The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 12

The latest in a series that has been called “a must-read for fans of science fiction, fantasy, and short stories in general”

Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers. 

Contents:

“The Mocking Tower”, Daniel Abraham (The Book of Swords)

“Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders (Boston Review)

“Probably Still the Chosen One”, Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed)

“My English Name”, R. S. Benedict (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias Buckell (Cosmic Powers)

“Though She Be But Little”, C.S.E. Cooney (Uncanny)

“The Moon is Not a Battlefield”, Indrapramit Das (Infinity Wars)

“The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

“The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s Science Fiction)

“Crispin’s Model”, Max Gladstone (Tor.com)

“Come See the Living Dryad”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com)

“Bring Your Own Spoon”, Saad Z. Hossain (The Djinn Falls in Love)

“Babylon”, Dave Hutchison, 2084

“The Faerie Tree”, Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed)

“Fairy Tale of Wood Street”, Caitlin R Kiernan (Sirenia Digest)

“The Worshipful Society of Glovers”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny)

“An Evening with Severyn Grimes”, Rich Larson (Asimov’s Science Fiction)

“The Chameleon’s Gloves”, Yoon Ha Lee (Cosmic Powers)

“The Smoke of Gold is Glory”, Scott Lynch (The Book of Swords)

“Sidewalks”, Maureen McHugh (Omni)

“Concessions”, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Strange Horizons)

“The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata (Tor.com)

“The Secret Life of Bots”, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld)

“A Series of Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld)

“Belladonna Nights”, Alastair Reynolds (The Weight of Words)

“Eminence”, Karl Schroeder (Chasing Shadows)

“The Lamentation of their Women”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)

“Confessions of a Con Girl”, Nick Wolven (Asimov’s Science Fiction)

“Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)