Rich Horton - The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012

Peter S. Beagle, “The Way It Works Out and All” ( F&SF, 7-8/11)

Elizabeth Bear, “Dolly” ( Asimov’s, 1/11)

Elizabeth Bear, “Gods of the Forge” ( TRSF)

M. David Blake, “Absinthe Fish” ( Bull Spec )

Aliette de Bodard, “Shipbirth” ( Asimov’s, 2/10)

Marie Brennan, “Love, Cayce” ( Intergalactic Medicine Show, 4/11)

Damien Broderick, “The Beancounter’s Cat” ( Eclipse Four)

Rachel Manija Brown, “Steel Rider” ( Steam Powered)

Pat Cadigan, “You Never Know” ( Solaris Rising)

Geoffrey W. Cole, “One of the Many Uses of Cedar” ( On Spec, Summer/11)

Tina Connolly, “As We Report to Gabriel” ( Fantasy, 1/11)

Paul Cornell, “The Copenhagen Interpretation” ( Asimov’s, 7/11)

John Crowley, “And Go Like This” ( Naked City)

Indrapramit Das, “The Widow and the Xir” ( Apex, 7/11)

Eric Del Carlo, “Time, Like Blood, on My Hands” ( Redstone, 12/11)

Andy Duncan, “Slow as a Bullet” ( Eclipse Four)

Sarah L. Edwards, “By Plucking Her Petals” ( Interzone, 1-2/11)

K.M. Ferebee, “Seven Spells to Sever the Heart” ( Fantasy, 11/11)

Carolyn Ives Gilman, “The Ice Owl” ( F&SF, 10-11/11)

Lisa Goldstein, “Little Vampires” ( Realms of Fantasy, 4/11)

Elizabeth Hand, “Near Zennor” ( A Book of Horrors)

Colin Harvey, “The Ghost Station” ( Albedo 1 #40)

Amanda M. Hayes, “Silvergrass Mirror” ( Abyss and Apex, 4Q/11)

Rosamund Hodge, “Apotheosis” ( Black Gate, Spring/11)

Dylan Horrocks, “Steam Girl” ( Steampunk!)

Alexander Jablokov, “The Day the Wires Came Down” ( Asimov’s, 4-5/11)

Alaya Dawn Johnson, “Their Changing Bodies” ( Subterranean, Summer/11)

Gwyneth Jones, “The Ki-Anna” ( Engineering Infinity)

John Kessel, “Clean” ( Asimov’s, 3/11)

Mary Robinette Kowal, “Kiss Me Twice” ( Asimov’s, 6/11)

Douglas Lain, Wave of Mutilation(Fantastic Planet Books )

Jay Lake, “The Long Walk Home” ( Subterranean, Winter/11)

V.H. Leslie, “Time Keeping” ( Black Static, 6-7/11)

David D. Levine, “The Tides of the Heart” ( Realms of Fantasy, 6/11)

Kelly Link, “Valley of the Girls” ( Subterranean, Summer/11)

Ken Liu, “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” ( Panverse Three)

Kristin Livdahl, A Brood of Foxes(Aqueduct)

Ken MacLeod, “The Surface of Least Scattering” ( TRSF)

Ken MacLeod, “The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three” ( Solaris Rising)

Nick Mamatas, “North Shore Friday” ( Asimov’s, 4-5/11)

Ian McDonald, “Digging” ( Life on Mars)

Ian McHugh, “Boumee and the Apes” ( Analog, 5/11)

Maureen F. McHugh, “After the Apocalypse” ( After the Apocalypse)

Sean McMullen, “Enigma” ( Analog, 1-2/11)

David Moles, “A Soldier of the City” ( Engineering Infinity)

Alec Nevala-Lee, “The Boneless One” ( Analog, 11/11)

Peadar Ó Guilín, “Heartless” ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 12/15/11)

An Owomoyela, “All That Touches the Air” ( Lightspeed )

An Owomoyela, “Frozen Voice” ( Clarkesworld )

Suzanne Palmer, “Surf” ( Asimov’s, 12/11)

Paul Park, “Mysteries of the Old Quarter” ( Ghosts by Gaslight)

K.J. Parker, Blue and Gold(Subterranean Press)

Richard Parks, “The Ghost of Shinoda Forest” ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies )

Richard Parks, “The Swan Troika” ( Realms of Fantasy, 2/11)

David Prill, “A Pulp Called Joe” ( Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2)

Tom Purdom, “A Response from EST17” ( Asimov’s, 4-5/11)

Cat Rambo, “The Immortality Game” ( Fantasy, 6/11)

Robert Reed, “Purple” ( Asimov’s, 3/11)

Robert Reed, “The Ants of Flanders” ( F&SF, 7-8/11)

Robert Reed, “Stalker” ( Asimov’s, 9/11)

Alastair Reynolds, “The Old Man and the Martian Sea” ( Life on Mars)

M. Rickert, “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece” ( F&SF, 7-8/11)

Kate Riedel, “The Guardians” ( On Spec, Spring/11)

Mercurio D. Rivera, “For Love’s Delirium Haunts the Fractured Mind” ( Interzone, 7-8/11)

Tansy Rayner Roberts, “The Patrician” ( Love and Romanpunk)

Christopher Rowe, “Nowhere Fast” ( Steampunk!)

Geoff Ryman, “What We Found” ( F&SF, 9-10/11)

Grace Seybold, “Linking Words” ( Chiaroscuro, 7/11)

Carter Scholz, “Signs of Life” ( F&SF, 5-6/11)

Michael Swanwick, “For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Get Up Again” ( Asimov’s, 4/11)

Michael Swanwick, “The Dala Horse” ( Tor.com, 7/11)

Sonya Taaffe, “A Wolf in Iceland in the Child of a Lie” ( Not One of Us, 4/11)

Lavie Tidhar, “Red Dawn” ( Fantasy, 11/11)

Lavie Tidhar, “The Projected Girl” ( Naked City)

Lavie Tidhar, Jesus and the Eightfold Path(PS Publishing)

Catherynne M. Valente, “The Bread We Eat in Dreams” ( Apex, 11/11)

Catherynne M. Valente, Silently and Very Fast(WSFA Press, Clarkesworld Magazine )

Genevieve Valentine, “Demons, Your Body, and You” ( Subterranean )

Genevieve Valentine, “Things to Know About Being Dead” ( Teeth)

Kali Wallace, “Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls” ( F&SF, 3-4/11)

Jo Walton, “The Panda Coin” ( Eclipse Four)

Peter Watts, “Malak” ( Engineering Infinity)

Sarah Harris Wallman, “The Malanesian” ( LCRW, 8/11)

Kathryn Weaver, “The Doves of Hartleigh Gardens” ( Apex, 6/11)

Liz Williams and Alastair Reynolds, “Lune and the Red Empress”( Eastercon Souvenir Book)

“Ghostweight” by Yoon Ha Lee. © by Yoon Ha Lee. Originally published in Clarkesworld, January. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Sandal-Bride” by Genevieve Valentine. © by Genevieve Valentine. Originally published in Fantasy, March. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Adakian Eagle” by Bradley Denton. © by Bradley Denton. Originally published in Down These Strange Streets.Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Sighted Watchmaker” by Vylar Kaftan. © by Vylar Kaftan. Originally published in Lightspeed, December. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland, for a Little While” by Catherynne M. Valente. © by Catherynne M. Valente. Originally published in Tor.com, July 27. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Walking Stick Fires” by Alan DeNiro. © by Alan DeNiro. Originally published in Asimov’s, June. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Late Bloomer” by Suzy McKee Charnas. © by Suzy McKee Charnas. Originally published in Teeth.Reprinted by permission of the author.