The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 11

Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass.

Contents

Introduction by Jonathan Strahan

The Future Is Blue / Catherynne M. Valente

Mika Model / Paolo Bacigalupi

Spinning Silver / Naomi Novik

Two's Company (The First Law Universe) / Joe Abercrombie

You Make Pattaya / Rich Larson

You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay / Alyssa Wong

A Salvaging of Ghosts (Universe of Xuya) / Aliette de Bodard

Even the Crumbs Were Delicious / Daryl Gregory

Number Nine Moon / Alex Irvine

Things with Beards / Sam J. Miller

Successor, Usurper, Replacement / Alice Sola Kim

Laws of Night and Silk / Seth Dickinson

Touring with the Alien / Carolyn Ives Gilman

The Great Detective (Cwmlech Manor #2) / Delia Sherman

Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home / Genevieve Valentine

Those Shadows Laugh / Geoff Ryman

Seasons of Glass and Iron / Amal El-Mohtar

The Art of Space Travel / Nina Allan

Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) / Caitlín R. Kiernan

Red Dirt Witch / N. K. Jemisin

Red as Blood and White as Bone / Theodora Goss

Terminal / Lavie Tidhar

Foxfire, Foxfire / Yoon Ha Lee

Elves of Antarctica / Paul J. McAuley

The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight / E. Lily Yu

Seven Birthdays / Ken Liu

The Visitor from Taured / Ian R. MacLeod

Fable / Charles Yu

Honorable Mentions: 2016 -- essay