Saga Press revealed the table of contents for Jonathan Strahan’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Vol. 1 which will be available on September 8, 2020. It includes the following 28 stories (1 novella, 8 novelettes, and 19 short stories) originally published in 2019:
Novella
- “The Work of Wolves”, Tegan Moore (Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2019)
Novelettes
- “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 107)
- “At the Fall”, Alec Nevala‑Lee (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May/Jun 2019)
- “Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous”, Rich Larson (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2019)
- “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward, Amazon)
- “Kali_Na”, Indrapramit Das (The Mythic Dream, Saga)
- “Now Wait for This Week”, Alice Sola Kim (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, One World)
- “Reunion”, Vandana Singh (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Hachette India)
- “This is Not the Way Home”, Greg Egan (Mission Critical, Solaris)
Short Stories
- “As the Last I May Know”, S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 Oct 2019)
- “The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, One World)
- “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 26)
- “Cyclopterus”, Peter Watts (Mission Critical, Solaris)
- “Dune Song”, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Apex Magazine, Issue 120)
- “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex”, Tobias S. Buckell (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Solaris) [Listen to this story on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast.]
- “Green Glass: A Love Story”, E. Lily Yu (If This Goes On, Parvus)
- “I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married”, Fonda Lee (MIT Technology Review, 27 Dec 2019)
- “It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning”, Ted Chiang (The New York Times, 27 May 2019)
- “The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir”, Karin Tidbeck (Tor.com, 14 Jan 2019)
- “The Painter of Trees”, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 153)
- “The Robots of Eden”, Anil Menon (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Solaris)
- “Secret Stories of Doors”, Sofía Rhei (Everything is Made of Letters, Aqueduct)
- “Soft Edges”, Elizabeth Bear (Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology, XPRIZE)
- “Song of the Birds”, Saleem Haddad (Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba, Comma)
- “Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders”, Malka Older (Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology, XPRIZE)
- “Submarines”, Han Song (Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Tor)
- “Thoughts and Prayers”, Ken Liu (Future Tense, 26 Jan 2019)
- “What the Dead Man Said”, Chinelo Onwualu (Future Tense, 24 Aug 2019)
Of those that I’ve read, my favorite is “The Work of Wolves” by Tegan Moore. I put it on my Hugo ballot. “The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. Yoachim and “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde are also Nebula finalists in their respective categories.
Have you read any of these? What are your thoughts?
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