the organism / Rich Larson -- Mulberry and owl / Aliette de Bodard -- Bots of the Lost Ark / Suzanne Palmer.
Summary:
Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more -- a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, there is this book collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Neil Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.
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