The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six

by Neil Clarke

Overview

From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected in a Single Paperback Volume

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 accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949102536
Publisher:	Night Shade
Publication date:	01/25/2022
Pages:	624
Sales rank:	517,395
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Neil Clarke is the editor of Clarkesworld and Forever Magazine and owner of Wyrm Publishing, and an eight-time Hugo Award Nominee for Best Editor (short form). He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2020 Neil Clarke vii

Scar Tissue Tobias S. Buckell 1

Eyes of the Forest Ray Nayler 14

Sinew and Steel and What They Told Carrie Vaughn 29

An Important Failure Rebecca Campbell 41

The Long lapetan Night Julie Nováková 63

Air Body Sameem Siddiqui 95

The Bahrain Underground Bazaar Nadia Afifi 106

Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City Arula Ratnakar 124

Your Boyfriend Experience James Patrick Kelly 145

Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars Mercurio D. Rivera 172

The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade Bogi Takács 193

Oannes, From The Flood Adrian Tchaikovsky 214

Yellow and the Perception of Reality Maureen McHugh 223

Exile's End Carolyn Ives Gilman 243

Invisible People Nancy Kress 277

Red_Bati Dilman Dila 299

Textbooks in the Attic S.B. Divya 309

Seeding the Mountain M. L. Clark 325

Knock Knock Said the Ship Rati Mehrotra 359

Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air Matthew Kressel 374

Tunnels Eleanor Arnason 388

Test 4 Echo Peter Watts 430

Uma Ken Liu 447

Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love Usman T. Malik 457

The Translator, at Low Tide Vajra Chandrasekera 465

Fairy Tales for Robots Sofia Samatar 474

This World is Made for Monsters M. Rickert 496

Elsewhere James S. A. Corey 501

Salvage Andy Dudak 509

The Long Tail Aliette de Bodard 537

Rhizome-Starlight Fran Wilde 549

How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar Rich Larson 558

Permissions 585

Acknowledgments 589

2020 Recommended Reading List 591

About the Editor 595