Introduction: How Quini the Squid misplaced his klubučar / Scar tissue / Rich Larson. Eyes of the forest / Ray Nayler -- Sinew and steel and what they told / Carrie Vaughn -- An important failure / Rebecca Campbell -- The long lapetan night / Julie Nováková -- AirBody / Sameem Siddiqui -- The Bahrain underground bazaar / Nadia Afifi -- Lone puppeteer of a sleeping city / Arula Ratnakar -- Your boyfriend experience / James Patrick Kelly -- Beyond the tattered veil of stars / Mercurio D. Rivera -- The 1st interspecies solidarity fair and parade / Bogi Takács -- Oannes, from the flood / Adrian Tchaikovsky -- Yellow and the perception of reality / Maureen McHugh -- Exile's end / Carolyn Ives Gilman -- Invisible people / Nancy Kress -- Red_bati / Dilman Dila -- Textbooks in the attic / S.B. Divya -- Seeding the mountain / M.L. Clark -- Knock knock said the ship / Rati Mahrotra -- Still you linger, like soot in the air / Mathew Kressel -- Tunnels / Eleanor Arnason -- Test 4 echo / Peter Watts -- Uma / Ken Liu -- Beyond these stars other tribulations of love / Usman T. Malik -- The translator, at low tide / Vijra Chandrasekera -- Fairy tales for robots / Sofia Samatar -- This world is made for monsters / M. Rickert -- Elsewhere / James S. A. Corey -- Salvage / Andy Dudak -- The long tail / Aliette de Bodard -- Rhizome, by starlight / Fran Wilde -- How Quini the Squid misplaced his klubučar / Rich Larson.
Summary:
"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. 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."--Amazon.com.
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