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Best American Fantasy

Best American Fantasy: Book 1

Ann VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer

A prestigious new anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor. This inaugural volume showcases the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

Table of Contents:

  • Preface - (2007) - essay by Matthew Cheney
  • Introduction - (2007) - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
  • A Hard Truth About Waste Management - (2006) - shortstory by Sumanth Prabhaker
  • The Stolen Father - (2006) - shortstory by Eric Roe
  • The Saffron Gatherers - (2006) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
  • The Whipping - (2006) - shortstory by Julia Elliott
  • A Better Angel - (2006) - shortstory by Chris Adrian
  • Draco Campestris - (2006) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
  • Geese - (2006) - shortfiction by Daniel Coudriet
  • The Chinese Boy - (2006) - novelette by Ann Stapleton
  • The Flying Woman - (2006) - shortstory by Meghan McCarron
  • First Kisses from Beyond the Grave - (2006) - novelette by Nik Houser
  • Song of the Selkie - (2006) - shortstory by Gina Ochsner
  • A Troop [sic] of Baboons - (2006) - shortstory by Tyler Smith
  • Pieces of Scheherazade - (2006) - shortstory by Nicole Kornher-Stace
  • Origin Story - (2006) - novelette by Kelly Link
  • An Experiment in Governance - (2006) - shortfiction by E. M. Schorb
  • The Next Corpse Collector - (2006) - novelette by Ramola D
  • Village of Ardakmoktan - (2006) - shortstory by Nicole Derr
  • The Man Who Married a Tree - (2006) - shortstory by Tony D'Souza
  • A Fable with Slips of White Paper... - (2006) - shortstory by Kevin Brockmeier
  • Pregnant - (2006) - shortstory by Catherine Zeidler
  • The Warehouse of Saints - (2006) - shortstory by Robin Hemley
  • The Ledge - (2006) - novelette by Austin Bunn
  • Lazy Taekos - (2006) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • For the Love of Paul Bunyan - (2006) - shortstory by Fritz Swanson
  • An Accounting - (2006) - shortstory by Brian Evenson
  • Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot - (2006) - shortstory by Daniel Alarcón
  • Bit Forgive - (2006) - shortstory by Maile Chapman
  • The End of Narrative (1-29; Or 29-1) - (2006) - novelette by Peter LaSalle
  • Kiss - (2006) - shortfiction by Melora Wolff
  • Contributor Notes - (2007) - essay by uncredited
  • Recommended Reading - (2007) - essay by uncredited
  • Publications Received - (2007) - essay by uncredited

Best American Fantasy 2

Best American Fantasy: Book 2

Ann VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer

A prestigious anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor, showcasing the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

Table of Contents:

  • Preface - essay by Matthew Cheney
  • Introduction - essay by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
  • Bufo Rex - (2007) - shortstory by Erik Amundsen
  • The Seven Deadly Hotels - shortfiction by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • The Revisionist - (2007) - shortfiction by Miranda Mellis
  • The Ruby Incomparable - (2007) - shortstory by Kage Baker
  • Interval - (2007) - shortfiction by Aimee Bender
  • Memoir of a Deer Woman - (2007) - shortstory by M. Rickert
  • In the Middle of the Woods - (2007) - shortfiction by Christian Moody
  • Story with Advice II: Back from the Dead - (2007) - shortfiction by Rick Moody
  • Logorrhea - (2007) - shortstory by Michelle Richmond
  • Ave Maria - (2007) - shortfiction by Micaela Morrissette
  • Chainsaw on Hand - (2007) - shortstory by Deborah Coates
  • The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French - (2008) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
  • Minus, His Heart - (2007) - shortfiction by Jedediah Berry
  • Abroad - (2007) - shortstory by Judy Budnitz
  • Mario's Three Lives - (2007) - shortstory by Matt Bell
  • The Naming of the Islands - (2007) - shortfiction by David Hollander
  • The Drowned Life - (2007) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
  • Light - (2007) - novelette by Kelly Link
  • How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth - (2007) - shortstory by Rachel Swirsky

Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy Volume III

Best American Fantasy: Book 3

Kevin Brockmeier
Matthew Cheney

A city in a bottle. Kings. Genies. Jane Austen and Frankenstein. Grandmothers at sea... The acclaimed Best American Fantasy series continues with 20 stories chosen by best-selling writer Kevin Brockmeier. With stories by established writers, such as Peter S. Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Jeffrey Ford, and Lisa Goldstein, alongside tales by brilliant newcomers like Kellie Wells, Thomas Glave, Ryan Boudinot, and Rebecca Makkai, Real Unreal delivers a richly diverse experience of contemporary fiction. Guest editor Brockmeier knows fantasy inside and out: he is the recipient of three O. Henry Awards, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, and an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award. His stories have been published widely, including The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, and The Oxford American, and have been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the first volume of The Best American Fantasy.

Table of Contents:

  • Preface - essay by Matthew Cheney
  • Introduction - essay by Kevin Brockmeier
  • Safe Passage - (2008) - shortstory by Ramona Ausubel
  • Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel - (2008) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
  • Cardiology - (2009) - shortstory by Ryan Boudinot
  • The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children - (2008) - shortstory by Will Clarke
  • For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing - (2008) - shortstory by Martin Cozza
  • Daltharee - (2008) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
  • Is - (2008) - shortstory by Chris Gavaler
  • The Torturer's Wife - (2008) - novelette by Thomas Glave
  • Reader's Guide - (2008) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
  • Search Continues for Elderly Man - (2008) - shortstory by Laura Kasischke
  • Pride and Prometheus - (2008) - novelette by John Kessel
  • The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates - (2008) - shortstory by Stephen King
  • Couple of Lovers on a Red Background - (2008) - shortstory by Rebecca Makkai
  • Flying and Falling - (2008) - shortstory by Kuzhali Manickavel
  • The King of the Djinn - (2008) - shortstory by David Ackert and Benjamin Rosenbaum
  • The City and the Moon - (2008) - shortstory by Deborah Schwartz
  • The Two-Headed Girl - (2008) - shortstory by Paul G. Tremblay
  • The First Several Hundred Years Following My Death - (2007) - shortstory by Shawn Vestal
  • Rabbit Catcher of Kingdom Come - (2008) - novelette by Kellie Wells
  • Serials - (2008) - shortstory by Katie Williams
  • Contributors - (2008) - essay by uncredited
  • Recommended Reading - essay by Kevin Brockmeier and Matthew Cheney
  • Publications Received - essay by uncredited

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 1

Joe Hill
John Joseph Adams

Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy award-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing traditional fiction with speculative elements, these stories uphold a longstanding tradition in both genres - looking at the world and asking, What if...?

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword - by John Joseph Adams
  • Introduction - by Joe Hill

Science Fiction

Fantasy

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 2

John Joseph Adams
Karen Joy Fowler

From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears -- of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people -- and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.

Table of Contents
(works which are available to read online for free are linked)

Editorial

  • Foreword by John Joseph Adams
  • Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler

Fantasy

Science Fiction

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 3

John Joseph Adams
Charles Yu

Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres--they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Charles Yu, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 continues to explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Yu bringing his unique view--literary, meta, and adventurous--to the series' third edition.

Table of Contents:

Editorial

  • Foreword by John Joseph Adams
  • Introduction by Charles Yu

Fantasy

Science Fiction

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 4

N. K. Jemisin
John Joseph Adams

Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever--to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Jemisin bringing her lyrical, endlessly curious point of view to the series' latest edition.

Table of Contents:

FANTASY

SCIENCE FICTION

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 5

Carmen Maria Machado
John Joseph Adams

This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in 2018. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking animals, and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotion from tenderness to fear, each of these stories challenge the way we see our place in the cosmos. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 represents a wide range of the most accomplished voices working in science fiction and fantasy, in fiction, today -- each story dazzles with ambition, striking prose, and the promise of the other and the unencountered.

Table of Contents:

  • Pitcher Plant - short story by Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare Magazine)
  • What Everyone Knows - short story by Seanan McGuire (Kaiju Rising II)
  • The Storyteller's Replacement - short story by N. K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
  • Poor Unfortunate Fools - short story by Silvia Park (The Margins Transpacific Literary Project, November 1, 2018)
  • Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women - short story by Theodore McCombs (Nightmare Magazine)
  • Hard Mary - novelette by Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed Magazine)
  • Variations on a Theme from Turandot - short story by Ada Hoffmann (Strange Horizons)
  • Through the Flash - novelette by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Friday Black)
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good - novelette by LaShawn M. Wanak (FIYAH)
  • The Kite Maker - short story by Brenda Peynado (Tor.com)
  • The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington - short story by P. Djèlí Clark (Fireside Magazine)
  • When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis - short story by Annalee Newitz (Future Tense Fiction)
  • Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung - novelette by Usman T. Malik (Nightmare Magazine)
  • STET - short story by Sarah Gailey (Fireside Magazine)
  • What Gentle Women Dare - short story by Kelly Robson (Uncanny Magazine)
  • Nine Last Days on Planet Earth - novelette by Daryl Gregory (Tor.com)
  • Dead Air - novelette by Nino Cipri (Nightmare Magazine)
  • Skinned - short story by Lesley Nneka Arimah (McSweeney’s #53, August 21, 2018)
  • Godmeat - short story by Martin Cahill (Lightspeed Magazine)
  • On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog - short story by Adam R. Shannon (Apex Magazine)
  • Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories from 2018

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 6

John Joseph Adams
Diana Gabaldon

Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever – to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen" by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.

Table of Contents:

FANTASY

  • "Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters" by Kelly Barnhill from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • "Erase, Erase, Erase" by Elizabeth Bear from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • "Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan" by Christopher Caldwell from Uncanny Magazine
  • "The Freedom of the Shifting Sea" by Jaymee Goh from New Suns
  • "The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary)" by Gwendolyn Kiste from Nightmare Magazine
  • "Up from Slavery" by Victor LaValle from Weird Tales
  • "Shape-ups at Delilah's" by Rion Amilcar Scott from The New Yorker
  • "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" by Nibedita Sen from Nightmare Magazine
  • "Another Avatar" by S.P. Somtow from Amazing Stories
  • "The Time Invariance of Snow" by E. Lily Yu from Tor.com

SCIENCE FICTION

  • "The Bookstore at the End of America" by Charlie Jane Anders from A People's Future of the United States
  • "Life Sentence" by Matthew Baker from Lightspeed Magazine
  • "Bullet Point" by Elizabeth Bear from Wastelands: The New Apocalypse
  • "The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" by Tobias S. Buckell from New Suns
  • "Sacrid's Pod" by Adam-Troy Castro from Lightspeed Magazine
  • "Thoughts and Prayers" by Ken Liu from Future Tense Fiction
  • "The Robots of Eden" by Anil Menon from New Suns
  • "Between the Dark and the Dark" by Deji Bryce Olukotun from Lightspeed Magazine
  • "A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy" by Rebecca Roanhorse from The Mythic Dream
  • "The Archronology of Love" by Caroline M. Yoachim from Lightspeed Magazine

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 7

John Joseph Adams
Veronica Roth

This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and exchanges the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love, loss, and the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the after. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, as it claims its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity's never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.

Table of Contents:

FANTASY

  • "Glass Bottle Dancer" by Celeste Rita Baker from Lightspeed Magazine Issue #119, April 2020
  • "The Long Walk" by Kate Elliott from The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan
  • "The Cleaners" by Ken Liu from Amazon Original Stories (Faraway Collection)
  • "Tiger's Feast" by KT Bryski from Nightmare Magazine Issue #98, November 2020
  • "Crawfather" by Mel Kassel from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2020
  • "Two Truths and a Lie" by Sarah Pinsker from Tor.com, June 17, 2020
  • "Let's Play Dead" by Senaa Ahmad from The Paris Review Issue #232, Spring 2020
  • "And This is How to Stay Alive" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda from Fantasy Magazine Issue #61, November 2020
  • "Our Language" by Yohanca Delgado from A Public Space Issue #29, Winter 2021
  • "The Rat" by Yohanca Delgado from One Story Issue #270, October 2020

SCIENCE FICTION

  • "One Time, a Reluctant Traveler" by A. T. Greenblatt from Clarkesworld Issue #166, July 2020
  • "Skipping Stones in the Dark" by Amman Sabet from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2020
  • "Brother Rifle" by Daryl Gregory from Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan
  • "Schrodinger's Catastrophe" by Gene Doucette from Lightspeed Magazine Issues #126-127, November/December 2020
  • "The Plague Doctors" by Karen Lord from Take Us to a Better Place: Stories, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • "Survival Guide" by Karin Lowachee from Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych, Vol. 2, edited by Christie Yant, John Joseph Adams, and Hugh Howey
  • "The Pill" by Meg Elison from the collection Big Girl
  • "The Beast Adjoins" by Ted Kosmatka from Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2020
  • "How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary" by Tochi Onyebuchi from Slate's Future Tense, August 29, 2020
  • "Beyond the Dragon's Gate" by Yoon Ha Lee from Tor.com, May 20 2020

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 8

John Joseph Adams
Rebecca Roanhorse

Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever--to illuminate what it means to be human.

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by John Joseph Adams
  • Introduction (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by Rebecca Roanhorse
  • 10 Steps to a Whole New You - (2021) - short story by Tonya Liburd
  • The Pizza Boy - (2021) - short story by Meg Elison
  • If the Martians Have Magic - (2021) - short story by P. Djèlí Clark?
  • Delete Your First Memory for Free - (2021) - short story by Kel Coleman
  • The Red Mother - (2021) - short fiction by Elizabeth Bear
  • The Cold Calculations - (2021) - short fiction by Aimee Ogden
  • The Captain and the Quartermaster - (2021) - short story by C. L. Clark
  • Broad Dutty Water - (2021) - novelette by Nalo Hopkinson
  • I Was a Teenage Space Jockey - (2021) - short story by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Let All the Children Boogie - (2021) - short story by Sam J. Miller
  • Skinder's Veil - (2021) - novelette by Kelly Link
  • The Algorithm Will See You Now - (2021) - short fiction by Justin C. Key
  • The Cloud Lake Unicorn - (2021) - short fiction by Karen Russell
  • Proof by Induction - (2021) - short story by José Pablo Iriarte
  • Colors of the Immortal Palette - (2021) - novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
  • The Future Library - (2021) - novelette by Peng Shepherd
  • L'esprit De L'escalier - (2021) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Tripping Through Time - (2021) - short fiction by Rich Larson
  • The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han - (2021) - short fiction by Maria Dong
  • Root Rot - (2021) - short story by Fargo Tbakhi
  • Contributors' Notes (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by uncredited
  • Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2021 - essay by John Joseph Adams

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 9

John Joseph Adams
R. F. Kuang

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing.

Twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of science fiction and fantasy today.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 10

Hugh Howey
John Joseph Adams

"These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world" warns guest editor Hugh Howey in his introduction. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 promises a treasure trove of audacious characters, daring worldbuilding, and twisted realties. A sibling duo of supernatural hitmen. A traveling spellbreaker and his trusty alligator mount. Superheroes registering for work. Sentient spaceships with an AI-human interface grow up together with their human pilots. From a Korean folk-tale retelling about the goddess of shamans, to a car, resurrected from obsolescence via automancy, for a road trip from California to Maine, these are stories that, for Howey, "challenged my worldview, that made me exercise new mental muscles, and that brought me to tears."