The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6
(By Neil Clarke)
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Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more—a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.
The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year’s writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome “sensawunda” that the genre has to offer.
Table of Contents:
“Scar Tissue by Tobias S. Buckell (Future Tense Fiction, May 30, 2020)
“Eyes of the Forest by Ray Nayler (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2020)
“Sinew and Steel and What They Told by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com, February 26, 2020)
“An Important Failure by Rebecca Campbell (Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2020)
“The Long Iapetan Night by Julie Novakova (Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December 2020)
“AirBody by Sameem Siddiqui (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2020)
“The Bahrain Underground Bazaar by Nadia Afifi (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2020)
“Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City by Arula Ratnakar (Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2020)
“Your Boyfriend Experience by James Patrick Kelly (Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends, edited by Sheila Williams)
“Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars by Mercurio D. Rivera (Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2020)
“The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade by Bogi Takács (Rebuilding Tomorrow, edited by Tsana Dolichva)
“Oannes, From The Flood by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Avatars, Inc., edited by Ann VanderMeer)
“Yellow and the Perception of Reality by Maureen McHugh (Tor.com, July 22, 2020)
“Exile’s End by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Tor.com, August 12, 2020)
“Invisible People by Nancy Kress (Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends, edited by Sheila Williams)
“Red_Bati by Dilman Dila (Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Zelda Knight and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki)
“Textbooks in the Attic by S.B. Divya (Rebuilding Tomorrow, edited by Tsana Dolichva)
“Seeding the Mountain by M. L. Clark (Analog Science Fiction & Fact, September/October 2020)
“Knock Knock Said the Ship by Rati Mehrotra (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2020)
“Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air by Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed Magazine, August 2020)
“Tunnels by Eleanor Arnason (Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 2020)
“Test 4 Echo by Peter Watts (Made to Order, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
“Uma by Ken Liu (Avatars, Inc., edited by Ann VanderMeer)
“Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love by Usman T. Malik (Wired, December 11, 2020)
“The Translator, at Low Tide by Vajra Chandrasekera (Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2020)
“Fairy Tales for Robots by Sofia Samatar (Made to Order, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
“This World is Made for Monsters by M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2020)
“Elsewhere by James S. A. Corey (Avatars, Inc., edited by Ann VanderMeer)
“Salvage by Andy Dudak (Interzone, January/February 2020)
“The Long Tail by Aliette de Bodard (Wired, November 30, 2020)
“Rhizome, by Starlight by Fran Wilde (Rebuilding Tomorrow, edited by Tsana Dolichva)
“How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar by Rich Larson (Tor.com, January 15, 2020)
Cover art: “FOSS_STATION77” by Pascal Blanché.”
