Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 2
- New York, NY Night Shade Books 2017
- xii, 611 pages ; 23 cm
Introduction: a state of the short SF field in 2016 -- The visitor from Taured / Ian R. MacLeod -- Extraction request / Rich Larson -- A good home / Karin Lowachee -- Prodigal / Gord Sellar -- Ten days / Nina Allan -- Terminal / Lavie Tidhar -- Panic city / Madeline Ashby -- Last gods / Sam J. Miller -- HigherWorks / Gregory Norman Bossert -- A strange loop / T.R. Napper -- Night journey of the dragon-horse / Xia Jia -- Pearl / Aliette de Bodard -- The metal demimonde / Nick Wolven -- The iron tactician / Alastair Reynolds -- The mighty slinger / Tobias S. Buckell and Karen Lord -- They have all one breath / Karl Bunker -- Sooner or later everything falls into the sea / Sarah Pinsker -- And then one day, the air was full of voices / Margaret Ronald -- The three lives of Sonata James / Lettie Prell -- The charge and the storm / An Owomoyela -- Parables of infinity / Robert Reed -- Ten poems for the Mossums, one for the man / Suzanne Palmer -- You make Pattaya / Rich Larson -- Number nine moon / Alex Irvine -- Things with beards / Sam J. Miller -- Dispatches from the cradle: The hermit -- forty-eight hours in the Sea of Massachusetts / Ken Liu -- Touring with the alien / Carolyn Ives Gilman -- 2016 recommended reading list.
To keep 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 The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new 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.