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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 Author:Charles Yu (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Editor) 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 ... more »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.
Contents:
Foreword (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017) • essay by John Joseph Adams
Introduction (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017) • essay by Charles Yu
Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail (2016) / novelette by Leigh Bardugo
Teenagers from Outer Space (2016) / novelette by Dale Bailey
I've Come to Marry the Princess (2016) / short story by Helena Bell
Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home (2016) / novelette by Genevieve Valentine
The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight (2016) / short story by E. Lily Yu
When They Came to Us (2016) / short story by Debbie Urbanski
Vulcanization (2016) / short story by Nisi Shawl
Openness (2016) / short story by Alexander Weinstein
Not by Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass (2016) / short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
The Future Is Blue (2016) / novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
This Is Not a Wardrobe Door (2016) / short story by A. Merc Rustad
On the Fringes of the Fractal (2016) / short story by Greg van Eekhout
The Story of Kao Yu (2016) / short story by Peter S. Beagle
Smear (2016) / short story by Brian Evenson
The City Born Great (2016) / short story by N. K. Jemisin
Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 (2016) / short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
Successor, Usurper, Replacement (2016) / short story by Alice Sola Kim
Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? (2016) / short story by Nick Wolven
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (2016) / short story by Dale Bailey
The Venus Effect (2016) / novelette by Joseph Allen Hill
Contributors' Notes (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017) • essay by uncredited
Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2016 • essay by John Joseph Adams