Rich Horton - The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2019 Edition

P H Lee’s fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine and Worlds Without Master . In addition to their writing, P H Lee has worked as a game developer, tutor, graphic designer, and administrative assistant. Their hobbies include translating the Chinese classics and reading Wikipedia. They live together with several other people, far from the bells of the city.

Justina Robson( www.justinarobson.co.uk) was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1968. She sold her first novel in 1999, which also won the 2000 amazon.co.uk Writers’ Bursary Award. Her eleven books have been variously shortlisted for most of the major genre awards, including her latest novel Glorious Angels . A collection of her short fiction, Heliotrope , was published in 2012. Her novels and stories range widely over SF and fantasy, often in combination and often featuring AIs and machines who aren’t exactly what they seem. She is also the proud author of The Covenant of Primus (2013)—the Hasbro-authorised history and ‘bible’ of The Transformers. She lives in t’North of England with her partner, three children, a cat and a dog.

New Zealand born, Australian resident Juliet Marillieris the author of twenty-one novels, including the Sevenwaters and Blackthorn & Grim series, plus assorted short fiction. Juliet is a member of OBOD (the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.) Her lifelong love of mythology and folklore is a major influence on her writing. Juliet’s new novel, The Harp of Kings , first book in the Warrior Bards series, comes out in September 2019. When not writing, Juliet tends to a small crew of rescue dogs. More at www.julietmarillier.com

Jim Sallishas published seventeen novels, multiple collections of stories, poems and essays, three books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau’s novel Saint Glinglin. “As a child” he helped edit New Worlds , and for many years has contributed a books column to F&SF . Shorter work appears regularly in literary journals, Asimov’s , F&SF , Interzone , and many others. Jim has received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature policière.

Ursula K. Le Guin(1929-2018) was a celebrated and beloved author of twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve children’s books, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebulas, seven Hugos, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

G. V. Anderson, “Down Where Sound Goes Blunt”, ( F&SF , 3-4/18)

Madeline Ashby, “Work Shadow/Shadow Work”, ( Robots vs Fairies)

Bo Balder, “A Cigarette Burn in Your Memory”, ( Clarkesworld , 1/18)

L. X. Beckett, “Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling”, ( F&SF , 7-8/18)

Gregory Benford, “A Waltz in Eternity”, ( Galaxy’s Edge , 11/18)

Simon Bestwich, “Breakwater”, ( Tor.com , 2/28/19)

Aliette de Bodard, The Tea Master and the Detective(Subterranean Press)

Gregory Norman Bossert, “The Empyrean Light”, ( Conjunctions , Fall/18)

Joseph Bruchac, “The Next to Last of the Mohegans”, ( F&SF , 3-4/18)

Bryan Camp, “The Independence Path”, ( Lightspeed , 3/18)

Siobhan Carroll, “The War of Light and Shadow in Five Dishes”, ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 3/15/18)

Michael Cassutt, “Unter”, ( Asimov’s , 7-8/18)

Adam-Troy Castro, “The Unnecessary Parts of the Story”, ( Analog , 9-10/18)

P. Djeli Clark, “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Fireside Quarterly , 2/18)

P. Djeli Clark, The Black God’s Drums, (Tor.com Publishing)

Pip Coen, “Inquisitive”, ( F&SF , 5-6/18)

F. Brett Cox, “The End of All Our Exploring”, ( The End of All Our Exploring)

Tina Connolly, “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, (Tor.com , 7/11/18)

C.S.E. Cooney, “As for Peace, Call it Murder”, ( Sword and Sonnet)

John Crowley, “Flint and Mirror”, ( The Book of Magic)

Leah Cypess, “Attachment Unavailable”, ( Asimov’s , 7-8/18)

Andy Duncan, “Joe Diabo’s Farewell”, ( An Agent of Utopia)

Andy Duncan, “An Agent of Utopia”, ( An Agent of Utopia)

Andy Duncan, “New Frontiers of the Mind”, ( Analog , 7-8/18)

Greg Egan, “3-adica”, ( Asimov’s , 9-10/18)

Susan Emshwiller, “Suicide Watch”, ( F&SF , 9-10/18)

AJ Fitzwater, “Through the Eye of the Needle”, ( Giganotosaurus , 2/18)

Gwynne Garfinkle, “The Paper Doll Golems”, ( People Change)

Carolyn Ives Gilman, “We Will Be All Right”, ( Lightspeed , 5/18)

Beth Goder, “How to Identify an Alien Shark”, ( Fireside Quarterly , 7/18)

Theodora Goss, “Queen Lily”, ( Lightspeed , 11/18)

Daryl Gregory, “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”, ( Tor.com , 9/19/18)

Sally Gwylan, “Fleeing Oslyge”, ( Clarkesworld , 5/18)

Kate Heartfield, Alice Payne Arrives(Tor.com Publishing)

Azuma Hiroki, “A Fish in Chryse”, ( Speculative Japan 4)

Kameron Hurley, “Sister Solveig and Mr. Denial”, ( Amazing , Fall/18)

Ruth Joffre, “Nitrate Nocturnes”, ( Lightspeed , 4/18)

Bill Johnson, “Go Random My Love”, ( Analog , 9-10/18)

Clifford V. Johnson, “Resolution”, ( Twelve Tomorrows)

Rahul Kanakia, “The Coward’s Path”, ( Lightspeed , 2/18)

Rahul Kanakia, “Weft”, ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 4/12/18)

T. Kingfisher, “The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society”, ( Uncanny , 11-12/18)

Naomi Kritzer, “The Thing About Ghost Stories”, ( Uncanny , 11-12/18)

Rich Larson, “Meat and Salt and Sparks”, ( Tor.com , 6/6/18)

J. M. Ledgard, “Vespers”, ( Twelve Tomorrows)

Yoon Ha Lee, “The Starship and the Temple Cat”, ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 2/1/18)

Tonya Liburd, “Superfreak”, ( Shades Within Us)

Jane Lindskold, “A Green Moon Problem”, ( Lightspeed , 5/18)

Marissa Lingen, “Left to Take the Lead”, ( Analog , 7-8/18)

Arkady Martine, “ The Hydraulic Emperor ”, ( Uncanny , 1-2/18)

Ian McDonald, Time Was, (Tor.com Publishing)

Sandra McDonald and Stephen B. Covey, “Time Enough to Say Goodbye”, ( Asimov’s , 5-6/18)

Sandra McDonald, “Sexy Robot Heroes”, ( Mothers of Invention)

Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky, (Tor.com Publishing)

Sean McMullen, “Extreme”, ( F&SF , 11-12/18)

Will McIntosh, “What is Eve?”, ( Lightspeed , 4/18)

Christopher McKitterick, “Ashes of Exploding Suns, Monuments to Dust”, ( Analog , 11-12/18)

Maria Romasco Moore, “Dying Light”, ( LCRW , Spring/18)