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

Heather Morris, “A Slip in the Slice”, ( Kaleidotrope , Winter/18)

Samantha Murray, “Singles’ Day”, ( Interzone , 9-10/18)

Ray Nayler, “Incident at San Juan Bautista”, ( Asimov’s , 11-12/18)

Mari Ness, “The Ceremony”, ( Fireside Quarterly , 7/18)

Annalee Newitz, “The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto”, ( Robots vs Fairies)

Garth Nix, “The Staff in the Stone”, ( The Book of Magic)

Julie Novakova, “Reset in Peace”, ( Amazing , Winter/18)

Sandra M. Odell, “The Home for Broken”, ( Godfall)

Paul Park “Creative Nonfiction”, ( Asimov’s , 5-6/18)

K. J. Parker, “The Thought That Counts”, ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 4/26/18)

Josh Pearce, “Sensorium”, ( Bourbon Penn , 3/18)

Josh Pearce, “Such Were the Faces of the Living Creatures”, ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 2/15/18)

Sarah Pinsker, “Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing”, ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 3/1/18)

Hannu Rajaniemi, “A Portrait of Salai”, ( Infinity’s End)

Robert Reed, “Love Songs for the Very Awful”, ( Asimov’s , 3-4/18)

Robert Reed, “Obliteration”, ( Clarkesworld , 2/18)

Justina Robson, “S’elfie”, ( Mothers of Invention)

Kelly Robson, Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, (Tor.com Publishing)

Margaret Ronald, “Silence in Blue Glass”, ( Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 4/26/18)

Jess Row, “Radical Sufficiency”, ( Granta , Autumn/18)

Ryan Row, “Superbright”, ( Interzone , 7-8/18)

Joanna Ruocco, “Stone Paper Stone”, ( LCRW , 7/18)

Karen Russell, “Orange World”, ( The New Yorker , 6/4-11/18)

Geoff Ryman, “This Constant Narrowing”, ( F&SF , 11-12/18)

Karl Schroeder, The Million(Tor.com Publishing)

Jack Skillingstead, “Straconia”, ( Asimov’s , 7-8/18)

Amanda Sun, “The Travellers”, ( Shades Within Us)

Lavie Tidhar, “Yiwu”, ( Tor.com, 5/18)

Brian Trent, “An Incident on Ishtar”, ( Analog , 3-4/18)

Brian Trent, “Crash-Site”, ( F&SF , 5-6/18)

Brian Trent, “The Memorybox Vultures”, ( F&SF , 9-10/18)

Carrie Vaughn, “The Huntsman and the Beast”, ( Asimov’s , 9-10/18)

Cynthia Ward, The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum, (Aqueduct Press)

Peter Watts, “Kindred”, ( Infinity’s End)

Peter Watts, The Freeze Frame Revolution, (Tachyon)

Martha Wells, Artificial Condition, (Tor.com Books)

Fran Wilde, “The Synchronist”, ( Infinity’s End)

Liz Williams, “Sungrazer”, ( The Book of Magic)

M. C. Williams, “The Ghost of Zefort”, ( Bourbon Penn , 11/18)

“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow. © by Alix E. Harrow. Originally published in Apex , February 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Intervention” by Kelly Robson. © by Kelly Robson. Originally published in Infinity’s End , edited by Jonathan Strahan. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Donner Party” by Dale Bailey. © by Dale Bailey. Originally published in F&SF , January/February 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“How to Identify an Alien Shark” by Beth Goder. © by Beth Goder. Originally published in Fireside Quarterly , July 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Tale of the Ive-ojan-akhar’s Death” by Alex Jeffers. © by Alex Jeffers. Originally published in Giganotosaurus , April 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Carouseling” by Rich Larson. © by Rich Larson. Originally published in Clarkesworld , April 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Starship and the Temple Cat” by Yoon Ha Lee. © by Yoon Ha Lee. Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 1 February 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Grace’s Family” by James Patrick Kelly. © by James Patrick Kelly. Originally published in Tor.com , May 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker. © by Sarah Pinsker. Originally published in Lightspeed , January 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Persistence of Blood” by Juliette Wade. © by Juliette Wade. Originally published in Clarkesworld , March 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Lime and the One Human” by S. Woodson. © by S. Woodson. Originally published in LCRW , July 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bubble and Squeak” by David Gerrold & Ctein. © by David Gerrold & Ctein. Originally published in Asimov’s , May/June 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Sour Milk Girls” by Erin Roberts. © by Erin Roberts. Originally published in Clarkesworld , January 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Unnecessary Parts of the Story” by Adam-Troy Castro. © by Adam-Troy Castro. Originally published in Analog , September/October 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Temporary Suicides of Goldfish” by Octavia Cade. © by Octavia Cade. Originally published in Kaleidotrope , Winter 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Gift” by Julia Nováková. © by Julia Nováková. Originally published in Asimov’s , November/December 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Buried Giant” by Lavie Tidhar. © by Lavie Tidhar. Originally published in Robots vs Fairies , edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Jump” by Cadwell Turnbull. © by Cadwell Turnbull. Originally published in Lightspeed , October 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Umbernight” by Carolyn Ives Gilman. © by Carolyn Ives Gilman. Originally published in Clarkesworld , February 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Today is Today” by Rick Wilber. © by Rick Wilber. Originally published in Stonecoast Review , Summer 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Heart of Owl Abbas” by Kathleen Jennings. © by Kathleen Jennings. Originally published in Tor.com , 11 April 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Spires” by Alec Nevala-Lee. © by Alec Nevala-Lee. Originally published in Analog , March/April 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The House by the Sea” by P H Lee. © by P H Lee. Originally published in Uncanny , September/October 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Foxy and Tiggs” by Justina Robson. © by Justina Robson. Originally published in Infinity’s End , edited by Jonathan Strahan. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Beautiful” by Juliet Marillier. © by Juliet Marillier. Originally published in Aurum , edited by Russell B. Farr. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Dayenu” by James Sallis. © by James Sallis. Originally published in LCRW , Spring 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Firelight” by Ursula K. Le Guin. © by Ursula K. Le Guin. Originally published in Paris Review , Summer 2018. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Rich Hortonis an associate technical fellow in software for a major aerospace corporation and the reprint editor for the Hugo Award-winning semiprozine Lightspeed . He is also a columnist for Locus and for Black Gate . He edits a series of best of the year anthologies for Prime Books, and also for Prime Books he has co-edited Robots: The Recent A.I. and War & Space: Recent Combat.