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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol 7
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Vol 7 Author:Neil Clarke (Editor) From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Volume 7. 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 accompl... more »ished by only the most determined and voracious readers.
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.
Contents:
Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2021 • essay by Neil Clarke
Muallim (2021) / short story by Ray Nayler
Dark Waters Still Flow (2021) / short story by Alice Towey
Proof by Induction (2021) / short story by José Pablo Iriarte
Integral Nothings (2021) / short story by Robert Reed
The Price of Attention (2021) / short story by Karl Schroeder
Paley's Watch (2021) / short story by Anil Menon
Among the Marithei (2021) / short story by Mary Anne Mohanraj
A Different Sea (2021) / short story by Vandana Singh
The Pizza Boy (2021) / short story by Meg Elison
Ice Fishing on Europa (2021) / short story by Erin Barbeau
Vaccine Season (2021) / short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
Where There Are Cities, These Dissolve Too (2021) / short story by S. Qiouyi Lu
Without Lungs or Limbs to Stay (2021) / novelette by Shauna O'Meara
I'm Waiting for You (2021) / short story by Kim Bo-Young [as by ê¹ë³´ì]
Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (2021) / novella by R. S. A. Garcia
HÄnai (2021) / novelette by Gregory Norman Bossert
The Equations of the Dead (2021) / novelette by An Owomoyela
A Necessary Being (2021) / short story by Indrapramit Das
Qiankun and Alex (2021) / short story by Hao Jingfang (trans. of ä¹¾å¤åäºå 2017)
The Trolley Solution (2021) / short story by Shiv Ramdas
Aptitude (2021) / short story by Cooper Shrivastava
The Tide of Moon City (2021) / short story by Regina Kanyu Wang
A Rocket for Dimitrios [Disintegration Loops] (2021) / novella by Ray Nayler
Jaunt (2021) / short story by Ken Liu
The Streams Are Paved with Fish Traps (2021) / short story by Octavia Cade
The Water Beneath Our Feet (2021) / short story by Alice Towey
Elegba's Valley (2021) / short story by Tade Thompson
He Leaps for the Stars, He Leaps for the Stars (2021) / short story by Grace Chan
Complete Exhaustion of the Organism (2021) / short story by Rich Larson
Mulberry and Owl [Universe of Xuya] (2021) / novelette by Aliette de Bodard
Bots of the Lost Ark [Bot 9 • 2] (2021) / short story by Suzanne Palmer
Permissions: The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7 • essay
Acknowledgments: The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7 • essay by Neil Clarke
Recommended Reading List: The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7 • essay