From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single volume.<\/b><\/p>\n
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 accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of\u00a0The Best Science Fiction of the Year<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Clarkesworld<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n
Table of Contents<\/p>\n
Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2018
\nWhen We Were Starless – Simone Heller
\nIntervention – Kelly Robson
\nAll the Time We’ve Left to Spend – Alyssa Wong
\nDomestic Violence – Madeline Ashby
\nTen Landscapes of Nili Fossae – Ian McDonald
\nProphet of the Roads – Naomi Kritzer
\nTraces of Us – Vanessa Fogg
\nTheories of Flight – Linda Nagata
\nLab B-15 – Nick Wolven
\nRequiem – Vandana Singh
\nSour Milk Girls – Erin Roberts
\nMother Tongues – S. Qiouyi Lu
\nSingles’ Day – Samantha Murray
\nNine Last Days on Planet Earth – Daryl Gregory
\nThe Buried Giant – Lavie Tidhar
\nThe Anchorite Wakes – R.S.A. Garcia
\nEntropy War – Yoon Ha Lee
\nAn Equation of State – Robert Reed
\nQuantifying Trust – John Chu
\nHard Mary – Sofia Samatar
\nFreezing Rain, a Chance of Falling – L.X. Beckett
\nOkay, Glory – Elizabeth Bear
\nHeavy Lifting – A.T. Greenblatt
\nLions and Gazelles – Hannu Rajaniemi
\nDifferent Seas – Alastair Reynolds
\nAmong the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger’s Steps – Aliette de Bodard
\nByzantine Empathy – Ken Liu
\nMeat and Salt and Sparks – Rich Larson
\nUmbernight – Carolyn Ives Gilman<\/p>\n