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

“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing,” Shiv Ramdas ( Strange Horizons , 9/9/19)

Sisters of the Vast Black , Lina Rather (Tor.com)

Permafrost , Alastair Reynolds (Tor.com)

“Learning Report,” Sofia Rhei ( Everything Is Made of Letters )

“A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy,” Rebecca Roanhorse ( The Mythic Dream )

The Man Who Would Be Kling , Adam Roberts (NewCon)

“Ice Breakers,” Kristine Kathryn Rusch ( Mission Critical )

“The Gondoliers,” Karen Russell ( Tin House , Summer ’19)

“In That Place She Grows a Garden,” Del Sandeen ( Fiyah , Spring ’19)

“Advice for Your First Time at the Faerie Market,” Nibedita Sen ( Fireside , 7/19)

Ormeshadow , Priya Sharma (Tor.com)

“Mother Ocean,” Vandana Singh ( Current Futures )

“The Wilderling,” Angela Slatter ( The Dark #48)

“The Burning Woods,” Michael Marshall Smith ( I Am the Abyss )

“Blood Is Another Word for Hunger,” Rivers Solomon ( Tor.com , 7/24/19)

The Deep , Rivers Solomon (Saga)

“Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future,” Carlie St. George ( Nightmare #85 , 10/19)

“You Were Once Wild Here,” Carlie St. George ( The Dark 12/19)

“Every Song Must End,” Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam ( Uncanny #27)

Silver in the Wood , Emily Tesh (Tor.com)

The Survival of Molly Southbourne , Tade Thompson (Tor.com)

“In Xanadu,” Lavie Tidhar ( Tor.com , 11/6/19)

“New Atlantis,” Lavie Tidhar ( F&SF , 5-6/19)

“Who Will Clean Our Spirits When We’re Gone?” Tlotlo Tsamaase ( The Dark #50)

“Gremlin,” Carrie Vaughn ( Asimov’s , 5-6/19)

“My Snakes,” Frieda Vaughn ( Fiyah , Spring ’19)

“Boiled Bones and Black Eggs,” Nghi Vo ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , #275)

Into Bones Like Oil , Kaaron Warren (Meerkat)

“The Crafter at the Web’s Heart,” Izzy Wasserstein ( Apex 117)

The Ascent to Godhood , JY Yang (Tor.com)

“Windrose in Scarlet,” Isabel Yap ( Lightspeed , 10/19)

“The Time Invariance of Snow,” E. Lily Yu ( Tor.com , 4/14/19)

“Valley of Wounded Deer,” E. Lily Yu ( Lightspeed , 10/19)

“Zero in Babel,” E. Lily Yu ( Slate: Future Tense , 7/27/19)

Selection and “Introduction” by Jonathan Strahan. © Copyright 2020 by Jonathan Strahan.

“The Bookstore at the End of America” by Charlie Jane Anders. © Copyright 2019 Charlie Jane Anders. Originally published in A People’s Future of the United States (One World). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Soft Edges” by Elizabeth Bear. © Copyright 2019 Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology (XPrize). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex” by Tobias S. Buckell. © Copyright 2019 Tobias S. Buckell. Originally published in New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Solaris). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning” by Ted Chiang. © Copyright 2019 Ted Chiang and The New York Times . Originally published in The New York Times , 27 May 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author and the author’s agent.

“Kali_Na” by Indrapramit Das. © Copyright 2019 Indrapramit Das. Originally published in The Mythic Dream (Saga). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“This Is Not the Way Home,” by Greg Egan. Copyright © 2019 by Greg Egan. Originally published in Mission Critical . Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Song of the Birds” by Saleem Haddad. © Copyright 2019 Saleem Haddad. Originally published in Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba (Comma Press). Reprinted by kind permission of the author and the author’s agent.

“As the Last I May Know” by S. L. Huang. © Copyright 2019 S. L. Huang, LLC. Originally published in Tor.com , 23/10/19. Reprinted by kind permission of the author and the author’s agent.

“Emergency Skin” by N. K. Jemisin. © Copyright 2019 N. K. Jemisin. Originally published in Forward: Amazon Original Stories , September 2019 (Amazon). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Now Wait for This Week” by Alice Sola Kim. © Copyright 2019 Alice Sola Kim. Originally published in The Cut , 17 January 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous” by Rich Larson. © Copyright 2019 Rich Larson. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , March–April 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married” by Fonda Lee. © Copyright 2019 Fonda Lee. Originally published in MIT Technology Review , 27/12/19. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Thoughts and Prayers” by Ken Liu. © Copyright 2019 Dandelion Stories Limited Company. Originally published in Slate: Future Tense , 26 January 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“The Robots of Eden” by Anil Menon. © Copyright 2019 Anil Menon. Originally published in New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Solaris). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“The Work of Wolves” by Tegan Moore. © Copyright 2019 Tegan Moore. Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction , July-August, 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“At the Fall” by Alec Nevala-Lee. © Copyright 2019 Alec Nevala-Lee. Originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact , May-June 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Dune Song” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. © Copyright 2019 Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Originally published in Apex 120, May 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders” by Malka Older. © Copyright 2019 Malka Older. Originally published in Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology (XPrize). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“What the Dead Man Said” by Chinelo Onwualu. © Copyright 2019 Chinelo Onwualu. Originally published in Slate , 24 August 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer. © Copyright 2019 Suzanne Palmer. Originally published in Clarkesworld 153, May 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Secret Stories of Doors” by Sofia Rhei. © Copyright 2019 Sofia Rhei. Originally published in Everything is Made of Letters (Aqueduct). Translation by Sofia Ria with assistance from Ian Whates. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Reunion” by Vandana Singh. © Copyright 2019 Vandana Singh. Originally published in The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (Hachette India). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

“Submarines” by Han Song. © Copyright 2019 Han Song. Originally published in Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (Tor). Translation by Ken Liu. Copyright © 2019 by Ken Liu. Reprinted by kind permission of the author and the translator.

“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir ” by Karin Tidbeck. © Copyright 2019 Karin Tidbeck. Originally published in Tor.com , 24 January 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.