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Hill, Joe

You Are Released. Flight or Fright, ed. Stephen King and Bev Vincent (Cemetery Dance)

Ho, Millie

Hehua. Fireside Fiction, January

Huang, S. L.

The Woman Who Destroyed Us. Twelve Tomorrows, ed. Wade Roush (MIT Press)

Iriarte, José Pablo

The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births. Lightspeed Magazine, January

Jemisin, N. K.

The Ones Who Stay and Fight. How Long ’til Black Future Month? (Orbit)

Joffre, Ruth

Nitrate Nocturnes. Lightspeed Magazine, April

Jones, Stephen Graham

Broken Record. The Devil and the Deep, ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade)

Kerr, Jake

Three Speeches About Billy Granger. Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against, ed. Gary Whitta, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey (Broad Reach)

La Farge, Paul

The Adventure of You. Welcome to Dystopia, ed. Gordon Van Gelder (OR Books)

LaValle, Victor

Ark of Light. Particulates, ed. Nalo Hopkinson (Dia Art Foundation)

Lee, Yoon Ha

The Starship and the Temple Cat. Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Firelight. The Paris Review, Summer

Liu, Ken

Byzantine Empathy. Twelve Tomorrows, ed. Wade Roush (MIT Press)

McGuire, Seanan

Swear Not by the Moon. Infinity’s End, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

Miller, Sam J.

My Base Pair. Analog Science Fiction & Fact, May/June

Morris, Stephanie Malia

Bride Before You. Nightmare Magazine, May/June

Newitz, Annalee

The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto. Robots vs. Fairies, ed. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga)

Nichols, Russell

Con Con. Terraform, September

Okorafor, Nnedi

The Heart of the Matter. Twelve Tomorrows, ed. Wade Roush (MIT Press)

Olukotun, Deji Bryce

The Levellers. Welcome to Dystopia, ed. Gordon Van Gelder (OR Books)

Owomoyela, An

The Hard Spot in the Glacier. Mechanical Animals, ed. Selena Chambers and Jason Heller (Hex)

Pinsker, Sarah

The Court Magician. Lightspeed Magazine, January

Rivera, Lilliam

Crave. Nightmare Magazine, March

Robson, Kelly

Intervention. Infinity’s End, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

Rolon, Nelson

Saudade. FIYAH, Autumn

Singh, Vandana

Widdam. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February

Vaughn, Carrie

The Huntsman and the Beast. Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October

Where Would You Be Now? Tor.com , February

Wasserstein, Izzy

Unplaces: An Atlas of Non-Existence. Clarkesworld Magazine, March

Wilber, Rick

Today Is Today. Stonecoast Review, no. 9

Wilson, Daniel H.

Bastion. Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against, ed. Gary Whitta, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey (Broad Reach)

Blood Memory. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters (Vintage)

Wise, A. C.

In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same. The Dark, June

Wong, Alyssa

All the Time We’ve Left to Spend. Robots vs. Fairies, ed. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga)

Olivia’s Table. A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, ed. Elsie Chapman and Ellen Oh (Greenwillow)

Yu, Charles

America: The Ride. Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against, ed. Gary Whitta, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey (Broad Reach)

Yu, E. Lily

Music for the Underworld. Terraform, March

The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther Shore. Clarkesworld Magazine, March

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“Through the Flash” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. First published in Friday Black. Copyright © 2018 by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Reprinted from Friday Black by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

“Skinned” by Lesley Nneka Arimah. First published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue 53, 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Lesley Nneka Arimah. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the author.

“Godmeat” by Martin Cahill. First published in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 96, May 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Martin Cahill. Reprinted by permission of Martin Cahill.

“Pitcher Plant” by Adam-Troy Castro. First published in Nightmare Magazine, April 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Reprinted by permission of Adam-Troy Castro.

“Dead Air” by Nino Cipri. First published in Nightmare Magazine, August 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Nino Cipri. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” by P. Djèlí Clark. First published in Fireside Fiction, February 2018. Copyright © 2018 by P. Djèlí Clark. Reprinted by permission of P. Djèlí Clark.

“STET” by Sarah Gailey. First published in Fireside Fiction, October 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Sarah Gailey. Reprinted by permission of Sarah Gailey.

“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” by Daryl Gregory. First published in Tor.com , September 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Daryl Gregory. Reprinted by permission of Tor.com .