Грег Иган: The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 1

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The following stories were published during 2019 and are highly recommended for anyone wanting to read even more great short fiction.

“A Strange Uncertain Light,” G. V. Anderson ( F&SF , 7-8/19)

“Life Sentence,” Matthew Baker ( Lightspeed , 2/19)

“Fugue State,” Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due ( Apex 120 )

“A Time to Reap,” Elizabeth Bear ( Uncanny , 12/19)

“Erase, Erase, Erase,” Elizabeth Bear ( F&SF , 9-10/19)

“No Moon and Flat Calm,” Elizabeth Bear ( Slate: Future Tense , 5/29/19)

Longer , Michael Blumlein (Tor.com)

“A Bird, A Song, A Revolution,” Brooke Bolander ( Lightspeed , 9/19)

“Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York?” Brooke Bolander ( New York Times , 7/1/19)

“The Migration Suite: A Study in C Sharp Minor,” Maurice Broaddus ( Uncanny , 7-8/19)

“While Dragons Claim the Sky,” Jen Brown ( Fiyah , Spring ’19)

“By the Warmth of Their Calculus,” Tobias S. Buckell ( Mission Critical )

“For He Can Creep,” Siobhan Carroll ( Tor.com , 7/10/19)

“The Airwalker Comes to the City in Green,” Siobhan Carroll ( Asimov’s , 11-12/19)

“Our Banished World,” Kim Changgyu ( Readymade Bodhisattva )

“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” Ted Chiang ( Exhalation )

“Omphalos,” Ted Chiang ( Exhalation )

“Beyond the El,” John Chu ( Tor.com , 1/16/19)

“Probabilitea,” John Chu ( Uncanny #28)

“To Catch All Sorts of Flying Things,” M. L. Clark ( Clarkesworld , 9/19)

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 , P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)

“miscellaneous notes from the time an alien came to band camp disguised as my alto sax,” Tina Connolly ( F&SF , 3-4/19)

Desdemona and the Deep , C. S. E. Cooney (Tor.com)

“Anosognosia,” John Crowley ( And Go Like This )

“A Shade of Dusk,” Indrapramit Das ( Echoes )

“The Shadow We Cast Through Time,” Indrapramit Das ( New Suns )

“The Song Between Worlds,” Indrapramit Das ( Slate: Future Tense , 4/27/19)

“Rescue Party,” Aliette de Bodard ( Mission Critical )

“Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness,” Aliette de Bodard ( Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight )

“Radicalized,” Cory Doctorow ( Radicalized )

“Unauthorized Bread,” Cory Doctorow ( Radicalized )

Miranda in Milan , Katharine Duckett (Tor.com)

“Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing,” Andy Dudak ( Analog , 1-2/19)

“Charlie Tells Another One,” Andy Duncan ( Asimov’s , 9-10/19)

“Instantiation,” Greg Egan ( Asimov’s , 3-4/19)

“Zeitgeber,” Greg Egan ( Tor.com , 9/19)

This Is How You Lose the Time War , Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)

“Hanging Gardens,” Gregory Feeley ( Mission Critical )

“Sisyphus in Elysium,” Jeffrey Ford ( The Mythic Dream )

“The Boy on the Roof,” Francesca Forrest ( Fireside , 11/19)

“Wild to Covet,” Sarah Gailey ( The Mythic Dream )

“The Sun from Both Sides,” R. S. A. Garcia ( Clarkesworld , 5/19)

“On the Shores of Ligeia,” Carolyn Ives Gilman ( Lightspeed , 3/19)

“Something in the Air,” Carolyn Ives Gilman ( Mission Critical )

“A Country Called Winter,” Theodora Goss ( Snow White Learns Witchcraft )

“Give the Family My Love,” A. T. Greenblatt ( Clarkesworld , 2/19)

“Do Not Look Back, My Lion,” Alix E. Harrow ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , #270)

Alice Payne Rides , Kate Heartfield (Tor.com)

“Repatriation,” Nalo Hopkinson ( Current Futures )

The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday , Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com)

Nomads , Dave Hutchinson (NewCon)

“How Sere Looked for a Pair of Boots,” Alexander Jablokov ( Asimov’s , 1-2/19)

“Skinner Box,” Carole Johnstone ( Tor.com , 6/12/19)

Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water , Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com)

“Between Zero and One,” Bo-Young Kim ( Readymade Bodhisattva )

“How Alike Are We,” Bo-Young Kim ( Clarkesworld , 10/19)

“Nice Things,” Ellen Klages ( Uncanny , 5-6/19)

The Ghosts of Ganymede , Derek Künsken ( Clarkesworld , 1/19)

“The Justified,” Ann Leckie ( The Mythic Dream )

“Glass Cannon,” Yoon Ha Lee ( Hexarchate Stories )

“The Empty Gun,” Yoon Ha Lee ( Mission Critical )

“The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,” Kelly Link ( Tin House , Summer ’19)

“Moonlight,” Cixin Liu ( Broken Stars )

“Haven,” Karen Lord ( Current Futures )

“Fare,” Danny Lore ( Fireside , 8/1/19)

“As Dark as Hunger,” S. Qiouyi Lu ( Black Static #72)

“The Things Eric Eats Before He Eats Himself,” Carmen Maria Machado ( The Mythic Dream )

“Labbatu Takes Command of the Flagship Heaven Dwells Within,” Arkady Martine ( The Mythic Dream )

The Menace from Farside , Ian McDonald (Tor.com)

“Phantoms of the Midway,” Seanan McGuire ( The Mythic Dream )

“Under the Hill,” Maureen McHugh ( F&SF , 9-10/19)

“It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right,” Sam J. Miller ( A People’s Future of the United States )

“Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart,” Sam J. Miller ( Clarkesworld , 7/19)

“Shucked,” Sam J. Miller ( F&SF , 11-12/19)

“Adrianna in Pomegranate,” Samantha Mills ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies #271)

“His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light,” Mimi Mondal ( Tor.com , 1/23/19)

“A Forest, or a Tree,” Tegan Moore ( Tor.com , 6/26/19)

“On the Lonely Shore,” Silvia Moreno-Garcia ( Uncanny , 3-4/19)

“Devil in the Dust,” Linda Nagata ( Mission Critical )

“The Death of Fire Station 10,” Ray Nayler ( Lightspeed , 10/19)

“The Ocean Between the Leaves,” Ray Nayler ( Asimov’s , 7-8/19)

“Old Media,” Annalee Newitz ( Tor.com , 2/19)

“Beyond Comprehensions,” Russell Nichols ( Fireside , 1/19)

“Dislocation Space,” Garth Nix ( Tor.com , 12/11/19)

“Tiny Bravery,” Ada Nnadi ( Omenana , 11/19)

“Binti: Sacred Fire,” Nnedi Okorafor ( Binti: The Complete Trilogy )

“Dave’s Head,” Suzanne Palmer ( Clarkesworld , 9/19)

“Waterlines,” Suzanne Palmer ( Asimov’s , 7-8/19)

“More Real Than Him,” Silvia Park ( Tor.com , 8/5/19)

My Beautiful Life , K. J. Parker (Subterranean)

“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye,” Sarah Pinsker ( Uncanny , 7-8/19)

“The Narwhal,” Sarah Pinsker ( Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea )

“In This Moment, We Are Happy,” Chen Qiufan ( Clarkesworld , 8/19)

“Space Leek,” Chen Qiufan ( Slate: Future Tense , 6/29/19)

“Whom My Soul Loves,” Rivqa Rafael ( Strange Horizons , 11/19)