The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2019 Edition

Recommended Reading

G. V. Anderson, “Down Where Sound Goes Blunt”, (F&SF, 3-4/18)

Madeline Ashby, “Work Shadow/Shadow Work”, (Robots vs Fairies)

Bo Balder, “A Cigarette Burn in Your Memory”, (Clarkesworld, 1/18)

L. X. Beckett, “Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling”, (F&SF, 7-8/18)

Gregory Benford, “A Waltz in Eternity”, (Galaxy’s Edge, 11/18)

Simon Bestwich, “Breakwater”, (Tor.com, 2/28/19)

Aliette de Bodard, The Tea Master and the Detective (Subterranean Press)

Gregory Norman Bossert, “The Empyrean Light”, (Conjunctions, Fall/18)

Joseph Bruchac, “The Next to Last of the Mohegans”, (F&SF, 3-4/18)

Bryan Camp, “The Independence Path”, (Lightspeed, 3/18)

Siobhan Carroll, “The War of Light and Shadow in Five Dishes”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 3/15/18)

Michael Cassutt, “Unter”, (Asimov’s, 7-8/18)

Adam-Troy Castro, “The Unnecessary Parts of the Story”, (Analog, 9-10/18)

P. Djeli Clark, “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Fireside Quarterly, 2/18)

P. Djeli Clark, The Black God’s Drums, (Tor.com Publishing)

Pip Coen, “Inquisitive”, (F&SF, 5-6/18)

F. Brett Cox, “The End of All Our Exploring”, (The End of All Our Exploring)

Tina Connolly, “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, (Tor.com, 7/11/18)

C.S.E. Cooney, “As for Peace, Call it Murder”, (Sword and Sonnet)

John Crowley, “Flint and Mirror”, (The Book of Magic)

Leah Cypess, “Attachment Unavailable”, (Asimov’s, 7-8/18)

Andy Duncan, “Joe Diabo’s Farewell”, (An Agent of Utopia)

Andy Duncan, “An Agent of Utopia”, (An Agent of Utopia)

Andy Duncan, “New Frontiers of the Mind”, (Analog, 7-8/18)

Greg Egan, “3-adica”, (Asimov’s, 9-10/18)

Susan Emshwiller, “Suicide Watch”, (F&SF, 9-10/18)

AJ Fitzwater, “Through the Eye of the Needle”, (Giganotosaurus, 2/18)

Gwynne Garfinkle, “The Paper Doll Golems”, (People Change)

Carolyn Ives Gilman, “We Will Be All Right”, (Lightspeed, 5/18)

Beth Goder, “How to Identify an Alien Shark”, (Fireside Quarterly, 7/18)

Theodora Goss, “Queen Lily”, (Lightspeed, 11/18)

Daryl Gregory, “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”, (Tor.com, 9/19/18)

Sally Gwylan, “Fleeing Oslyge”, (Clarkesworld, 5/18)

Kate Heartfield, Alice Payne Arrives (Tor.com Publishing)

Azuma Hiroki, “A Fish in Chryse”, (Speculative Japan 4)

Kameron Hurley, “Sister Solveig and Mr. Denial”, (Amazing, Fall/18)

Ruth Joffre, “Nitrate Nocturnes”, (Lightspeed, 4/18)

Bill Johnson, “Go Random My Love”, (Analog, 9-10/18)

Clifford V. Johnson, “Resolution”, (Twelve Tomorrows)

Rahul Kanakia, “The Coward’s Path”, (Lightspeed, 2/18)

Rahul Kanakia, “Weft”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 4/12/18)

T. Kingfisher, “The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society”, (Uncanny, 11-12/18)

Naomi Kritzer, “The Thing About Ghost Stories”, (Uncanny, 11-12/18)

Rich Larson, “Meat and Salt and Sparks”, (Tor.com, 6/6/18)

J. M. Ledgard, “Vespers”, (Twelve Tomorrows)

Yoon Ha Lee, “The Starship and the Temple Cat”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2/1/18)

Tonya Liburd, “Superfreak”, (Shades Within Us)

Jane Lindskold, “A Green Moon Problem”, (Lightspeed, 5/18)

Marissa Lingen, “Left to Take the Lead”, (Analog, 7-8/18)

Arkady Martine, “The Hydraulic Emperor”, (Uncanny, 1-2/18)

Ian McDonald, Time Was, (Tor.com Publishing)

Sandra McDonald and Stephen B. Covey, “Time Enough to Say Goodbye”, (Asimov’s, 5-6/18)

Sandra McDonald, “Sexy Robot Heroes”, (Mothers of Invention)

Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky, (Tor.com Publishing)

Sean McMullen, “Extreme”, (F&SF, 11-12/18)

Will McIntosh, “What is Eve?”, (Lightspeed, 4/18)

Christopher McKitterick, “Ashes of Exploding Suns, Monuments to Dust”, (Analog, 11-12/18)

Maria Romasco Moore, “Dying Light”, (LCRW, Spring/18)

Heather Morris, “A Slip in the Slice”, (Kaleidotrope, Winter/18)

Samantha Murray, “Singles’ Day”, (Interzone, 9-10/18)

Ray Nayler, “Incident at San Juan Bautista”, (Asimov’s, 11-12/18)

Mari Ness, “The Ceremony”, (Fireside Quarterly, 7/18)

Annalee Newitz, “The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto”, (Robots vs Fairies)

Garth Nix, “The Staff in the Stone”, (The Book of Magic)

Julie Novakova, “Reset in Peace”, (Amazing, Winter/18)

Sandra M. Odell, “The Home for Broken”, (Godfall)

Paul Park “Creative Nonfiction”, (Asimov’s, 5-6/18)

K. J. Parker, “The Thought That Counts”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 4/26/18)

Josh Pearce, “Sensorium”, (Bourbon Penn, 3/18)

Josh Pearce, “Such Were the Faces of the Living Creatures”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2/15/18)

Sarah Pinsker, “Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 3/1/18)

Hannu Rajaniemi, “A Portrait of Salai”, (Infinity’s End)

Robert Reed, “Love Songs for the Very Awful”, (Asimov’s, 3-4/18)

Robert Reed, “Obliteration”, (Clarkesworld, 2/18)

Justina Robson, “S’elfie”, (Mothers of Invention)

Kelly Robson, Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, (Tor.com Publishing)

Margaret Ronald, “Silence in Blue Glass”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 4/26/18)

Jess Row, “Radical Sufficiency”, (Granta, Autumn/18)

Ryan Row, “Superbright”, (Interzone, 7-8/18)

Joanna Ruocco, “Stone Paper Stone”, (LCRW, 7/18)

Karen Russell, “Orange World”, (The New Yorker, 6/4-11/18)

Geoff Ryman, “This Constant Narrowing”, (F&SF, 11-12/18)

Karl Schroeder, The Million (Tor.com Publishing)

Jack Skillingstead, “Straconia”, (Asimov’s, 7-8/18)

Amanda Sun, “The Travellers”, (Shades Within Us)

Lavie Tidhar, “Yiwu”, (Tor.com, 5/18)

Brian Trent, “An Incident on Ishtar”, (Analog, 3-4/18)

Brian Trent, “Crash-Site”, (F&SF, 5-6/18)

Brian Trent, “The Memorybox Vultures”, (F&SF, 9-10/18)

Carrie Vaughn, “The Huntsman and the Beast”, (Asimov’s, 9-10/18)

Cynthia Ward, The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum, (Aqueduct Press)

Peter Watts, “Kindred”, (Infinity’s End)

Peter Watts, The Freeze Frame Revolution, (Tachyon)

Martha Wells, Artificial Condition, (Tor.com Books)

Fran Wilde, “The Synchronist”, (Infinity’s End)

Liz Williams, “Sungrazer”, (The Book of Magic)

M. C. Williams, “The Ghost of Zefort”, (Bourbon Penn, 11/18)