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# Best SF

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- [The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy Second Annual Volume ed Judith Merril 1957](https://bestsf.net/the-years-greatest-science-fiction-and-fantasy-second-annual-volume-ed-judith-merril-1957/) - Stories by John Bernard Daley, C.M. Kornbluth, Theodore L Thomas, E L Malpas, R Bretnor, Algis Budrys, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov, Randall Garrett, Ray Russell, Robert Nathan, Roger Thorne, Robert Abernathy, Mack Reynolds, J G Ballard, Theodore Sturgeon, Garson Kanin
- [Random 2026 readings](https://bestsf.net/random-2026-readings/) - 1st May 2026. I spotted on Clarkesworld's BlueSky feed that Tia Tashiro's 'The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe' from Clarkesworld Magazine #220 January 2025, won the 2026 Derringer Award for Best Novelette, so thought I'd read it. You can read it yourself, or listen to it here. It's a clever story from an author new
- [Nebula Award Stories 1. ed. Damon Knight. 1966](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-1-ed-damon-knight-1966/) - The first in a l-o-n-g running series.
- [The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 8 (ed Neil Clarke), Nightshade Books 2024](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-volume-8-ed-neil-clarke-nightshade-books-2024/) - Published at the back end of 2024, with stories from 2022. I started reading this December 2025 and will pop in the story reviews as I read them in the time honoured tradition (I think 25+ years counts as 'time-honoured'). Naomi Kritzer. The Dragon Project. Originally in Clarkesworld Magazine #186 March 2022. and still online
- [New Adventures in Space Opera (ed Jonathan Strahan, Tachyon 2024)](https://bestsf.net/new-adventures-in-space-opera-ed-jonathan-strahan-tachyon-2024/) - Now then, I've gone a bought (Sept 24) a new non-Years Best anthology of SF, the first in years, there's a turn up for the books. Several reasons behind this : Reason #1 The First, First of That Name : I'm getting through Neil Clarke’s ‘The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7’, but
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 2000 (Peanut Press edition)](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction-magazine-december-2000-peanut-press-edition/) - The December issue of Asimov's was not in the Forbidden Planet bookshop when I visited recently, so I decided to take the plunge and try out the Peanut Press (http://www.peanutpress.com) edition on my new Cassiopeia Pocket-PC. One advantage of buying online is that the price is half that the printed version would cost me here
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Oct/Nov 2000](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction/) - Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2000 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2000 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2000 [Historical Note: whilst there are some reviews of magazines older than this review, this is in fact the first Best SF magazine review.] Introduction I've been reading SF for some 30 years now, but
- [The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7 (ed Neil Clarke), Nightshade Books 2023](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-volume-7-ed-neil-clarke-nightshade-books-2023/) - This volume was finally delivered by Amazon UK in late November 2023, some months after the initial publication date that was quoted. It's a year out of date, as it were, as it covers stories published in 2021, and would 'normally' (i.e. pre-COVID and pre-Shit and Stufftm have been published in late 2022. I'd best
- [The Hugo Winners, ed Isaac Asimov, Penguin, 1964 (orig pub Doubleday 1962)](https://bestsf.net/the-hugo-winners-ed-isaac-asimov-penguin-1964-orig-pub-doubleday-1962/) - Introduction Isaac Asimov introduces this first volume of Hugo winners, beginning with the 1955, 13th Convention, in Cleveland, at which he had been Guest of Honor. This was the Convention at which awards for stories became a regular feature, although the book isn't clear about what was considered and nominated in each year, as stories
- [Asimovs. December 2010.](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-december-2010/) - Emshwiller and Genge the pick of the bunch, but not a vintage bunch.
- [The New Hugo Winners, Volume III, Connie Willis (ed), Baen Books, 1994](https://bestsf.net/the-new-hugo-winners-volume-iii-connie-willis-ed-baen-books-1994/) - The book contains the winning entry for each category from the 47th Convention in Boston, the 48th Convention in The Hague, and the 49th Convention in Chicago. This book is as yet unread, but I have previously read a number of the stories, albeit some time ago, when I was generally providing very succint story
- [Best SF: 1967. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. 1968](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1967-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1968/) - Stories by : A. Bertram Chandler, Ben Bova, C. C. Shackleton, Frank M. Robinson, Fritz Leiber, Gary Wright, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, James Thurber, John T. Sladek, Keith Laumer, kit reed, Kris Neville, Robert Silverberg.
- [The Fifth Annual of the Year's Best SF. Judith Merril. Simon & Schuster 1960](https://bestsf.net/the-fifth-annual-of-the-years-best-sf-judith-merril-simon-schuster-1960/) - Stories by : Damon Knight, Jack Finney, Avram Davidson, Cordwainer Smith, Ray Bradbury, Gordon R. Dickson, Jack Sharkey, Daniel Keyes, John W. Campbell Jr., Ralph Davidson, Clifford D. Simak, Fritz Leiber, Roger Price, Carol Emshwiller, Randall Garret, Darrel T. Langart, J.G. Ballard, Will Worthington, Theodore Sturgeon, Lawrence Block, Mark Clifton, Hilbert Schenk Jr. (Contents only).
- [Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Sixth Series. Adam Boucher (ed) 1957](https://bestsf.net/best-from-fantasy-and-science-fiction-sixth-series-adam-boucher-ed-1957/) - This little beauty beckoned at me from the shelves of a second-hand bookshop in Colchester recently. How could I resist a cover like that! And a book that showed no signs of having been read. Fantasy and Science Fiction published annual collections for almost 25 years, since when they have published collections every 3-5 years.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 15. ed Terry Carr. 1986](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-15-ed-terry-carr-1986/) - Stories by : Robert Silverberg, Howard Waldrop, Harry Turtledove, Lucius Shepard, John Crowley, David Zindell, Connie Willis, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Karen Joy Fowler, Ian Watson, James Tiptree Jr.
- [Science Fiction Book Club Best Short Novels 2005, ed Jonathan Strahan, SFBC 2005](https://bestsf.net/science-fiction-book-club-best-short-novels-2005-ed-jonathan-strahan-sfbc-2005/) - Stories by : Bradley Denton, Charles Stross, Daniel Abraham, Eleanor Arnason, Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin, Gregory Feeley, Ian McDowell, James Patrick Kelly, Judith Berman, Patricia A. McKillip, Stephen Baxter.
- [Year's Best SF 14. ed David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Eos Books 2009](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-14-ed-david-g-hartwell-and-kathryn-cramer-eos-books-2009/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Ann Halam, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, Jason Sanford, Jeff VanderMeer, Karl Schroeder and Tobias S. Buckell, Kathleen Ann Goonan, M Rickert, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick, Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Robert Reed, Rudy Rucker, Sue Burke, Ted Chiang, Ted Kosmatka, Vandana Singh.
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 Edition (ed Rich Horton, Prime Books 2022)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-fantasy-2021-edition-ed-rich-horton-prime-books-2022/) - At the time of writing (April 2022) I haven't seen a print version for Horton's 2020 Edition which is long overdue, and Amazon is currently only showing an August 2022 publication date for Kindle version of the 2021 Edition with no mention of a publication date for the paperback version. [UPDATE: scroll down to comments
- [Rich Larson. There Used To Be Olive Trees. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2017)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-there-used-to-be-olive-trees-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2017/) - Another good story from Larson.
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction. 31st Annual Collection. (ed Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Press, 2014).](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-31st-annual-collection-ed-gardner-dozois-st-martins-press-2014/) - The juggernaut that is Dozois' Years Best hits the #31 mark, with another chunky volume. Here are the contents, with the summaries of those stories I've read included. Ian R. MacLeod. The Discovered Country. Originally in : Asimovs's Science Fiction, September 2013. When I read it last year I wrote : MacLeod brings a fresh
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction. 30th Annual Collection. (ed Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Press, 2013).](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-30th-annual-collection-ed-gardner-dozois-st-martins-press-2013/) - After two slightly slimmer volumes, #30 returns to a chunkier size - huzzah!
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction. 27th Annual Collection. (ed Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Press, 2010).](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-27th-annual-collection-ed-gardner-dozois-st-martins-press-2010/) - Phew! Finished off the stories in Dozois' take on the best of 2009, just in time to address the soon to be published year's bests for 2010.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 26th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2009](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-26th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2009/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Aliette de Bodard, Charles Coleman Finlay, Daryl Gregory, Dominic Green, Elizabeth Bear, Garth Nix, Geoff Ryman, Gord Sellar, Greg Egan, Gwyneth Jones, Hannu Rajaniemi, Ian McDonald, James Alan Garner, James. L. Cambias, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Rosenblum, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul McAuley, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Ted Kosmatka
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 25th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2008](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-25th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2008/) - As ever, chock full of high quality SF, with the annual summation providing SF with an ongoing reference and reading tome which we should not take for granted. Here's to the next 25 years! Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Benjamin Rosenbaum and David Ackert, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Chris Roberson, David Moles, Elizabeth Bear, Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, James Van Pelt, John Barnes, Justin Stanchfield, Kage Baker, Keith Brooke, Ken MacLeod, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Neal Asher, Pat Cadigan, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Baxter, Ted Chiang, Ted Kosmatka, Tom Purdom, Una McCormack, Vandana Singh
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 24th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2007](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-24th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2007/) - Stories by : A.M. Dellamonica, Alastair Reynolds, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Bruce McAllister, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, David D. Levine, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, Greg Egan, Greg van Eekhout, Gregory Benford, Ian McDonald, Jack Skillingstead, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, John Barnes, Justin Stanchfield, Kage Baker, Ken MacLeod, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Charles Wilson, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Walter Jon Williams
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 23rd Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2006](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-23rd-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2006/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Bruce Sterling, Chris Beckett, Chris Roberson, Daryl Gregory, David Gerrold, David Moles, Dominic Green, Elizabeth Bear, Gene Wolfe., Gwyneth Jones, Hannu Rajaniemi, Harry Turtledove, Ian McDonald, James Patrick Kelly, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, Joe Haldeman, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick, Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Stephen Popkes, Vonda N McIntyre, William Sanders
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2005](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-22nd-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2005/) - Stories by : Albert E Cowdrey, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Brendan Dubois, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Christopher Rowe, Colin P. Davies, Daniel Abraham, David Moles, Eleanor Arnason, James Patrick Kelly, James. L. Cambias, Kage Baker, M. John Harrison, Mary Rosenblum, Michael F. Flynn, Nancy Kress, Paolo Bacigalupi, Pat Murphy, Paul Di Filippo, Paul Melko, Peter F. Hamilton, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Vandana Singh, Vernor Vinge, Walter Jon Williams, William Sanders.
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction, Second Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1985](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-second-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1985/) - Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Frederik Pohl, Gene Wolfe., Jack Dann, Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, John Varley, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lewis Shiner, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, Molly Gloss, Nancy Kress, Octavia E. Butler, Pat Cadigan, R.A. Lafferty, Rena Yount, Richard Cowper, Robert Silverberg, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction, Third Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1986](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-third-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1986/) - Stories by : Avram Davidson, Bruce Sterling, Frederik Pohl, George R. R. Martin, Howard Waldrop, James Patrick Kelly, James Tiptree Jr, Joe Haldeman, John Crowley, Karen Joy Fowler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lewis Shiner, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick and William Gibson, Nancy Kress, Orson Scott Card, Pat Cadigan, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, S.C. Sykes, Walter Jon Williams
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 4th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1987](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-4th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1987/) - Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Damon Knight, Greg Bear, Harry Turtledove, Howard Waldrop, Jack Dann, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Judith Moffett, Karen Joy Fowler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lewis Shiner, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, Neal Barrett Jr, Orson Scott Card, Pat Cadigan, Richard Keans, Robert Silverberg, Scott Baker, Somtow Sucharitkul, Tanith Lee, Tim Powers, Tom Maddox, Walter Jon Williams, William Gibson.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 5th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1988](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-5th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1988/) - Stories by : Alexander Jablokov, Bruce McAllister, Bruce Sterling, Dean Whitlock, Gene Wolfe., Howard Waldrop, Ian Watson, James Patrick Kelly, Joseph Manzione, Karen Joy Fowler, Kate Wilhelm, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Michael Bishop, Michael Flynn, Michael McDowell, Neal Barrett Jr, Octavia E. Butler, Orson Scott Card, Pat Cadigan, Pat Murphy, Paul J. McAuley, R. Garcia y Robertson, Robert Silverberg, Susan Palwick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Walter Jon Williams.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 6th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1989](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-6th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1989/) - Stories by : Brian Stableford, Bruce McAllister, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, D. Alexander Smith, Eileen Gunn, George Alec Effinger, Harry Turtledove, Howard Waldrop, James Lawson, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Judith Moffett, Kathe Koja, Kim Newman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lewis Shiner, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan, Robert Silverberg, Steven Gould, Steven Kraus, Walter Jon Williams.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 8th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1991](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-8th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1991/) - Stories by : Alexander Jablokov, Bruce Sterling, Charles Sheffield, Connie Willis, Greg Egan, Ian McDonald, Ian R. Macleod, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, John Brunner, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, Kate Wilhelm, Lewis Shiner, Lucius Shepard, Michael Moorcock, Molly Gloss, Mr. Skunk, Nancy Kress, Pat Murphy, Robert Frazier, Robert Silverberg, Ted Chiang, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 9th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1992](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-9th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1992/) - Stories by : Alexander Jablokov, Brian W. Aldiss, Chris Beckett, Connie Willis, Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Ian McDonald, Ian R. Macleod, Jack Dann, James Patrick Kelly, Karen Joy Fowler, Kathe Koja, Kim Newman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lois Tilton, Mark L, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan, Paul J. McAuley, Rick Shelley, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Walter Jon Williams, William Gibson
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 10th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1993](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-10th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1993/) - Stories by : Arthur C. Clarke, Bradley Denton, Connie Willis, Frederik Pohl, Greg Egan, Ian McDonald, Ian R. Macleod, Ian Watson, Joe Haldeman, Jonathon Lethem, Kate Wilhelm, Kathe Koja, L. Sprague de Camp, Lukas Jaeger, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Neal Barrett Jr, Pat Cadigan, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Steven Utley, Terry Bisson, Tom Maddox.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 12th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1995](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-12th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1995/) - Stories by : Brian Stableford, Eliot Fintushel., Geoff Ryman, George Turner, Greg Egan, Howard Waldrop, Joe Haldeman, Katherine Kerr, Lisa Goldstein, Mary Rosenblum, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Bishop, Michael F. Flynn, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Walter Jon Williams, William Sanders
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 13th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1996](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-13th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1996/) - Stories by : Allen M. Steele, Brian Stableford, Dan Simmons, David Marusek, Geoff Ryman, Greg Egan, Ian R. Macleod, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Mary Rosenblum, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael F. Flynn, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan, Paul J. McAuley, Poul Anderson, Robert Reed, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Sanders.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 15th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St Martins Griffin. 1998](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-15th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-1998/) - Stories by : Bill Johnson, Brian Stableford, Carolyn Ives Gilman, David Marusek, G. David Nordley, Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre, Gwyneth Jones, Howard Waldrop, Ian McDonald, Ian R. Macleod, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Peter F. Hamilton, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Sean Williams and Simon Brown, Simon Ings, Stephen Baxter, Walter Jon Williams, William Sanders.
- [Years Best Science Fiction 16th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois 1999](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-16th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1999/) - Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Cherry Wilder, Chris Lawson, Cory Doctorow, Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, Gwyneth Jones, Howard Waldrop, Ian McDonald, Ian R. Macleod, Jim Grimsley, Liz Williams, Michael Swanwick, Paul J. McAuley, Rob Chilson, Robert Charles Wilson, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Tanith Lee, Ted Chiang, Tony Daniel, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Barton, William Browning Spencer
- [Years Best Science Fiction 17th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois 2000](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-17th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-2000/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Ben Bova, Charles Sheffield, Chris Lawson, David Marusek, Eleanor Arnason, Frederik Pohl, Geoff Ryman, Greg Egan, Hal Clement, James Patrick Kelly, Kage Baker, Karl Schroder, Kim Stanley Robinson, M. John Harrison, Michael Swanwick, Mike Resnick, Paul J. McAuley, Richard Wadholm, Robert Grossbach, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Sage Walker, Sean Williams, Stephen Baxter, Tanith Lee, Walter Jon Williams.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 18th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 2001](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-18th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-2001/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Albert E Cowdrey, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Eliot Fintushel., Greg Egan, Ian McDonald, John Kessel, Lucius Shepard, M. Shayne Bell, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Peter F. Hamilton, Rick Cook and Ernest Hogan, Robert Charles Wilson, Severna Park, Stephen Baxter, Steven Utley, Susan Palwick, Tananarive Due, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 19th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2002](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-19th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2002/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Allen M. Steele, Andy Duncan, Brenda W. Clough, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Charles Stross, Chris Beckett, Dan Simmons, Eleanor Arnason, Geoff Ryman, Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy, Ian R. Macleod, James Kelly, Jim Grimsley, Ken MacLeod, Michael Blumlein, Michael Cassutt, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul Di Filippo, Paul McAuley, Robert Reed, Simon Ings, William Sanders.
- [World's Best Science Fiction : 1966. Donald Wollheim/Terry Carr (eds), 1966](https://bestsf.net/worlds-best-science-fiction-1966-donald-wollheimterry-carr-eds-1966/) - Contents only
- [Jason Sanford. Paprika. (Interzone #249 Nov-Dec 2013)](https://bestsf.net/jason-sanford-paprika-interzone-249-nov-dec-2013/) - An elegant story by Sanford, inspired, it says by one Satoshi Kon, noted Japanese anime animator.
- [Years Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy 4th Annual Volume. ed Judith Merril. Dell, 1959](https://bestsf.net/years-greatest-science-fiction-and-fantasy-4th-annual-volume-ed-judith-merril-dell-1959/) - Stories by Carol Emshwiller, J.F. BOne, Richard Gehman, Robert Sheckley, Rog Phillips, Gerald Kersh, Theodore L. Thomas, R. M. McKenna, Fritz Leiber, Avram Davidson, Brian W. Aldiss, E. C. Tubb, Arthur Zirul, Theodore Sturgeon, John Steinbeck, Avram Davidson
- [Fiona Jones. Hello! Hello! Hello! (Clarkesworld Magazine, #210 March 2024)](https://bestsf.net/fiona-jones-hello-hello-hello-clarkesworld-magazine-210-march-2024/) - I really don't like reading fiction on a screen, despite a couple of attempts with an Amazon Fire tablet and a Kindle. Back in the halcyon days of my reading a lot of SF, there was just that something special about handling a magazine, especially the better produced ones. For a while I was getting
- [Best SF 12. Judith Merril. Simon & Schuster 1967](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-12-judith-merril-simon-schuster-1967/) - Stories by : Tuli Kupferberg, Harvey Jacobs, Kit Reed, Tommaso Landolfi, Donald Barthelme, J.G. Ballard, Gilbert Thomas, Tuli Kupferberg, John Updike, Hilary Bailey, Bob Shaw, Peter Tate, R.A. Lafferty, Sonya Dorman, Thomas M. Disch, Brian W. Aldiss, Hortense Calisher, Charles L. Harness, R.A. Lafferty, William Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, Dick Allen, J.G. Ballard, Henri Michaux, Katherine MacLean, Carol Emshwiller, Gunter Grass, Samuel R. Delany, Tuli Kupferberg. (Contents only).
- [The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy 3rd Annual Volume ed Judith Merril 1958](https://bestsf.net/the-years-greatest-science-fiction-and-fantasy-3rd-annual-volume-ed-judith-merril-1958/) - Clearly a momentous time for the SF community, as the cover proudly proclaims 'Special Section : Science-Fiction becomes Science-Fact - Sputnik and Beyond'. This volume, unlike this first two, contains a number of articles (focussing on Sputnik and it's implications for SF) alongside the fiction, which is a shame as it isn't a particular big
- [The Hugo Winners Volume 3(Part II) - 1973, ed Isaac Asimov](https://bestsf.net/the-hugo-winners-volume-3part-ii-1973-ed-isaac-asimov/) - The 1973 Hugos get a whole volume to themselves. The volume contains all four winning stories, and I have cut and pasted summaries of stories which I have previously read. At some point in pico-time I shall read those I have yet so to do, and put summaries/reviews in to fill the blanks. 1973 31st
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1984.](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-first-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1984/) - I am holding off on reading this volume, which I managed to get a copy of in 2002 on eBay. For the moment, here are the contents, and some story summaries for those stories read in other volumes.
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels. Ninth Series. ed T.E. Dikty. 1958.](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-and-novels-ninth-series-ed-t-e-dikty-1958/) - Contents only.
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels 1956 (ed T.E. Dikty, Fell 1956)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-and-novels-1956-ed-t-e-dikty-fell-1956/) - This book landed with me after an air mail flight from the USA on 22nd January 2019 and I'm now reading and reviewing the stories and inserting on this page summaries of the fuller story reviews on the site. Robert F. Young. Jungle Doctor. Originally in Startling Stories, Fall 1955. A strong start to Dikty's
- [Cordwainer Smith. The Game of Rat and Dragon. (Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1955.)](https://bestsf.net/cordwainer-smith-the-game-of-rat-and-dragon-galaxy-science-fiction-october-1955/) - The story has many excellent turns of phrase, and leads the reader through the story introducing background concepts and technology, with the odd clever 'reveal'.
- [The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy. ed Judith Merril, Dell 1956.](https://bestsf.net/the-years-greatest-science-fiction-and-fantasy-ed-judith-merril-dell-1956/) - Published in 1956, four years older than me, and similarly fragile, frayed, and with a slightly dodgy lower spine.
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels : 1955 (ed T.E. Dikty, Frederick Fell Inc. 1955)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-and-novels-1955-ed-t-e-dikty-frederick-fell-inc-1955/) - My copy of this volume is without it's dust-jacket and is in a relatively sorry state, but it's absolutely readable, and I'm starting to read it now! (Jan 2023) Edited just by Ted Dikty, his lengthy review of The Science-Fiction Year is an intriguing read - if you read it after a few beers of
- [The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV, Gregory Benford (ed), Baen Books, 1997](https://bestsf.net/the-new-hugo-winners-volume-iv-gregory-benford-ed-baen-books-1997/) - With the exception of the Asimov story, the remainder could all be put forward quite happily as being very good examples of short SF and worthy of their status as Hugo Winners.
- [The New Hugo Winners, Volume II, Presented by Isaac Asimov, edited by Martin H Greenberg, Baen Books, 1991](https://bestsf.net/the-new-hugo-winners-volume-ii-presented-by-isaac-asimov-edited-by-martin-h-greenberg-baen-books-1991/) - Introduction The book contains the winning entry for each category from the 44th Convention in Atlanta, the 45th Convention in Brighton, and the 46th Convention in New Orleans. This book is as yet unread, but I have previously read a number of the stories, albeit some time ago, when I was generally providing very succinct
- [The Hugo Winners Volume 4 1976-1979 (ed Isaac Asimov, Doubleday 1985)](https://bestsf.net/the-hugo-winners-volume-4-1976-1979-ed-isaac-asimov-doubleday-1985/) - I've had this on my shelves for goodness how many years, but have just (Feb 2023) noticed it's absence on the website. So time to remedy that. (I've assigned it to an older date to interfile datewise with other volumes in this series). Here are the contents, and I'm currently working my way through my
- [The Hugo Winners Volume 3 (i)1970-1972, ed Isaac Asimov](https://bestsf.net/the-hugo-winners-volume-3-i1970-1972-ed-isaac-asimov/) - 'Hugo Winners Volume III' follows (not unsurprisingly) the first two volumes of collected Hugo award-winners, and appeared in a confusing variety of editions, primarily on account of its large size. The edition in (my sticky, eager) hand is the hardback UK edition published by Dennis Dobson in 1979. As your Earth days are restricted to
- [The Hugo Winners 1968-1970, ed Isaac Asimov, Sphere, 1973 (orig 'The Hugo Winners Volume II' Doubleday 1971)](https://bestsf.net/the-hugo-winners-1968-1970-ed-isaac-asimov-sphere-1973-orig-the-hugo-winners-volume-ii-doubleday-1971/) - 'Hugo Winners Volume II' followed the first collection of award-winners, but was published in two separate volumes in paperback in the UK in order to keep each volume down to a reasonable size. Introduced, as was the first volume, by Isaac Asimov. The biggest ego in SF uses the introduction to regale the reader with
- [Nebula Award Stories 31. ed. Pamela Sargent. (1977)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-31-ed-pamela-sargent/) - Stories by : Dale Bailey, Elizabeth Hand, Esther M. Friesner, James Patrick Kelly, Kelley Eskridge, Lisa Goldstein, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert A Sawyer, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories 1954 ed Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty. Frederic Fell Inc, 1954](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-1954-ed-everett-f-bleiler-and-t-e-dikty-frederic-fell-inc-1954/) - Published in the UK as 'The Best Science Fiction Stories: Fifth Series', with fewer stories in that volume. That is the copy I have, until such time as I sell my earlier Bleiler/Dikty to fund the purchase of the US edition. Jack Vance. DP! Originally in : Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader An intriguing
- [Rich Horton. Science Fiction The Best of the Year 2008 Edition.](https://bestsf.net/rich-horton-science-fiction-the-best-of-the-year-2008-edition/) - As has been the case with others in his take on the year's best SF there is less I agree with than is the case with the other year's best volumes.
- [Year's Best SF 8. David G. Hartwell. Eos Books 2003](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-8-david-g-hartwell-eos-books-2003/) - Stories by : A.M. Dellamonica, Bruce Sterling, Carol Emshwiller, Charles Sheffield, Charles Stross, Eleanor Arnason, Gene Wolfe., Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, J.R. Dunn, Jack Williamson, Ken Wharton, Michael Moorcock, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Neal Asher, Paul Di Filippo, Richard Chwedyk, Robert Onopa, Robert Reed, Robert Sheckley, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories 1953 ed Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty. Frederic Fell Inc, 1953](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-1953-ed-everett-f-bleiler-and-t-e-dikty-frederic-fell-inc-1953/) - Published in the UK in smaller format with fewer stories as 'The Best Science Fiction Stories : Fourth Series', which is the volume I have at present. I'll fill this review with the stories in that Lite edition and who knows, I may one day splash out on the full version, or else seek the
- [Science Fiction : The Best of the Year 2006 Edition - edited by Rich Horton, Prime Books, September 2006](https://bestsf.net/science-fiction-the-best-of-the-year-2006-edition-edited-by-rich-horton-prime-books-september-2006/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Daniel Kaysen, Douglas Lain, Howard Waldrop, James Patrick Kelly, James Van Pelt, Joe Haldeman, Leah Bobet, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick, Robert Reed, Stephen Leigh, Susan Palwick, Tom Purdom, Wil McCarthy.
- [The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6 (ed Neil Clarke, Nightshade Books 2022](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-volume-6-ed-neil-clarke-nightshade-books-2022/) - The sixth volume in what is now the longest-running current Year's Best SF anthology. Due out in deadtree format just before Christmas Day - that's one of *my* christmas presents sorted out then! (Nov 5th Update : publication date now mid-Feb 2022!) Strahan has published the ToC online, and I'll put this here for the
- [Zenna Henderson. Pottage. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1955)](https://bestsf.net/zenna-henderson-pottage-fantasy-and-science-fiction-september-1955/) - One of a series of stories in Henderson's 'The People' series, featuring an alien race, indistinguishable from humans and living amongst us, typically in small remote communities, hiding their special abilities and remaining incognito.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 55 ed Catherynne M. Valente (SFWA 2021)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-55-ed-catherynne-m-valente-sfwa-2021/) - A handsome book, my copy printed over here in the UK by Amazon. I'd like to think my online order triggered a single print-run just for me, but I'm guessing probably not. I've put the contents of the volume in below. I have already read a couple of the stories in their appearance in one
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories 1952 ed Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty. Frederic Fell Inc, 1952](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-1952-ed-everett-f-bleiler-and-t-e-dikty-frederic-fell-inc-1952/) - Just (Oct 2021) replaced my UK (reduced number of stories) edition The Best Science Fiction Stories : Third Series, with the original US edition. And now (April 2022) I'm starting to read it. Walter Kubilius. The Other Side. Originally in Super Science Stories. Young Jim Carringon seems to be like every other teenage boy in
- [Nebula Award Stories 7. ed. Lloyd Biggle Jr](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-7-ed-lloyd-biggle-jr/) - Stories by : Doris Pitkin Buck, Edgar Pangborn, Gardner R Dozois, George Zebrowski, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm, Katherine Maclean, Poul Anderson, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Goldin.
- [Nebula Award Stories 6. ed. Clifford D. Simak.](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-6-ed-clifford-d-simak/) - Stories by : Fritz Leiber, Gene Wolfe., Harry Harrison, Joanna Russ, Keither Laumer, R.A. Lafferty, Theodore Sturgeon.
- [L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36 (ed David Farland, Galaxy Press Inc. 2020)](https://bestsf.net/l-ron-hubbard-presents-writers-of-the-future-volume-36-ed-david-farland-galaxy-press-inc-2020/) - I do get a steady drip-drip of email requests to review items on Best SF. Frustratingly, they're invariably unpublished authors with a horror/splatterpunk/crime/fantasy novel to promote, who haven't taken a moment to check the focus of this website. A few days ago I did get a nice, personalised request to see if I would be
- [The 11th Annual Year's Best SF](https://bestsf.net/the-11th-annual-years-best-sf/) - Not in my collection (yet!).
- [Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year 1. ed Terry Carr. 1979](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-novellas-of-the-year-1-ed-terry-carr-1979/) - Prior to the launching of Gardner Dozois' jumbo-sized 'Years Best SF' series in 1984, the annual anthology market had consisted of considerably slimmer volumes which could squeeze in nine or ten stories at best. Terry Carr was several years into his annual collection series, which had started in 1972, when he experimented with a companion publication, consisting of half a dozen novellas. The series lasted only two years. Stories by : Christopher Priest, Donald Kingsbury, Gene Wolfe, Joan D. Vinge, John Varley, Michael Bishop.
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 Edition (ed Rich Horton, Prime Books 2020)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-fantasy-2020-edition-ed-rich-horton-prime-books-2020/) - Rich has published the TOC of this volume on his Blogspot site here, which I've taken the liberty of reproducing below, with the aim of annotating when/if I read some of the stories (as I'm currently only buying pure SF anthologies). Addendum : just noted that Rich has 4x stories from each of Analog, Asimovs,
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories 1951 ed Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty. Frederic Fell Inc, 1951](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-1951-ed-everett-f-bleiler-and-t-e-dikty-frederic-fell-inc-1951/) - I did have the UK edition (restricted number of stories and size), but I have just spent a little bit of cash on the US edition (signed by Dikty!)... In the previous year's edition the editors pondered the links between detective fiction and SF, and this year they ponder the links between anthropological/ethnological fiction and
- [L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIII.](https://bestsf.net/l-ron-hubbard-presents-writers-of-the-future-volume-xxiii/) - L. Ron Hubbard Presents 'Writers of the Future' Volume 23, is, not unsurprisingly, the 23rd in the series. More suprisingly, it is the first to be reviewed by Best SF. The reasons for this are mostly simple, and is you have been visiting the site for a while, not a secret : Best SF is
- [The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 5 (ed Neil Clarke, Nightshade Books 2020](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-volume-5-ed-neil-clarke-nightshade-books-2020/) - Last year, following the sad loss of Gardner Dozois, Neil Clarke became the *only* anthologist of a Year's Best SF volume (exclusing the SF&F anthologies, obviously). This year, Clarke is now *just* the longest-running Year's Best SF anthologist, as he has reached volume 5, with Jonathan Strahan leaving his SF&F series for an SF-only series
- [Terry Bisson. Dear Abbey. PS Publishing 2003](https://bestsf.net/terry-bisson-dear-abbey-ps-publishing-2003/) - So, a resounding recommendation from me on this one, with PS Publishing continuing their strong run of form. Read it and weep.
- [Mirrorshades : the CyberPunk Anthology edited by Bruce Sterling, (Anchor House, 1986).](https://bestsf.net/mirrorshades-the-cyberpunk-anthology-edited-by-bruce-sterling-anchor-house-1986/) - A cracking little paperback, which every self-respecting SF reader should have at home. The pbk version I have also features a neat reflective pair of shades (which my scanner totally fails to scan!).
- [infinity plus two edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers, (PS Publishing, 2003)](https://bestsf.net/infinity-plus-two-edited-by-keith-brooke-and-nick-gevers-ps-publishing-2003/) - A nice volume to have on the shelves, with a wide range of quality content which showcases a wide range of SF, and high production values. The high price and limited print run will restrict the volume to collectors, but as the stories aren't originals, we can't complain that the average SF reader is being deprived.
- [Live Without a Net. edited by Lou Anders. Roc, 2003](https://bestsf.net/live-without-a-net-edited-by-lou-anders-roc-2003/) - All in all, an interesting varied collection, and well worth the shelf-space.
- ['cities'. edited by Peter Crowther, (Gollancz 2003).](https://bestsf.net/cities-edited-by-peter-crowther-gollancz-2003/) - You won't find many volumes this year with such a high quality. The first three stories are all set in vividly described cities, giving a solid theme to the collection. But once again, Gollancz and PS Publishing showcase the best in British SF/fantasy. More!
- ['infinities'. edited by Peter Crowther, (Gollancz 2002)](https://bestsf.net/infinities-edited-by-peter-crowther-gollancz-2002/) - This is a handsome hard-back book which would grace any shelf (albeit that the shape of the book will require a deep shelf!). The stories are of varying quality and SFness, but work together well. A recommended purchase for those of you who haven't got the stories in their PS Publishing format.
- [Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days : tales from the Revelation Space universe. Gollancz, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/diamond-dogs-turquoise-days-tales-from-the-revelation-space-universe-gollancz-2003/) - Alastair Reynolds has been garnering praise for his three hard SF novels 'Revelation Space', 'Chasm City' and 'Redemption Ark'. I can vouch for the first two of these novels (the third as yet unread) and the shorter fiction he published prior to those novels. In 2002 PS Publishing brought out the novella 'Diamond Dogs' in
- ['futures', edited by Peter Crowther, (Gollancz 2001)](https://bestsf.net/futures-edited-by-peter-crowther-gollancz-2001/) - This is a handsome hard-back book which would grace any shelf (albeit that the shape of the book will require a deep shelf!). The stories are of high quality, offering a lot of vision, and work together well. A recommended purchase for those of you who haven't got the stories in their PS Publishing format.
- [Paul Di Filippo. Little Doors. 4W8W, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/four-walls-eight-windows/) - One of the more prolific, and in my opinion, the most inventive of short SF writers of the current era, has had several collections of his short fiction output published to date. I read and reviewed 'Babylon Sisters' a while back, and this collection was published in the same year, 2002. Let's have a trot
- [Paul Di Filippo. Babylon Sisters and other Posthumans.](https://bestsf.net/babylon-sisters-and-other-posthumans/) - Di Filippo is one of the foremost short story writers in SF, and has to date produced several small press collections, often with a loose theme holding the collection together. Babylon Sisters is no exception, with, as the subtitle indicates posthumanity being the theme. It is of credit to di Filippo that he has written
- [The 1985 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1986](https://bestsf.net/the-1985-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1986/) - Contents only.
- [The 1983 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1983](https://bestsf.net/the-1983-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1983/) - Contents only.
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Vol. 2 (ed Jonathan Strahan, Saga Press 2021)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-vol-2-ed-jonathan-strahan-saga-press-2021/) - The second volume in Strahan's new all-SF anthology, the dead-tree version of which has just arrived here in mid-Nov. I've popped the ToC from Strahan's website below to save a bit of effort, and will add reviews of stories as I work my way through the volume. 17 of the 26 authors are known to
- [Alastair Reynolds. Absolution Gap. Gollancz, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-absolution-gap-gollancz-2005/) - Over the past fortnight I've been indulging myself with Alastair Reynolds fourth novel 'Absolution Gap' - including a memorable 2hr session with three 10% abv Belgian beers in my favourite watering-hole - 'tWildeman in Amsterdam. Before I start with my review of 'Absolution Gap', a some background information is necessary! And please note that there
- [Stephen Baxter. Mayflower II. PS Publishing 2004](https://bestsf.net/ps-publishing-2004/) - Prolific British SF writer Stephen Baxter has an increasingly impressive body of work to his name, including a variety of singleton novels, and several novel sequences, and a lot of short stories. It is pleasant to see a writer being able to keep such a breadth in their content and format of writing - it
- [World's Best Science Fiction : 1971. Donald Wollheim/Terry Carr (eds), 1971](https://bestsf.net/worlds-best-science-fiction-1971-donald-wollheimterry-carr-eds-1971/) - Stories by : Arthur Sellings, Bob Shaw, Clifford D Simak, Gerald Jonas, Gordon Eklund, Gregory Benford, H B Hickey, Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Michael G. Coney, Neal Barrett Jr, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, Ron Goulart, Theodore Sturgeon. (Contents only.)
- [World's Best Science Fiction : 1970. Donald Wollheim/Terry Carr (eds), 1970](https://bestsf.net/worlds-best-science-fiction-1970-donald-wollheimterry-carr-eds-1970/) - Stories by : Richard Wilson, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, Alexei Panshin, Suzette Haden Elgin, James Tiptree Jr., Keith Roberts, Michael G Coney, Harlan Ellison, Bruce McAllister, Fritz Leiber, Ursula K Le Guin, Norman Spinrad. (Content listing only)
- [Best SF: 1975. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. 1976](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1975-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1976/) - Stories by : Algis Budrys, Lisa Tuttle, Thomas M Disch, Barry N Malzberg, Peter Redgrove, Richard Cowper, Stephen Robinett, M John Harrison, John Updike, Joe Haldeman, Louis Phillips, Michael Moorcock (Contents only).
- [Best SF: 1972. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. 1973](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1972-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1973/) - Stories by : Ken W. Purdy, Brian W. Aldiss, James E. Gunn, Jonathan Ela, Keith Roberts, Robert F. Young, Andre Carneiro, Alex Hamilton, Howard L. Myers, Victor Sabah, Christopher Priest, Joe W Haldeman.
- [Best SF: 1970. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss, 1971.](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1970-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1971/) - Stories by : Robin Scott WIlson, Slawomir Mrozek, Robert Silverberg, Josef Nesvadba, Jerry Farber, Naomia Mitchison, Hayden Howard, Robert Coover, Thomas M. Disch, William Earls, Gleb Anfilov, Gene Wolfe, Alvin Greenberg, Kris Neville and K.M. O'Donnell.
- [Best SF: 1968. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. 1969](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1968-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1969/) - Stories by : Bob Shaw, David I. Masson, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, J.R. Pierce, John D. MacDonald, K.M. O'Donnell, kit reed, Mack Reynolds, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Goldin, Theodore Sturgeon
- [Best SF: 1974. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. 1975](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1974-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1975/) - Stories by : Alfred Bester, Angela Carter, Craig Strete, Doris Piserchie, Ian Watson, James Tiptree Jr., Kate Wilhelm, Kit Reed, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert R. Olsen, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Thomas Baum.
- [Best SF: 1973. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. 1974](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1973-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1974/) - Stories by : Brian W. Aldiss, Gene Wolfe, Joe W. Haldemn, Josef Nesvadba, Kingsley Amis, Max Beerbohm, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Scheckley, Robert Silverberg, Thomas M. Disch, Tor Age Bringsvaerd, William Harrison.
- [Best SF : 1971. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. 1972](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1971-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1972/) - Stories by : Arnold M. Auerbach, Arthur C Clarke, B. Alan Burhoe, Barry N. Malzberg, Brian W. Aldiss, Charles Baxter, Cynthia Ozick, Donald Barthelme, Gahan Wilson, James Blish, Kingsley Amis, Lawrence Sail, Norman Spinrad, Richard E. Peck, Robert Sheckley, Steven Herbst, Steven Schrader, Thomas M. Disch.
- [World's Best Science Fiction : 1968. Donald Wollheim/Terry Carr (eds), 1968](https://bestsf.net/worlds-best-science-fiction-1968-donald-wollheimterry-carr-eds-1968/) - Stories by Richard Wilson, Samuel R Delany, Colin Kapp, R A Lafferty, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Thomas M Disch, Rogert Zelazny, Andrew J. Offutt, Harlan Ellison, Ron Goulart, Keith Roberts, R A Lafferty, Larry Niven, Brian W Aldiss, D G Compton.
- [World's Best Science Fiction : 1967. Donald Wollheim/Terry Carr (eds), 1967](https://bestsf.net/worlds-best-science-fiction-1967-donald-wollheimterry-carr-eds-1967/) - Contents only.
- [World's Best Science Fiction : 1965. Donald Wollheim/Terry Carr (eds), 1965](https://bestsf.net/worlds-best-science-fiction-1965-donald-wollheimterry-carr-eds-1965/) - Contents only.
- [Year's Best SF 2. David G. Hartwell. Harper Prism 1997](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-2-david-g-hartwell-harper-prism-1997/) - Stories by : Allen Steele, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Damon Knight, Dave Wolverton, David Langford, Gene Wolfe., Gregory Benford, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelly, Joanna Russ, John Brunner, Kate Wilhelm, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Robert Reed, Sheila Finch, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Yves Meynard.
- [Year's Best SF 4. David G. Hartwell. Harper Prism, 1999](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-4-david-g-hartwell-harper-prism-1999/) - Stories by : Alexander Jablokov, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, David Langford, Dominic Green, Gregory Benford, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Mark S. Geston, Mary Rosenblum, Mary Soon Lee, Michael F. Flynn, Michael Skeet, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Norman Spinrad, Rob Chilson, Robert Reed, Ron Goulart, Stephen Baxter, Ted Chiang.
- [Year's Best SF 5. David G. Hartwell. Eos Books 2000](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-5-david-g-hartwell-eos-books-2000/) - Stories by : Barry N. Malzberg, Brian Aldiss, Brian M. Stableford, Chris Beckett, Chris Lawson, Cory Doctorow, Curt Wohleber, Elisabeth Malartre, Fred Lerner, G. David Nordley, Gene Wolfe, Geoff Ryman, Greg Egan, Hiroe Suga, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucy Sussex, Mary Soon Lee, Michael Bishop, Michael Swanwick, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Reed, Sarah Zettel, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Tom Purdom
- [Year's Best SF 7. David G. Hartwell. Eos Books 2002](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-7-david-g-hartwell-eos-books-2002/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Brian W. Aldiss, David Morrell, Edward M. Lerner, Gene Wolfe., Gregory Benford, James Morrow, James Patrick Kelly, Lisa Goldstein, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Richard Chwedyk, Simon Ings, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Terry Dowling, Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Year's Best SF 9. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. Eos, 2004](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-9-david-g-hartwell-kathryn-cramer-eos-2004/) - Stories by : Allen M. Steele, Angelica Gorodischer, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Gene Wolfe., Geoff Ryman, Gregory Benford, Joe Haldeman, Kage Baker, M Rickert, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Nigel Brown, Octavia E. Butler, Richard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero, Rick Moody, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Tony Ballantyne.
- [Year's Best SF 10. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. Eos, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-10-david-g-hartwell-kathryn-cramer-eos-2005/) - Stories by : Bradley Denton, Brenda Cooper, Charles Coleman Finlay, Gene Wolfe., Glenn Grant, Gregory Benford, Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, James Stoddard, James. L. Cambias, Janeen Webb, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Ken Liu, Liz Williams, matthew hughes, Neal Asher, Pamela Sargent, Ray Vukcevich, Robert Reed, Sean McMullen, Steve Tomasula, Steven Utley, Terry Bisson.
- [Year's Best SF 11. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. Eos, 2006](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-11-david-g-hartwell-kathryn-cramer-eos-2006/) - Stories by : Adam Roberts, Alastair Reynolds, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Bruce Stirling, Bud Sparhawk, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, David Langford, Gardner R Dozois, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Hannu Rajaniemi, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, Justina Robinson, Ken MacLeod, Larissa Lai, Lauren McLaughlin, Liz Williams, Matthew Jarpe, Michael Swanwick, Neal Asher, Oliver Morton, Paul McAuley, Peter F. Hamilton, R. Garcia y Robertson, Rudy Rucker, Stephen Baxter, Ted Chiang, Tobias S. Buckell, Vonda N McIntyre.
- [Year's Best SF 12. ed David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Eos Books 2007](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-12-ed-david-g-hartwell-and-kathryn-cramer-eos-books-2007/) - Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Carol Emshwiller, Charlie Rosenkrantz, Claude Lalumiere, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, Edd Vick, Eileen Gunn, Gardner R Dozois, Gregory Benford, Heather Lindsley, Ian Creasey, Ian R. Macleod, Joe Haldeman, Kameron Hurley, Liz Williams, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Flynn, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, Rudy Rucker, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Wil McCarthy.
- [Year's Best SF 13. ed David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Eos Books 2008](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-13-ed-david-g-hartwell-and-kathryn-cramer-eos-books-2008/) - Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Gene Wolfe., Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, James Van Pelt, Johanna Sinisalo, John Hemry, John Kessel, Kage Baker, Karen Joy Fowler, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Marc Laidlaw, Nancy Kress, Palle Juul Holm, Peter Watts, Robin Hitchock, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Tim Pratt, Tony Ballantyne, William Shunn.
- [Science Fiction The Best of the Year 2007 edition, ed Rich Horton, Prime Books 2007](https://bestsf.net/science-fiction-the-best-of-the-year-2007-edition-ed-rich-horton-prime-books-2007/) - A collection more in tune with my preferences than last year’s, with the exclusion of Analog stories being the primary cause of that.
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories 1950 ed Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty. Frederic Fell Inc, 1950.](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-1950-ed-everett-f-bleiler-and-t-e-dikty-frederic-fell-inc-1950/) - The dust jacket of my volume is somewhat faded and tattered, but I remember the excitement of buying it about 25 years ago.
- [Year's Best SF 3. David G. Hartwell. Harper Prism 1998](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-3-david-g-hartwell-harper-prism-1998/) - Brian Stableford, Gene Wolfe., Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Jack Williamson, James Patrick Kelly, John C. Wright, Katherine McLean, Kim Newman, Michael Moorcock, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul Levinson, R. Garcia y Robertson, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, S.N. Dyer, Terry Bisson, Tom Cool., Tom Purdom, William Gibson
- [The Best Science Fiction Stories : 1949 (ed Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty, Frederic Fell Inc, 1949)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-stories-1949-ed-everett-f-bleiler-and-t-e-dikty-frederic-fell-inc-1949/) - A book so old, that it is 11 years older than I am, that is how old it is...
- [Stephen Baxter. Phase Space : stories from the Manifold and elsewhere](https://bestsf.net/stephen-baxter-phase-space-stories-from-the-manifold-and-elsewhere/) - Leading British SF writer Baxter had previously collected stories in his 'XeeLee' sequence into a collection ('Vacuum Diagrams'), and here he brings together a set of stories collected around his 'Manifold' novel sequence, and around alternate histories of space travel in the 60s/70s/80s. A short prologue has Reid Malenfant and family, along with scientist Cornelius
- [Argosy Magazine #2, (May/June 2004).](https://bestsf.net/argosy-magazine-2-mayjune-2004/) - Notable for the Stross/Doctorow 'Rapture of the Nerds' novellas.
- [Best Science Fiction for 1973. ed Forrest J. Ackerman. Ace, 1973.](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-for-1973-ed-forrest-j-ackerman-ace-1973/) - Stories by : Norman Spinrad, Robert Silverberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Frederik Pohl, Milton A. Rothman, Thomas N. Scortia, Robert Block, A.E. van Vogt
- [Best Science Fiction for 1972. Frederik Pohl, Ace Books, 1972.](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-for-1972-frederik-pohl-ace-books-1972/) - Continuing the Wollheim/Carr series. Stories by : Larry Niven, Ryu Mitsuse, James Tiptree Jr., Grahame Leman, Doris Piserchia, Harlan Ellison, H.H. Hollis, John Brunner, Frederik Pohl
- [The Tenth Annual of the Year's Best SF. Judith Merril. Simon & Schuster 1965](https://bestsf.net/the-tenth-annual-of-the-years-best-sf-judith-merril-simon-schuster-1965/) - Stories by : Kit Reed, Richard Wilson, Arthur C. Clarke, Mack Reynolds, Stephen Becker, John D. MacDonald, James D. Houston, Russell Baker, Rick Raphael, Josef Nesvadba, Thomas M. Disch, Romain Gary, Fritz Leiber, Frank Roberts, James T. Farrell, Hap Cawood, Bruce Simmonds, Larry Eisenberg, Jack Sharkey, Roger Zelazny, J.G. Ballard, Arthur Porges, Donald Hall, Normal Kagan, Morgan Kent, Jose Maria Gironella, M.E. White, Robert Wallace, David R. Bunch, Philip H. Smith and Alan E. Nourse, John Brunner, Robert Rohrer, Isaac Bashevis Singer. (Contents only).
- [The Ninth Annual of the Year's Best SF. Judith Merril. Simon & Schuster 1964](https://bestsf.net/the-ninth-annual-of-the-years-best-sf-judith-merril-simon-schuster-1964/) - Stories by : William Tenn, Fred Saberhagen, Peter Redgrove, R. Bretnor, John Gallagher, Alfred Bester, Allan Danzig, Bruce McAllister, Lloyd Biggle Jr. Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Julius Feiffer, Bernard Malamud, J.F. Bone, Walt & Leigh Richmond, Fredric Brown, Frank A. Javor, Ray Nelson, Ben Bova, Andre Maurois, W.J.J. Gordon, Hal Clement, Mort Gerberg, Cliff Owsley, E.C. Tubb, Gerald Kersh, Cordwainer Smith. (Contents only).
- [The Eighth Annual of the Year's Best SF. Judith Merril. Simon & Schuster 1963](https://bestsf.net/the-eighth-annual-of-the-years-best-sf-judith-merril-simon-schuster-1963/) - Stories by : Gerald Kersh, R.A. Lafferty, Harry Harrison, Jack Finney, R.C. Fitzpatrick, John Brunner, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Vance Aandahl, James White, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, William F. Nolan, Arnold M. Auerbach, Russell Baker, J.G. Ballard, William Sambrot, George Whitley, Brian Cleve, Fredric Brown, Mark Clifton, Mack Reynolds, Frederik Pohl, Bertrand Russell, Edward Wellen, Zenna Henderson, Karen Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson. (Contents only)
- [The Seventh Annual of the Year's Best SF. Judith Merril. Simon & Schuster 1962](https://bestsf.net/the-seventh-annual-of-the-years-best-sf-judith-merril-simon-schuster-1962/) - Stories by : Conrad Aiken, Kaatje Hurlbut, George P. Elliott, Robert Beverly Hale, David Rome, Julian F. Grow, R. Bretnor, Muriel Spark, George Bamber, Robert F. Young, Fredric Brown, Jule Feiffer, John Dos Passos, Ward Moore, Leo Szillard, J.F. Bone, Mack Reynolds, Lawrence Durrell, Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth. (Contents only.)
- [The Sixth Annual of the Year's Best SF. Judith Merril. Simon & Schuster 1961](https://bestsf.net/the-sixth-annual-of-the-years-best-sf-judith-merril-simon-schuster-1961/) - Stories by : Holley Cantine, Bernard Wolfe, Ward Moore, R.C. Phelan, Felicia Lamport, Michael Ffolkes, Arthur C. Clarke, Leonard Lockhard, Shel Silverstein, John Brunner, Roger Price, Henry Slesar, Lester del Rey, Howard Fast, Christopher Anvil, Elizabeth Emmett, Isaac Asimov, Marshall King, William Sambrot, Frederic Brown, R. Bretnor, Rosel George Brown, Walt Kelly, Zenna Henderson, Joseph Whitehill, Ray Bradbury, Hilbert Schenck Jr., Dean McLaughlin, Kingsley Amis, Richard McKenna, Brian W. Aldiss. (Contents only).
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition (ed Rich Horton, Prime Books 2019)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-fantasy-2019-edition-ed-rich-horton-prime-books-2019/) - I'm restricting myself to buying the purely SF anthologies, and so this book won't be gracing my shelves. I've nabbed the contents listing from Amazon and shall try my best to annotate where I have links to reviews of those (the few) that I have read elsewhere. Alix E. Harrow. A Witch's Guide to Escape
- [The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2019)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-thirteen-ed-jonathan-strahan-solaris-books-2019/) - In the sad absence of a Dozois' annual anthology, I've been and gone and bought the dead-tree version of Strahan's F&SF anthology (I did buy an Amazon Kindle, but haven't got the hang of it). In the introduction Strahan announces that this is the last volume in this series, which would be disappointing news, but
- [Science Fiction The Best of 2004, edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan. ibooks, 2005](https://bestsf.net/science-fiction-the-best-of-2004-edited-by-karen-haber-and-jonathan-strahan-ibooks-2005/) - Stories by : Carol Emshwiller, Charles Stross, Christopher Rowe, Gene Wolfe., James Patrick Kelly, Jeff VanderMeer, Joe Haldeman, M. John Harrison, Nancy Kress, Paolo Bacigalupi, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Walter Jon Williams.
- [Science Fiction The Best of 2003, edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan. ibooks, 2004](https://bestsf.net/science-fiction-the-best-of-2003-edited-by-karen-haber-and-jonathan-strahan-ibooks-2004/) - Stories by : Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, David D. Levine, George Saunders, Howard Waldrop, James Patrick Kelly, Jeffrey Ford, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Susan Mosser, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vernor Vinge.
- [Science Fiction The Best of 2002, edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber. ibooks, 2003](https://bestsf.net/science-fiction-the-best-of-2002-edited-by-robert-silverberg-and-karen-haber-ibooks-2003/) - With the SF community having being served for two decades by the Dozois annual collection, producing an anthology with only a dozen stories is going to be challenging. The Silverberg/Haber collection makes it even more difficult as the majority of the stories are from the first half of 2002.
- [Science Fiction The Best of 2001, edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber. ibooks, 2002](https://bestsf.net/science-fiction-the-best-of-2001-edited-by-robert-silverberg-and-karen-haber-ibooks-2002/) - Stories by : Dan Simmons, Gregory Benford, Ian Watson, James Patrick Kelly, Jim Grimsley, Michael Blumlein, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Richard Wadholm, Robin Wayne Bailey, Stephen Baxter.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Tenth Annual Collection. ed. Dozois. 1981](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-tenth-annual-collection-ed-dozois-1981/) - Stories by : Howard Waldrop, Larry Niven, Michael Swanwick, Isaac Asimov, George R. R. Martin, Edward Bryant, James Tiptree Jr., Naomi Mitchison, Gene Wolfe, Suzy McKee Charnas.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Ninth Annual Collection. ed. Dozois. 1980](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-ninth-annual-collection-ed-dozois-1980/) - Stories by : Dean Ing, Edward Bryant, George R. R. Martin, Gregory Benford, Hilbert Schenck, Jack Dann, James P. Girard, Joe Haldeman, Michael Bishop, Suzy McKee Charnas.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Eighth Annual Collection. ed. Dozois 1979](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-eighth-annual-collection-ed-dozois-1979/) - Stories by : Bernard Deitchman, Christoper Priest, Gene Wolfe., Gregory Benford, Isaac Asimov, James P. Girard, Joan D. Vinge, John Varley, Michael Bishop, Phyllis Eisenstein, Thomas M. Disch.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Seventh Annual Collection. ed. Dozois](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-seventh-annual-collection-ed-dozois/) - Stories by : Edward Bryant, George R. R. Martin, John Varley, Michael Bishop, Raccoona Sheldon, Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Sixth Annual Collection. ed. Dozois,1977](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-sixth-annual-collection-ed-dozois1977/) - Stories by : Howard Waldrop, Jake Saunders, Joe Haldeman, John Varley, Kate Wilhelm, Michael Bishop, Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Fifth Annual Collection. ed. del Rey, 1976](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-fifth-annual-collection-ed-del-rey-1976/) - Stories by : Clifford D Simak, Hayford Peirce, Joan D. and Vernor Vinge, Liz Hufford, P.J. Plauger, Phyllis Eisenstein, Poul Anderson, Robert Hoskins, Stephen Robinett
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Fourth Annual Collection, 1975. ed. del Rey](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-fourth-annual-collection-1975-ed-del-rey/) - Stories by : Alan Dean Foster, Carolyn Gloeckner, Clifford D Simak, F.M. Busby, Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, Gordon R. Dickson, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, Harvey Jacobs, John Brunner, Mildred Downey Broxon, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, Stan Nodvik, Vonda N McIntyre.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Third Annual Collection. ed. del Rey, 1974](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-third-annual-collection-ed-del-rey-1974/) - Stories by : Alfred Bester, Clifford D Simak, Cogswell Thomas, Edward Wellen, George R. R. Martin, Kate Wilhelm, Michael Kurland, Norman Spinrad, Poul Anderson, R.A. Lafferty, Robert F. Young, Theodore R. Cogswell, Thomas N. Scortia.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection. ed. del Rey, 1973](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-second-annual-collection-ed-del-rey-1973/) - Stories by : C.N. Gloeckner, Donald Noakes, Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, Gordon Eklund, Isaac Asimov, Jack C. Haldeman, James Tipree Jr, Larry Niven, Phyllis Maclennan, R.A. Lafferty, Robert L. Davis, Robert Silverberg, Thomas N. Scortia, Vernor Vinge, William Rotsler.
- [Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, First Annual Collection. ed. del Rey, 1972](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-stories-of-the-year-first-annual-collection-ed-del-rey-1972/) - Stories by : Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree Jr., David M. Locke, Harry Harrison, Thomas N. Scortia, Theodore Sturgeon, Burt K. Filer, Harlan Ellison and A. E. Van Vogt, A. Lentini, Poul Anderson, W. MacFarlane, R. A. Lafferty, B. Alan Burhoe, Larry Niven . (Contents only).
- [The 1990 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1990](https://bestsf.net/the-1990-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1990/) - Contents only.
- [The 1989 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1989](https://bestsf.net/the-1989-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1989/) - Contents only.
- [The 1988 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1989](https://bestsf.net/the-1988-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1989/) - Short summaries.
- [The 1987 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1988](https://bestsf.net/the-1987-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1988/) - Contents only
- [The 1986 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1986](https://bestsf.net/the-1986-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1986/) - Short summaries.
- [The 1984 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1984](https://bestsf.net/the-1984-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1984/) - Stories by : Don Sakers, Frederik Pohl, Greg Bear, Isaac Asimov, Joseph H. Delaney, Mary Gentle, Rand B. Lee, Robert Silverberg, Tanith Lee, Thomas Wylde
- [The 1982 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1982](https://bestsf.net/the-1982-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1982/) - Contents only
- [The 1981 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1981](https://bestsf.net/the-1981-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1981/) - Contents only.
- [The 1980 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1980](https://bestsf.net/the-1980-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1980/) - Contents only.
- [The 1978 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1978](https://bestsf.net/the-1978-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1978/) - Stories by : John Varley, Joe Haldeman, Michael Bishop, Edward Bryant, John Brunner, Harlan Ellison, Raccoona Sheldon, Joan D. Vinge, James E. Gunn, Clifford D. Simak. (Content listing only.)
- [The 1977 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1977](https://bestsf.net/the-1977-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1977/) - Stories by : Brian W. Aldiss, John Varley, Michael G. Coney, Richard Cowper, Lester Del Rey, Isaac Asimov, Barrington J. Bayley, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr, Damon Knight. (Content listing only.)
- [The 1976 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1976](https://bestsf.net/the-1976-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1976/) - Stories by : Fritz Leiber, Joan D. Vinge and Vernor Vinge, Barrington J. Bayley, Lisa Tuttle and George R.R. Martin, Brian M. Stableford, Michael Bishop, P.J. Plauger, Stephen Robinett, John Brunner, Richard Cowper.
- [The 1975 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1975](https://bestsf.net/the-1975-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1975/) - Stories by : George R. R. Martin, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Bob Shaw, Brian M. Stableford, Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, Alfred Bester, Gordon R. Dickson, Michael Bishop, Craig Strete, Isaac Asimov. (Content listing only).
- [The 1974 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1974](https://bestsf.net/the-1974-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1974/) - Stories by : Robert Sheckley, R.A. Lafferty, Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson, Norman Spinrad, Vadim Shefner, Harlan Ellison, E.C. Tubb, Gordon Eklund, Michael Bishop, Clifford D. Simak. (Contents only.)
- [The 1973 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1973](https://bestsf.net/the-1973-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1973/) - Goat Song. Poul Anderson. Originally in : The Magazine of Fantasy & Science FIction, Far future in which mankind is controlled/governed by SUM, an AI. SUM offers life after death, but the protagonist, grief-stricken after the death of his love, petitions the Dark Queen, the representative of SUM on Earth, to recreate her. (Follows in
- [The 1972 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1972](https://bestsf.net/the-1972-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1972/) - After co-editing a Year's Best series with Terry Carr for several years, the pair went their separate ways with their own Year's Best series. This is Wollheim's first volume, a handsome series of hardbacks. The Fourth Profession. Larry Niven. Quark/4. Aliens, known as The Monks due to their habits (the ones they wear, as opposed
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 16. ed Terry Carr. 1987](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-16-ed-terry-carr-1987/) - Stories by : Carter Scholz, Harry Turtledove, Ian Watson, James Patrick Kelly, John Varley, Judith Moffett, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Orson Scott Card, Richard Kearns, Robert Silverberg
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 14. ed Terry Carr. 1985](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-14-ed-terry-carr-1985/) - Stories by : Bob Leman, Charles L. Harness, Connie Willis, Gardner Dozois, George Alec Effinger, John Varley, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lee Montgomerie, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Octavia E. Butler, Pamela Sargent, Tanith Lee
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 13. ed Terry Carr. 1984](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-13-ed-terry-carr-1984/) - Stories by : Cherry Wilder, Connie Willis, Frederik Pohl, Greg Bear, Ian Watson, Jack Dann, John Sladek, Michael Bishop, Richard Cowper, Robert Silverberg.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 12. ed Terry Carr. 1983](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-12-ed-terry-carr-1983/) - Stories by : Robert Silverberg, Bruce Sterling, Joanna Russ, William Gibson, Frederik Pohl, Bill Johnson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Gregory Benford, Connie Willis, O. Niemand, Nancy Kress, Bruce McAllister.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 10. Terry Carr, Timescape 1981](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-10-terry-carr-timescape-1981/) - Stories by : Barry Malzberg, Bob Leman, Clifford D Simak, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, George R. R. Martin, Howard Waldrop, James Tiptree Jr, John Varley, Michael Swanwick, Philip K. Dick, Suzy McKee Charnas, Zenna Henderson.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 9. ed Terry Carr. 1980](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-9-ed-terry-carr-1980/) - Stories by : Alfred Bester, George R. R. Martin, Gregory Benford, Melisa Michaels, David Lake, Dean Ing, Philip K. Dick, John Varley, James P. Girard, Vonda N. McIntyre, John Morressy, Rick Gauger, Tanith Lee, George Turner.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 8. ed Terry Carr. 1979](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-8-ed-terry-carr-1979/) - Stories by : Dean Ing, Donald Kingsbury, Fritz Leiber, Gordun Eklund, Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw, Harlan Ellison, Hilbert Schenck, Ian Watson, James Patrick Kelly, Joan D. Vinge, John Varley, Thomas M. Disch.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 7. ed Terry Carr. 1978](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-7-ed-terry-carr-1978/) - Stories by : Bruce McAlliser, Fritz Leiber, John Varley, Lee Killough, Lisa Tuttle, Michael Bishop, Raccoona Sheldon, Spider and Jeanne Robinson., Vona N. McIntyre.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 6. ed Terry Carr. 1977](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-6-ed-terry-carr-1977/) - Stories by : Christopher Priest, Damon Knight, Fritz Leiber, Gene Wolfe., George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, James Tiptree Jr, John Varley, Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 5. ed Terry Carr. 1976](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-5-ed-terry-carr-1976/) - Stories by : Algis Budrys, Cordwainer Smith, Gene Wolfe., George R. R. Martin, Gregory Benford, Harlan Ellison, John Varley, Lisa Tuttle, P.J. Plauger, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert F. Young, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 4. ed Terry Carr. Ballantine Books. 1975](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-4-ed-terry-carr-ballantine-books-1975/) - Stories by : Bob Shaw, Frederik Pohl, Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, Michael Moorcock, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Tenn.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 3. ed Terry Carr. Ballantine. 1974.](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-3-ed-terry-carr-ballantine-1974/) - Stories by : Alfred Bester, F.M. Busby, Gene Wolfe., Harlan Ellison, Jack Vance, James Tiptree Jr, Philip Jose Farmer, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N McIntyre.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 2. ed Terry Carr. Ballantine Books. 1973](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-2-ed-terry-carr-ballantine-books-1973/) - Stories by : Ben Bova, Edward Bryant, Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth, Gene Wolfe., Gordon Eklund, Grahame Leman, James Tiptree Jr, Joanna Russ, Joe W. Haldeman, Naomi Mitchison, Poul Anderson, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, William Rotsler.
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 1. ed Terry Carr. 1972](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-1-ed-terry-carr-1972/) - Stories by : Alexei Panshin, Arthur C Clarke, George Alec Effinger, Larry Niven, Lloyd Biggle Jr, Philip Jose Farmer, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, ed Ellen Datlow, ROC, 2009](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2009-ed-ellen-datlow-roc-2009/) - The latest volume in the handsome Nebula Award series is in the extremely capable hands of Ellen Datlow, and a publisher who knows how to present a book to extremely good effect.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2008. ed Ben Bova, ROC, 2008](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-ed-ben-bova-roc-2008/) - There's a lot in here, as usual, with the Kelly story giving lots of SF bang-for-buck : if you haven't read 'Burn' yet, then this is your chance so to do, and get some other high quality reading, and the professional writer's take on what the 3 years leading up to 2008 meant to them.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase, ed Mike Resnick, ROC, 2007](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-ed-mike-resnick-roc-2007/) - A must for anyone seriously into short SF, but if only the SFFWA could tighten up the rules to choose material from a given calendar year, and pick some more Science Fiction!
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 - edited by Jack Dann, Roc, March 2005](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2005-edited-by-jack-dann-roc-march-2005/) - Jack Dann picks up the editorial reins from Vonda N. McIntyre in the Nebula Awards Showcase series. There's a lot of high quality fiction in this volume, and the only real beef is that the stories are from 2002, which means that in a number of cases you are reading stories which appeared in the Year's Best anthologies two years ago.
- [Nebula Award Stories 33. ed. Connie Willis. Harvest, 1999](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-33-ed-connie-willis-harvest-1999/) - Stories by : Jane Yolen, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Gregory Feeley, Nelson Bond, James Alan Gardner, Michael Swanwick, Karen Joy Fowler, Jerry Oltion.
- [Nebula Award Stories 32. ed. Jack Dann. Harvest, 1998](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-32-ed-jack-dann-harvest-1998/) - Stories by : Harry Turtledove, Dean Wesley Smith, Jack Dann, Esther M. Friesner, Paul Levinson, Nicola Griffith, Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Holland Rogers.
- [Nebula Award Stories 30. ed. Pamela Sargent. Harvest, 1996](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-30-ed-pamela-sargent-harvest-1996/) - Barry Malzberg, Ben Bova, Damon Knight, David Gerrold, Joe Haldeman, Kate Wilhelm, Martha Soukoup, Mike Resnick, Ursula K. Le Guin
- [Nebula Awards 28. ed James Morrow, Harvest 1994.](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-28-ed-james-morrow-harvest-1994/) - Stories by : Connie Willis, Gregory Benford, James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Pamela Sargent, Paul Di Filippo, S.N. Dyer
- [Nebula Award Stories 29. ed. Pamela Sargent. Harcourt, 1995](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-29-ed-pamela-sargent-harcourt-1995/) - Stories by : Connie Willis, Harlan Ellison, Jack Cady, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Terry Bisson, Charles Shieffield, Lisa Goldstein
- [Nebula Award Stories 26. ed. James Morrow. Harcourt, 1992](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-26-ed-james-morrow-harcourt-1992/) - Stories by : Dafydd ab Hugh, Ian MacLeod, Joe Haldeman, Karen Joy Fowler, Martha Soukoup, Pat Murphy, Ted Chiang, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Nebula Award Stories 25. ed. Michael Bishop. Harcourt, 1991](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-25-ed-michael-bishop-harcourt-1991/) - Stories by : Connie Willis, John Crowley, Michael Bishop, Mike Resnick, Orson Scott Card, Richard Grant, Geoffrey A. Landis, Gardner Dozois, Lois McMaster Bujold
- [Nebula Awards 23 - edited by Michael Bishop, pub Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-23-edited-by-michael-bishop-pub-harcourt-brace-jovanovich-1989/) - A strong selection of stories. Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Gregory Benford, James Morrow, John Kessel, Kate Wilhelm, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, Pat Murphy, Walter Jon Williams
- [Nebula Awards 22 - edited by George Zebrowski, pub Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-22-edited-by-george-zebrowski-pub-harcourt-brace-jovanovich-1988/) - A strong selection of stories, which stand up well some 20 years on. Stories by : Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Isaac Asimov, Judith Moffett, Kate Wilhelm, Lucius Shepard, Orson Scott Card, Suzy McKee Charnas.
- [Nebula Award Stories 21. ed. George Zebrowski](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-21-ed-george-zebrowski/) - Stories by : George R. R. Martin, Howard Waldrop, James P Blaylock, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg.
- [Nebula Awards 19. edited by Marta Randall.](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-19-edited-by-marta-randall/) - Stories by Greg Bear, Gardner Dozois, Ian Watson, and Robert Silverberg.
- [Nebula Award Stories 18. ed. Robert Silverberg](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-18-ed-robert-silverberg/) - Stories by : Barry N. Malzberg, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Joanna Russ, John Kessel, Robert Silverberg, William Gibson.
- [Nebula Awards 17. ed Joe Haldeman.](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-17-ed-joe-haldeman/) - Stories by : Kim Stanley Robinson, George Florance-Guthridge, Jack Dann, William Gibson, Timothy Robert Sullivan Poul Anderson, Gardner Dozois, Michael Bishop, John Varley.
- [Nebula Award Stories 16. ed. Jerry Pournelle](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-16-ed-jerry-pournelle/) - Stories by : Charles L. Grant, Clifford D Simak, Howard Waldrop, Michael Swanwick, Philip K. Dick, Suzy McKee Charnas.
- [Nebula Award Stories 15. ed. Frank Herbert](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-15-ed-frank-herbert/) - Stories by : Barry B. Longyear, Edward Bryant, George R. R. Martin, Jack Dann, Vonda N. McIntyre
- [Nebula Awards 14. ed. Frederik Pohl](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-14-ed-frederik-pohl/) - Stories by : C J Cherryh, Charles L. Grant, Edward Bryant, Gene Wolfe, John Varley.
- [Nebula Awards 13. ed. Samuel R. Delany](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-13-ed-samuel-r-delany/) - Stories by : Edward Bryant, Harlan Ellison, Raccoona Sheldon, Spider and Jeanne Robinson., Vonda N McIntyre.
- [Nebula Winners 12, edited by Gordon R. Dickson.](https://bestsf.net/nebula-winners-twelve-edited-by-gordon-r-dickson/) - Stories by Charles L. Grant, Thomas F. Monteleone, John Varley, Isaac Asimov, James Tiptree Jr. (Contents Only.)
- [Nebula Award Stories 11. ed. Ursula K. Le Guin](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-11-ed-ursula-k-le-guin/) - Stories by : Craig Strete, Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, Joe Haldeman, P.J. Plauger, Roger Zelazny, Tom Reamy
- [Nebula Award Stories 10. ed. James Gunn](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-10-ed-james-gunn/) - Stories by : C L Grant, Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Scholes, Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Tom Reamy, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Nebula Award Stories 9 ed. Kate Wilhelm](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-9-ed-kate-wilhelm/) - Stories by : Carol Emshwiller, Edward Bryant, Gene Wolfe, George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, James Tiptree Jr, Norman Spinrad, Vonda N. McIntyre.
- [Nebula Award Stories 8. ed. Isaac Asimov](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-8-ed-isaac-asimov/) - Stories by : Arthur C Clarke, Fredrik Pohl, Gene Wolfe., Harlan Ellison, Joanna Russ, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, William Rostler.
- [Nebula Award Stories 5. ed. James Blish. 1970.](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-5-ed-james-blish-1970/) - Stories by : Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R Delany, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [Nebula Award Stories 4. ed. Poul Anderson. 1969](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-4-ed-poul-anderson-1969/) - Stories by : Anne McCaffrey, H H Hollis, James E Gunn, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Terry Carr
- [Nebula Award Stories 3. ed. Roger Zelazny. 1968](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-3-ed-roger-zelazny-1968/) - Stories by : Anne McCaffrey, Fritz Leiber, Gary Wright, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, Samuel R Delany.
- [Nebula Award Stories 2 - edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison. 1967](https://bestsf.net/nebula-award-stories-2-edited-by-brian-aldiss-and-harry-harrison-1967/) - Eleven uniformly excellent stories, covering most topics you might expect to see : time travel, far future, virtual reality, New Wave, and fantasy. What is perhaps of note is the lack of 'hard SF', and the extent to which so many of the stories are fundamentally about humanity, about people.
- [Nebula Awards 27 - edited by James Morrow, pub Harcourt Brace, 1993](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-27-edited-by-james-morrow-pub-harcourt-brace-1993/) - Stories by : Alan Brennert, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Karen Joy Fowler, Mike Conner, Nancy Kress, Susan Shwartz, Terry Bisson, W. Gregory Stewart
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2000. ed. Gregory Benford](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2000-ed-gregory-benford/) - Stories by : Bruce Holland Rogers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Jane Yolen, Mark J. McGarry, Sheila Finch, Walter Jon Williams.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 - edited by Robert Silverberg, Harcourt 2001](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2001-edited-by-robert-silverberg-harcourt-2001/) - All in all, and excellent volume - one which I would be happy to give to anyone who is sniffy about SF, confident that there is a lot of mature, high quality (science) fiction therein.
- [The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 2 (ed Neil Clarke, Night Shade Books 2017)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-volume-2-ed-neil-clarke-night-shade-books-2017/) - The second volume in the new SF-only anthology.
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction, Vol. 1 (ed Jonathan Strahan, Saga Press 2020)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-vol-1-ed-jonathan-strahan-saga-press-2020/) - Strahan racked up #13 volumes of his Best SF&F of the Year anthology, initially published by Nightshade Books, and latterly by Solaris Books. It would appear that Solaris Books is now in 'reduced circumstances' and is now an imprint of another publisher who has a target audience isn't really up for a hefty Year's Best
- [Best SF: 1969. edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. 1970](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-1969-edited-by-harry-harrison-and-brian-aldiss-1970/) - Stories by : Algis Budrys, Anthony Burgess, Brian W. Aldiss, Bruce McAllister, Frederik Pohl, J.G. Ballard, James Tiptree, John Hartridge, Joseph Wesley, Jr, Ken W. Purdy, P. g. Wyal, Paul Ehrlich, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin.
- [The New Space Opera, ed Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos, 2007.](https://bestsf.net/the-new-space-opera-ed-gardner-dozois-and-jonathan-strahan-eos-2007/) - This has quite simply got to be the strongest original collection in SF in recent years. If you are a regular visitor to Best SF and tend to concur with what I see as being the best in short SF, then this volume is a must have.
- [Alastair Reynolds. Zima Blue and Other Stories, Nightshade Books 2006](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-zima-blue-and-other-stories-nightshade-books-2006/) - At the beginning of this month I reviewed the collection of Alastair Reynolds stories set in his Revelation Space universe, entitled 'Galactic North' with which I was impressed. 'Zima Blue and Other Stories' from Nightshade Books collects a number of Reynolds' other stories. Fortunately for the collectors amongst us, Nightshade Books have presented their book
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 - edited by Kim Stanley Robinson, Roc, April 2002](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2002-edited-by-kim-stanley-robinson-roc-april-2002/) - A nice volume to own - make sure that the nice white cover doesn't get dirty though!
- [Dozois Reader](https://bestsf.net/dozois-reader/) - Gardner Dozois' A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, FictionWise, Microsoft Reader Welcome to a single review which actually reviews three things: Gardner Dozois' short story A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, which is on the Nebula 2001 Preliminary Ballot the FictionWise website, which is making this story available free of charge, alongside their increasing range
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013. (ed Rich Horton, Prime Book 2013)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-fantasy-2013-ed-rich-horton-prime-book-2013/) - As is my wont I shall be updating this review as I read the individual stories. You can of course buy the book : amazon.com : book | kindle | amazon.co.uk : book | kindle
- [The Hugo Award Showcase 2010 Volume. (ed Mary Robinette Kowal, Prime Books 2010).](https://bestsf.net/the-hugo-award-showcase-2010-volume-ed-mary-robinette-kowal-prime-books-2010/) - If you likes your SF to be SF (and if you're a guy of a certain age), or if you know one such guy and want to buy him a book, the Hugo Awards would be a great choice.
- [The Ultimate Cyberpunk edited by Pat Cadigan, (ibooks, 2002)](https://bestsf.net/the-ultimate-cyberpunk-edited-by-pat-cadigan-ibooks-2002/) - But, all in all, a bit of a curate's egg. The early stories, and the final story, don't quite fit IMHO. And with the lack of a 'real' introduction, and story intros, the extra size that this volume offers over 'Mirrorshades' hasn't really be used to the full. A missed opportunity.
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction. 34th Annual Collection. (ed Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2017).](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-34th-annual-collection-ed-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2017/) - Currently being reviewed.
- [Asimovs, October/November 2006](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-octobernovember-2006/) - Robert Reed. A Billion Eves. A complex and initially very satisfying story. The story beings is a just-slightly-off-kilter rural American, describing a family vacation in a battered old car which is doomed to failure. Scarily, part of the background is that the trip is against a backdrop of women disappearing : there are 'missing' posters
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection (ed Gardner Dozois, St Martins/Griffin 2018)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-thirty-fifth-annual-collection-ed-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2018/) - The last of Dozois' amazing annual anthologies...
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 54 ed Nibedita Send (SFWA 2020)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-54-ed-nibedita-send-sfwa-2020/) - The annual Nebula anthology had four different publishers in the last five years, and this volume is published by SFWA themselves. I bought it on amazon.co.uk and it came to me with Printed in Great Britain by Amazon on the last page, so presumably a Print on Demand publication (I'm a bit out of touch
- [Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year 2. ed Terry Carr. 1980](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-novellas-of-the-year-2-ed-terry-carr-1980/) - The second, and last, in Carr's abortive attempt to run a Year's Best SF Novellas alongside his established short SF anthology. Stories by : Barry B. Longyear, Christopher Priest, Donald Kinsbury, Orson Scott Card, Ted Reynolds.
- [Non-Zero Probabilities. N.K. Jemisin. (Clarkesworld Magazine #36, September 2009.)](https://bestsf.net/non-zero-probabilities-n-k-jemisin-clarkesworld-magazine-36-september-2009/) - A neat story from an author new to me.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 14th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1997](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-14th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1997/) - Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Bud Sparhawk, Charles Sheffield, Cherry Wilder, Damian Broderick, Gene Wolfe., Gregory Benford, Gregory Feeley, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, James P Blaylock, Jim Cowan, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Cassutt, Michael Swanwick, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Paul Park, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Baxter, Steven Utley, Tony Daniel, Walter Jon Williams, William Barton.
- [Year's Best SF. David G. Hartwell. Harper Prism 1996](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-david-g-hartwell-harper-prism-1996/) - Stories by : Gene Wolfe, Gregory Benford, James Patrick Kelly, Joan Slonczewski, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Patricia A. McKillip, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Stephen Baxter, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Barton, William Browning Spencer
- [The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4 (ed Neil Clarke, Nightshade Books 2019)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-volume-4-ed-neil-clarke-nightshade-books-2019/) - With 2019 being the first year for four decades without a Gardner Dozois take on the Year's Best SF, this is the only pure SF annual best volume this year! I'll slowly work my way through the volume, reviewing stories and putting summaries of those reviews below, with links to the fuller reviews, where available.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (ed Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Parvus Press 2019)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2019-ed-silvia-moreno-garcia-parvus-press-2019/) - Shelved with the now-usual nostalgic sigh for when these volumes where choc full of great SF..
- [Best Science Fiction of the Year 11. Terry Carr, Timescape 1982](https://bestsf.net/best-science-fiction-of-the-year-11-terry-carr-timescape-1982/) - Poul Anderson. The Saturn Game. Mildred Downey Broxon. Walk the Ice. Ted Reynolds. Trial Sample. John Varley. The Pusher. Kim Stanley Robinson. Venice Drowned. Michael Swanwick. Walden Three. Pat Cadigan. Second Comings - Reasonable Rates. Damon Knight. Forever. David R. Palmer. Emergence. R.A. Lafferty. You Can't Go Back. Roger Zelazny. Walpurgisnacht. Gene Wolfe. The Woman
- [Bud Webster. Farewell Blues. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/bud-webster-farewell-blues-fantasy-science-fiction-janfeb-2015x/) - A band is playing a residency in a bar by the waterside, and the music gets the locals a-calling, and then some....
- [Indrapramit Das. The Moon Is Not a Battlefield. (Infinity Wars ed Strahan, Solaris 2017)](https://bestsf.net/indrapramit-das-the-moon-is-not-a-battlefield-infinity-wars-ed-strahan-solaris-2017/) - A thoughtful and powerful reflection.
- [Avram Davidson. The Golem. (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1955)](https://bestsf.net/avram-davidson-the-golem-the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-march-1955/) - A sweet little story in which an elderly, retired Jewish couple sitting on their porch are paid a visit by a Golem hell-bent on world domination.
- [Robert Abernathy. Junior. (Galaxy Magazine January 1956)](https://bestsf.net/robert-abernathy-junior-galaxy-magazine-january-1956/) - A troublesome teen decides that he wants more from life than putting roots down with a nice girl. (Oh, and he's an alien).
- [James E. Gunn. The Cave of Night. (Galaxy February 1955)](https://bestsf.net/james-e-gunn-the-cave-of-night-galaxy-february-1955/) - Gunn's tale foreshadows the drama of Apollo 13 and the 'fake Moon landing' conspiracy theorists.
- [Carter Scholz. Vanguard 2.0. (Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures, ASU 2017)](https://bestsf.net/carter-scholz-vanguard-2-0-visions-ventures-escape-velocities-a-collection-of-space-futures-asu-2017/) - As with the opening story in the volume, the fourth one is also a reflective one, which will similarly disappoint seekers of action-driven adventure.
- [Nancy Kress. Dear Sarah. (Infinity Wars, ed Strahan, Solaris 2017)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-dear-sarah-infinity-wars-ed-strahan-solaris-2017/) - Three dimensional and believable.
- [Alastair Reynolds. Night Passage. (Infinite Stars ed Schmidt, Titan Books, 2017)](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-night-passage-infinite-stars-ed-schmidt-titan-books-2017/) - clever stuff, although admittedly the characters are rather one-dimensional, with one of them handily having prior knowledge that helps explain the background.
- [Naomi Kritzer. Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty's Place Cafe. (Clarkesworld Magazine #126, March 2017)](https://bestsf.net/naomi-kritzer-waiting-out-the-end-of-the-world-in-pattys-place-cafe-clarkesworld-magazine-126-march-2017/) - Whilst not SF, altogether a good story about grownups and grownup issues.
- [James S.A. Corey. The Hunger after You're Fed : Who is Hector Prima? (The Wired Fiction Issue, 2016)](https://bestsf.net/james-s-a-corey-the-hunger-after-youre-fed-who-is-hector-prima-the-wired-fiction-issue-2016/) - An intriguing vignette from Corey.
- [Jaine Fenn. The Martian Job. (Newcon Press 2017)](https://bestsf.net/jaine-fenn-the-martian-job-newcon-press-2017/) - Read in The Year's Best Science Fiction Thirty Fifth Annual Collection (Dozois, 2018). Published by Newcon Press 2017. I liked the opening pages of this longer story, introducing an intriguing female protagonist with a back story and dodgy family to match. However the story moved into a relatively routine heist story, of the 'procedural' type
- [Lavie Tidhar. The Road to the Sea. (Sunvault : stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, ed Wagner/Wieland, Upper Rubber Boot, 2017.)](https://bestsf.net/lavie-tidhar-the-road-to-the-sea-sunvault-stories-of-solarpunk-and-eco-speculation-ed-wagner-wieland-upper-rubber-boot-2017/) - A shorter story from Tidhar, and classy as usual.
- [Jessica Barber and Sara Saab. Panhumanism : Hope and Pragmatics. (Clarkesworld Magazine, #132 September 2017).](https://bestsf.net/jessica-barber-and-sara-saab-panhumanism-hope-and-pragmatics-clarkesworld-magazine-132-september-2017/) - A touching story, with a very strong sense of place, and of the people populating it.
- [Harry Turtledove. Zigeuner. (Asimovs Science Fiction, September/October 2017).](https://bestsf.net/harry-turtledove-zigeuner-asimovs-science-fiction-september-october-2017/) - I went into this story with low expectations. Sadly the story didn't even reach those low expectations.
- [H. Pueyo. What the South Wind Whispers. (Clarkesworld Magazine, #146 November 2018)](https://bestsf.net/h-pueyo-what-the-south-wind-whispers-clarkesworld-magazine-146-november-2018/) - Two people on the spectrum, and a British AI, and treachery...
- [Alec Nevala-Lee. The Proving Ground. (Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January/February 2017).](https://bestsf.net/alec-nevala-lee-the-proving-ground-analog-science-fiction-and-science-fact-january-february-2017/) - Very much in the 'Analog' vein, of scientists coming across a scientific challenge/conundrum and having to resolve it
- [Rich Larson. Octo-Heist in Progress. (Clarkesworld Magazine #146 November 2018)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-octo-heist-in-progress-clarkesworld-magazine-146-november-2018/) - A short, fun story from Larson.
- [Maureen McHugh. Sidewalks. (Omni Magazine, November 2017)](https://bestsf.net/maureen-mchugh-sidewalks-omni-magazine-november-2017/) - Sensitive story from McHugh.
- [Michael F. Flynn. Nexus. (Analog, March/April 2017.)](https://bestsf.net/michael-f-flynn-nexus-analog-march-april-2017/) - A thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining story.
- [Walter M. Miller Jr. The Hoofer. (Fantastic Universe, September 1955)](https://bestsf.net/walter-m-miller-jr-the-hoofer-fantastic-universe-september-1955/) - A great read with some wonderful writing.
- [Theodore Sturgeon. Bulkhead. (Galaxy, March 1955)](https://bestsf.net/theodore-sturgeon-bulkhead-galaxy-march-1955/) - A solo 'Long Haul' trip to pass muster for the role of starship captain. Except, there is someone else to keep you company.
- [Mark Clifton. Sense From Thought Divide. (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1955)](https://bestsf.net/mark-clifton-sense-from-thought-divide-astounding-science-fiction-march-1955/) - A mildly amusing tale of psi, swamis, scientific framework and anti-gravity. Rather longer than it really needed to be....
- [Algis Budrys. Nobody Bothers Gus. (Astounding November 1955)](https://bestsf.net/algis-budrys-nobody-bothers-gus-astounding-november-1955/) - One of a trio of stories about Gussie Kusevic, one of a breed of humans that have developed beyond homo sapien.
- [E.C. Tubb. The Last Day of Summer. (Science Fantasy #12 1955)](https://bestsf.net/e-c-tubb-the-last-day-of-summer-science-fantasy-12-1955/) - After three rejuves, old age comes apace, and John Melhuey wishes to avoid decrepitude.
- [Shirley Jackson. One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955.)](https://bestsf.net/shirley-jackson-one-ordinary-day-with-peanuts-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-january-1955/) - Nice little story featuring the awfully nice Mr. Johnson, who spends his day in New York being rather helpful to people who cross his path.
- [Willard Marsh. The Ethicators. (Worlds of If Magazine, August 1955)](https://bestsf.net/willard-marsh-the-ethicators-worlds-of-if-magazine-august-1955/) - Humorous story in which missionaries from the Antarean region arrive on Earth and are horrified by what they see - flesh-eating monsters and barbaric humans.
- [Mildred Clingerman. Birds Can't Count. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1955).](https://bestsf.net/mildred-clingerman-birds-cant-count-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-february-1955/) - A touch of sauciness for the 1950s!
- [Jack Finney. Of Missing Persons. (Good Housekeeping, March 1955)](https://bestsf.net/jack-finney-of-missing-persons-good-housekeeping-march-1955/) - A travel agent can get you a one-way ticket to somewhere very different and very special. It's one-way and a one-off chance.
- [L. Sprague de Camp. Judgment Day. (Astounding Science Fiction, August 1955).](https://bestsf.net/l-sprague-de-camp-judgment-day-astounding-science-fiction-august-1955/) - A minimal SFnal element to a story that peers into the dark recesses of one human mind.
- [Isaac Asimov. Dreaming Is A Private Thing. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1955)](https://bestsf.net/isaac-asimov-dreaming-is-a-private-thing-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-december-1955/) - Asimov posits a new technology, 'dreamies', a form of immersive VR, but instead of being digitally coded, the dreamies are created by capturing and editing the dreams of the small percentage of the population who dream vivid dreams.
- [Steve Allen. The Public Hating. (The Blue Book Magazine, January 1955)](https://bestsf.net/steve-allen-the-public-hating-the-blue-book-magazine-january-1955/) - Imagine, a sports stadium full of hateful people, encouraged to be hateful, by the government. Sheer fantasy of course.
- [Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore. Home There's No Returning. (No Boundaries, 1955.)](https://bestsf.net/henry-kuttner-and-c-l-moore-home-theres-no-returning-no-boundaries-1955/) - 'Mr. & Mrs. Henry Kuttner' ponder whether flesh & blood, despite their inherent weaknesses, are superior to computers.
- [Eric Frank Russell. Allamagoosa. (Astounding May 1955)](https://bestsf.net/eric-frank-russell-allamagoosa-astounding-may-1955/) - A fairly weak story for a Hugo Winner.
- [John Bernard Daley. The Man Who Liked Lions. (Infinity Science Fiction October 1956).](https://bestsf.net/john-bernard-daley-the-man-who-liked-lions-infinity-science-fiction-october-1956/) - Mr. Kemper has been on Earth for millenia and finds little to differentiate the creatures in cages at the zoo from those staring in at them.
- [Robert F. Young. Jungle Doctor. (Startling Stories, Fall 1955).](https://bestsf.net/robert-f-young-jungle-doctor-startling-stories-fall-1955/) - A strong start to Dikty's anthology, with a story that stands the test of time well.
- [C.M. Kornbluth. The Cosmic Expense Account. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1956)](https://bestsf.net/c-m-kornbluth-the-cosmic-expense-account-fantasy-and-science-fiction-january-1956/) - A story that would sit nicely in today's F&SF with only a few changes - blackly comic and satirical, it features two men setting out into zombie-infested territory.
- [Frank M. Robinson. Dream Street. (Imaginative Tales, March 1955.)](https://bestsf.net/frank-m-robinson-dream-street-imaginative-tales-march-1955/) - I may be late to the party, but a Best SF Huzzah! for the late Robinson.
- [Ivan Janvier. Thing. (Fantastic Universe, March 1955)](https://bestsf.net/ivan-janvier-thing-fantastic-universe-march-1955/) - Written some 18 or more years after John W. Campbell's 'The Thing', but with a similar underpinning idea.
- [Algis Budrys. The Man Who Always Knew. (Astounding Science Fiction, April 1956).](https://bestsf.net/algis-budrys-the-man-who-always-knew-astounding-science-fiction-april-1956/) - A story that doesn't go much beyond the principal conceit : a man has the uncanny knack of knowing just where and when someone is going to have a brainwave or invent something - and therefore be on hand to licence and exploit it.
- [Robert Bloch. I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1955)](https://bestsf.net/robert-bloch-i-do-not-love-thee-doctor-fell-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-1955/) - Sitting down at the computer in a brief interlude from a day gardening in the sunshine I did have the option to re-read the story. but..
- [Tom Godwin. You Created Us. (Fantastic Universe, October 1955)](https://bestsf.net/tom-godwin-you-created-us-fantastic-universe-october-1955/) - I started this story with high hopes - one from no less an author than Tom 'The Cold Equations' Godwin, but found that this story doesn't quite live up to his most famous work.
- [Simone Heller. When We Were Starless. (Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2018)](https://bestsf.net/simone-heller-when-we-were-starless-clarkesworld-magazine-october-2018/) - Heller is an author new to me, but a name I would be looking out for now if I was still in the habit of reading a lot of short SF in it's original appearance.
- [Lavie Tidhar. New Atlantis. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2019).](https://bestsf.net/lavie-tidhar-new-atlantis-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-may-june-2019/) - Another masterful piece of writing from Tidhar.
- [Spar. Kij Johnson. (Clarkesworld 37, October 2009).](https://bestsf.net/spar-kij-johnson-clarkesworld-37-october-2009/) - Nebula Award Winner 2010 for Best Short Story. If you ain't read it online yet, or listened to it, you're missing out.
- [Interzone Number 178, April 2002](https://bestsf.net/interzone-number-178-april-2002/) - Richard Calder. Zarzuela. Calder has appeared in several issues of Interzone over the past couple of years, with his lengthy, and dense, and enjoyable 'Lord Soho' fantasy stories. In this, we are told, Calder is turning his hand to what the editors call 'space fiction'. It is clear that Calder is slightly less than comfortable
- [Interzone Number 177, March 2002](https://bestsf.net/interzone-number-177-march-2002/) - A 20th Anniversary issue, with Guest Editors Nick Gevers and Keith Brooke of the InfinityPlus website. Michael Swanwick. Five British Dinosaurs. Swanwick at his gently humorous best, with five alternate-takes on dinosaurs and Victorian England, including a quite civilized chap (as illustrated) who finds the base characterizations of his species quite beyond the pale. Top
- [Interzone Number 162, December 2000.](https://bestsf.net/interzone-number-162-december-2000/) - The experienced writers provide solid fare in this issue, although with four stories having humorous undertones the feel of the issue is slightly lightweight as opposed to a festive feast with all the trimmings.
- [Interzone Number 193 Spring 2004](https://bestsf.net/interzone-number-193-spring-2004/) - This is the last David Pringle edited/published issue of Interzone, and the Pringle era ended with a whimper and not a bang. With issues only appearing sporadically, many distributors had dropped the title by the time this issue appeared, and none of my usual bookstores had it in stock. So it is a peculiarly nostalgic
- [Interzone #204 May/June 2006](https://bestsf.net/interzone-204-mayjune-2006/) - This issue arrived a good few weeks ago, and was read in short order, but I've been struggling to find non-work time at the computer of late! Mercurio D. Rivera. Longing for Langalana. The author's going to have problems promoting this one : sending promotional emails From : Mercurio D. Rivera Subject: Longing for Langalana
- [The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2004](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-january-2004/) - Nancy Etchemendy. Nimitseahpah. A tale of strange doings in the desert a century ago (cue tumbleweed rolling across empty prairie). The old Pahpocket Mine has claimed many a life in years gone by, but the entrance to the mine is now guarded by rock with magical charms, and this sentinel has prevented the mine claiming
- [Interzone #200 September/October 2005](https://bestsf.net/interzone-200-septemberoctober-2005/) - A milestone issue for Interzone, and it has reached #200 re-invigorated to an extent that the phrase 'venerable Interzone', with which the issue would have been greeted had the magazine made it to this point under its previous ownership, is entirely inappropriate for this full-colour, eye-watering issue. Eye-watering? Well, the smell of freshly printed ink
- [Asimovs, March 2004](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-march-2004/) - Robert Reed. A Plague of Life. Reed sucks us into a story with a lot of history. A long-lived dog is our introduction to a near-future Earth in which overpopulation has become a major problem, exacerbated by those who have lived for centuries, or, indeed, millenia. Hannah reluctantly returns to the family farm, ruled by
- [Asimovs, February 2004](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-february-2004/) - Mike Resnick. Travels with My Cats. Resnick furnishes a story the like of which you would normally expect to see in F&SF, or in other more mainstream sources. A young boy's finds a limited edition travel book written some time back by a Miss Priscilla Wallace, whose prose descriptions of her travels enraptures the boy.
- [Damon Knight. The Country of the Kind. (The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction, February 1956.)](https://bestsf.net/damon-knight-the-country-of-the-kind-the-magazine-of-fantasy-of-science-fiction-february-1956/) - A rather dark, disturbing story from Knight, somewhat at odds with the rest of the volume (and possibly the majority of SF in the mid-50s).
- [Year's Best SF 6. David G. Hartwell. Eos Books 2001](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-6-david-g-hartwell-eos-books-2001/) - Stories by : Brian Stableford, Brian W. Aldiss Steppenpferd, Charles Dexter Ward, Chris Beckett, Dan Simmons, Darrell Schweitzer, David Brin, David Langford, Greg Egan, Howard Waldrop, Joan Slonczewski, John M. Ford, Ken MacLeod, M. Shayne Bell, Michael F. Flynn, Nancy Kress, Norman Spinrad, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Charles Wilson, Robert Reed, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Baxter, Stephen Dedman, Tananarive Due, Ted Chiang, Ursula K. Le Guin
- [David Brin. Insistence of Vision. (Twelve Tomorrows)](https://bestsf.net/david-brin-insistence-of-vision-twelve-tomorrows/) - Brin gets the Twelve Tomorrows anthology off to a good start - packing a lot into a short story that has augmented reality and societal changes they bring about as a key element.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (ed Jane Yolen, Pyr 2018)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2018-ed-jane-yolen-pyr-2018/) - Not that much in terms of a coverage of the best SF in short form. Onto the shelves with the volume.
- [Michael Swanwick. Starlight Express. (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2017)](https://bestsf.net/michael-swanwick-starlight-express-the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-september-october-2017/) - A short, thoughtful story, which oozes class
- [Tobias S. Buckell. Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance. (Cosmic Powers, ed Adams, Saga 2017)](https://bestsf.net/tobias-s-buckell-zen-and-the-art-of-starship-maintenance-cosmic-powers-ed-adams-saga-2017/) - A clever story to end Clarke's volume.
- [The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Ten. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2016)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-ten-ed-jonathan-strahan-solaris-books-2016/) - As ever, a wide range of sources to choose from, which the normal reader will have struggled to embrace
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (ed Rich Horton, Prime 2016)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2016-ed-rich-horton-prime-2016/) - The Horton net is cast far and wide, with something for almost everyone.
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 (Rich Horton, Prime Books 2017)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-fantasy-2017-rich-horton-prime-books-2017/) - As usual, a wide range of sources are drawn upon by Horton.
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018. (ed Rich Horton, Prime Books 2018)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-fantasy-2018-ed-rich-horton-prime-books-2018/) - Rich Horton's take on the best in SF&F.
- [The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three. (ed Neil Clarke, Nightshade Books 2018)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-volume-three-ed-neil-clarke-nightshade-books-2018/) - An excellent collection of stories.
- [The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Twelve. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2018)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-twelve-ed-jonathan-strahan-solaris-books-2018/) - Strahan's take on the best in SF&F from 2017.
- [Peter Watts. ZeroS. (Infinity Wars, ed Strahan, Solaris Books 2017)](https://bestsf.net/peter-watts-zeros-infinity-wars-ed-strahan-solaris-books-2017/) - There's a great balance of characterisation, tech, socio-political background and story here.
- [Suzanne Palmer. The Secret Life of Bots. (Clarkesworld Magazine #132, September 2017)](https://bestsf.net/suzanne-palmer-the-secret-life-of-bots-clarkesworld-magazine-132-september-2017/) - A cute little story.
- [Madeline Ashby. Death on Mars. (Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities, Arizona State University, 2017.)](https://bestsf.net/madeline-ashby-death-on-mars-visions-ventures-escape-velocities-arizona-state-university-2017/) - Short, tight, claustrophobic and up close and personal.
- [Rich Larson. An Evening with Severyn Grimes. (Asimovs July/August 2017)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-an-evening-with-severyn-grimes-asimovs-july-august-2017/) - A near-future cyberpunky cyber-thriller, with a couple of twists, double crosses, and neat touches.
- [Robert Reed. The Speed of Belief. (Asimovs January/February 2017)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-the-speed-of-belief-asimovs-january-february-2017/) - Reed's 'Great Ship' is the setting for a sprawling series of stories, an he has been writing them for about 20 years now, and there's no reason as far as the setting goes, for stopping any time now.
- [Finbarr O'Reilly. The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon. (Clarkesworld Magazine #133 October 2017)](https://bestsf.net/finbarr-oreilly-the-last-boat-builder-in-ballyvoloon-clarkesworld-magazine-133-october-2017/) - Very well told, and altogether a pleasure to read.
- [Aliette de Bodard. In Everlasting Wisdom. (Infinity Wars ed Strahan)](https://bestsf.net/aliette-de-bodard-in-everlasting-wisdom-infinity-wars-ed-strahan/) - An interesting conceit, but the story whizzes through quickly.
- [Yoon Ha Lee. Extracurricular Activities. (Tor.com)](https://bestsf.net/yoon-ha-lee-extracurricular-activities-tor-com/) - There was stuff I *really* did like - gender fluidity, non-CIS sexuality and flirting, but the undercover spy thing and the generally light tone of the story didn't work for me.
- [Kathleen Ann Goonan. The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse. (Extrasolar ed Nick Gevers, PS Publishing 2017)](https://bestsf.net/kathleen-ann-goonan-the-tale-of-the-alcubierre-horse-extrasolar-ed-nick-gevers-ps-publishing-2017/) - The story moves through the gears smoothly, starting as a traditional ship politics story and ramping us the tension and the scale and scope of the story nicely.
- [Karin Lowachee. Meridian. (Where the Stars Rise, ed Law/Mak)](https://bestsf.net/karin-lowachee-meridian-where-the-stars-rise-ed-law-mak/) - A good read, although if you'd asked me after reading it what the theme of the anthology was from which it was taken, 'Asian SF and Fantasy' would have been a long, long way down the list of suggestions.
- [A.C. Wise. A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World. (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. Upper Rubber Boot, August 2017)](https://bestsf.net/a-c-wise-a-catalogue-of-sunlight-at-the-end-of-the-world-sunvault-stories-of-solarpunk-and-eco-speculation-upper-rubber-boot-august-2017/) - Only the third story by Wise that I've read, and like the previous two it's a good one.
- [Kelly Robson. We Who Live in the Heart. (Clarkesworld Magazine #128 May 2017)](https://bestsf.net/kelly-robson-we-who-live-in-the-heart-clarkesworld-magazine-128-may-2017/) - The setting is a doozy.
- [Greg Egan. Uncanny Valley. (Tor.com August 2017)](https://bestsf.net/greg-egan-uncanny-valley-tor-com-august-2017/) - An interesting WhoDunnit - not sure if there has been a DidIDoIt before?
- [Maggie Clarke. A Tower for the Coming World. (Clarkesworld Magazine #123, December 2016)](https://bestsf.net/maggie-clarke-a-tower-for-the-coming-world-clarkesworld-magazine-123-december-2016/) - Set in Eastern Europe, with a son breaking the soil with his bare fingers to bury his recently departed father, and Clarke very much keeps a similar grip throughout the story.
- [Maggie Clark. Belly Up. (Analog July/August 2017)](https://bestsf.net/maggie-clark-belly-up-analog-july-august-2017/) - Only the second story I've read by Clark, and they have both impressed.
- [Rachael K. Jones and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali. Regarding the Robot Raccoons Attached to the Hull of My Ship. (Diabolical Plots, June 2017)](https://bestsf.net/rachael-k-jones-and-khaalidah-muhammad-ali-regarding-the-robot-raccoons-attached-to-the-hull-of-my-ship-diabolical-plots-june-2017/) - A reasonable story although not a standout for me.
- [Indrapramit Das. The Worldless. (Lightspeed Magazine #82, March 2017)](https://bestsf.net/indrapramit-das-the-worldless-lightspeed-magazine-82-march-2017/) - An excellent story from Das - go follow the link and read it.
- [Martin L. Shoemaker. Today I am Paul. (Clarkesworld Magazine #107, August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/martin-l-shoemaker-today-i-am-paul-clarkesworld-magazine-107-august-2015/) - A touching story, looking at ageing and Alzheimers, through the lens (or should I say the robotic eye) of Medical Care Android BRKCX/01932-217H-98662
- [Gregory Benford. Shadows of Eternity. (Extrasolar, edited by Nick Gevers)](https://bestsf.net/gregory-benford-shadows-of-eternity-extrasolar-edited-by-nick-gevers/) - There are some great descriptions of alien worlds, and an interesting conclusion, but the story didn't quite rise to the level of some of Benford's work.
- [Alastair Reynolds. Holdfast. (Extrasolar, ed Nick Gevers)](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-holdfast-extrasolar-ed-nick-gevers/) - A shorter, tighter story than is oft the case with Reynolds, albeit with his usual boggling galactic backdrop.
- [Nancy Kress. Every Hour of Light and Dark. (Omni, Winter 2017)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-every-hour-of-light-and-dark-omni-winter-2017/) - It's a neat story, Kress as ever, handling the characters well.
- [Matthew Kressel. The Last Novelist (or a Dead Lizard in the Yard). (Tor.com)](https://bestsf.net/matthew-kressel-the-last-novelist-or-a-dead-lizard-in-the-yard-tor-com/) - There's depth and warmth in the story, which makes it well worth the read and inclusion in this volume.
- [Vandana Singh. Shikasta. (Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities)](https://bestsf.net/vandana-singh-shikasta-visions-ventures-escape-velocities/) - A good balance of space exploration science, AI musings, global climate change/disaster and societal impacts, and with a non-western setting.
- [Sarah Pinsker. Wind Will Rove. (Asimovs, September/October 2017)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-pinsker-wind-will-rove/) - A generation starship story, which are few and far between these days.
- [Gord Sellar. Focus. (Analog May/June 2017)](https://bestsf.net/gord-sellar-focus/) - I know I have a long-standing issue with many Analog stories, but I wasn't particularly taken with this story, before finding out where it was published.
- [Linda Nagata. The Martian Obelisk. (Tor.com)](https://bestsf.net/linda-nagata-the-martian-obelisk-tor-com/) - One element of the story just a little too close to Andy Weir's 'The Martian' for my liking, but otherwise well done.
- [Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2002](https://bestsf.net/fantasy-and-science-fiction-may-2002/) - Paul Di Filippo. The Short Ashy Afterlife of Hiram P. Dottle. The bookish Dottle finds his path from quiet middle age to the end of his life takes a rather strange, and shorter, turn when he meets an attractive young woman. His naivety prevents him from seeing that she is a gold-digger, and unfortunately for
- [Aliette de Bodard. A Salvaging of Ghosts. (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #195 March 2016)](https://bestsf.net/aliette-de-bodard-a-salvaging-of-ghosts-beneath-ceaseless-skies-195-march-2016/) - A little polished nugget of a story.
- [Paul J. McAuley. Elves of Antarctica. (Drowned Worlds)](https://bestsf.net/paul-j-mcauley-elves-of-antarctica-drowned-worlds/) - Not too much by way of story, but the strength is in the detailed setting and the characterisation of the main character, who comes to term with his, and the Earth's past, present and future.
- [Matthew Caxton. Patience Lake. (Asimovs August 2017)](https://bestsf.net/matthew-caxton-patience-lake-asimovs-august-2017/) - A story that grabs you straight away, and keeps you (or at least it did me) reading to the end.
- [R.R. Merliss. The Stutterer. (The Years Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1956)](https://bestsf.net/r-r-merliss-the-stutterer-the-years-greatest-science-fiction-and-fantasy-1956/) - A neat complement, 60 years in the past, to Karin Lowachee's 'A Good Home'.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (ed Julie E. Czerneda, Pyr 2017)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2017-ed-julie-e-czerneda-pyr-2017/) - All the short story nominees, just the winners in the novella and novelette categories, so not a heap of short SF by any means.
- [Nnedi Okorafor. Binti. (Tor.com)](https://bestsf.net/nnedi-okorafor-binti-tor-com/) - I have to admit to be being rather underwhelmed by the story.
- [The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 1. (ed Neil Clarke, Nightshade Books 2016 )](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-of-the-year-volume-1-ed-neil-clarke-nightshade-books-2016/) - Another take on the best SF of the year.
- [Paul McAuley. Wild Honey. (Asimovs August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/paul-mcauley-wild-honey-asimovs-august-2015/) - A post-Collapse setting, but an unlikely one, with a bee keeper the main protagonist. But she's not an ordinary apiarist, and they're not ordinary bees...
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction. 33rd Annual Collection. (ed Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016).](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-33rd-annual-collection-ed-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2016/) - Another year, another instalment in Dozois' take on the best SF of the year.
- [Alyssa Wong. Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers. (Nightmare Queers Destroy Horror! Issue #37, October 2015)](https://bestsf.net/alyssa-wong-hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers-nightmare-queers-destroy-horror-issue-37-october-2015/) - As a contemporary horror/vampire story it's plenty fine enough, but it's not SFF.
- [Fantasy and Science Fiction March 2002](https://bestsf.net/fantasy-and-science-fiction-march-2002/) - Robert Reed. Coelacanths. In the Dec 2001 issue of F&SF, Reed's 'Raven Dream' brought us a strange story told as if through a distorting lens. This story is similarly unsettling, with a variety of perspectives on what are somehow linked events. A strutting far future man, at once proudly erect and aware of humanity's greatness,
- [Fantasy and Science Fiction January 2002](https://bestsf.net/fantasy-and-science-fiction-january-2002/) - Almost two year's after its publication, a mini-review in order to fill in the only post-1999 F&SF issue not previously reviewed. Harlan Ellison. Never Send to Know for Whom the Lettuce Wilts. An expanded, reworked 1956 story. Henry Leclair finds a very obtuse statement in a fortune cookie, and is the kind of chap who
- [Alastair Reynolds. Understanding Time and Space. Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-understanding-time-and-space-birmingham-science-fiction-group-2005/) - Well worth the read, and with a novella in the recent Science Fiction Book Club, Dozois edited 'One Million AD', Reynolds is very much pushing his telescope to its limits!
- [Sam J. Miller. When Your Child Strays from God. (Clarkesworld Magazine #106, July 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sam-j-miller-when-your-child-strays-from-god-clarkesworld-magazine-106-july-2015/) - An unlikeable protagonist goes on a journey to seek her son who has strayed - and a story that goes onto the Best SF Short Story Award 2015 shortlist.
- [Amal El-Mohtar. Madeleine. (Lightspeed Magazine #61, June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/amal-el-mohtar-madeleine-lightspeed-magazine-61-june-2015/) - Themes of love and loss and memory and is altogether a satisfying story about those issues.
- [Ian R. MacLeod. The Visitor from Taured. (Asimov’s, September 2016).](https://bestsf.net/ian-r-macleod-the-visitor-from-taured-asimovs-september-2016/) - A love story, only requited at the end, as her cosmologist lover looks for some Big Answers to some Big Questions.
- [Sam J. Miller. Last Gods. (Drowned Worlds, 2016)](https://bestsf.net/sam-j-miller-last-gods-drowned-worlds-2016/) - Another strong story from Miller.
- [Karin Lowachee. A Good Home. (Lightspeed Magazine #73 June 2016)](https://bestsf.net/karin-lowachee-a-good-home-lightspeed-magazine-73-june-2016/) - It's a subtle story, interestingly placed in the anthology just before a story with not dissimilar themes, and which doesn't do the following stories any favours by setting a high standard.
- [Gord Sellar. Prodigal. (Analog, December 2016)](https://bestsf.net/gord-sellar-prodigal-analog-december-2016/) - Not a story that grabbed me.
- [Rich Larson. Extraction Request. (Clarkesworld Magazine #112 January 2016)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-extraction-request-clarkesworld-magazine-112-january-2016/) - Another quality story from Larson.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 11th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1994](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-11th-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-1994/) - Stories by : Brian W. Aldiss, Bruce Sterling, Charles Sheffield, Connie Willis, Dan Simmons, Don Webb, G. David Nordley, Greg Egan, Ian R. Macleod, Jack Cady, Joe Haldeman, Jr, Mark Rich, Maureen F. McHugh and David B. Kisor, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Neal Barrett, Pat Cadigan, Rebecca Ore, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Steven Utley, Walter Jon Williams, William Browning Spencer
- [Adam Roberts. Park Polar. PS Publishing, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/adam-roberts-park-polar-ps-publishing-2003/) - A bit of a head-scratcher to be honest, as the story is some way below the standard of other published by PS Publishing.
- [Alastair Reynolds. The Six Directions of Space. Subterranean Press, 2008.](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-the-six-directions-of-space-subterranean-press-2008/) - There's a lot to like in the 83 pages, which will satify my Reynolds habit for some time, without having to invest the amount of time necessary to read his last two novels, currently sitting unread on my shelves.
- [Alastair Reynolds. Century Rain. Gollancz, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-century-rain-gollancz-2005/) - But the quibbles aside, an engrossing read and a page-turner. Reynolds latest novel, 'Pushing Ice' is out in hardback, although I'll probably wait until next year for the paperback. (You would think Gollancz would supply review copies wouldn't you?)
- [Adam Roberts. Jupiter Magnified.  PS Publishing, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/adam-roberts-jupiter-magnified-ps-publishing-2003/) - Quite a different story to the two mentioned above, with a vivid image providing an unsettling backdrop to the human reaction to the event being portrayed.
- [China Mieville. The Tain. PS Publishing, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/china-mieville-the-tain-ps-publishing-2003/) - A slight volume, but (especially so for those living or working in London) a disturbing, vivid one.
- [Ian McDonald. Tendeleo's Story.  PS Publishing, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/ian-mcdonald-tendeleos-story-ps-publishing-2003/) - The ending sees her and her lover facing up to the alien challenge and in fact embracing it, and from their own strength rebuilding that which had been taken from them, building a new, very new!, future for themselves and for humanity.
- [Paul J. McAuley. Making History. PS Publishing 2003.](https://bestsf.net/paul-j-mcauley-making-history-ps-publishing-2003/) - 'Making History' is a more thoughtful, human story than others in the sequence, although does suffer slightly as being more of a sequence, and quite possible, the foundation for a novelisation. The ending leaves plenty of scope for future developments.
- [Ken MacLeod. The Human Front. PS Publishing, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/ken-macleod-the-human-front-ps-publishing-2003/) - All in all a story which is at times quite powerful and grittily believable, although I think the story could have benefitted from greater length.
- [Ken Macleod. The Highway Men. (Sandstone Vista, March 2006.)](https://bestsf.net/ken-macleod-the-highway-men-sandstone-vista-march-2006/) - This is a cracking little book which will hopefully act as an introduction to SF to some readers who would otherwise not browse the SF shelves of their bookshop or library. It also deserves a wider audience, and could well appear in one of the Year's Best anthologies next year.
- [Jonathan Lethem. Lostronaut. The New Yorker, November 2008.](https://bestsf.net/jonathan-lethem-lostronaut-the-new-yorker-november-2008/) - If you haven't read it yet, click here to read it. I'd much rather you read the story than read the review! Lethem doesn't write as much SF as he used to, so nice to see this story online in The New Yorker. The story takes the form of a series of transmissions from one
- [James Patrick Kelly. Burn. Tachyon Publications, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/james-patrick-kelly-burn-tachyon-publications-2005/) - It is a properly multi-dimensional story, and it may be this complexity that is unsettling as it is not that common in a lot of SF. Kelly weaves these elements together to good effect.
- [Peter F. Hamilton. Watching Trees Grow. (PS Publishing 2002)](https://bestsf.net/peter-f-hamilton-watching-trees-grow-ps-publishing-2002/) - This story had been waiting to be read for some time. The size and weight of the book made take it on my daily commute impossible, and so it was put in the pile for 'reading at home'. This is not something that I manage to do too often, due to any number of distractions.
- [Gary Greenwood. Jigsaw Men. (PS Publishing, 2004).](https://bestsf.net/gary-greenwood-jigsaw-men-ps-publishing-2004/) - Greenwood creates an alternate England : one in which the sun has not set on our Empire, one in which Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was a biography, and one in which the attempted invasion by Martians envisaged by HG Wells' did actually happen. The Jigsaw Men are those created or given life after death through the
- [Mary Gentle. Under the Penitence. PS Publishing, 2004.](https://bestsf.net/mary-gentle-under-the-penitence/) - Gentle’s novel ‘Ash’ published in two volumes in the USA, but as a singleton in the UK, has rightly garnered a lot of praise. I don’t read many novels, but was minded to read this one, and did not regret that decision. I was hugely impressed at the way Gentle played with the idea of
- [Cory Doctorow. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Tor, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/cory-doctorow-someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-tor-2005/) - Cory Doctorow is feted as one of the few SF writers out there promoting the leading edge of new technology. He is a leading member of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, has written for the seminal tech mag Wired, and is one of those behind the leading blog boingboing.net He collaborated with fellow-technophile(net nerd) Charles Stross
- [Paul Di Filippo. A Princess of the Linear Jungle. (PS Publishing 2010)](https://bestsf.net/paul-di-filippo-a-princess-of-the-linear-jungle-ps-publishing-2010/) - Two years since it was published, but, by diggedy, worth the wait.
- [Paul Di Filippo. A Year in Linear City. PS Publishing, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/paul-di-filippo-a-year-in-linear-city-ps-publishing-2003/) - There is more invention in this short story than I have come across in a long, long time. A shoo-in for the next Year's Best collections.
- [Eric Brown. The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne. PS Publishing, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/eric-brown-the-extraordinary-voyage-of-jules-verne-ps-publishing-2005/) - Whilst I have a suspicion that the 498 pages of the Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures may well never get read, I can confirm that the slimmer volume in hand was a most enjoyable read (concluding pun notwithstanding) in which Brown gives a convincing impersonation of M Verne. Certainly a better showpiece of Brown's ability than his recent 'Approaching Omega'
- [Eric Brown. Approaching Omega. Telos Publishing, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/eric-brown-approaching-omega-telos-publishing-2005/) - Eric Brown has been writing for more than a decade, a (very) regular contributor to Interzone, and a virtually ever-present in all nine issues of Spectrum SF in the early 00's. I certainly had felt that, how shall I put it?, that Brown was somewhat over-exposed at this point, with his Kethani/Tartarus story sequences going
- [Stephen Baxter. Riding the Rock. PS Publishing, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/stephen-baxter-riding-the-rock-ps-publishing-2003/) - Thsi classy paperback (David Hardy artwork) reeks of class.
- [Stephen Baxter. Reality Dust. PS Publishing, 2003.](https://bestsf.net/stephen-baxter-reality-dust-ps-publishing-2003/) - Stirring stuff, with the ending, in which the two humans stand there helpless, almost reaching the peaks of Arthur C Clarke (one to whom Baxter is often compared).
- [Brian Aldiss. Sanity and the Lady. PS Publishing, 2004.](https://bestsf.net/brian-aldiss-sanity-and-the-lady-ps-publishing-2004/) - A mellow, mature consideration of what it is to be human, which doubtless Aldiss, now in his eighties, feels can be done from the perspective of experience, rather than plot devices involving far-future forest worlds or generation starships.
- [Richard Calder. The Twist. (Four Walls Eight Windows 2003)](https://bestsf.net/richard-calder-the-twist-four-walls-eight-windows-2003/) - Richard Calder's purple (at times turgidly so) prose featured regularly in UK magazine Interzone with several lengthy, linked stories appearing in a number of issues. Those stories were fixed-up into the novel 'Lord Soho', and, if the letters page of the magazine were anything to go by, divided readers into two camps - those who
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (ed Mercedes Lackey, Pyr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2016-ed-mercedes-lackey-pyr-2016/) - Succeeds in presenting what the members of SFFWA voted for in their ballot for the best science fiction and fantasy of the year in question.
- [The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eleven. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2017)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-eleven-ed-jonathan-strahan-solaris-books-2017/) - Strahan casts his net far and wide.
- [Nina Allan. The Art of Space Travel. (Tor.com, July 2016)](https://bestsf.net/nina-allan-the-art-of-space-travel-tor-com-july-2016/) - Another strong, human story from Allen.
- [Suzanne Palmer. Number Thirty-Nine Skink. (Asimovs March/April 2017)](https://bestsf.net/suzanne-palmer-number-thirty-nine-skink-asimovs-marchapril-2017/) - A clever story from Palmer, featuring an AI protagonist.
- [Lisa Goldstein. The Catastrophe of Cities. (Asimovs January/February 2017)](https://bestsf.net/lisa-goldstein-the-catastrophe-of-cities-asimovs-januaryfebruary-2017/) - An excellent, stylishly written contemporary fantasy.
- [Lisa Goldstein. Paradise is a Walled Garden. (Asimovs, August 2011)](https://bestsf.net/lisa-goldstein-paradise-is-a-walled-garden-asimovs-august-2011/) - Alternate history in Elizabethan England, with steam-driven automatons, Arab scholars, and a young girl masquerading as a boy working in a factory.
- [Sean Monaghan. Crimson Birds of Small Miracles. (Asimovs January/February 2017)](https://bestsf.net/sean-monaghan-crimson-birds-of-small-miracles-asimovs-januaryfebruary-2017/) - A story that didn't quite grab me.
- [Gary Kloster. Interchange. (Clarkesworld #124 January 2017)](https://bestsf.net/gary-kloster-interchange-clarkesworld-124-january-2017/) - An excellent story from an author new to me.
- [Hannu Rajaniemi. Elegy for a Young Elk. (Subterranean, Spring 2010).](https://bestsf.net/hannu-rajaniemi-elegy-for-a-young-elk-subterranean-spring-2010/) - Well written, lyrical and elegaic in its own right.
- [Paul McAuley. Crimes and Glory. (The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010)](https://bestsf.net/paul-mcauley-crimes-and-glory-the-years-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2010/) - Excellent hard SF from McAuley, in a narrative that gradually reveals more as it progresses
- [Alexander Irvine. Seventh Fall. (The Year's Best Science Fiction, 27th Annual Collection)](https://bestsf.net/alexander-irvine-seventh-fall-the-years-best-science-fiction-27th-annual-collection/) - I do like a good post-apocalyptic story, and this is a good post-apocalyptic story.
- [Damien Broderick. Under the Moons of Venus. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 5)](https://bestsf.net/damien-broderick-under-the-moons-of-venus-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-5/) - A complex story, as you'd expected (and demand) from Broderick.
- [Interzone #269, March/April 2017](https://bestsf.net/interzone-269-marchapril-2017/) - Stories this issue from Steve Rasnic Tem, Sean McMullen, Tim Akers, Christien Gholson, and Richard E. Gropp.
- [Interzone #268, January/February 2017](https://bestsf.net/interzone-268-januaryfebruary-2017/) - Stories this issue from Julie C. Day, Christien Gholson, Michael Reid, Mel Kassel, Val Nolan, and T.R. Napper.
- [Interzone #267, November/December 2017](https://bestsf.net/interzone-267-novemberdecember-2017/) - Stories this issue from Harmony Neal, Ryan Row, Sarah Brooks, Rich Larson, Samantha Henderson, and David Cleden.
- [Interzone #266, September/October 2016](https://bestsf.net/interzone-266-septemberoctober-2016/) - Stories this issue from Tade Thompson, Georgina Bruce, Ray Cluley, Aliya Whiteley, and Malcolm Devlin.
- [Interzone #265, July/August 2016](https://bestsf.net/interzone-265-julyaugust-2016/) - Stories this issue by John Schoffstall, Dan Reade, Suzanne Palmer, Ken Hinckley, Andrew Kozma, and Robert Reed.
- [Interzone #264, May/June 2016](https://bestsf.net/interzone-264-mayjune-2016/) - Stories this issue by Tyler Keevil, Malcolm Devlin, James Van Pelt, Rich Larson, and Gwendolyn Kiste.
- [Clarkesworld Magazine #124, January 2017](https://bestsf.net/clarkesworld-magazine-124-january-2017/) - Online here. Stories this issue : Rich Larson. The Ghost Ship Anastasia. In my review I noted it an excellent start to the issue, and well worth the read. Vina Jie-Min Prasa. A Series of Steaks. I noted it "..a story from a (young?) Singaporean writer, new to me, which shows a lot of promise."
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2016](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2016/) - Stories from Esther M. Friesner, Albert E. Cowdrey, Lilliam Rivera, Matthew Hughes, Gardner Dozois, Minsoo Kang, Kurt Fawver, Charlotte Ashley, Robert Reed, James Beamon, Sandra McDonald.
- [Asimovs. December 2012.](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-december-2012/) - Stories by Steven Popkes, Ken Liu, Chris Beckett, Mike Resnick, Sandra McDonald, Robert Reed.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2017](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2017/) - Stories this issue from : Richard Chwedyk, Robert Grossbach, Matthew Hughes, Albert E. Cowdrey, Arundhati Hazra, Cat Hellisen, James Sallis, Eleanor Arnason.
- [Vina Jie-Min Prasad. A Series of Steaks. (Clarkesworld Magazine #124, January 2017)](https://bestsf.net/vina-jie-min-prasad-a-series-of-steaks-clarkesworld-magazine-124-january-2017/) - A story from a (young?) Singaporean writer, new to me, which shows a lot of promise.
- [Lavie Tidhar. The Old Dispensation. (Tor.com February 2017)](https://bestsf.net/lavie-tidhar-the-old-dispensation-tor-com-february-2017/) - A big picture Space Opera, many many millenia hence, with the Jewish faith, and the Exilarch, commanding the new universe.
- [Debbie Urbanski. On the Problem of Replacement Children; Prevention, Coping and Other Practical Strategies (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2017)](https://bestsf.net/debbie-urbanski-on-the-problem-of-replacement-children-prevention-coping-and-other-practical-strategies-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2017/) - Urbanski provides a story in the form of an academic treatise that manages to be heart-achingly affecting.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2017](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2017/) - Stories this issue from : Rachel Pollack, Nina Kirika Hoffman, Rick Norwood, Robert Reed, Rich Larson, Wole Talabi, Gregor Hartmann, Debbie Urbanski, Monica Byrne, Marc Laidlaw.
- [Rich Larson. The Ghost Ship Anastasia. (Clarkesworld Magazine #124, January 2017)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-the-ghost-ship-anastasia-clarkesworld-magazine-124-january-2017/) - An excellent start to the Jan 2017 issue, from a young author who is impressing me.
- [Christie Yant. This Is as I Wish to Be Restored. (Lightspeed #79, December 2016)](https://bestsf.net/christie-yant-this-is-as-i-wish-to-be-restored-lightspeed-79-december-2016/) - A couple of thousand words, and well worth the small investment of your time.
- [Margo Lanagan. The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross. (Lightspeed #79 December 2016)](https://bestsf.net/margo-lanagan-the-fifth-star-in-the-southern-cross-lightspeed-79-december-2016/) - A dark, disturbing story and I hope that Lanagan feels better for getting it out of her system...
- [Wang Yuan. Painter of Stars. (Clarkesworld Magazine #123, December 2016)](https://bestsf.net/wang-yuan-painter-of-stars-clarkesworld-magazine-123-december-2016/) - An AI embedded in a domestic 'bot yearns for the stars, and finds a talent...
- [Gardner Dozois. The Place of Bones. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2016)](https://bestsf.net/gardner-dozois-the-place-of-bones-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2016/) - A journey to a valley that has no right to be where it is....
- [Albert E. Cowdrey. The Farmboy. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2016)](https://bestsf.net/albert-e-cowdrey-the-farmboy-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2016/) - A rare thing from Cowdrey - an SF story, albeit it's a story that could have been set in any time period, anywhere on Earth.
- [Rich Larson. The Cyborg, the Tinman, the Merchant of Death. (Lightspeed Magazine #79 December 2016)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-the-cyborg-the-tinman-the-merchant-of-death-lightspeed-magazine-79-december-2016/) - Military SF although with a more human bent.
- [Ryan Row. Reclamation. (Clarkesworld Magazine #119 August 2016)](https://bestsf.net/ryan-row-reclamation-clarkesworld-magazine-119-august-2016/) - A story from an author new to me, which bodes well for the future.
- [Jonathan Carroll. The Loud Table. (Tor.com November 2016)](https://bestsf.net/jonathan-carroll-the-loud-table-tor-com-november-2016/) - Sweet little story from Carroll, that could be straight from the 1950s, except for the closing references to dementia, the singularity and AIs.
- [Graham Joyce. TWOC. PS Publishing, 2005.](https://bestsf.net/graham-joyce-twoc-ps-publishing-2005/) - This story will stick in the mind, with Joyce creating some eminently solid three-dimensional characters.
- [Gud #1, Autumn 2007](https://bestsf.net/gud-1-autumn-2007/) - You can buy the PDF version online for only $3.50, which is pretty good value for money, and you'll get much more sustenance, and fewer spots than if you spend that money on a Big Mac with Fries and a shake. Heck, there's even lesbian sex in this issue!
- [GUD #0](https://bestsf.net/gud-0/) - GUD is Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine, a print/pdf magazine with 200 pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, and art. Order a copy and find out what GUD is.
- [Desirina Boskovich. The Voice in the Cornfield, the Word Made Flesh. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2016)](https://bestsf.net/desirina-boskovich-the-voice-in-the-cornfield-the-word-made-flesh-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2016/) - An excellent story with some lovely touches.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2016](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septoct-2016/) - Special David Gerrold issue, with a couple of stories from him, and stories from others including Sarah Pinsker, Peter S. Beagle, Leah Cypess, Ian Creasey, Geoff Ryman.
- [Ted Kosmatka. The One Who Isn't. (Lightspeed Magazine #74, July 2016)](https://bestsf.net/ted-kosmatka-the-one-who-isnt-lightspeed-magazine-74-july-2016/) - An intriguing vignette, feeling like a fantasy story to start, until the sfnal elements come in.
- [Rich Larson. The Nostalgia Calculator. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2016)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-the-nostalgia-calculator-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2016/) - Another smoothly handled and clever story from Larson, and TBH I was surprised to read in the editorial intro that Larson is only 23 years old - he writes like someone twice his age.
- [Imago - The Fantasy Art of Jim Burns](https://bestsf.net/imago-the-fantasy-art-of-jim-burns/) - 'They're Breasts Jim, But Not As We Know Them' - being a review of 'Imago - The Fantasy Art of Jim Burns'
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction. 29th Annual Collection. (ed Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Press, 2012).](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-29th-annual-collection-ed-gardner-dozois-st-martins-press-2012/) - A few stories that don't quite do it for me, but otherwise a great read.
- [Carrie Vaughn. Bannerless. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/carrie-vaughn-bannerless-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Whilst a number of the stories in this series of three books have an installment in each volume, there are some solo stories, and this is one, although it has a feel for one story in a sequence.
- [The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eight. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-eight-ed-jonathan-strahan-solaris-books/) - Now published by Solaris books, with lots of big names from a wide variety of sources.
- [The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Six (ed Jonathan Strahan, Nightshade Books, 2012)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-six-ed-jonathan-strahan-nightshade-books-2012/) - First of the Year's Best volumes to find its way into my clutches in 2012. amazon.com | amazon.co.uk
- [Alastair Reynolds. Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee. (Bridging Infinity 2016)](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-sixteen-questions-for-kamala-chatterjee-bridging-infinity-2016/) - A clever use of a doctoral thesis defence enables the reader to find out more about the anomaly to which the putative Dr Chatterjee has given her name.
- [Year’s Best SF 17. (ed David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. Harper Voyager, 2012.)](https://bestsf.net/years-best-sf-17-ed-david-g-hartwell-kathryn-cramer-harper-voyager-2012/) - A good range of sources covered, with three of the four major magazines getting a look in (no Analog), a couple of anthologies, and a range of online sources. Buy a copy for your bookshelf.
- [The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Seven (ed Jonathan Strahan, Nightshade Books, 2013)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-seven-ed-jonathan-strahan-nightshade-books-2013/) - Reviews underway - in the meantime, why not buy yourself a copy from amazon.com | amazon.co.uk - it's always good value for money.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (ed Kij Johnson, Pyr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2014-ed-kij-johnson-pyr-2014/) - The three short SFF winners, two runners-up, a Gene Wolfe story, and two stories masquerading as poetry.
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 (ed Rich Horton, Prime Books)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-fantasy-2014-ed-rich-horton-prime-books/) - Almost three dozen stories, gleaned from sources far and wide, to keep you quiet for a long time!
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas 2015. (ed Paul Guran, Prime 2015)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-novellas-2015-ed-paul-guran-prime-2015/) - Another chunky volume for the bookshelf of the Year's Best anthology collector.
- [The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (ed Rich Horton, Prime 2015)](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2015-ed-rich-horton-prime-2015/) - Horton provides a representative sample of the Best SFF from across the various publication sources, print and online.
- [Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (ed Greg Bear, Pyr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/nebula-awards-showcase-2015-ed-greg-bear-pyr-2015/) - Another excellent anthology, full of top quality SFF...
- [Analog. December 2009.](https://bestsf.net/analog-december-2009/) - Five regular contributors (Stephen Baxter, H.G. Stratmann, Jerry Oltion, G. David Nordley, Carl Frederick) to Analog providing fayre consistent with that which they have provided previously. Enow already.
- [Rajnar Vajra. Her Scales Shine Like Music. (Tor.com August 2016)](https://bestsf.net/rajnar-vajra-her-scales-shine-like-music-tor-com-august-2016/) - All in all, an excellent story.
- [Gregor Hartmann. Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2016)](https://bestsf.net/gregor-hartmann-trustworthy-loyal-helpful-fantasy-and-science-fiction-julyaugust-2016/) - Transcript of a statement from an employee of a tech company.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2016.](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-julyaugust-2016/) - Stories from Lavie Tidhar, David Prill, David Gerrold, Gregor Hartmann, Dominica Phetteplace, Oliver Buckram, K.B. Rylander, Bruce McAllister, Betsy Phillips. Reviews underway.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2016.](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2016/) - Fiction this issue from Pat MacEwen, Charlotte Ashley, Brian Trent, Albert E. Cowdrey, William Leadbetter, Ted Kosmatka, Rich Larson, Allora & Calzadilla and Ted Chiang, Joseph Tomares, Susan Palwick, Yukimi Ogawa. Reviews underway.
- [Jennifer Campbell-Hicks. Aphrodite's Blood, Decanted. (Clarkesworld Magazine #120, September 2016)](https://bestsf.net/jennifer-campbell-hicks-aphrodites-blood-decanted-clarkesworld-magazine-120-september-2016/) - A nice enough short story from a young writer, but not a standout.
- [Interzone #263, March/April 2016](https://bestsf.net/interzone-263-marchapril-2016/) - Stories by Alexander Marsh Freed, Christopher Fowler, Michelle Ann King, Jeffrey Thomas, Rich Larson, E. Catherine Tobler.
- [Jack Skillingstead. The Despoilers. (Clarkesworld Magazine #120 September 2016)](https://bestsf.net/jack-skillingstead-the-despoilers-clarkesworld-magazine-120-september-2016/) - A neat little story focussing on a father-daughter relationship that is being tested...
- [Sean Monaghan. Wakers. (Asimovs August 2016)](https://bestsf.net/sean-monaghan-wakers-asimovs-august-2016/) - A story with a good blend of sfnal and character-driven elements.
- [Joseph Tomaras. Caribou: Documentary Fragments. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2016)](https://bestsf.net/joseph-tomaras-caribou-documentary-fragments-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2016/) - A mind-wipe technology is used to explore issues that can be equally well explored without resort to SF
- [Allora & Calzadilla and Ted Chiang.  (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2016)](https://bestsf.net/allora-calzadilla-and-ted-chiang-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2016/) - Chiang was never a prolific writer back in the day, but his stories (at least as far as I can see) are now as rare as hen's teeth.
- [Brian Trent. Last of the Sharkspeakers. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2016)](https://bestsf.net/brian-trent-last-of-the-sharkspeakers-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2016/) - A story from a new(ish) writer, new to F&SF, and a writer new to me.
- [Rich Larson. Masked. (Asimovs July 2016)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-masked-asimovs-july-2016/) - Larson creates some believable language and jargon, and creates a nice little story.
- [Leah Cypess. Filtered. (Asimovs July 2016)](https://bestsf.net/leah-cypess-filtered-asimovs-july-2016/) - Takes a look at a very near-future where everyone is using filters to modify their newsfeeds, and the problems caused by the near omnipotence of the newsfeed filtering software.
- [Margaret Ronald. And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices. (Clarkesworld Magazine #117, June 2016.)](https://bestsf.net/margaret-ronald-and-then-one-day-the-air-was-full-of-voices-clarkesworld-magazine-117-june-2016/) - A clever structure, mix of human and societal analysis, and an altogether different type of First Contact.
- [Paul McAuley. Rats Dream of the Future. (Asimovs June 2016)](https://bestsf.net/paul-mcauley-rats-dream-of-the-future-asimovs-june-2016/) - Some science goes terribly, terribly wrong in a story that works well.
- [Mercurio D. Rivera. Unreeled. (Asimovs June 2016)](https://bestsf.net/mercurio-d-rivera-unreeled-asimovs-june-2016/) - Short, tight and excellent sf chiller from Rivera.
- [Sam J. Miller. Things with Beards. (Clarkesworld Magazine #117, July 2016)](https://bestsf.net/sam-j-miller-things-with-beards-clarkesworld-magazine-117-july-2016/) - Miller follows Watts in mining the cult 1980s Antarctic horror movie...
- [Suzanne Palmer. Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man. (Asimovs July 2016)](https://bestsf.net/suzanne-palmer-ten-poems-for-the-mossums-one-for-the-man-asimovs-july-2016/) - A clever story from Palmer, told in ten (actually 11) sections, each opening with a piece of poetry.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - Three SF stories set on Mars start the issue, other good SF, and Raffalon and Jimmie and Morrie return to grace the F&SF pages.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - Stories by John P. Murphy, Marc Laidlaw, Cat Rambo, Juliette Wade and Sheila Finch, Sarina Dorie, Nancy Kress, Justin Barbeau, Chris De Vito, N.J. Schrock, James L. Cambias. Nothing in the issue really grabbed me.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2005](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-march-2005/) - Albert E. Cowdrey. The Amulet. In which a young journalist (in New Orleans, natch) meets a lady with an amulet which she says bestows longevity on the owner, provider you follow the rules. She relates the histories of some of those whom have owned said amulet, and how it changed her life. A gently amusing
- [James L. Cambias. Golden Gate Blues. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/james-l-cambias-golden-gate-blues-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - Tongue in cheek yarn about a world in which caped crusaders and Evil Scientists exist, and a detective has to find out who has killed a Giant Octopus and a Macro-Shark.
- [Sarina Dorie. A Mother's Arms. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/sarina-dorie-a-mothers-arms-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - I struggled with the alien-point-of-view, as I did in Dorie's previous story in this setting.
- [Mary Robinette Kowal. Rockets Red. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/mary-robinette-kowal-rockets-red-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - Story in the same setting as Kowal's Hugo winning 'Lady Astronaut of Mars'
- [Interzone #261, November/December 2015](https://bestsf.net/interzone-261-novemberdecember-2015/) - Stories by Gary Gibson, Julie C. Day, Greg Kurzawa, Rich Larson, Malcolm Devlin, and Ken Altabef.
- [Interzone #262, Jan-Feb 2016](https://bestsf.net/interzone-262-jan-feb-2016/) - Fiction by Mercurio D. Rivera, Rahul Kanakia, Carole Johnstone, T.R. Napper, Philip A. Suggars, and Ian Sales. Cover art by Vincent Sammy.
- [Alex Irvine. Number Nine Moon. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/alex-irvine-number-nine-moon-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - The theme of the story is humanity pulling in on itself, a turtle withdrawing it's head into it's shell (Irvine's imagery), and it's a good read.
- [N.J. Shrock. The Silver Strands of Alpha Crucis-d. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/n-j-shrock-the-silver-strands-of-alpha-crucis-d-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - A human science team have landed on Crucis-d and admire the titular silver strands, which put on an amazing show every morning and evening.
- [Chris DeVito. Diamond. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/chris-devito-diamond-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - A short baseball story with the identity of the protagonist a key issue.
- [Juliette Wade and Sheila Finch. The Language of the Silent. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/juliette-wade-and-sheila-finch-the-language-of-the-silent-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - A linguist loses her hearing in an accident, which of course makes the xenoliguistic process more problematic.
- [E. Lily Yu. Braid of Days and Wake of Nights. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/e-lily-yu-braid-of-days-and-wake-of-nights-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - Dedicated to Jay Lake and Bronwyn Lake, E. Lily Yu looks at the painful issue of loss and bereavement through cancer, and how a unicorn in Central Park might offer a different resolution.
- [Albert E. Cowdrey. The Visionaries. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/albert-e-cowdrey-the-visionaries-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - Jimmie and Morrie of Paranormal Services return to the pages of F&SF.
- [Matthew Hughes. Telltale. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/matthew-hughes-telltale-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - Raffalon the Thief returns to the pages of F&SF.
- [Betsy James. Touch Me All Over. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/betsy-james-touch-me-all-over-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - Hilil, named after her grandmother, is one of the finest twiners in her village...
- [Greg Kurzawa. Heartstick. (Interzone #261, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/greg-kurzawa-heartstick-interzone-261-novdec-2015/) - Martin has to decide whether it is better to have no heart at all than having a broken heart, or, worse still, a dead heart.
- [Justin Barbeau. Nanabojou and the Race Question. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/justin-barbeau-nanabojou-and-the-race-question-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - The old trickster Nanbojou returns to the pages of F&SF, and finds that the titular Race Question isn't (sadly) anything more than a question of black and white...
- [John P. Murphy. The Liar. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/john-p-murphy-the-liar-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - Curmudgeonly Greg has to use his way with words to bring annual accidents to an end...
- [Nancy Kress. Belief. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-belief-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - A short look at scientific rigour - is having a rationalist approach to everything at risk of blocking out the possibility of something beyond what is scientifically observable and provable and replicable?
- [Cat Rambo. Red in Tooth and Cog. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/cat-rambo-red-in-tooth-and-cog-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - A spiritual successor to Terry Bisson's 'Bears Discover Fire'....
- [Marc Laidlaw. The Ghost Penny Post. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2016)](https://bestsf.net/marc-laidlaw-the-ghost-penny-post-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2016/) - A ghost story set in England a century or so back, with the Royal Mail sending out an agent to discover just what exactly is happening to the deliveries in Binderwood...
- [Leo Vladimirsky. Squidtown. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/leo-vladimirsky-squidtown-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - Interesting world-building, which could stand more exploration.
- [Terry Bisson. Robot from the Future. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/terry-bisson-robot-from-the-future-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - Charming little story told by a boy in a near future, post-Greaning, who relates a visit from a Robot from the Future, in search of the fabled gas-o-line in order to return to it's own time (in the far future).
- [Robert R. Chase. Conscience. (Asimovs January 2016)](https://bestsf.net/robert-r-chase-conscience-asimovs-january-2016/) - Truth be told, it reads more like an Analog story than an Asimovs one to me.
- [Nathan Hillstrom. White Dust. (Asimovs January 2016)](https://bestsf.net/nathan-hillstrom-white-dust-asimovs-january-2016/) - A story that hinges on alien tech - a transportation slab that enables a copy of a person to be made on a matching slab at a remote location.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - Scholz, Kritzer, and Birnbach the pick of the issue for me.
- [Robert Reed. The City of Your Soul. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-the-city-of-your-soul-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - Reed takes a different perspective on airplanes that go missing.
- [Lisa Mason. Tomorrow is a Lovely Day. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/lisa-mason-tomorrow-is-a-lovely-day-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - Another day(s) for Benjamin - what will tomorrow(s) hold for him??
- [Bennett North. Smooth Stones and Empty Bones. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/bennett-north-smooth-stones-and-empty-bones-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - A first-published story, which bodes well for her writing future.
- [Gregory Benford. Vortex. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/gregory-benford-vortex-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2016/) - A political shit-storm back on Earth is echoed by what happens on the Red Planet, in a scientist fiction story featuring Julia and Viktor.
- [Genevieve Valentine. La beauté sans vertu. (Tor.com April 2016)](https://bestsf.net/genevieve-valentine-la-beaute-sans-vertu-tor-com-april-2016/) - An elegiac tone throughout in a story crafted as carefully as a couture dress.
- [Dominica Phetteplace. Atheism and Flight. (Asimovs, January 2016)](https://bestsf.net/dominica-phetteplace-atheism-and-flight-asimovs-january-2016/) - Young Bos has lost an arm, which is bummer for this dude, but he has bud Jimeo and Jimeo's girlfriend Cleo to help out.
- [Rich Larson. We Might Be Sims. (Interzone #261 November/December 2016)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-we-might-be-sims-interzone-261-novemberdecember-2016/) - Three (ig)noble pioneers on a spaceship to Europa. Or not.
- [Ted Kosmatka. Chasing Ivory. (Asimovs January 2016)](https://bestsf.net/ted-kosmatka-chasing-ivory-asimovs-january-2016/) - A short but clever piece from Kosmatka, with mammoths returned to Earth.
- [Ian McHugh. The Baby Eaters. (Asimovs January 2016)](https://bestsf.net/ian-mchugh-the-baby-eaters-asimovs-january-2016/) - A patriarchal society, with aliens with two sets of arms, and some strange names, and some issues around gender around childbirth, and attitudes towards multiple births.
- [X at The Royal Court Theatre](https://bestsf.net/x-at-the-royal-court-theatre/) - An intelligent SF play in London.
- [Sean Williams. All the Wrong Places. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sean-williams-all-the-wrong-places-meeting-infinity-2015/) - A love story on an epic scale.
- [Madeline Ashby. Memento Mori. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/madeline-ashby-memento-mori-meeting-infinity-2015/) - A reflection on what will happen to the individual self when bodies can be swopped at a whim.
- [Yoon Ha Lee. The Cold Inequalities. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/yoon-ha-lee-the-cold-inequalities-meeting-infinity-2015/) - An elegant updating of a classic SF short story.
- [C.A. Hawksmoor. Murder on the Laplacian Express. (Interzone #260, Sep-Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/c-a-hawksmoor-murder-on-the-laplacian-express-interzone-260-sep-oct-2015/) - A fast-paced adventure, with an intriguing background.
- [C. Allegra Hawksmoor. The Labyrinth of Thorns. (Interzone #250, Jan-Feb 2014)](https://bestsf.net/c-allegra-hawksmoor-the-labyrinth-of-thorns-interzone-250-jan-feb-2014/) - A story that I struggled to engage with as a story that I was reading, as I was more aware of the story that C. Allegra Hawksmoor was writing.
- [Jeff Noon. No Rez. (Interzone #260, Sep-Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jeff-noon-no-rez-interzone-260-sep-oct-2015/) - Good to read something just that bit different, and intense.
- [Lavie Tidhar. Terminal. (Tor.com April 2016)](https://bestsf.net/lavie-tidhar-terminal-tor-com-april-2016/) - Well-written, subtle bit of writing.
- [Carrie Vaughn. Origin Story. (Lightspeed Magazine #71, April 2016)](https://bestsf.net/carrie-vaughn-origin-story-lightspeed-magazine-71-april-2016/) - Short, but sweet, superhero yarn.
- [The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: the Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Edward L. Ferman and Gordon van Gelder (eds). Tor 1999.](https://bestsf.net/the-best-from-fantasy-and-science-fiction-the-fiftieth-anniversary-anthology-edward-l-ferman-and-gordon-van-gelder-eds-tor-1999/) - F&SF have been producing anthologies since 1952 - annual anthologies for the first quarter century, and every two or three years since then. Rather than being a 50-year retrospective, this volume collects the best stories published in F&SF between 1994 and 1998 (since the 45th anniversary anthology). Not having been a reader of F&SF during
- [Geodesic Dreams. The Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Press 1992](https://bestsf.net/geodesic-dreams-the-short-fiction-of-gardner-dozois-gardner-dozois-st-martins-press-1992/) - Whilst out shopping on a Saturday afternoon in Colchester recently I popped into a new Oxfam shop and was pleased find lurking on their shelves this volume. With a pile of unread books which is ever-lengthening, this is one book which I would probably have never got around to buying through the likes of Alibris,
- [The Ant-Men of Tibet and other stories. Edited by David Pringle. Big Engine, 2001.](https://bestsf.net/the-ant-men-of-tibet-and-other-stories-edited-by-david-pringle-big-engine-2001/) - The Ant-Men of Tibet. Stephen Baxter Originally in Interzone #95, May 1995. Baxter pays a classy tribute to HG Wells' 'The First Men in the Moon'. He has done this previously - with the novel 'The Time Ships', which was a sequel to 'The Time Machine', and the short story 'The Columbiad'. In this story
- [The Best Japanse Science Fiction Stories, edited by John L. Apostolou and Martin H. Greenberg, Barricade Books, Inc., published 1997 (UK:June 2000).](https://bestsf.net/the-best-japanse-science-fiction-stories-edited-by-john-l-apostolou-and-martin-h-greenberg-barricade-books-inc-published-1997-ukjune-2000/) - All in all and interesting read, and worth the purchase if nothing else just to give an extended flavour of SF in a different culture.
- [Interzone #220 February 2009](https://bestsf.net/interzone-220-february-2009/) - Another strong collection from a mostly youthful group of authors, boding well for the future.
- [Carolyn Ives Gilman. Touring with the Alien. (Clarkesworld Magazine #115, April 2016)](https://bestsf.net/carolyn-ives-gilman-touring-with-the-alien-clarkesworld-magazine-115-april-2016/) - An excellent road trip story, with a difference.
- [Malcolm Devlin. Five Conversations With My Daughter (Who Travels In Time). (Interzone #261 November/December 2016)](https://bestsf.net/malcolm-devlin-five-conversations-with-my-daughter-who-travels-in-time-interzone-261-novemberdecember-2016/) - If you don't have the time or inclination to read Audrey Niffenegger's 'The Time Traveler's Wife', then this five stanza short is the one for you.
- [Norman Birnbach. It's All Relative at the Space Time Cafe. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/norman-birnbach-its-all-relative-at-the-space-time-cafe-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - Featuring a guest appearance from every scientist who has a science theory relevant to SF who ever drew breath - all making pertinent and apposite comments.
- [Naomi Kritzer. Cleanout. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/naomi-kritzer-cleanout-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - A subtle and effective/affecting story, featuring three sisters, who come to an understanding about the origins of their emigre parents.
- [Naomi Kritzer. High Stakes. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2012)](https://bestsf.net/naomi-kritzer-high-stakes-fantasy-science-fiction-novdec-2012/) - A sequel to 'Liberty's Daughter' from the May/June issue of F&SF, a story which left me profoundly meh
- [Bruce McCallister. DreamPet. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/bruce-mccallister-dreampet-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - A story that was pitched as a movie back in the day - which would start out My Little Pony and end up Predator/Do Androids....
- [Harvey Jacobs. The Fabulous Follicle. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/harvey-jacobs-the-fabulous-follicle-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - Morris Fein's barbering business takes an upturn thanks to him targetting a new client base.
- [Gregory Benford. Aspects. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/gregory-benford-aspects-meeting-infinity-2015/) - A vignette set in the 'Galactic Centre' novel sequence.
- [Bruce Sterling. Pictures from the Resurrection. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/bruce-sterling-pictures-from-the-resurrection-meeting-infinity-2015/) - Dark, dark humour.
- [Asimovs December 2015](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-december-2015/) - A strong issue with good stories from vets like Greg Egan and Robert Reed, as well as the newer writers.
- [Greg Egan. The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred. (Asimovs December 2015)](https://bestsf.net/greg-egan-the-four-thousand-the-eight-hundred-asimovs-december-2015/) - A good blend of technology, politics and characterisation.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2003](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-march-2003/) - Robert Reed. Buffalo Wolf. When 'Raven Dream' appeared in the Dec 2001 issue of F&SF I noted it was very much an opening story in a sequence, with only a little revealed to start with. 'Buffalo Wolf' continues the story, and more is made clearer, although the overall impression is very much of Gene Wolfe,
- [The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2003](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-february-2003/) - Laird Barron. Old Virginia. Deep in the American countryside an ageing intelligence officer, Garland, is leading a small team which is looking after some scientific experimentation in a ramshackle cabin. Things begin to go wrong. The other side appear to have found them, and the question is whether they should abort the mission. Things get
- [Julian Mortimer-Smith. Come-From-Aways. (Asimovs December 2015)](https://bestsf.net/julian-mortimer-smith-come-from-aways-asimovs-december-2015/) - A second story in this issue featuring something strange happening off the coast of a fishing town.
- [Amanda Forrest. Of Apricots and Dying. (Asimovs December 2015)](https://bestsf.net/amanda-forrest-of-apricots-and-dying-asimovs-december-2015/) - A minor sfnal element, but a great story.
- [Rich Larson. Bidding War. (Asimovs December 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-bidding-war-asimovs-december-2015/) - A near-future story with current tech and trends extrapolated, fleshed out nicely, and a lot to like in it's five pages.
- [Garrett Ashley. Riding the Waves of Leviathan. (Asimovs December 2015)](https://bestsf.net/garrett-ashley-riding-the-waves-of-leviathan-asimovs-december-2015/) - A story by an author new to me, on account of his previous story appearing in an issue of Asimovs I didn't get my hands on, and one which shows a lot of promise..
- [Robert Reed. Empty. (Asimovs December 2015)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-empty-asimovs-december-2015/) - A clever story and I'm putting it onto the shortlist of the Best SF Short Story of the Year 2016 Award.
- [M. Bennardo. We Jump Down Into the Dark. (Asimovs December 2015)](https://bestsf.net/m-bennardo-we-jump-down-into-the-dark-asimovs-december-2015/) - Short, tense drama as an orbiting space-station gets knocked out of orbit, and a rescue is attempted.
- [Year's Best Science Fiction, 21st Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2004](https://bestsf.net/years-best-science-fiction-21st-annual-collection-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2004/) - Stories by : Charles Stross, Dominic Green, Geoff Ryman, Geoffrey A. Landis, Harry Turtledove, Howard Waldrop, Jack Skillingstead, James Van Pelt, John C. Wright, John Kessel, John Varley, Judith Moffett, Kage Baker, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, M. Shayne Bell, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Nick DiChario, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Paul Melko, Robert Reed, Steven Popkes, Terry Bisson, Terry Dowling, Vernor Vinge, Walter Jon Williams, William Barton, William Shunn.
- [Jack Skillingstead. Salvage Opportunity. (Clarkesworld Magazine #114, March 2016)](https://bestsf.net/jack-skillingstead-salvage-opportunity-clarkesworld-magazine-114-march-2016/) - A dry, wry story.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2005](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-september-2005/) - David Gerrold. A Quantum Bit Exists in Two States Simultaneously : On This issue is book-ended by two shorts from Gerrold. In the first the protagonist has a conversation at a diner with Pope Daniel the First of The Church of the Chocolate Bunny, who challenges him to consider the nature of sainthood and whether
- [Carter Scholz. Gypsy. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/carter-scholz-gypsy-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - An echo of Arthur C. Clarke in the way Scholz blends technology, societal issues, and challenges on an individual level.
- [Tim Sullivan. Hob's Choice. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/tim-sullivan-hobs-choice-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - A story that exists in two quantum states : easy to read and not easy to read.
- [Asimovs October/November 2015](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-octobernovember-2015/) - Strong stories by Small, McDonald and Wilber..
- [Paul McAuley. Transitional Forms. (Twelve Tomorrows).](https://bestsf.net/paul-mcauley-transitional-forms-twelve-tomorrows/) - A shortish extrapolation of biotech - some technical issues once a-life starts to mutate, and what opportunities might arise.
- [Daryl Gregory. Begone. (Asimovs October/November 2015)](https://bestsf.net/daryl-gregory-begone-asimovs-octobernovember-2015/) - An ad-man is bewitched by a woman, and he marries her. Oh, that cute nose twitch!
- [Ian Creasey. My Time on Earth. (Asimovs October/November 2015)](https://bestsf.net/ian-creasey-my-time-on-earth-asimovs-octobernovember-2015/) - A young girl returns from her visit to Earth, and has a ghost story to tell friends from her last night on the planet in the old city of York.
- [Timons Esaias. Hollywood after 10. (Asimovs October/November 2015)](https://bestsf.net/timons-esaias-hollywood-after-10-asimovs-octobernovember-2015/) - The time travel trope is mined once again, but that mine is pretty well used up by now.
- [Asimovs April/May 2015](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - There's a lot in this double issue, although the more substantial stories don't quite do it for me.
- [Sarah Pinsker. Our Lady of the Open Road. (Asimovs June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-pinsker-our-lady-of-the-open-road-asimovs-june-2015/) - A near-future rock and roll road story, with a band ekeing out a living playing live, in the face of immersive 3D holo performances by the Big Name Bands keeping the potential audience members home for the most part.
- [Asimovs June 2015](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-june-2015/) - Wexler, Naylor and Das the pick of the issue for me.
- [David D. Levine. Damage. (Tor.com January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/david-levine-damage-tor-com-january-2015/) - The first story of 2015 that I'm flagging as a contender for the Best SF Short Story Award 2015.
- [Tamsyn Muir. The Deepwater Bride. (Fantasy and Science Ficition, July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/tamsyn-muir-the-deepwater-bride-fantasy-and-science-ficition-julyaugust-2015/) - Eldritch portents-aplenty, which suggest to a young teen seer that a dark lord is a-coming for a bride.
- [Michael Bishop. Rattlesnakes and Men. (Asimovs February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/michael-bishop-rattlesnakes-and-men-asimovs-february-2015/) - It's been quite a while since I've read anything by Michael Bishop, and was quite looking forward to it, having seen his name on the cover.
- [Priya Sharma. Blonde. (Interzone #260 Sept/Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/priya-sharma-blonde-interzone-260-septoct-2015/) - Rapunzel, shorn of her auburn tresses, leaves her life of captivity.
- [Jeff Wayne's 'The War of the Worlds' at The Dominion Theatre](https://bestsf.net/jeff-waynes-war-of-the-worlds-at-the-dominion-theatre/) - Jeff Wayne's musical version H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' brought to the stage.
- [John Shirley. Weedkiller. (Interzone #260, September/October 2015)](https://bestsf.net/john-shirley-weedkiller-interzone-260-septemberoctober-2015/) - Good to see Shirley still producing cyberpunky stories.
- [Interzone #260 (September/October 2015)](https://bestsf.net/interzone-260-septemberoctober-2015/) - I'm a bit behind with my Interzone reading... Stories this issue by John Shirley, Jeff Noon, Priya Sharma, C.A. Hawksmoor, Christien Gholson
- [Interzone #259 July/August 2015](https://bestsf.net/interzone-259-julyaugust-2015/) - A reasonable collection of stories, but nothing to really write home about.
- [Sarah Pinsker. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea. (Lighstpeed Magazine #69, February 2016)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-pinsker-sooner-or-later-everything-falls-into-the-sea-lighstpeed-magazine-69-february-2016/) - Post-collapse, two women have to come to terms with the new realities...
- [Nick Wolven. In the Midst of Life. (Clarkesworld Magazine #113, February 2016)](https://bestsf.net/nick-wolven-in-the-midst-of-life-clarkesworld-magazine-113-february-2016/) - The sfnal elements ramp up in the closing paragraphs of a 15000 word story, but it feels a bit X-Filesy to me (and not being a fan of that show, that's not a good thing!)
- [Paul McAuley. The Fixer. (Clarkesworld Magazine #113 February 2016)](https://bestsf.net/paul-mcauley-the-fixer-clarkesworld-magazine-113-february-2016/) - A neat story from McAuley .
- [Rick Wilber. Walking to Boston. (Asimovs October/November 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rick-wilber-walking-to-boston-asimovs-octobernovember-2015/) - A great bit of writing.
- [Benjanun Sriduangkaew. That Which Stands Tends Toward Free Fall. (Clarkesworld Magazine #113, February 2016)](https://bestsf.net/benjanun-sriduangkaew-that-which-stands-tends-toward-free-fall-clarkesworld-magazine-113-february-2016/) - A top notch bit of writing.
- [Asimovs, October/November 2009](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-octobernovember-2009/) - It's a good issue, without being a classic. Stories by Barzak, Broderick, Lindsey, Malcolm, Creasey, Kress, Garcia y Robertson, Reed, Kosmatka, Poore, Barton
- [Gwyneth Jones. Emergence. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/gwyneth-jones-emergence-meeting-infinity-2015/) - A *lot* of ideas, but covered sketchily, and not particularly satisfactorily.
- [Asimovs. February 2010.](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-february-2010/) - A strong issue, with stories from authors well-established and authors on the way up : Aliette de Bodard, Bruce McAllister, Caroline M. Yoachim, Damien Broderick, David Erik Nelson, Stephen Baxter.
- [Jeffrey Ford. The Winter Wraith. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jeffrey-ford-the-winter-wraith-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - It's a cold, bleak winter, and the task of taking out the dead christmas tree appears to be not quite as straightforward as it might...
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2015](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septoct-2015/) - Some excellent stories within - a strong issue.
- [Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, April 2004](https://bestsf.net/analog-science-fiction-and-science-fact-april-2004/) - Stories by Pete D. Manison, J. Brian Clarke, Brian Plante, Scott William Carter, Sheralyn Schofield Belyeu, Carl Frederick, and a serialisation instalment from Joe Haldeman.
- [Brooks Peck. With Folded RAM. (Asimovs September/October 2015)](https://bestsf.net/brooks-peck-with-folded-ram-asimovs-septemberoctober-2015/) - A four-pager that covers a lot of territory in a not particularly convincing manner.
- [Ian McDowell. The Hard Woman. (Asimovs October/November 2015)](https://bestsf.net/ian-mcdowell-the-hard-woman-asimovs-octobernovember-2015/) - A Cow-Boy story in which a travelling French music hall artiste with an extraordinary ability (the only fantastical element to the story) visits a town and ends up chasing a no-gooder into injun territory
- [Rachel K. Jones. Charlotte Incorporated. (Lightspeed Magazine #69, Feb 2016)](https://bestsf.net/rachel-k-jones-charlotte-incorporated-lightspeed-magazine-69-feb-2016/) - A disturbing look at a near-future world of haves and have-nots - where the 'haves' have a body to put a brain into.
- [Sandra McDonald. The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Life After Death. (Asimovs October/November 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sandra-mcdonald-the-adjunct-professors-guide-to-life-after-death-asimovs-octobernovember-2015/) - The first story of the year to go on the 2016 Best SF Short Story Award shortlist.
- [Benjanun Sriduangkaew. The Beast at the End of Time. (Apex Magazine #81, February 2016)](https://bestsf.net/benjanun-sriduangkaew-the-beast-at-the-end-of-time-apex-magazine-81-february-2016/) - Sriduangkaew is one of the few authors whose authorship of a story you can guess just from reading it.
- [Elizabeth Bear. The Bone War. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/elizabeth-bear-the-bone-war-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septoct-2015/) - The skeleton animation skills of Bijou the Artificier are called upon. Big time.
- [David Gerrold. Monsieur. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/david-gerrold-monsieur-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septoct-2015/) - A clever look at the nature of the vampire myth, and how fiction addresses that myth, through a neat plot device.
- [Dennis Etchison. Don't Move. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2015)](https://bestsf.net/dennis-etchison-dont-move-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septemberoctober-2015/) - Exactly what and why is going on isn't clear. This works sometimes, sometimes not.
- [Robert Reed. The Algorithms of Value. (Clarkesworld Magazine #112, January 2016)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-the-algorithms-of-value-clarkesworld-magazine-112-january-2016/) - Reed's stories of late have been quite contemplative in nature as I recall, and this is no exception.
- [Nancy Kress. Cocoons. (Meeting Infinity, Solaris 2015)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-cocoons-meeting-infinity-solaris-2015/) - A neat little story with, as ever, some good characterisation from Kress,
- [Bo Balder. A House of Her Own. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/bo-balder-a-house-of-her-own-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septoct-2015/) - The first story I've read by Balder, and on this form I'm guessing it won't be the last.
- [Albert E. Cowdrey. The Lord of Ragnarok. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/albert-e-cowdrey-the-lord-of-ragnarok-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2015/) - Lengthy fantasy novella from Cowdrey, a dark, warts and all exploration of how a young boy of low birth became Sir Richard de Coudray..
- [Kameron Hurley. Body Politic (Meeting Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/kameron-hurley-body-politic-meeting-infinity/) - Taut hi-tech espionage drama - think The Matrix and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy mashed up together.
- [Simon Ings. Drones. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/simon-ings-drones-meeting-infinity-2015/) - A disturbing, near-future story, starting with tousled-haired Mayor of London opening the new London airport....
- [Benjanun Sriduangkaew. Desert Lexicon. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/benjanun-sriduangkaew-desert-lexicon-meeting-infinity-2015/) - A complex, psychological take on a future conflict.
- [Paolo Bacigalupi. A Hot Day's Night. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2015)](https://bestsf.net/paolo-bacigalupi-a-hot-days-night-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septemberoctober-2015/) - Nice to have a story form Bacigalupi - oh for the days when stories from him were much more common occurrences.
- [Marissa Lingen. Ten Stamps Viewed Under Water. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/marissa-lingen-ten-stamps-viewed-under-water-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septoct-2015/) - Plague has devastated their world, and two sisters are barricaded at home, their only contact with the outside world being letters and food parcels from the masked postman, and conversations through the high garden fence with their next door neighbours.
- [Asimovs. December 2013.](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-december-2013/) - After a couple of weak opening stories, the issue gathers momentum to become an excellent final issue for 2013. Shame about the cover.
- [E. Catherine Tobler. Silencer - Head Like a Hole Remix. (Interzone #259 Jul/Aug 2015)](https://bestsf.net/e-catherine-tobler-silencer-head-like-a-hole-remix-interzone-259-julaug-2015/) - A story in which neither the protagonists nor the reader knows the whys and wherefores of what is happening.
- [Alan Smale. English Wildlife. (Asimovs October/November 2015)](https://bestsf.net/alan-smale-english-wildlife-asimovs-octobernovember-2015/) - A well-handled story set in the quiet green countryside of middle England, where there is history and legend. And not all of it has been consigned to history...
- [Asimovs September 2015](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-september-2015/) - Stories from Brenda Cooper, Sean Monaghan, Jim Grimsley, Jason Sanford, Sam J. Miller, Vylar Kaftan, Peter Wood, with Miller and Sanford the pick of the issue for me.
- [Nick Wolven. We're So Very Sorry For Your Recent Tragic Loss. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2015)](https://bestsf.net/nick-wolven-were-so-very-sorry-for-your-recent-tragic-loss-fantasy-and-science-fiction-septoct-2015/) - A cautionary, near-future tale from Wolven, set in an interconnected world, with an Internet of Things, and with personalisation embedded throughout,
- [James S.A. Corey. Rates of Change. (Meeting Infinity, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/james-s-a-corey-rates-of-change-meeting-infinity-2015/) - Corey opens the fourth volume in the 'Infinity' anthology series with a thoughtful look at one of the central conceits of the collection theme - how will change in the near future impact the very essence of humanity.
- [Meeting Infinity. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books 2015)](https://bestsf.net/meeting-infinity-ed-jonathan-strahan-solaris-books-2015/) - A handsome Big volume, the fourth in the series. Big Name Authors. Big font. Reviews to follow.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2015](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-julyaugust-2015/) - Muir, Van Aaron Hughes, and Chwedyk the pick of the ish for me.
- [Gregor Hartmann. Into the Fiery Planet. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/gregor-hartmann-into-the-fiery-planet-fantasy-and-science-fiction-julyaugust-2015/) - The issue closes with a light touch, as Hartmann provides an old-school tone for a gently humorous tale of life on an exoplanet, and political machinations needed to ensure the planet remains in the embrace of the powers that be.
- [Betsy James. Paradise and Trout. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/betsy-james-paradise-and-trout-fantasy-and-science-fiction-julyaugust-2015/) - Short fantasy in which a young boy, recently dead, has to heed his father's advice in walking to where his forebears live.
- [Sean Monaghan. The Molenstraat Music Festival. (Asimovs September 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sean-monaghan-the-molenstraat-music-festival-asimovs-september-2015/) - The issue closes with a story that is has lot of sfnal background to it, but the crux of the story is minimally sfnal.
- [Van Aaron Hughes. The Body Pirate. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/van-aaron-hughes-the-body-pirate-fantasy-and-science-fiction-julyaugust-2015/) - Because of the good mix of story, idea and innovative narrative approach, I'm popping this story onto the shortlist for the Best SF Short Story Award 2015.
- [Rich Larson. Ice. (Clarkesworld #109, October 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-ice-clarkesworld-109-october-2015/) - On an icy planet, a nocturnal adventure becomes a game played for high stakes...
- [Rachel Pollack. Johnny Rev. (Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rachel-pollack-johnny-rev-fantasy-and-science-fiction-julyaugust-2015/) - Johnny Rev, aka Jack Shade, is a traveller, in a modern urban setting in which magic lives and there is a border, unseen by all but those who have magic, beyond which lies an altogether darker place, and an alter ego who must be kept in his place.
- [Peter Wood. Searching for Commander Parsec. (Asimovs, September 2015)](https://bestsf.net/peter-wood-searching-for-commander-parsec-asimovs-september-2015/) - Commander Parsec - cheesy Golden Age of radio drama serial hero. Or...
- [Vylar Kaftan. Last Hunt. (Asimovs September 2015)](https://bestsf.net/vylar-kaftan-last-hunt-asimovs-september-2015/) - When a star descends from the night sky, it brings someone/thing, and Little Grandfather must make a decision.
- [Ubermensch.](https://bestsf.net/ubermensch/) - I've just come across the short film 'Ubermensch' directed by Simon Temple, winner of 2010 Best Film, Irish National Sci Fi Awards, and true to the story by Kim Newman, on which it's based.
- [Rahul Kanakia. Here is My Thinking on a Situation That Affects Us All. (Lightspeed Magazine #66, November 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rahul-kanakia-here-is-my-thinking-on-a-situation-that-affects-us-all-lightspeed-magazine-66-november-2015/) - An alien spaceship broadcasts a message to humanity...
- [Asimovs, January 2006](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-january-2006/) - An excellent issue.
- [Asimovs, April/May 2004](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-aprilmay-2004/) - A hefty double-issue with pretty much something to please everyone.
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 2001 (Peanut Press edition).](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction-magazine-july-2001-peanut-press-edition/) - A slightly weaker than usual issue perhaps - certainly for someone like me for whom the opening SF mystery did little for, and certainly considering the calibre of the authors in this issue.
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 2001 (Peanut Press edition)](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction-magazine-august-2001-peanut-press-edition/) - Robert Charles Wilson being the pick of the bunch for me.
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 2001 (Peanut Press edition)](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction-magazine-september-2001-peanut-press-edition/) - For me, other than the Fintushel story, a fairly average bunch. Mind you, the preview of the next issue is most impressive.
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2001 (Peanut Press edition)](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction-magazine-octobernovember-2001-peanut-press-edition/) - A pretty damn good collection. Steele and Martinez were a tad below an otherwise high standard.
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 2001](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction-magazine-december-2001/) - A slightly flat issue for me - maybe it should be read in the last week of December in an armchair by a blazing log fire, with a glass of port in one hand.
- [Rich Larson. Edited. (Interzone #259, July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-edited-interzone-259-julyaugust-2015/) - A bit of neural tweaking can iron out those awkward behavioural issues in children, just like braces straighten their teeth.
- [Chris Butler. The Deep of Winter. (Interzone #259 July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/chris-butler-the-deep-of-winter-interzone-259-julyaugust-2015/) - A story which reads like the work of a novice writer
- [Sara Saab. Rush Down, Roar Gently. (Interzone #259, July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sara-saab-rush-down-roar-gently-interzone-259-julyaugust-2015/) - Near-future story with limited SFFnal elements.
- [Richard W. Strachan. After His Kind. (Interzone #259, Jul-Aug 2015)](https://bestsf.net/richard-w-strachan-after-his-kind-interzone-259-jul-aug-2015/) - You would give your right arm in order to avoid a lifetime alone on a planet wouldn't you?
- [Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, April 2003](https://bestsf.net/analog-science-fiction-and-science-fact-april-2003/) - Catherine Asaro. Walk in Silence. One beef I have with many Analog stories is that many could easily have been written 50 years ago. Obviously if your tastes are somewhat catholic, and you have a somewhat reactionary bent, then this can be good thing. We start off being introduced to Lieutenant Colonel Jess Fernandez, on
- [Sam J. Miller. Calved. (Asimovs September 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sam-j-miller-calved-asimovs-september-2015/) - The fourth really strong story from Miller I've read in the last 12 months or so.
- [A.C. Wise. And If The Body Were Not The Soul. (Clarkesworld #109, October 2015)](https://bestsf.net/a-c-wise-and-if-the-body-were-not-the-soul-clarkesworld-109-october-2015/) - A strange, symbiotic interchange of emotion, experience and sense of self between an alien and human.
- [James Patrick Kelly. Oneness : a triptych. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July-August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/james-patrick-kelly-oneness-a-triptych-fantasy-and-science-fiction-july-august-2015/) - After a gentle story in the issue about love (and loss) taken forward by dialogue, Kelly provides three short vignettes on lust and sex.
- [Richard Chwedyk. Dixon's Road. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/richard-chwedyk-dixons-road-fantasy-and-science-fiction-julyaugust-2015/) - A dialogue-driven love (and loss) story that Chwedyk handles admirably
- [Jason Sanford. What is Sand but Earth purified? (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jason-sanford-sand-earth-purified-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - Rogue nano - approach at your peril.
- [Jason Sanford. Duller's Peace. (Asimovs September 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jason-sanford-dullers-peace-asimovs-september-2015/) - Oppression and nano-level surveillance - resist or comply?
- [Jim Grimsley. The God Year. (Asimovs September 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jim-grimsley-the-god-year-asimovs-september-2015/) - The residents of Muglet-on-Stumpings are to receive a visitation....
- [Charlie Jane Anders. Break! Break! Break! (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/charlie-jane-anders-break-break-break-the-end-is-nigh/) - A high-octane pell-mell rush through schooldays/daze with the background about just how society in the USA is struggling clearly leading to the apocalypse the anthology promises, with a lot of inventiveness.
- [Brenda Cooper. Biology at the End of the World. (Asimovs September 2015)](https://bestsf.net/brenda-cooper-biology-at-the-end-of-the-world-asimovs-september-2015/) - Fairly routine scientist fiction, more of an Analog than an Asimovs story to my mind.
- [Asimov's August 2015](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-august-2015/) - A strong issue with lots of stories to like.
- [Karl Bunker. Caisson. (Asimovs August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/karl-bunker-caisson-asimovs-august-2015/) - Bunker takes up back in time to the 1870s, and the building of The Brooklyn Bridge.
- [Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The First Step. (Asimovs August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/kristine-kathryn-rusch-the-first-step-asimovs-august-2015/) - Time travel story, that is nice enough, as far as it goes.
- [Will McIntosh. A Thousand Nights Till Morning. (Asimovs August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/will-mcintosh-a-thousand-nights-till-morning-asimovs-august-2015/) - A clever story with a protagonist who is far from the standard heroic type, and lots to like in it.
- [Asimovs, September 2009](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-september-2009/) - The Goldstein and Rusch stories start and finish the issue strongly, with the other stories being good without being great. Other stories by Crowell, Cooper, Steinmetz, Oltion, Resnick, Robyn, Tem.
- [Asimovs, July 2009](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-july-2009/) - Not the strongest of issues, a bit of a surprise considering Reed, Cassutt, Robertson and Baxter being on the front cover.
- [Asimovs, June 2009](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-june-2009/) - A strong collection, with the Purdom story somewhat of a struggle.
- [Asimovs, August 2006](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-august-2006/) - Real physical versions of Asimovs are to hand, which I find I read much more quickly than the e-versions of late (having spent most days at work in front of a screen, reading off a screen is not much of a relaxation!) - so I expect to be up to date with the US mags by the end of the month!
- [Amy Sterling Casil. In the Time of Love. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/amy-sterling-casil-in-the-time-of-love-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - A zero-sum equation featuring a douchebag, a hottie, and a cheated wife seeking tenure. Does a-b=c??
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - Some strong stories in the issue, with David Gerrold the pick of the bunch.
- [Rob Chilson. A Turkey with Egg on His Face. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rob-chilson-a-turkey-with-egg-on-his-face-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - A second story to close the issue in which a time travel device is used in the quest for lurve.
- [Kelly Robson. Two Year-Man. (Asimovs August 2015)](https://bestsf.net/kelly-robson-two-year-man-asimovs-august-2015/) - Following her previous 'challenging' story, this is an 'unsettling' one...
- [Robert Grossbach. Entrepreneurs. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/robert-grossbach-entrepreneurs-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - I started off really liking this story, the kind F&SF does well (or, rather, one of the many kinds it does well)
- [Nick Wolven. No placeholder for you, my love. (Asimovs, August 2015).](https://bestsf.net/nick-wolven-no-placeholder-for-you-my-love-asimovs-august-2015/) - An intriguing love story from Wolven, set in an online virtual reality world, where Claire is looking for Mr. Right.
- [Asimovs, July 2015.](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-july-2015/) - Several good stories, with Derek Kunsken the pick of the ish for me.
- [David Gerrold. The Great Pan American Airship Mystery, or, Why I Murdered Robert Benchley. (Asimovs, July 2015)](https://bestsf.net/david-gerrold-the-great-pan-american-airship-mystery-or-why-i-murdered-robert-benchley-asimovs-july-2015/) - An Alternate History featuring a cast of authors and Hollywood types from the 1930s, some known to me, others (including the titular character) not.
- [Will Ludwigsen. Acres of Perhaps. (Asimovs July 2015)](https://bestsf.net/will-ludwigsen-acres-of-perhaps-asimovs-july-2015/) - Stories within stories within issues within different magazines.
- [James Sarafin. Trapping the Pleistocene. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/james-sarafin-trapping-the-pleistocene-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - Beaver. Giant beaver. Prehistoric giant beaver.
- [Derek Kunsken. Pollen from a Future Harvest. (Asimovs July 2015)](https://bestsf.net/derek-kunsken-pollen-from-a-future-harvest-asimovs-july-2015/) - Kunsken fits in just so much 'extra' into the story, when a more bog standard approach would have been a simple 'scientist solves riddle' story
- [Rudy Rucker. Petroglyph Man. (Asimovs July 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rudy-rucker-petroglyph-man-asimovs-july-2015/) - A photo app that uses quantum physics to alter the images it takes, leads to some Really Bad Shit.
- [Caroline M. Yoachim. Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind. (Fantasy and Science Fiction May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/caroline-m-yoachim-four-seasons-in-the-forest-of-your-mind-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - A clever idea, well handled.
- [Mary Robinette Kowal. Like Native Things. (Asimovs, July 2015)](https://bestsf.net/mary-robinette-kowal-like-native-things-asimovs-july-2015/) - Nothing out of the ordinary - a story more suited to Analog, the home of scientist fiction stories.
- [David Gerrold. Entanglements. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/david-gerrold-entanglements-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - A standout story from Gerrold.
- [Sarah Pinsker. Today's Smarthouse in Love. (Fantasy and Science Fiction May/June 2015).](https://bestsf.net/sarah-pinsker-todays-smarthouse-in-love-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - A tale of unrequited love, with protestations of love falling on deaf ears
- [John Kessel. The Closet. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2010)](https://bestsf.net/john-kessel-the-closet-fantasy-science-fiction-novdec-2010/) - A short piece written as part of a festschrift to Ursula K. Le Guin, which touches on one of the themes in her writing.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June/July 2009](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-junejuly-2009/) - Reed, Wightman and O'Driscoll are the cream of the crop, with Kessel's new story, Bisson and Cowdrey not quite up to their (well-established) best.
- [Albert E. Cowdrey. The Laminated Man. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/albert-e-cowdrey-the-laminated-man-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - Another classy story from the pen (or presumably the keyboard) of Albert E. Cowdrey, whose stories engage you quickly and keep you engaged throughout, which is not as simple as it sounds!
- [The Year’s Best Science Fiction. 32nd Annual Collection. (ed Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015).](https://bestsf.net/the-years-best-science-fiction-32nd-annual-collection-ed-gardner-dozois-st-martins-griffin-2015/) - Another year, another volume, but this year, also another shelf.
- [Lisa Mason. Teardrop. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/lisa-mason-teardrop-fantasy-and-science-fiction-mayjune-2015/) - A neat story from Mason, almost a quarter of a century since her last story in this magazine.
- [M. Bennardo. Ghosts of the Savannah. (Asimovs June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/m-bennardo-ghosts-of-the-savannah-asimovs-june-2015/) - A prehistory story from Bennardo (so why is it in an SF magazine I wonder??).
- [Indrapramit Das. The Muses of Shuyedan-18. (Asimovs June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/indrapramit-das-the-muses-of-shuyedan-18-asimovs-june-2015/) - A lot in the story to like, and I'm putting it onto the short list for The Best SF Short Story Award 2015.
- [Henry Lien. The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society. (Asimovs June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/henry-lien-the-ladies-aquatic-gardening-society-asimovs-june-2015/) - 'Mapp and Lucia' with a smidgeon of SF thrown in.
- [Ray Nayler. Mutability. (Asimovs June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/ray-nayler-mutability-asimovs-june-2015/) - An intriguing story from Nayler, evidently an American who has spent some/a lot of time in Europe, and there's a very European feeling to this story.
- [The End Has Come – The Apocalypse Triptych 3. (ed John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/the-end-has-come-the-apocalypse-triptych-3-ed-john-joseph-adams-and-hugh-howey-2015/) - A clever idea for a trilogy from Adams/Howey, and they had me keeping an eye open for the appearance of volumes on Amazon, and pleased to have the POD volumes on my shelves.
- [Mira Grant. The Happiest Place. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/mira-grant-the-happiest-place-the-end-has-come-2015/) - A singleton story with a fairly bog standard post-zombie apocalypse action element to it, but the setting is an interesting one and makes it stand out in a way that will prevent the reading mis-remembering it as an episode from a zombie film or TV episode.
- [Ken Liu. The Gods Have Not Died in Vain. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/ken-liu-the-gods-have-not-died-in-vain-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Liu brings his story of an uploaded father (or the bits of him that are left in cyberspace following his death) and his daughter, to a satisfactory, and ultimately logical end.
- [Interzone #258, May-Jun 2015](https://bestsf.net/interzone-258-may-jun-2015/) - Napper and Stufflebeam the pick of the issue for me.
- [Asimovs, August 2009](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-august-2009/) - An excellent issue. Rusch and Popkes perhaps the slightly weaker of the contributions, Broderick and Reed edging ahead of Blumstein, Zumsteg and Kowal.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2015](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marchapril-2015/) - An especially strong issues with Bao Shu a particular standout.
- [Henry Lien. Bilingual. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2015)](https://bestsf.net/henry-lien-bilingual-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marchapril-2015/) - Bookended by two emails, a twitter stream transcript tells the story of @DolphinMemeGirl who takes on the treatment of captive dolphins, as SETI/cetaceans come together.
- [Kat Howard. A User's Guide to Increments of Time. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/kat-howard-a-users-guide-to-increments-of-time-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2015/) - The course of true love does not run smoothly for this pair of chronomancers. Or, to be clearer, they take their time over their love, and that of others, and that is too high a price to pay.
- [Paul M. Berger. The Mantis Tattoo. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/paul-m-berger-the-mantis-tattoo-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2015/) - A trickster tale with a difference.
- [Fantasy and Science Fiction August 2001](https://bestsf.net/fantasy-and-science-fiction-august-2001/) - One Last Game. Robert Reed. Another story from Reed, who has taken over the baton from Robert Silverberg as probably the most prolific quality writer of short SF. But imagine how much more SF he could have written if he hadn't wasted so much time on the unnecessary novelisation of the excellent novella Marrow! And,
- [David Wellington. Agent Neutralized. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/david-wellington-agent-neutralized-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Final instalment of Wellington's 'high octane' zombie apocalypse story.
- [Ben H. Winters. Heaven Come Down. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/ben-h-winters-heaven-come-down-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Winters' first two story instalments were quite unique - no confusion over which asteroid strike/virus story with his story of the inhabitants of Earth embracing THE WORD OF GOD. All except one girl, unable to hear the voice and embrace the rapture.
- [Django Wexler. The End of the War. (Asimovs, June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/django-wexler-the-end-of-the-war-asimovs-june-2015/) - A good read from an author new to me, although Wexler has published several novels.
- [Malcolm Devlin. Her First Harvest. (Interzone #258, May-June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/malcolm-devlin-her-first-harvest-interzone-258-may-june-2015/) - The illustration to this story by Vince Haig shows a young woman in a smart brocade evening gown with an enormous mushroom growing from her head (in an attractive sort of way) and he's pretty true to the story.
- [Megan Arkenberg. Like All Beautiful Places. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/megan-arkenberg-like-all-beautiful-places-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Arkenberg concludes her trio of stories with another look at the impact of an acid raid apocalypse - both on the city of San Francisco, and someone recently moved there.
- [Nancy Kress. Blessings. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-blessings-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Kress brings her trio of stories, and this trilogy/triptych to a satisfactory conclusion.
- [Hugh Howey. In the Woods. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/hugh-howey-in-the-woods-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Sometimes I read a story and all the way through I feel I've missed something important, or need to be reading it from a slightly different perspective
- [Christien Gholson. Angel Fire. (Interzone #258)](https://bestsf.net/christien-gholson-angel-fire-interzone-258/) - As with many stories of this ilk, it's fine enough, but I'd rather this story was the first third of a story, setting up two final thirds that really kick some ass.
- [Jake Kerr. The Gray Sunrise. (The End Had Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jake-kerr-the-gray-sunrise-the-end-had-come-2015/) - Kerr's approach to the 'Apocalypse Triptych' has been to write three stories linked by an asteroid impact, but each featuring different characters in different situations, and this story, a good one like the previous two, features a close analysis of the reaction of his characters to events.
- [Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. Doors. (Interzone #258 May-Jun 2015)](https://bestsf.net/bonnie-jo-stufflebeam-doors-interzone-258-may-jun-2015/) - Another good story from Stufflebeam providing a heart-warming tale of humanity, that doesn't get anywhere near schmalzy or saccharine as it could.
- [Charlie Jane Anders. The Last Movie Ever Made. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/charlie-jane-anders-the-last-movie-ever-made-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Anders' trio of stories have stood out from the others, with her tale of a near-future apocalypse as seen through some gonzo film makers not easily confused with the other stories in the volumes!
- [The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Nine. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-nine-ed-jonathan-strahan-solaris-books2015/) - A collection of stories from a very wide range of sources, with only one from the Big 3 magazines (Asimovs, Analog, F&SF).
- [Elizabeth Bear. Margin of Survival. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/elizabeth-bear-margin-of-survival-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Bear had a singleton story in the second of this three volume trilogy, and has another in this volume, which also features a determined, resourceful lead character.
- [Bao Shu. What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/bao-shu-what-has-passed-shall-in-kinder-light-appear-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2015/) - Clever, clever, clever. Hugely entertaining. And on the Best SF Short Story Award 2015 shortlist.
- [Jonathan Maberry. Jingo and the Hammerman. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jonathan-maberry-jingo-and-the-hammerman-the-end-has-come-2015/) - A slightly different tone to the horrors of the rest of the volume (mind you, there is horror in the story, but more comic book).
- [Allen M. Steele. The Children of Gal. (Asimovs, April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/allen-m-steele-the-children-of-gal-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - Another (concluding?) installment in Steele's 'Arkwright' series, which, like his 'Coyote' series, has left me unmoved.
- [Frank Smith. The Sentry. (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/frank-smith-the-sentry-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - Just a little too short to get engaged with the characters.
- [Fran Wilde. How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Post-Digital Age. (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/fran-wilde-how-to-walk-through-historic-graveyards-in-the-post-digital-age-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - A clever use of tech by Wilde to look at the difficulties being faced by an journalist returning from being embedded on the frontline, with ghosts very much in the machine.
- [Jay O'Connell. Willing Flesh. (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jay-oconnell-willing-flesh-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - Another short, neat peek into the near-future urban life, technology and what it does to us from O'Connell.
- [Julie C. Day. The Re'em Song. (Interzone #258, May-June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/julie-c-day-the-reem-song-interzone-258-may-june-2015/) - The turning points of the story are fairly low key, mirroring the journey and emotional state of the protagonist.
- [Jamie Ford. The Uncertainty Machine. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jamie-ford-the-uncertainty-machine-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Ford's stories in the first two volumes were quirky steampunky stories, here, to slightly less effect, he focuses this story on the aftermath of Halley's Comet in a basement, with an inventor trapped in the dark.
- [Jenn Reese. How to Masquerade as a Human Before the Invasion. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jenn-reese-how-to-masquerade-as-a-human-before-the-invasion-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2015/) - A two-pages on, erm, how to masquerade as a human before the invasion.
- [Alice Sola Kim. A Residence for Friendless Ladies. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/alice-sola-kim-a-residence-for-friendless-ladies-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2015/) - A disturbing story of a young woman, thwarted in her desires to be a man, who is admitted to the titular establishment.
- [Anna Tambour. The Gun Between the Veryush and the Cloud Mothers.  (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/anna-tambour-the-gun-between-the-veryush-and-the-cloud-mothers-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - Somewhat opaque and in need of the application of some literary Cif.
- [Jonathan L. Howard. A Small Diversion on the Road to Hell. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jonathan-l-howard-a-small-diversion-on-the-road-to-hell-fantasy-science-fiction-marchapril-2015/) - A strong narrative voice from the protagonist, in a story set in a bar against a backdrop of 20th century European history(ies).
- [Robin Wasserman. In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/robin-wasserman-in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-the-promised-land-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Wasserman concludes one of the stronger stories in Adams' 'Apocalypse Triptych'.
- [A Shout is a Prayer for the Waiting Centuries. (Interzone #258, May/June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/a-shout-is-a-prayer-for-the-waiting-centuries-interzone-258-mayjune-2015/) - Another good story from Napper in Interzone.
- [Robert Reed. What I Intend. (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-what-i-intend-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - An answer to a Big Question is sought, but the answer isn't what was hoped for.
- [Liz Williams. The Marriage of the Sea. (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/liz-williams-the-marriage-of-the-sea-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - Looks at the fanaticism necessary to carry out an act beyond the ken of most people - although we don't really need to use fantasy to explore that issue these days!
- [Sadie Bruce. Little Girls in Bone Museums. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sadie-bruce-little-girls-in-bone-museums-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2015/) - Imagine the old Chinese custom of foot binding, taken to the nth degree.
- [Interzone #257, March-April 2015](https://bestsf.net/interzone-257-march-april-2015/) - Stories by Alastair Reynolds, Fazslishah Johanabas, Rich Larson, Tendai Huchu, and Aliya Whiteley. Reynolds the pick of the issue.
- [Fadzlishah Johanabas. Songbird. (Interzone #257, Mar-Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/fadzlishah-johanabas-songbird-interzone-257-mar-apr-2015/) - A story that marks out Johanabas as someone who can handle both plot, science and character.
- [Aliya Whiteley. Blossoms Falling Down. (Interzone #257, Mar/Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/aliya-whiteley-blossoms-falling-down-interzone-257-marapr-2015/) - Set on board a generation starship, with each deck dedicated to a country from the Earth left behind, all travellers looking forward to the future and the chance to start again.
- [Tananarive Due. Carriers. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/tananarive-due-carriers-the-end-has-come-2015/) - Due closes her trilogy of stories about Nayima some forty years on since the last installment
- [Annie Bellet. Goodnight Earth. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/annie-bellet-goodnight-earth-the-end-has-come-2015/) - A teaser of a story, with enough in the setting for a novel or two, or at least a series of stories.
- [Annie Bellet. Goodnight Stars. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/annie-bellet-goodnight-stars-end-now/) - The daughter of a lunar scientist has to cope with the loss of the moon, and her mother, and the consequent challenges.
- [Nik Constantine. Last Transaction. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/nik-constantine-last-transaction-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2015/) - A first published story by Constantine, who has a tech background, and he sticks with what he knows to get this story right.
- [Rhett C. Bruno. This Long Vigil. (Perihelion Science Fiction, June 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rhett-c-bruno-this-long-vigil-perihelion-science-fiction-june-2015/) - I get a reasonable stream of requests from authors/publishers asking me to review their writing. Well, most of it is actually unreasonable..
- [Brian Dolton. This Is the Way the Universe Ends : With a Bang. (Fantasy and Science Fiction March/April 2015)](https://bestsf.net/brian-dolton-this-is-the-way-the-universe-ends-with-a-bang-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marchapril-2015/) - As the title suggests, a story set very, very far in the future, one which engages the reader throughout.
- [Jay O'Connell. Things Worth Knowing. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jay-oconnell-things-worth-knowing-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marchapril-2015/) - Another dark, near-future story form O'Connell.
- [Leife Shallcross. Wandering Star. (The End Has Come)](https://bestsf.net/leife-shallcross-wandering-star-the-end-has-come/) - Excellent story from an author new to me.
- [Seanan McGuire. Resistance. (The End Has Come)](https://bestsf.net/seanan-mcguire-resistance-the-end-has-come/) - One of the most memorable of the continuing stories in this trilogy. McGuire created a complex, rounded main protagonist, and OCD lesbian biochemist, and a quite different apocalypse
- [Chris Avellone. Acts of Creation. (The End Has Come)](https://bestsf.net/chris-avellone-acts-of-creation-the-end-has-come/) - A singleton story in this third and final volume in the trilogy, and it's a story that would have worked well as an opening installment in a three part story which would explore the nature of the apocalypse.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January/February 2015](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-januaryfebruary-2015/) - Dale Bailey and Eric Schwitzgabel the pick of the bunch for me.
- [Tendai Huchu. The Worshipful Company of Milliners. (Interzone #257, Mar-Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/tendai-huchu-the-worshipful-company-of-milliners-interzone-257-mar-apr-2015/) - A look at the nature of the writers' muse - in the shape of strange, feline creatures making hats for writers in an unseen factory in Harare, from whence they are despatched daily to make several trips across the globe to furnish their unknowing customers with headgear to help with their writing.
- [Sarah Langan. Prototype. (The End Has Come)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-langan-prototype-the-end-has-come/) - The conclusion to a bleak series of episodes in a planet-killer asteroid impact story.
- [The End is Nigh - The Apocalypse Triptych 1. (ed John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, 2014)](https://bestsf.net/the-end-is-nigh-the-apocalypse-triptych-1-ed-john-joseph-adams-and-hugh-howey-2014/) - An excellent opening volume of a trilogy with each volume looking at a different stage of the forthcoming apocalypse.
- [Scott Sigler. The Seventh Day of Deer Camp. (The End has Come)](https://bestsf.net/scott-sigler-the-seventh-day-of-deer-camp-the-end-has-come/) - A satisfactory ending to the story.
- [Andrea M. Pawley. For the Love of Sylvia City. (Clarkesworld Magazine #104 May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/andrea-m-pawley-for-the-love-of-sylvia-city-clarkesworld-magazine-104-may-2015/) - A near-future eco-thriller, in which a community which has fled to an ocean floor habitat is at risk from further dryland conflagration.
- [Joe McDermott. Paul and his son. (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/joe-mcdermott-paul-and-his-son-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - An interesting look at a father's (non) relationship with his son.
- [Matthew Kressel. The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies. (Clarkesword #104, May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/matthew-kressel-the-garden-beyond-her-infinite-skies-clarkesword-104-may-2015/) - An excellent story and piece of world-building, and up for the Best SF Short Story Award 2015.
- [Michael Swanwick and Gregory Frost.  Lock up your chickens and daughters -H'ard and Andy are come to town! (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/michael-swanwick-and-gregory-frost-lock-up-you-daughters-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - Bill and Ted meets O Brother Where Art Thou? meets The Dukes of Hazzard as in a near-future dustbowl America, two young chancers turn up and try to run a con, but have the local sherrif and his daughter to factor into the equation.
- [Tom Purdom. Day Job. (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/tom-purdom-day-job-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - A techie with empathy and emotional control deficits finds an immersive video game a perfect place to respond to the frustrations of everyday life..
- [Eugene Fischer. The New Mother. (Asimovs April/May 2015)](https://bestsf.net/eugene-fischer-the-new-mother-asimovs-aprilmay-2015/) - Gamete Diploidy Syndrome aka Human Communicable Parthenogenesis aka Human Asexual Reproductive Syndrome has just been identified
- [Benjanun Sriduangkaew. The Petals Abide. (Clarkesworld Magazine #103, April 2015)](https://bestsf.net/benjanun-sriduangkaew-the-petals-abide-clarkesworld-magazine-103-april-2015/) - I made several attempts to get into this story, but it's not an easy read, with the language too complex for my liking.
- [Emily Devenport. Postcards from Monster Island. (Clarkesworld #103, April 2015)](https://bestsf.net/emily-devenport-postcards-from-monster-island-clarkesworld-103-april-2015/) - A nice enough story, engagingly written.
- [Rich Larson. Brainwhales are Stoners, Too. (Interzone #257, Mar-Apr 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rich-larson-brainwhales-are-stoners-too-interzone-257-mar-apr-2015/) - A stoner dealer and her client get up close to a whale being used in an industrial complex, and get a different perspective on life from it.
- [Will McIntosh. Dancing With a Stranger in the Land of Nod. (The End Has Come, 2015)](https://bestsf.net/will-mcintosh-dancing-with-a-stranger-in-the-land-of-nod-the-end-has-come-2015/) - The third of McIntosh's 'Land of Nod' series, in which he created a memorable plague that leaves most of the population rigid, immobile, save for the nodding of their heads.
- [Asimovs March 2015](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-march-2015/) - Suzanne Palmer starts the issue off with a strong story (overcoming the handicap of not having the first page of the story printed!)
- [Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Inhuman Garbage. (Asimovs March 2015)](https://bestsf.net/kristine-kathryn-rusch-inhuman-garbage-asimovs-march-2015/) - A police-procedural/detective story set in space, which failed to grab in the first few pages and encourage me to invest an hour or so in reading the >35 remaining pages.
- [Gwendolyn Clare. Holding the Ghosts. (Asimovs March 2015)](https://bestsf.net/gwendolyn-clare-holding-the-ghosts-asimovs-march-2015/) - A story which whizzes along, covering ground that could have taken up a novel, or an entire TV mini-series!
- [Gregory Norman Bossert. Twelve and Tag. (Asimovs March 2015)](https://bestsf.net/gregory-norman-bossert-twelve-and-tag-asimovs-march-2015/) - Clever stories within stories from Bossert, who has a crew of miners in orbit around Europa passing some offduty time with two new crew members by a game that involves each member telling two stories, with the others needing to guess which one is true, which is a fiction.
- [Berrien C. Henderson. Let baser things devise. (Clarkesworld Magazine #103, April 2015)](https://bestsf.net/berrien-c-henderson-let-baser-things-devise-clarkesworld-magazine-103-april-2015/) - Pierre, the first uplifted chimp to walk on the moon, has much to ponder.
- [Francis Marion Soty. The Gazelle Who Begged For Her Life. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/francis-marion-soty-the-gazelle-who-begged-for-her-life-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2015/) - Another retelling of a tale from the Arabian Nights.
- [Albert E. Cowdrey. Portrait of a Witch. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/albert-e-cowdrey-portrait-of-a-witch-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2015/) - Strange goings on in the Caribbean, with photographs which seem to capture the soul of the subject
- [Robert Reed. The Empress in Her Glory. (Clarkesworld Magazine #103 April 2015)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-the-empress-in-her-glory-clarkesworld-magazine-103-april-2015/) - Reed starts off, as often he does, with a big picture, then focusses in on the individual.
- [K.J. Kabza. The Soul in the Bell Jar. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2013)](https://bestsf.net/k-j-kabza-the-soul-in-the-bell-jar-fantasy-science-fiction-novdec-2013/) - Dark, rotting, and remote - the old building and the old uncle with whom young Lindholme is sent to stay.
- [Alastair Reynolds. A Murmuration. (Interzone #257, Mar/Apr)](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-a-murmuration-interzone-257-marapr/) - Reynolds' short stories are rarer than hen's teeth these days, so I looked forward to reading this story once I spotted his name on the cover (which has an illustration of a spacesuited figure with a seagull tied to his lap....)
- [Interzone #256 Jan-Feb 2015](https://bestsf.net/interzone-256-jan-feb-2015/) - Stories by Bonnie Jo Stufflbeam, T.R. Napper, Neil Williamson, Pandora Hope, Christien Gholson. Cover by Martin Hanford. Napper and Williamson the pick of the bunch for me.
- [Christien Gholson. Tribute. (Interzone #256, Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/christien-gholson-tribute-interzone-256-janfeb-2015/) - A very alien opening, then less so in parts.
- [Neil Williamson. Fish on Fridays. (Interzone #256, Jan-Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/neil-williamson-fish-on-fridays-interzone-256-jan-feb-2015/) - Blackly comic four-pager from Williamson which is a treat (but not a high calorie fatty treat, upon which ASDaTESCo would frown).
- [Joe and Mary's Kid](https://bestsf.net/joe-and-marys-kid/) - Who needs a big Hollywood budget, Big Name scriptwriters and actors, and CGI to make a film?
- [Best SF : 15 years old today!](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-15-years-old-today/) - Well, 16th April 2015 marks 15 years exactly since I set up Best SF. The time has certainly flown by. Here's a pic of a very early version of the site. :-) Hand-tooled in raw HTML in those days!
- [Gregor Hartmann. The Man from Planet X. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/gregor-hartmann-the-man-from-planet-x-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2015/) - Gentle look a the risks of bluffing your way through immigration citing your creativity as your reason for entry. Especially when that creativity belongs to someone else.
- [Alan Baxter. The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/alan-baxter-the-chart-of-the-vagrant-mariner-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2015/) - A piratical yarn for those of you for whom Pirates of the Caribbean #3 left you wanting more...
- [Nik Houser. History's Best Places to Kiss. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/nik-houser-historys-best-places-to-kiss-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2015/) - Gentle romp through some time travelling tropes as a married couple decided to revisit their wedding day, and do much more than simply observe their younger selves.
- [Kit Reed. Military Secrets. (Asimovs March 2015)](https://bestsf.net/kit-reed-military-secrets-asimovs-march-2015/) - I'm quite happy to 'fess up to perhaps missing something in the story!
- [Naim Kabir. Slowly Builds and Empire. (Clarkesworld #102 March 2015)](https://bestsf.net/naim-kabir-slowly-builds-and-empire-clarkesworld-102-march-2015/) - An interesting story with a couple of dimensions and element to it, that just didn't quite fit together closely for me for it to work.
- [Ken Liu. Cassandra. (Clarkesworld Magazine #102, March 2015)](https://bestsf.net/ken-liu-cassandra-clarkesworld-magazine-102-march-2015/) - Cassandra being a Greek mythological prophet. BTW the story is online here. A young woman finds that she has a gift of foresight - touching something recently touched by another enables her to see inside the mind of that person, and what they have planned. This enables her to intervene pro-actively, and dispense justice prior
- [Eric Schwitzgabel.  Out of the Jar. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/eric-schwitzgabel-out-of-the-jar-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2015/) - A neat story from an author new to me.
- [Naomi Kritzer. Jubilee : a Seastead Story. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/naomi-kritzer-jubilee-a-seastead-story-fantasy-and-science-fiction-janfeb-2015/) - A story series I disengaged from a while back.
- [Eleanor Arnason. Telling Stories to the Sky. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/eleanor-arnason-telling-stories-to-the-sky-fantasy-and-science-fiction-januaryfebruary-2015/) - A young girl living in poverty in a walled city in the mountains finds that telling her stories to the wind leads her to a life beyond her dreams.
- [Dale Bailey. Lightning Jack's Last Ride. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/dale-bailey-lightning-jacks-last-ride-fantasy-science-fiction-janfeb-2015/) - A near-future in which the USA has gone to hell, with the states anything but united, as civil insurgency, triggered by an NRA terrorist attach, and climate change has put the lid on Lightning Jack's career as a top NASCAR driver.
- [Pandora Hope. The Ferryman. (Interzone #256, Jan-Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/pandora-hope-the-ferryman-interzone-256-jan-feb-2015/) - Hope draws on Norse mythology for this story, although to the non-expert on Norse mythology, as there are no hammer-wielding blonde-tressed Vikings in the story, this is rather opaque.
- [Kathleen Bartholomew and Kage Baker. Pareidolia. (Asimovs March 2015)](https://bestsf.net/kathleen-bartholomew-and-kage-baker-pareidolia-asimovs-march-2015/) - As with many series, the law of diminishing returns meant that I stopped reading The Company stories some time ago.
- [Suzanne Palmer. Tuesdays. (Asimovs March 2015)](https://bestsf.net/suzanne-palmer-tuesdays-asimovs-march-2015/) - Twp cops have to try to find out just exactly what it was that came down from the sky, and what exactly it was, other than 'big'
- [T.R. Napper. An Advanced Guide to Successful Price-Fixing in Extraterrestrial Betting Markets. (Interzone #256 Jan-Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/t-r-napper-an-advanced-guide-to-successful-price-fixing-in-extraterrestrial-betting-markets-interzone-256-jan-feb-2015/) - Neat story from a new writer, as young Altair, who is a few steps more than most of us into the autistic spectrum, finds his brain, hard-wired into numbers and odds, is not just something for him to use in betting, but, as the title suggests, has an even more out-there relationship with the betting markets.
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2002](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction-magazine-octobernovember-2002/) - Robert Silverberg. With Caesar in the Underworld. Over the past fifteen years Silverberg has been developing an alternate-world scenario in which the Hebrew exodus from Egypt under Moses never happened, and as a consequence, Roman remained pagan. This is the latest installment. John Kessel. Stories for Men. A follow-up to 'The Juniper Tree' (Science Fiction
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December 2014](https://bestsf.net/magazine-fantasy-science-fiction-novemberdecember-2014/) - Stories by Rand B. Lee (the pick of the issue for me), Michael Libling, Paul Di Filippo, Albert E. Cowdrey, Tim Sullivan, Justin Barbeau, Scott Baker, KJ Kabza, David Gerrold. Cover by Mondolithic Studios.
- [Michael Libling. Hollywood North. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/michael-libling-hollywood-north-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2014/) - There are some dark secrets in the otherwise quiet town of Trenton, Ontario, which are gradually revealed in this lengthy story.
- [David Gerrold. The Old Science Fiction Writer. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/david-gerrold-the-old-science-fiction-writer-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2014/) - A cautionary tale from an old SF writer, which looks at current trends and ponders just what chance there might be for old-fashioned storytelling in decades to come.
- [Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, Jan/Feb 2006](https://bestsf.net/analog-science-fiction-and-science-fact-janfeb-2006/) - mobipocket version reviewed Karl Schroeder. Sun of Suns, Part III. Third installment of a novel serialisation. John Barnes. 'The Night is Fine, the Walrus Said'. Follows on from 'The Diversification of Its Fancy' from the last-but-one issue of Analog (Nov 2005), and equally heavy going. Overmuch dialogue, clunky action, and just generally Average SF as
- [Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, March 2006](https://bestsf.net/analog-science-fiction-and-science-fact-march-2006/) - The content pretty much left me unmoved.
- [Asimovs. February 2015.](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-february-2015/) - Stories by Nick Wolven, Eneasz Brodski, and Derek Kunsken the pick for me.
- [Nick Wolven. On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers. (Asimovs February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/nick-wolven-on-the-night-of-the-robo-bulls-and-zombie-dancers-asimovs-february-2015/) - There's a recurring theme of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth has murdered sleep', and it's a dark dystopian future but with some lighter, nicely sardonic touches thrown in.
- [Leah Cypess. Forgiveness. (Asimovs February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/leah-cypess-forgiveness-asimovs-february-2015/) - A story about which I have reservations.
- [Solaris Rising 3. (ed Ian Whates, Solaris 2014)](https://bestsf.net/solaris-rising-3-ed-ian-whates-solaris-2014/) - The anthology took me a while to get through, probably (looking at it in retrospect) that it didn't have enough really top quality stories in it for me to be eagerly reaching for the volume with eager anticipation for the next story. Some good stories, but nothing really cojonal grabbing.
- [Cat Sparks. Dark Harvest. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/cat-sparks-dark-harvest-solaris-rising-3/) - There's a lot of devil in the detail and the story works well.
- [Rachel Swirsky. Endless. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/rachel-swirsky-endless-solaris-rising-3/) - The anthology finishes with a look back at, a reliving, of deaths in a child labour factory on the subcontinent, as those who died, and will continue to die, furnish those that live on, digitally, with a view of death, an ending that will become increasingly rare.
- [Nina Allan. The Science of Chance. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/nina-allan-the-science-of-chance-solaris-rising-3/) - Are there strange forces at work, and/or is it simply a case of a little lost girl?
- [Ian R. MacLeod and Martin Sketchley. The Howl. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/ian-r-macleod-and-martin-sketchley-the-howl-solaris-rising-3/) - The wreckage of a crashed Vulcan bomber, missing since the days of the Cold War, gives an opportunity to reflect on the 'what ifs' of that period, the nuclear payload being at once a Pandora's Box into which Schrodinger's cat is put.
- [Eneasz Brodski. Red Legacy. (Asimovs February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/eneasz-brodski-red-legacy-asimovs-february-2015/) - Brodski packs some detail and some depth of the type you rarely see in a first published story, which bodes weill for the future.
- [Elizabeth Bear. No Decent Patrimony. (Asimovs February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/elizabeth-bear-no-decent-patrimony-asimovs-february-2015/) - A short look at a future in which a super-rich elite have longevity/immortality, leaving others on Earth to manage the economic and social consequences, and climate change.
- [Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. Nostalgia. (Interzone #256 Jan-Feb 2015)](https://bestsf.net/bonnie-jo-stufflebeam-nostalgia-interzone-256-jan-feb-2015/) - Not much by way of a speculative element, so whilst a nice enough character study, and using non-mainstream sexuality/gender, it's missing that little bit extra I look to SF to deliver.
- [KJ Kabza. The Bomb-Thing. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/kj-kabza-the-bomb-thing-fantasy-and-science-fiction-novdec-2014/) - Chan Davis makes his second appearance this issue, by way of being the name of a research department in a university where some leading-edge research in underway.
- [Derek Kunsken. Ghost Colors. (Asimovs February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/derek-kunsken-ghost-colors-asimovs-february-2015/) - An interesting read, particularly in this age when geneological databases, family history research, and even Facebook can keep you closely attached to the past in a way that wasn't the case pre-Internet.
- [Gwendolyn Clare. Indelibe. (Clarkesworld #101, February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/gwendolyn-clare-indelibe-clarkesworld-101-february-2015/) - A young human girl is trying to find her sister, and also, herself, amongst the race of shape-shifting hemaphroditic Shukar, with only her wits and help from Phaakoh.
- [Kelly Robson. The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill. (Clarkesworld #100, February 2015)](https://bestsf.net/kelly-robson-the-three-resurrections-of-jessica-churchill-clarkesworld-100-february-2015/) - A challenging read from Robson, as we follow the fortunes of a young girl hitch-hiking, in a desperately ill condition.
- [Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The Last Surviving Gondola Widow. (Clarkesworld 101)](https://bestsf.net/kristine-kathryn-rusch-the-last-surviving-gondola-widow-clarkesworld-101/) - The American civil war has gone differently, there's low-level magic, and gondolas. What's not to like?
- [Asimovs, January 2009](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-january-2009/) - Mary Rosenblum. Lion Walk. Science thriller set in an African game reserve where the second body in a few weeks is found - or rather, the remains of a second body, the lions, vultures and pack dogs having been at the unfortunate victims. A game warden has to choose how public to go with these
- [Jay Lake. An Exile of the Heart. (Clarkesworld Magazine #100 January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jay-lake-exile-heart-clarkesworld-magazine-100-january-2015/) - I still make the odd trip to jlake.com hoping that Jay's got some wisdom to impart posthumously, a la Hari Seldon,
- [Asimovs. January 2015.](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-january-2015/) - The opening story from Rowe ends just when it's getting going, and apart from that, only O'Connell provides anything that rises above the distinctly average.
- [Allen M. Steele. The Long Wait. (Asimovs January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/allen-m-steele-long-wait-asimovs-january-2015/) - Another installment in Steele's stories about the Arkwright Foundation, set up by some of the founding fathers of SF, which is reaching for the stars.
- [Sarah Pinsker. A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-pinsker-a-stretch-of-highway-two-lanes-wide-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - An unsettling story full of yearning for what you can't have.
- [Sarah Pinsker. Songs in the key of you. (Asimovs January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-pinsker-songs-key-asimovs-january-2015/) - There's plenty to be mined in SF in terms of technology have/have not's, but this is barely breaking the surface.
- [Peter Wood. Butterflies.  (Asimovs January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/peter-wood-butterflies-asimovs-january-2015/) - A story that reads like the stories that caused me to stop ready Analog some years ago
- [Jay O'Connell. Candy from Strangers. (Asimovs January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/jay-oconnell-candy-strangers-asimovs-january-2015/) - Another good story from O'Connell looking at the slightly darker side of humanity.
- [Caroline M. Yoachim. Ninety-Five Percent Safe. (Asimovs January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/caroline-m-yoachim-ninety-five-percent-safe-asimovs-january-2015/) - Life in an underground city, hiding from nuclear winter on Earth. Or a 95% success rate journey through a wormhole to (alien) pastures new.... worth the risk??
- [Scott Baker. Feral Frolics. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)](https://bestsf.net/scott-baker-feral-frolics-fantasy-science-fiction-novdec-2015/) - SF writers tend to be cat lovers, and here Baker tells a salutary tale, suggesting a good reason for not getting on the wrong side of Felis catus.
- [Robert A. Heinlein. "All You Zombies-" Galaxy's Edge Number Twelve, January 2015.](https://bestsf.net/robert-heinlein-zombies-galaxys-edge-number-twelve-january-2015/) - Keeps the reader engaged, and struggling to keep a handle on who has done what to whom, and how, and when, and why.
- [Naomi Kritzer. Cat Pictures Please. (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/naomi-kritzer-cat-pictures-please-clarkesworld-100-january-2015/) - Google is Your Friend, and a friend in need is a friend indeed.
- [Rand B. Lee. The Judging. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/rand-b-lee-judging-fantasy-science-fiction-novdec-2014/) - Whitsun, the red-robed man, and his companions, Francesco the burro and Treats the (talking) Husky, make a welcome return to F&SF.
- [Justin Barbeau. Nanabojou at the World's Fair. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/justin-barbeau-nanabojou-worlds-fair-fantasy-science-fiction-novdec-2014/) - A fable about the arrival at the St Louis World's Fair of 1904 of the native American god, who gets amongst the white men and gives them a fully authentic picture of his people.
- [Rudy Rucker and Marc Laidlaw. Watergirl. (Asimovs January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/rudy-rucker-marc-laidlaw-watergirl-asimovs-january-2015/) - The stoner surfer dudes from 'The Perfect Wave' from the January 2008 issue make a return, living by the coast, living for the surf. But there's challenges to be faced as the very waves themselves are to be controlled by The Man, and there's another evil dude, and a revenge to be wreaked.
- [Benjamin Rosenbaum. Fift & Shria. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/benjamin-rosenbaum-fift-shria-solaris-rising-3/) - Inventive story from Rosenbaum, through the eyes of youngsters where birth order is more important than usual, as siblings (clones?) are closely linked and act as one, and the family unit is not the nuclear norm.
- [Christopher Rowe. The Unveiling. (Asimovs January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/christopher-rowe-unveiling-asimovs-january-2015/) - Dangnabbit I was just getting into the story when I realised that there was a last half page and there was that little black square signifying that Rowe was bringing the story to a close!
- [Tim Sullivan. Yeshua's Dog. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tim-sullivan-yeshuas-dog-fantasy-science-fiction-novemberdecember-2014/) - In the gospel according to Sullivan, Yeshua was a humble storyteller, not so much a prophet as in it for the profit.
- [Paul Di Filippo. I'll Follow the Sun. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/paul-di-filippo-ill-follow-sun-fantasy-science-fiction-novdec-2014/) - I always found Doctor Strange just a little dubious - having what I would probably identify now as a rather camp theatricality about him
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2014](https://bestsf.net/magazine-fantasy-science-fiction-septemberoctober-2014/) - Slightly more lighter stories than the norm, making the issue a gentle read. The Reed story was OK, but not up there with his Great Ship stories, and the one SF story didn't really gr
- [Brenda Carre. Embrace of the Planets. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/brenda-carre-embrace-planets-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - A woman enters a shop and finds it even more intriguing than she had thought - full of old, and strange things, many of which shouldn't be there....
- [David Gerrold. The Thing in the Back Yard. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/david-gerrold-thing-back-yard-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - Droll troll shaggy doggery from Gerrold.
- [George Zebrowski. The Sullen Engines. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/george-zebrowski-the-sullen-engines-solaris-rising-3/) - There's something Ballardian about the imagery of engines sitting under the sun on a remote desert, but it's one of those stories I sometimes feel that I'm missing something without which I'm not really getting what the story is really about.
- [Interzone #255 (Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/interzone-255-nov-dec-2014/) - Stories by E. Catherine Tobler, Jennifer Dornan-Fish, Tom Greene, Malcolm Devlin, Tim Major, R.M. Graves, Thana Niveau, with Devlin the pick of the ish for me.
- [Thana Niveau. The Calling of Night's Ocean. (Interzone #255, Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/thana-niveau-calling-nights-ocean-interzone-255-novdec-2014/) - Niveau, une auteur nouvelle to moi, looks at human/dolphin interaction, through the eyes of both a scientist, and a dolphin.
- [Ray Vukcevich. The Way We Are. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/ray-vukcevich-way-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - Finding the right words to open up a woman's heart has never been easy for men, but doh! when you have to remember a freaking password!!
- [Tom Greene. Monoculture. (Interzone #255 Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tom-greene-monoculture-interzone-255-novdec-2014/) - Intriguing multi-perspective story, in a post-flu epidemic ravaged society.
- [Jennifer Dornan-Fish. Mind the Gap. (Interzone #255, Nov-Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jennifer-dornan-fish-mind-gap-interzone-255-nov-dec-2014/) - A story from an author new to me, and at three pages in length, not too much by way of an introduction!
- [Aliette de Bodard. Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight. (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/aliette-de-bodard-three-cups-grief-starlight-clarkesworld-100-january-2015/) - A story that does indeed 'hit the spot' nicely, with the accustomed oriental mannerisms, familial devotions and structures that clearly mark it out as a Xuya story.
- [Fantasy and Science Fiction January 2001](https://bestsf.net/fantasy-and-science-fiction-january-2001/) - The Measure of All Things. Richard Chedwyk. Tom Groverton runs an animal rescue centre - with a difference. Instead of abandoned or mistreated cats or dogs, his charges are intelligent bio-toy dinosaurs. Created and genetically tweaked to be small and cute, with a short life-span and limited intelligence, the dinosaurs turned out small, but they
- [Robert Reed. Will He? (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-will-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - A thoroughly unpleasant protagonist, without any redeeming features who has the wherewithal to fix the world's problems (as he sees them) . Will he, or won't he??
- [Adam Roberts. Thing and Sick. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/adam-roberts-thing-sick-solaris-rising-3/) - In a remote Antartic research station, the Fermi Paradox is solved, which has a big impact on the two men in the cabin..
- [Asimovs December 2014](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-december-2014/) - Robert Reed and Tim Sullivan bookend the issue with some strong SF.
- [Tim Sullivan. Anomaly Station. (Asimovs December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tim-sullivan-anomaly-station-asimovs-december-2014/) - A story which appears to end with several pages to go, athen the reader gradually realises that in fact the real story has even further to go...
- [Ian Watson. Faith Without Teeth. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/ian-watson-faith-without-teeth-solaris-rising-3/) - Satirical look at communism, where one of the protagonists takes a piss, as Watson takes the piss throughout.
- [Matthew Hughes. Avianca's Bezel. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/matthew-hughes-aviancas-bezel-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - Further adventures of Raffalon the thief.
- [E. Catherine Tobler. Oubliette. (Interzone #255 Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/e-catherine-tobler-oubliette-interzone-255-novdec-2014/) - An interesting piece from Tobler, no standard narrative and structure.
- [Sue Burke. Summer Home. (Asimovs December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sue-burke-summer-home-asimovs-december-2014/) - Only a page and a half, a list of 6 'Must Do's' for a new summer home, but the paragraphs contain a lot, and what could easily have been covered in a novella is covered more succinctly, much more succinctly, but with equal impact.
- [Laura Lam. They Swim Through Sunset Seas. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/laura-lam-swim-sunset-seas-solaris-rising-3/) - A team in an undersea scientific station on a distant planet are studying an aquatic species find things suddenly get very very difficult.
- [Christopher East. Videoville. (Asimovs December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/christopher-east-videoville-asimovs-december-2014/) - A neat story, especially if you were a late teen/college student in the 1980s, with a strong Bill and Ted/Back to the Future vibe.
- [Gareth L. Powell. Red Lights, and Rain. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/gareth-l-powell-red-lights-rain-solaris-rising-3/) - A story of vampires and vampire hunters in Amsterdam which feels a little marginal for an SF anthology, albeit it has a more sfnal rationale, as opposed to Carpathian Counts and folklore.
- [Dominica Phetteplace. No Vera There. (Clarkesworld Magazine #99 December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/dominica-phetteplace-no-vera-clarkesworld-magazine-99-december-2014/) - If you're looking for a straightforward narrative, with the protagonist having to overcome a life-threatening obstacle, look elsewhere, but look here if you want something just a little bit different that reads well.
- [Gwendolyn Clare. It Gets Bigger. (Asimovs December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/gwendolyn-clare-gets-bigger-asimovs-december-2014/) - A small alien artefact/metaphor provides an increasingly large backdrop to a young scientist's relationship and outlook on life.
- [Vernon Hedrick. Kids These Days. (Asimovs December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/vernon-hedrick-kids-days-asimovs-december-2014/) - Hedrick takes a look at loss, on both an individual and meta level, at children who leave you, and at parents who leave you, avoiding maudlin sentimentality.
- [Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. He Came From a Place of Openness and Truth. (Lightspeed Magazine #56, January 2015)](https://bestsf.net/bonnie-jo-stufflebeam-came-place-openness-truth-lightspeed-magazine-56-january-2015/) - Editor Adams gets the reader into the right mindset for a forthcoming 'Queers Destroy SF!' kickstarter.
- [Albert E. Cowdrey. The Wild Ones. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2014)](https://bestsf.net/albert-e-cowdrey-wild-ones-fantasy-science-fiction-septemberoctober-2014/) - A very black, cynical look at humanity
- [Dale Bailey. The Culvert. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/dale-bailey-culvert-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - Dark story with some great touches ("The culvert beckoned like a dark eye, cloacal and alluring")
- [Andrew Miller. Graduation. (Asimovs December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/andrew-miller-graduation-asimovs-december-2014/) - An interesting conceit, but a story that lacks just that little something.
- [Robert Reed. The Cryptic Age. (Asimovs December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-cryptic-age-asimovs-december-2014/) - It's one of his 'Great Ship' stories, which at their best are Space Opera on a BFO (Big Fuck Off) scale.
- [Tim Major. Finding Waltzer-Three.  (Interzone #255 Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tim-major-finding-waltzer-three-interzone-255-novdec-2014/) - A second ultra short (fractionally over two-pages) story in the issue.
- [R.M. Graves. Bullman and the Wiredling Mutha. (Interzone #255, Nov/Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/r-m-graves-bullman-wiredling-mutha-interzone-255-novdec-2014/) - An appetizer, leaving the reader wanting more about this distopyian setting.
- [Jay O'Connell. Other People's Things. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jay-oconnell-peoples-things-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - A lighter touch from O'Connell than his recent stories, as a young man seeks professional help for his life issues.
- [Oliver Buckram. Marketing Strategies for the Apocalypse. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/oliver-buckram-marketing-strategies-apocalypse-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - Buckram posits the helpfulness of a certain bi-monthly fantasy and science fiction magazine in protecting yourself in a post-apocalyptic world...
- [Phyllis Eisenstein. The Caravan to Nowhere. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/phyllis-eisenstein-caravan-nowhere-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - Editor Gordon van Gelder doesn't appear (as much as you can ever guess from text) to have tongue in cheek when he says that readers might recall the previous stories featuring the bard Alaric, and refers to issues in 1971 and 1998!
- [M. Bennardo. Now Dress Me in my Finest Suit and Lay Me in my Casket. (Clarkesworld Magazine #99 December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/m-bennardo-now-dress-finest-suit-lay-casket-clarkesworld-magazine-99-december-2014/) - Neat five-pager from Bennardo. - quite impactful considering the short length.
- [Lavie Tidhar. Whaliens. (Analog April 2014)](https://bestsf.net/lavie-tidhar-whaliens-analog-april-2014/) - A clever piece of meta-fiction by Tidhar, poking fun at the SF writing community, and there are references to several SF books that are quite delicious.
- [William Jablonsky. Static. (Asimovs January 2014)](https://bestsf.net/william-jablonsky-static-asimovs-january-2014/) - A great story from an author new to me - not a new idea, but a well-handled take on alternative futures/pasts.
- [Tom Crosshill. The Magician and Laplace's Demon. (Clarkesworld Magazine #99 December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tom-crosshill-magician-laplaces-demon-clarkesworld-magazine-99-december-2014/) - A clever story, whose protagonist is a powerful AI, confident that it is the only one on Earth, and supremely confident in its ability to cleanse the universe of magic, as it gradually disposes of more and more of the magicians whose abilities are an affront to it's worldview.
- [The End is Now – The Apocalypse Triptych 2. (ed John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, 2014)](https://bestsf.net/the-end-is-now-the-apocalypse-triptych-2-ed-john-joseph-adams-and-hugh-howey-2014/) - Another set of excellent stories, continuing the exploration of the challenges that individuals, couples, communities and humanity as a whole have to face when things go from bad to worse
- [Michael Swanwick. Passage of Earth. (Clarkesworld #91 April 2014)](https://bestsf.net/michael-swanwick-passage-of-earth-clarkesworld-april-2014/) - An excellent story from Swanwick, and I'm putting it into the Pot of Contention for the Best SF Short Story Award 2014.
- [Michael Blumlein. Success. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2013)](https://bestsf.net/michael-blumlein-success-fantasy-science-fiction-novdec-2013/) - Altogether a subtle, rounded and substantial piece of writing involving scientists and science, but much more than scientist fiction.
- [Jeremiah Tolbert. In the Dying Light, We Saw a Shape. (Lightspeed Magazine #44)](https://bestsf.net/jeremiah-tolbert-in-the-dying-light-we-saw-a-shape-lightspeed-magazine-44/) - A classy story from Tolbert, that has a lot in it to like.
- [Scott Sigler. The Fifth Day of Deer Camp. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/scott-sigler-fifth-day-deer-camp-end-nigh/) - Camp being deer camp, out in rural USA in deep midwinter, and five days in a group of friends from a tight-knit community have settled in nicely
- [Scott Sigler. The Sixth Day of Deer Camp. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/scott-sigler-sixth-day-deer-camp-end-now/) - The taut drama and the excellent characterisation continues, with a humdinger of a moral conundrum at the end of the story....
- [Robin Wasserman. Dear John. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/robin-wasserman-dear-john-end-now/) - A clever use of the epistolary form to explore human relationships.
- [Hugh Howey. In the Mountain. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/hugh-howey-mountain-end-now/) - Life in an apocalypse-surviving bunker does not go according to plan once the doors close behind the survivors.
- [Alex Dally MacFarlane. Popular Images from the First Manned Mission to Enceladus. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/alex-dally-macfarlane-popular-images-first-manned-mission-enceladus-solaris-rising-3/) - Clever approach by MacFarlane who describes photographs, posters and other images, and their background, relating to a multinational scientific expedition to Enceladus, what is found there, and the challenges faced...
- [Aliette de Bodard. The Frost on Jade Buds. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/aliette-de-bodard-frost-jade-buds-solaris-rising-3/) - In de Bodard's Xuya series, and this includes recurrent themes of familial relationships, honour alongside big spaceships and galaxy spanning action.
- [Desirina Boskovich. To Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/desirina-boskovich-wrestle-not-flesh-blood-end-now/) - Unseen aliens allow us to see inside the heads of the human characters, and for the most part it's not a pretty sight.
- [Desirina Boskovich. Heaven is a Place on Planet X. (The End is Nigh).](https://bestsf.net/desirina-boskovich-heaven-is-a-place-on-planet-x-the-end-is-nigh/) - A slightly unusual apocalypse - aliens have arrived, and humanity is to be transported en masse, instantaneously, to a far distant planet. We don't have any say in the matter, and indeed one in a thousand of our population are required by the unseen aliens to carry out a role amongst the community. With 5:00pm
- [Malcolm Devlin. Must Supply Own Work Boots. (Interzone #255 Nov-Dec 2014)](https://bestsf.net/malcolm-devlin-must-supply-work-boots-interzone-255-nov-dec-2014/) - Only the second published story from Devlin, not that you'd have any idea from reading it.
- [Jamie Ford. By the Hair of the Moon. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/jamie-ford-hair-moon-end-now/) - An alternate history, steampunky take on a comet that is passing close by us. Very close by.
- [Will McIntosh. Dancing with Batgirl in the Land of Nod. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/will-mcintosh-dancing-batgirl-land-nod-end-now/) - Another strong, nicely observed take on his 'nodding virus' setting.
- [Daniel H. Wilson. Avtomat. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/daniel-h-wilson-avtomat-end-now/) - Cleverly done, with an automaton made in the image of Peter the Great surviving the death of the Tsar and fleeing for his (clockwork) life..
- [Interzone #254 (Sep-Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/interzone-254-sep-oct-2014/) - Some well-crafted stories, but an issue that feels just a little light on the fiction, with four short stories and novelettes that aren't quite as substantial as you might like
- [Sam J. Miller. Songs Like Freight Trains. (Interzone #254, September/October 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sam-j-miller-songs-like-freight-trains-interzone-254-septemberoctober-2014/) - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' can transport a forty-something mother way back to her student days....
- [Julie C. Day. The Faces Between Us. (Interzone #254, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/julie-c-day-faces-us-interzone-254-septoct-2014/) - A young couple find something in the cellar that makes snorting cocaine looks like a healthy option....
- [Jake Kerr. Penance. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/jake-kerr-penance-end-now/) - A clever follow up to Kerr's first installment.
- [Jonathan Maberry. Sunset Hollow : a Rot and Ruin Story. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/jonathan-maberry-sunset-hollow-rot-ruin-story-end-now/) - Bit of a disappointment TBH as the story isn't a sequel to Maberry's first volume story, but a more straightforward zombie horror story.
- [Vandana Singh. Wake-Rider. (Lightspeed Magazine #55, December 2014)](https://bestsf.net/vandana-singh-wake-rider-lightspeed-magazine-55-december-2014/) - A great balance of a human protagonist who is a rounded character, with frailty and backstory, Big Picture, technology and drama.
- [Kali Wallace. Fatima's Wound. (Clarkesworld Magazine #99)](https://bestsf.net/kali-wallace-fatimas-wound-clarkesworld-magazine-99/) - Another good story from Wallace.
- [Megan Arkenberg. Twilight of the Music Machines. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/megan-arkenberg-twilight-music-machines-end-now/) - Set against a background of nocturnal clubbing, people living like it's the end of the world, with rain not only acidic but...
- [Ben H. Winters. Bring Them Down. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/ben-h-winters-bring-end-now/) - One of the shorter, but more impactful stories from the first volume continues in a similar vein
- [T.R. Napper. Dark on a Darkling Earth. (Interzone #254 Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/t-r-napper-dark-darkling-earth-interzone-254-septoct-2014/) - An effective story from Napper, set in a near future world feeling the effects of global warfare.
- [Sean Williams. The Mashup. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/sean-williams-mashup-solaris-rising-3/) - Clever story from Williams, with some nice touches (...eggplant...) as the morning after the night before becomes increasingly more than simply nursing a hangover, as..
- [Tony Ballantyne. Double Blind. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/tony-ballantyne-double-blind-solaris-rising-3/) - Takes a look at testing drugs on paid volunteers, where the pay is high, but so are the risks. And when the risks get even higher...
- [Julie E. Czerneda. A Taste for Murder. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/julie-e-czerneda-taste-murder-solaris-rising-3/) - An inventive whodunnit with a detective trying to find out whodunnit in a social where celebrity and genetic manipulation are being taken to the nth degree.
- [Jerome Cigut. The Rider. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jerome-cigut-rider-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2014/) - A fast-paced near-future (Jennifer Aniston is on the tv in an 'old' show) thriller, in which the protagonist has an AI 'riding' with him.
- [Elizabeth Bear. You've Never Seen Everything. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/elizabeth-bear-youve-never-seen-everything-end-now/) - A singleton story amidst the second installment stories in this middle volume of the apocalypse trilogy.
- [S.L. Nickerson. Bone Deep. (Interzone #254, Sep-Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/s-l-nickerson-bone-deep-interzone-254-sep-oct-2014/) - Near future story in which a young woman with a disfiguring bone disease has to rely on sponsors logos tattooed on her skin to get the treatment for her condition. Only four pages, and it would have been good to have had more.
- [Ken Liu. The Gods Will Not Be Slain. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/ken-liu-gods-will-slain-end-now/) - The cybernetic shit has really hit the fan (presumably a Dyson bladeless one), and the stakes are high as the AIs war amongst themselves.
- [David Wellington. Agent Isolated. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/david-wellington-agent-isolated-end-now/) - Second installment of one of the weaker stories in the first volume of at apocalypse-themed trilogy, carrying on in the same vein.
- [Jay O'Connell. A Minute and a Half. (Interzone #254, Sep-Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jay-oconnell-a-minute-and-a-half-interzone-254-sep-oct-2014/) - O'Connell is putting together a run of really good stories, and this is another - a near-future look at relationships, technology, society, love, faith and more in a tight drama.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014](https://bestsf.net/magazine-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - Guest Editor C.C. Finlay, and stories from Charlie Jane Anders, Paul M. Berger, David Erik Nelson, Sarina Dorie, Dinesh Rao, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Annalee Flower Horne, Sandra McDonald, Cat Hellisen, Ian Tregillis.
- [Asimovs October/November 2014](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - Not the strongest Asimovs double-issue - Sellar, Bailey, DuBois tickling this reader's fancy more than the bigger names (Kelly, Rusch, Steele).
- [Allen M. Steele. The Prodigal Son. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/allen-m-steele-prodigal-son-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - A follow-up a couple of generations on, to Steele's The Legion of Tomorrow a few issues back, which didn't really grab me.
- [Tim McDaniel. Neat Trick. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tim-mcdaniel-neat-trick-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - A two-pager with a twist in the tail, as an ageing lycanthrope ponders his options as the full moon approaches...
- [Alaya Dawn Johnson. A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/alaya-dawn-johnson-guide-fruits-hawaii-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - A strong story from Johnson, looking closely at relationships between humans and the vampires who have taken over the world.
- [William Alexander. The Only Known Law. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/william-alexander-known-law-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - A Golden Age of SF feel to a story of a half dozen pages, in which communication with an emissary from the alien planet below is finally established, only to find the message being delivered has big implications for humanity at large, and the human who has set foot on the planet.
- [Haddadyr Copley-Woods. Belly. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/haddadyr-copley-woods-belly-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - Copley-Woods looks inside (and I mean inside) the world of witchcraft in a quite chilling fashion...
- [Spencer Ellsworth. Five Tales of the Aqueduct. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/spencer-ellsworth-five-tales-aqueduct-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - Five mini-vignettes, spanning the millenia and the planets, all linked by the California aqueduct.
- [Ian Tregillis. Testimonty of Samuel Frobisher Regarding Events... (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/ian-tregillis-testimonty-samuel-frobisher-regarding-events-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - If 'ee likes piratical stories, or bemoan the dire nonsense of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, then this salty, spirity tale will please as it be writ with just the right tone for suchlike.
- [Dinesh Rao. The Aerophone. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/dinesh-rao-aerophone-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - A slightly detached, mannered style prevented me getting too engaged with a story that progressed steadily to a finish that was similarly not overly dramatic.
- [Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Playing with Reality. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/kristine-kathryn-rusch-playing-reality-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - Rusch has fun in a light-hearted taken on the gender politics of golf, and virtual reality, in a pro-am tournament with some very special participants.
- [Jeff Grimshaw. The Cloisters. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jeff-grimshaw-cloisters-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - Could there be a nicer New York love story in Asimovs this year?
- [Robert R. Chase. Decaying Orbit. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/robert-r-chase-decaying-orbit-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - There's politics and human relationships to give a little extra depth to a relatively short story that gets through the action on the double.
- [James Patrick Kelly. Uncanny. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/james-patrick-kelly-uncanny-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - A short two-sider from Kelly, the kind of story Isaac Asimov would be writing if he were still alive and mining the robotics milieu.
- [Emily C. Skaftun. Diary of a Pod Person. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/emily-c-skaftun-diary-pod-person-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - An author new to me, and a story I struggled with due to a lack of focus.
- [Joel Richards. The Witch of Truckee. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/joel-richards-witch-truckee-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - A fire in a remote winter cabin highlights a young woman's abilities. The story is only a few pages long and is perhaps missing that little bit extra.
- [Brendan DuBois. Minutes to the End of the World. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/brendan-dubois-minutes-end-world-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - Wry take on the apocalypse, as we are presented with the minutes of a meeting of the Board of Selectmen of Trenton, New Hampshire.
- [Dale Bailey. Troop 9. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/dale-bailey-troop-9-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - Chilling horror from Bailey, as a girl guide troop go feral, heading off into the local woods..
- [Gord Sellar. Stars Fell on Alabama. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/gord-sellar-stars-fell-alabama-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - A nicely told story, capturing a period feel of 1920s jazz, as a young (or not) black musician carries more in his cornet case (and his head)..
- [Nancy Kress. Angels of the Apocalypse. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-angels-apocalypse-end-now/) - A decade or more on from the first installment, things on Earth have gone to hell in a handcart, and the generation of non-aggressive children have grown up...
- [Sarina Dorie. The Day of the Nuptial Flight. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sarina-dorie-day-nuptial-flight-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - A story that starts out intriguingly, but gradually my suspension of disbelief failed.
- [Cat Hellison. The Girls Who Go Below. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/cat-hellison-girls-go-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - A story that starts out with the gentle feel of A Picnic at Hanging Rock, as two young sisters spend idyllic hours at a local lake. When a young boy appears, the young sister worries that he may drive a wedge between the two.
- [Sandra McDonald. End of the World Community College. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sandra-mcdonald-end-world-community-college-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - The story takes the form of a college prospectus, and is a treat.
- [David Erik Nelson. The Traveling Salesman Solution. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/david-erik-nelson-traveling-salesman-solution-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - Somebody hacking their way to third place in a marathon gets more than he bargained for...
- [Annalee Flower Horne. Seven Things Cadet Blanchard Learned from The Trade Summit Incident. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/annalee-flower-horne-seven-things-cadet-blanchard-learned-trade-summit-incident-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - Fans of stories about sassy teens will love this one, especially if you like your fiction to use stand-in swear words like puck instead of fuck, and ship instead of shit.
- [Paul M. Berger. Subduction. (Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/paul-m-berger-subduction-fantasy-science-fiction-julyaugust-2014/) - Berger creates an intriguing setting, as a man with a memory that only goes back a few days, finds himself drawn to one particular coastal community.
- [Charlie Jane Anders. Palm Strike's Last Case. (Fantasy and Science Ficition, July/Aug 2014)](https://bestsf.net/charlie-jane-anders-palm-strikes-last-case-fantasy-science-ficition-julyaug-2014/) - Some nice touches in the story, with a strong focus on the superhero and his internal as well as external challenges.
- [Kate Bachus. Pinono Deep. (Asimovs October/November 2014)](https://bestsf.net/kate-bachus-pinono-deep-asimovs-octobernovember-2014/) - There's not a massive sfnal element to the story, but the writing has a bit of personality to it, and the dialogue is more realistic than you get in most SF, which is nice.
- [Sarah Langan. Black Monday. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-langan-black-monday-end-now/) - A dark, bleak look human frailty and bravery and stupidity, as the planet-killer impact arrives.
- [Nina Allan. Marielena. (Interzone #254, Sep-Oct 2014)](https://bestsf.net/nina-allan-marielena-interzone-254-sep-oct-2014/) - Now writing a column for Interzone, Allan's latest story for them stops just as it's getting interesting, so I'm hoping there's at least one more followup story
- [Ken Liu. Homo Floresiensis. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/ken-liu-homo-floresiensis-solaris-rising-3/) - Lacking an sfnal element, a story that doesn't really fit the anthology.
- [Asimovs, March 2003 ](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-march-2003/) - Alex Irvine. Shepherded by Galatea. A few pages in, with a lot more information about the chemistry in the upper stratosphere of Neptune than I could ever want to know, I did a quick check of the front cover to see if I was reading Analog. Nope, I was reading Asimovs, and to give Irvine
- [Asimovs, September 2004 ](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-september-2004/) - Maureen F. McHugh. Oversite. Sensitive story about three generations of women growing apart, through the eyes of Clara, the middle generation of the three. She is having to give up her mother, whom she is slowly losing to Alzheimers. And she is having loosen the ties with her daughter, who is moving from childhood to
- [Interzone #253 (Jul-Aug 2014)](https://bestsf.net/interzone-253-jul-aug-2014/) - Cover by Wayne Haag. Stories by James van Pelt, E. Catherine Tobler, Andrew Hook, Neil Williamson, Caren Gussoff, several excellent.
- [Caren Gusoff. The Bars of Orion. (Interzone #253 Jul-Aug 2014)](https://bestsf.net/caren-gusoff-bars-orion-interzone-253-jul-aug-2014/) - A story that starts by getting the reader hooked - the protagonist is getting PTSD therapy due to losing his universe.
- [Seanan McGuire. Fruiting Bodies. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/seanan-mcguire-fruiting-bodies-end-now/) - Grey mould is taking over the world, and this story moves to a chilling climax, with the reader keen to find out what happens next.
- [E. Catherine Tobler. Chasmata. (Interzone #253, Jul-Aug 2014)](https://bestsf.net/e-catherine-tobler-chasmata-interzone-253-jul-aug-2014/) - A word about page layout which has a red illustration of chasm walls hemming in the text. That word is excellent.
- [Asimovs September 2014](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-september-2014/) - Onyebuchi and Palwick the pick of the issue for me.
- [Tom Purdom. Bogdavi's Dream. (Asimovs September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tom-purdom-bogdavis-dream-asimovs-september-2014/) - Of the previous installment in this story series I wrote: "A ‘fast paced adventure’ of the kind that Purdom often produces that don’t really do it for me. But if you are wanting to read more about Harold the Human, here’s your chance…"
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014](https://bestsf.net/magazine-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - Boyer's Bartleby the Scavenger a strong story that kept me engrossed, but the rest of the issue much less so.
- [Tim Sullivan. The Memory Cage. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tim-sullivan-memory-cage-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - Deep in space some scientific mumbo-jumbo involving 'uber-symmetry', 'complementary particles', and 'superpositioning' allows a man to confront his dead father.
- [Naomi Kritzer. Containment Zone : a Seastead Story. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/naomi-kritzer-containment-zone-seastead-story-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - Further adventures of teen Beck Garrison on the independent seastead communities, facing up to the latest challenges, with her dad, as ever, on her case.
- [Jonathan Andrew Sheen. The Shadow in the Corner. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jonathan-andrew-sheen-shadow-corner-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - Lovecraftian horror as the shadow in the corner is enough to...
- [Marc Laidlaw. Rooksnight. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/marc-laidlaw-rooksnight-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - Further adventures of the bard Gorlen and his gargoyle Spar.
- [Chris Beckett. The Goblin Hunter. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/chris-beckett-the-goblin-hunter-solaris-rising-3/) - A story, from a well-established writer whose short stories have been received with critical acclaim, does read like the work of a novice writer.
- [D.J. Cockburn. Beside the Dammed River. (Interzone #253 Jul-Aug 2014)](https://bestsf.net/d-j-cockburn-beside-dammed-river-interzone-253-jul-aug-2014/) - The winner of the James White Award for unpublished writers, although the story gives no hint as to any reason as to why Cockburn has not (until now) been published.
- [Tananarive Due. Herd Immunity. (The End is Now)](https://bestsf.net/tananarive-due-herd-immunity-end-now/) - Due gets the second volume of 'The Apocalypse Triptych' underway, with me more than keen to find out what has happened to almost all of the characters in the first volume.
- [Sam J. Miller. We Are the Cloud. (Lightspeed Magazine #53, September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sam-j-miller-cloud-lightspeed-magazine-53-september-2014/) - A well-told story, think a bit of Midnight Cowboy crossed with William Gibson's 'Burning Chrome'. and good to see a same-sex relationship and some darker recesses explored.
- [Saundra Mitchell. Starfall. (Lightspeed Magazine #53 September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/saundra-mitchell-starfall-lightspeed-magazine-53-september-2014/) - Great story which asks big questions about our very smallest elements, and what it means to be a transient being in a near-infinite universe.
- [Holly Black. Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind). (Lightspeed Magazine #52 September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/holly-black-ten-rules-intergalactic-smuggler-successful-kind-lightspeed-magazine-52-september-2014/) - A nicely written story, written in the second person where the 'you' to whom the story is being related is a young girl who runs away to space and finds adventure...
- [Katie Boyer. Bartleby the Scavenger. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/katie-boyer-bartleby-scavenger-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - A bleak, near-future, post-apocalyptic scenario, and keeps the reader's attention throughout.
- [Neil Williamson. The Golden Nose. (Interzone #253)](https://bestsf.net/neil-williamson-golden-nose-interzone-253/) - Felix Kapel is an olfactory specialist, his nose for fragrances having built him a reputation and career, but for whom technology is a threat.
- [Asimovs August 2014](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-august-2014/) - Pinsker and O'Connell leave the best of the issue to last.
- [Susan Palwick. Windows. (Asimovs September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/susan-palwick-windows-asimovs-september-2014/) - An impactful four pages from Palwick, set in a near-future USA in which a mother takes a trip on a Greyhound bus, to visit her incarcerated son.
- [Amanda Forrest. A Lullaby in Glass. (Asimovs September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/amanda-forrest-lullaby-glass-asimovs-september-2014/) - A fairly bleak take on the pressures of technology, globalisation and repressive regimes, with a glimmer of light in the humanity at the end.
- [Rick Wilber. Scouting Report. (Asimovs September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/rick-wilber-scouting-report-asimovs-september-2014/) - A baseball scout has a hot prospect for the Major League, until, over several mojitos, a young woman points out a fatal flaw in the young man's game.
- [Kelly Sandoval. Everyone Will Want One. (Asimovs September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/kelly-sandoval-everyone-will-want-one-asimovs-september-2014/) - A look at how peer-envy and pressure to be part of the in-crowd for young girls -might- be mitigated by an electronic helper.
- [Tochi Onyebuchi. Place of Worship. (Asimovs September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tochi-onyebuchi-place-worship-asimovs-september-2014/) - An author new to me. He has a way with words that is rare in SF, with more classier writing in most of his paragraphs than many SF writers manage in a whole story.
- [James Gunn. Patterns. (Asimovs September 2014)](https://bestsf.net/james-gunn-patterns-asimovs-september-2014/) - Veteran James Gunn (90 and counting!) provides a short story which references Asimov's Hari Seldon as a precursor to today's Big Data
- [Nancy Kress. Writer's Block. (Asimovs August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-writers-block-asimovs-august-2014/) - A neat story that starts with 'It was a dark and stormy night'...
- [Andrew Hook. Flytrap. (Interzone #253 July/August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/andrew-hook-flytrap-interzone-253-julyaugust-2014/) - The linkages between Venus flytraps, the planet Venus, and The Bodysnatchers are revealed.
- [Benjanun Sriduangkaew. When We Harvested the Nacre-Rice. (Solaris Rising 3)](https://bestsf.net/benjanun-sriduangkaew-harvested-nacre-rice-solaris-rising-3/) - Sriduangkaew gets the anthology off to a strong start, with a story focussing on two women and the relationship between them during an 'unwar' which attacks civilians' neural networks.
- [Sarah Langan. Love Perverts. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-langan-love-perverts-end-nigh/) - Langan closes an excellent anthology with a strong, albeit dark and bleak (although ultimately human) story.
- [Paolo Bacigalupi. Shooting the Apocalypse. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/paolo-bacigalupi-shooting-apocalypse-end-nigh/) - Socio-economic apocalypse being the order of the day, with borders in the USA closed and states wary of their neighbours.
- [Jay O'Connell. Of All Possible Worlds. (Asimovs August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jay-oconnell-possible-worlds-asimovs-august-2014/) - A really strong story from O'Connell that will appear in some Year's Best volumes next year, and which I'm putting into the pot for consideration for the Best SF Short Story Award 2014
- [Matthew Maher. Enlightenment. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/matthew-maher-enlightenment-the-end-is-nigh/) - A story that gets increasingly macabre as it unfolds...
- [Sarah Pinsker. The Low Hum of Her. (Asimovs August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sarah-pinsker-low-hum-asimovs-august-2014/) - An excellent story that packs a lot into four pages.
- [Doug C. Souza. Mountain Screamers. (Asimovs 2014)](https://bestsf.net/doug-c-souza-mountain-screamers-asimovs-2014/) - Fairly routine story about a young boy and his grandma coming up against an, ahem, Bad Dude who would have got away with it if it wasn't for the pesky did
- [Reach for Infinity. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris 2014)](https://bestsf.net/reach-for-infinity-ed-jonathan-strahan-solaris-2014/) - Another strong volume in an excellent series.
- [Peter Watts. Hotshot. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/peter-watts-hotshot-reach-infinity/) - Watts closes this excellent anthology with another top notch story, a dense, hard SF story..
- [Alastair Reynolds. In Babelsberg. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/alastair-reynolds-babelsberg-reach-infinity/) - A second story from Reynolds featuring an intelligent Tyrannosaurus Rex in recent years..
- [Robin Wasserman. The Balm and The Wound. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/robin-wasserman-the-balm-and-the-wound-the-end-is-nigh/) - An author new to me, and on this basis, I have questions to ask of SF editors as to why this is the case...
- [Ken Liu. The Gods Will Not Be Chained. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/ken-liu-the-gods-will-not-be-chained-the-end-is-nigh/) - A teen girl, victim of bullying at school, finds a strange source of help through an emoticon exchange with an anonymous online person.
- [Jake Kerr. Wedding Day. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/jake-kerr-wedding-day-the-end-is-nigh/) - One of the more straightforward apocalypse stories in the volume so far - an asteroid is headed for North America, and those who can are fleeing
- [Tananarive Due. Removal Order. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/tananarive-due-removal-order-the-end-is-nigh/) - A close up, personal take on the apocalypse, with the setting a suburban housing estate where a teenage girl is looking after her terminally ill grandmother.
- [Jamie Ford. This Unkempt World is Falling to Pieces. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/jamie-ford-this-unkempt-world-is-falling-to-pieces-the-end-is-nigh/) - A fractionally lighter tone in this story in the apocalypse anthology, with an end-of-the-world party in a swanky hotel is in full swing
- [Ben H. Winters. BRING HER TO ME.  (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/ben-h-winters-bring-her-to-me-the-end-is-nigh/) - The BRING HER TO ME word of the Lord is BRING HER TO ME insistent, albeit capitalized.....
- [Hugh Howey. In the Air. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/hugh-howey-in-the-air-the-end-is-nigh/) - If you co-edit an anthology, you've got to make sure your story stands up alongside the rest, and fortunately Howey does so.
- [Annie Bellet. Goodnight Moon. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/annie-bellet-goodnight-moon-the-end-is-nigh/) - A short and fairly straightforward story, with, as the title suggests, the moon facing an apocalyptic event.
- [Will McIntosh. Dancing with Death in the Land of Nod. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/will-mcintosh-dancing-with-death-in-the-land-of-nod-the-end-is-nigh/) - A quite vivid and memorable setting to open (and close) the story - a drive-in movie theater, and heart-breaking but affirming ending.
- [Jack McDevitt. Enjoy the Moment. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/jack-mcdevitt-enjoy-moment-end-nigh/) - A scientist getting their name attached to something they have discovered has to be a good thing, right?
- [Nancy Kress. Pretty Soon the Four Horsemen are Going to Come Riding Through. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-pretty-soon-four-horsemen-going-come-riding-end-nigh/) - Another classy Kress story, with getting the voice of the working class single mom protagonist spot on.
- [Seanan McGuire. Spores. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/seanan-mcguire-spores-end-nigh/) - A strong story due to the protagonist (her OCD) and her wife, which make her a more rounded and interesting character, as Pandora's box is well and truly opened.
- [Jonathan Maberry. She's Got a Ticket to Ride. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/jonathan-maberry-shes-got-ticket-ride-end-nigh/) - A short but chilling look at the Nibiru Cataclysm, and what happens when the debunkers have to reconsider their viewpoint.
- [David Wellington. Agent Unknown. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/david-wellington-agent-unknown-end-nigh/) - A zombie story that is well, well short of the high standard set by other stories in the anthology.
- [Ken MacLeod. 'The Entire Immense Superstructure : an Installation'.  (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/ken-macleod-entire-immense-superstructure-installation-reach-infinity/) - An excellent, quirky piece from MacLeod, slightly out of kilter with the fairly standard narrative structure of most the anthology.
- [Kathleen Ann Goonan. Wilder Still, The Stars. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/kathleen-ann-goonan-wilder-still-stars-reach-infinity/) - A lovely story from Goonan, which perfectly captures the theme of the anthology in looking at the long life of woman whose love for space starts in 1954.
- [Chiang : Hell is the Absence of God](https://bestsf.net/chiang-hell-is-the-absence-of-god/) - Stationary on a motorway for 30 minutes. Doh! But wait, I have my new itouch, and I have some SF stories stored on it. What to read?
- [Oliver Buckram. Presidential Cryptotrivia. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/oliver-buckram-presidential-cryptotrivia-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - The true stories behind US Presidents, from Washington to Obama, testing your knowledge and appreciation of a wide range of 'stuff'.
- [Pavel Amnuel. White Curtain. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/pavel-amnuel-white-curtain-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - Bereavement and branching multiverse realities.
- [Peter Watts. The Colonel. (Tor.com)](https://bestsf.net/peter-watts-colonel-tor-com/) - This reviewer is a little cross with Tor.com
- [Hannu Rajaniemi. Invisible Planets. (Reach for Infinity).](https://bestsf.net/hannu-rajaniemi-invisible-planets-reach-infinity/) - A good read that reflects, deep deep in space, about humanity, and with, perhaps, more hidden within?
- [Alyssa Wong. The Fisher Queen. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/alyssa-wong-fisher-queen-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - A first professional sale from Wong and she tells her selkie tale well.
- [David D. Levine. The End of the Silk Road. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/david-d-levine-end-silk-road-fantasy-science-fiction-mayjune-2014/) - ERBpunk in the same setting as Levine's 'The Wreck of the Mars Adventure' in the Gardner Dozois/GRR Martin anthology 'Old Mars'.
- [Jeremiah Tolbert. Wet Fur. (Asimovs August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/jeremiah-tolbert-wet-fur-asimovs-august-2014/) - The first story I can recall where our feline and canine housemates live on post-life..
- [Nick Wolven. Placebo. (Asimovs August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/nick-wolven-placebo-asimovs-august-2014/) - A meditation on technology as a moral tool, not an amoral juggernaut, and a bit of a ponderous meditation at that.
- [James van Pelt. My Father and the Martian Moon Maids. (Interzone #253 Jul-Aug 2014)](https://bestsf.net/james-van-pelt-father-martian-moon-maids-interzone-253-jul-aug-2014/) - Heartwarming story from van Pelt, in which a son looks back on his relationship with his now dementia-suffering father through the lens of SF and a fascination with UFOs.
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2014.](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marchapril-2014/) - Clearly something is wrong with the time-space continuum as there's way too much content to fit into even 250-odd pages, and it must be something to do with superdense dark matter that has meant I've been reading the issue since April. And there's some excellent stories in the issue.
- [Michael Libling. Draft 31. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/michael-libling-draft-31-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - Deceptively clever story from Libling - you have to pay attention from the offset to pick up clues as to what is actually happening.
- [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 2001 (Peanut Press edition).](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-science-fiction-magazine-june-2001-peanut-press-edition/) - Has there been a better issue of Asimovs in recent years?
- [Interzone #252 (May-Jun 2014)](https://bestsf.net/interzone-252-may-jun-2014/) - Katherine E.K. Duckett's plastinated mortuaries the pick of the issue for me.
- [Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. Sleepers. (Interzone #252 May-Jun 2014)](https://bestsf.net/bonnie-jo-stufflebeam-sleepers-interzone-252-may-jun-2014/) - A third story in about three weeks about visitations from a nebulous undead being potential harbringers of messages, or other means by which protagonists are able to address their relationships.
- [Jo Walton. Sleeper. (Tor.com)](https://bestsf.net/jo-walton-sleeper-tor-com/) - Clever story from Walton with a lot in it to like - if you like things like 'unions, and free education, and paid holidays, and a health service'
- [Claire Humphrey. A Brief Light. (Interzone #252, May-Jun 2014)](https://bestsf.net/claire-humphrey-brief-light-interzone-252-may-jun-2014/) - The second story I've read in a couple of months featuring a couple having trouble with the undead, with a very much alive mother in law factored in to the equation
- [Oliver Buckram. Two Truths and a Lie. (Interzone #252 May-Jun 2014)](https://bestsf.net/oliver-buckram-two-truths-lie-interzone-252-may-jun-2014/) - Short love story told through the two truths/one lie mechanism..
- [Ian R. MacLeod. Entangled. (Asimovs December 2013)](https://bestsf.net/ian-r-macleod-entangled-asimovs-december-2013/) - A clever, layered story that mixes technology and sociology and economics and human behaviour.
- [Carrie Vaughn. The Best We Can. (Tor.com 17 July 2013)](https://bestsf.net/carrie-vaughn-the-best-we-can-tor-com-17-july-2013/) - A neat update on Rendezvous With Rama.
- [Geoff Ryman. Rosary and Goldenstar.  (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2013)](https://bestsf.net/geoff-ryman-rosary-and-goldenstar-fantasy-science-fiction-septoct-2013/) - Ryman relates a meeting between Elizabethan amateur astrologist Thomas Digges, friends of astronomy Tycho Brahe, including Messrs Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and one young playwright William Shakespeare,..
- [Adam Roberts. Trademark Bugs : a legal history. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/adam-roberts-trademark-bugs-legal-history-reach-infinity/) - A wry take on the pharma companies and just how low they would stoop in the search for profits, and just how limited the response by governments and the public at large might be.
- [Rob Chilson. Our Vegetable Love. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/rob-chilson-vegetable-love-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - Nice fantasy story from Chilson, although to be clear, the story features trees, not vegetables!
- [Linda Nagata. Attitude. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/linda-nagata-attitude-reach-infinity/) - A sporting tournament in zero-G on an orbiting habitat gives an opportunity to look at tenured sportspeople, politics and performance enhancing drugs.
- [Caroline M. Yoachim. Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion. (Clarkesworld Magazine #95, August 2014)](https://bestsf.net/caroline-m-yoachim-five-stages-of-grief-after-the-alien-invasion-clarkesworld-magazine-95-august-2014/) - A clever way to construct a story, and the characters are well-drawn.
- [Ellen Klages. Amicae Aeternum. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/ellen-klages-amicae-aeternum-reach-for-infinity/) - When one embarks on a long, one-way journey, there is loss and there are people left behind, as Klages adeptly shows in a tender, bittersweet story.
- [Karen Lord. Hiraeth : a tragedy in four acts. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/karen-lord-hiraeth-a-tragedy-in-four-act-reach-for-infinity/) - Young Janik falls on the moon, and against the odds needs to have his damaged eyes replaced with a cyborg pair, and this is the first in a long step of augmentations that take him very far from home.
- [Val Nolan. Diving into the Wreck. (Interzone #252, May-June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/val-nolan-diving-into-the-wreck-interzone-252-may-june-2014/) - The wreck in question being The Eagle, the ascent stage of Apollo 11, long-lost on the Moon.
- [Katharine E.K. Duckett. The Mortuaries. (Interzone #252, May-June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/katharine-e-k-duckett-the-mortuaries-interzone-252-may-june-2014/) - Strange and unsettling story in a world gone to pot, and with plastinating the dead and displaying them in mortuaries the norm.
- [Megan Arkenberg. Houses Without Air. (The End is Nigh)](https://bestsf.net/megan-arkenberg-houses-without-air-the-end-is-nigh/) - Seven sections, or in fact seven matches, each match, like those of the fairytale Little Matchgirl, throwing light.
- [Pat Cadigan. Report Concerning the Presence of Seahorses on Mars. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/pat-cadigan-report-concerning-the-presence-of-seahorses-on-mars-reach-for-infinity/) - Inventive setting and nice narrative from Cadigan, as a young woman narrates a visit to their Martian colony by a representative from Earth.
- [Karl Schroeder. Kheldyu. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/karl-schroeder-kheldyu-reach-for-infinity/) - Further near-future science thriller from Schroeder, featuring the return of Gennady.
- [Gordon Eklund. I Said I Was Sorry Didn't I. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/gordon-eklund-i-said-i-was-sorry-didnt-i-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - Eklund has been writing high-quality SF as long as I have been reading it, and I'm pleased to say that this story is of as high a standard as his best
- [Asimovs July 2014](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-july-2014/) - Stories by Reed, Jablokov and McDonald the pick of the bunch for me.
- [D.M. Armstrong. Butterscotch. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/d-m-armstrong-butterscotch-fantasy-and-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - Chilling story of an expectant couple plagued by a regular visitation from one of the shambling, dead 'travelers' (and the mother-in-law).
- [Allen M. Steele. The Legion of Tomorrow. (Asimovs July 2014)](https://bestsf.net/allen-m-steele-the-legion-of-tomorrow-asimovs-july-2014/) - A lengthy look at the very early days of SF fandom,
- [M. Bennardo. How Do I Get To Last Summer From Here? (Asimovs July 2014)](https://bestsf.net/m-bennardo-how-do-i-get-to-last-summer-from-here-asimovs-july-2014/) - They say the past is a foreign country, but what if going back there was as simple as saying 'there's no place like home', except that you don't need a pair or ruby slippers, just the right mindset??
- [Karl Bunker. The Woman from the Ocean. (Asimovs July 2014)](https://bestsf.net/karl-bunker-the-woman-from-the-ocean-asimovs-july-2014/) - A story with a simple point to make - if we could remove humanity's obsession with 'us' and 'them', would the world be a better place?
- [Sandra McDonald. Story of Our Lives. (Asimovs July 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sandra-mcdonald-story-of-our-lives-asimovs-july-2014/) - An excellent story which, in structure, mood and tone, minded me of Ted Chiang's 'Story of Your Life'.
- [Evan Fuller. Five Six Seven. (Asimovs July 2014)](https://bestsf.net/evan-fuller-five-six-seven-asimovs-july-2014/) - The first in a series of tales, we are told, about human and corporate bodies in 2030s America.
- [Greg Egan. Break My Fall. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/greg-egan-break-my-fall-reach-for-infinity/) - Egan opens the hard SF anthology with a story that illustrates the good and less good aspects of hard SF.
- [Aliette de Bodard. The Dust Queen. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/aliette-de-bodard-the-dust-queen-reach-for-infinity/) - Set in the Xuya sequence, young Quynh Ha finds herself given a task by the Dust Queen - a living legend whose Martian dust dances she has long admired.
- [Ian McDonald. The Fifth Dragon. (Reach for Infinity)](https://bestsf.net/ian-mcdonald-the-fifth-dragon-reach-for-infinity/) - A beautiful, elegaic story from McDonald that looks at the sacrifices made to turn the Moon into a place to live.
- [Asimovs June 2014](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-june-2014/) - Book-ended by stories at the beginning and end of the volume which I enjoyed, but with the rest of the issue not doing as much for me.
- [Alexander Jablokov. The Instructive Tale of the Archeologist and His Wife. (Asimovs July 2014)](https://bestsf.net/alexander-jablokov-the-instructive-tale-of-the-archeologist-and-his-wife-asimovs-july-2014/) - An intriguing, thoughtful read.
- [Robert Reed. Blood Wedding. (Asimovs July 2014)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-blood-wedding-asimovs-july-2014/) - A story that looks at motivations, and hidden strengths, and is a page turner.
- [Ted White. The Uncertain Past. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/ted-white-the-uncertain-past-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - Nothing particularly fresh to glean from a story that covers some very well-trodden ground.
- [John DeCles. Apprentice. (Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/john-decles-apprentice-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - Young Dafyd the Difficult is apprenticed to a wizard, and there is magicke, gryphons and gems.
- [Lavie Tidhar. Murder in the Cathedral. (Asimovs June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/lavie-tidhar-murder-in-the-cathedral-asimovs-june-2014/) - Steam/lizard punk from Tidhar, who gives himself the opportunity to poke gentle fun at SF writers and SF fandom.
- [Nancy Kress. Sidewalk at 12:10pm. (Asimovs June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/nancy-kress-sidewalk-at-1210pm-asimovs-june-2014/) - A short story looking at the potential to do things differently.
- [James Van Pelt. The Turkey Raptor. (Asimovs June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/james-van-pelt-the-turkey-raptor-asimovs-june-2014/) - Some nice writing, but the story ends up like a (not very good) teen movie from the 1980s.
- [Sylvain Jouty. The Finges Clearing. (Asimovs June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/sylvain-jouty-the-finges-clearing-asimovs-june-2014/) - A short piece in which Jouty, through the translation by Edward Gauvin, looks at a clearing in a forest at Finges - a clearing evidently untouched by the hand (or the foot) of man, since time immemorial.
- [Ian Creasey. Ormonde and Chase. (Asimovs June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/ian-creasey-ormonde-and-chase-asimovs-june-2014/) - A plant story that has a germ of an idea, but the plant was rushed out of the greenhouse a bit too early, without enough hardening off.
- [Daniel Marcus. Albion upon the Rock. (Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/daniel-marcus-albion-upon-the-rock-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - A story that upon reading it, sticks in the memory as being longer than it actually was.
- [David Erik Nelson. There was No Sound of Thunder. (Asimovs June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/david-erik-nelson-there-was-no-sound-of-thunder-asimovs-june-2014/) - A light-hearted time travelling story.
- [Albert E. Cowdrey. Byzantine History 101. (Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/albert-e-cowdrey-byzantine-history-101-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - Further adventures of Professor Threefoot, whose 'lengthy ruminations' in the previous story did not engage me.
- [Neil Williamson. The Posset Pot. (Interzone #252 May-Jun 2014)](https://bestsf.net/neil-williamson-the-posset-pot-interzone-252-may-jun-2014/) - A bleak, virtually deserted Glasgow, with but one chink of light.
- [Kevin J. Anderson. Island in a Sea of Stars. (Tor.com May 2014)](https://bestsf.net/kevin-j-anderson-island-in-a-sea-of-stars-tor-com-may-2014/) - Prolific and successful SF novelist fails to enthuse this reader with his short story.
- [Pat MacEwen.  The Lightness of Movement. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/pat-macewen-the-lightness-of-movement-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - The lengthiest story in the issue is SF, albeit of the xenological persuasion. I'm not the biggest fan of these, but at least it's not xeno-lingual a story which tend to be particularly tiresome.
- [Kara Dalkey. The Philosopher Duck.  (Asimovs June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/kara-dalkey-the-philosopher-duck-asimovs-june-2014/) - A short, simple tale from a writer new to me and new to Asimovs, although she's been writing for 30 years and has over a dozen novels to her name.
- [Ron Goulart. Hark, the Wicked Witches Sing. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/ron-goulart-hark-the-wicked-witches-sing-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2014/) - Gentle Goulart humour featuring Hix, the best second-rate B-movie writer in Hollywood in the 1940s, as he comes across a dame who is being "hoodooed, hexed and futzed" and is need of his help to eliminate her invisible nemesis.
- [Suzanne Palmer. Shatterdown. (Asimovs June 2014)](https://bestsf.net/suzanne-palmer-shatterdown-asimovs-june-2014/) - A second strong story from Palmer in a matter of days.
- [Interzone #251 (Mar-Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/interzone-251-mar-apr-2014/) - Karl Bunker and Suzanne Palmer provide a brace of strong SF stories.
- [Asimovs April/May 2014](https://bestsf.net/asimovs-aprilmay-2014/) - Double issue with names Big and Little, and William Preston, Michael Swanwick and Joe M. McDermott the pick of the issue.
- [Gareth L. Powell. This Is How You Die. (Interzone #251, Mar-Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/gareth-l-powell-this-is-how-you-die-interzone-251-mar-apr-2014/) - A short two-pager, twelve paragraphs outlining a personal descent amongst a societal collapse.
- [Robert Reed. The Principles. (Asimovs April/May 2014)](https://bestsf.net/robert-reed-the-principles-asimovs-aprilmay-2014/) - An extractified story from a 'giant alternate-history novel' that Reed has been working on for 'a lot of years' and just a hint of self-indulgence IMHO.
- [James Patrick Kelly. Someday. (Asimovs April/May 2014)](https://bestsf.net/james-patrick-kelly-someday-asimovs-aprilmay-2014/) - Choosing the father of your child can be slightly less tricky when you can combine the DNA of three of them, and you don't have to look far if you can choose your brother...
- [Tracie Welser. A Doll is not a Dumpling. (Interzone #251 Mar-Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/tracie-welser-a-doll-is-not-a-dumpling-interzone-251-mar-apr-2014/) - After Yopu the dumpling-serving robot has his AI and his horizons expanded, he has a different outlook on his role in life.
- [Interzone #244 Jan-Feb 2013](https://bestsf.net/interzone-244-jan-feb-2013/) - Fiction this month from Lavie Tidhar, Helen Jackson, George Zebrowski, Guy Haley, Jim Hawkins, Tracie Welser. Cover art by Jim Burns.
- [Suzanne Palmer. Fly Away Home. (Interzone #251, Mar-Apr 2014)](https://bestsf.net/suzanne-palmer-fly-away-home-interzone-251-mar-apr-2014/) - Excellent SF from Palmer - if SF which includes spacesuits, colonies, evil corporations, religion, gender issues, and drama is the kind of thing that you like.
- [Joe M. McDermott. Dolores, Big and Strong. (Asimovs April/May 2014)](https://bestsf.net/joe-m-mcdermott-dolores-big-and-strong-asimovs-aprilmay-2014/) - There's a fairly limited sfnal element, as the focus is on the believable setting and strong characterisation.
- [K.J. Zimring. The Talking Cure. (Asimovs April/May 2014)](https://bestsf.net/k-j-zimring-the-talking-cure-asimovs-aprilmay-2014/) - An interesting, doubtless unique!, combination of elements in a cleverly wrought story with a neat twist at the end.
- [Interzone, Number 151, January 2000](https://bestsf.net/interzone-number-151-january-2000/) - Buy a copy from amazon.com / amazon.co.uk Ravenbrand. Michael Moorcock. Interzone enters the Millennium with a Michael Moorcock special issue, marking the 60th birthday of one of the key figures of the British New Wave of SF. The lengthy fiction from him is a tantalising teaser from a forthcoming novel: 'The Dreamthief's Daughter'. Ulric, Graf

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- [Interzone Archive](https://bestsf.net/interzone-archive/) - I read virtually every issue of Interzone from 2000 to 2017, but, having built up a complete collection of the magazine, the plan to read every story just never happened! 2017 : 268 |
- [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Archive](https://bestsf.net/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-archive/) - I read almost every issue of F&SF between 2000 and 2016. 2016 : JF | MA | MJ | JA | SO | ND 2015 : JF | MA | MJ | JA | SO | ND 2014 : JF | MA | MJ | JA | SO | ND 2013 : JF | MA
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- [For Sale](https://bestsf.net/for-sale/) - Somewhat reluctantly, having been collecting SF books and magazines since about 1973, the time has come to reduce the size of my collection. There is no more bookcase space, and the loft floor is groaning. Interzones and some chapbooks are on ebay, and there are some items on amazon marketplace. Browse these listings for items
- [Best SF Presents](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-presents/) - In 2007 I started dabbling a bit with 'Best SF Presents', putting online a number of stories that I'd read and enjoyed, and whose authors generously gave permission to make available. But as more and more reprint opportunities for authors became available, possibly paying, and definitely higher profile, I eased back and eventually stopped approaching
- [Best SF Short Story Award 2016](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-short-story-award-2016/) - The Best SF Short Story Award 2016 (aka The Third All-Time Annual Best SF Short Story Award) got underway in early 2016. However, Lifetm got in the way. In a good way, as rather than spending a lot of time reading Short SF, I got off my ass and researched, and skilled up my brewing
- [Dozois](https://bestsf.net/dozois/) - [pt_view id="40ef74ckv2"]
- [Best SF Short Story Award 2015](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-short-story-award-2015/) - The winner of the Best SF Short Story Award 2015 is Bao Shu's 'What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear' (from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2015). It's very clever, with a lot of devil in the detail, and I found it hugely entertaining when reading it - one of those
- [Charles Stross. Rogue Farm.](https://bestsf.net/charles-stross-rogue-farm/) - 'Rogue Farm' appeared in 'Live Without a Net' (ed Lou Anders, pub Roc 2003). It is copyright Charles Stross, and appears here with his kind permission. It was a bright, cool March morning: mare's tails trailed across the south-eastern sky towards the rising sun. Joe shivered slightly in the driver's seat as he twisted the
- [Best SF Short Story Award 2014](https://bestsf.net/best-sf-short-story-award-2014/) - The winner of the 2014 Best SF Short Story Award is Michael Swanwick for his 'Passage of Earth' in Clarkesworld #91, April 2014, and which is online here. You can read my full review of the story here. And the following stories get Commendations (click on the title for the full review) : Lavie Tidhar.
- [Jay Lake. To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves.](https://bestsf.net/jay-lake-to-raise-a-mutiny-betwixt-yourselves/) - 'To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves' first appeared in 'The New Space Opera 2', edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, and published by EOS in 2009. It appears with kind permission of, and is copyright, Jay Lake. Year 461 post-Mistake High orbit around Sidero The Before Michaela Cannon, aboard the starship Polyphemus {23 pairs}
- [Chris DeVito. Anise.](https://bestsf.net/chris-devito-anise/) - 'Anise' first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Ficton, Sept/Oct 2011. It appears with kind permission of, and is copyright, Chris DeVito. Martel was angry. He did not even adjust his blood away from anger. — Cordwainer Smith, “Scanners Live in Vain” (Do they? What is in vain?) The sex has gotten better
- [Gwyneth Jones. Collision.](https://bestsf.net/gwyneth-jones-collision/) - 'Collision‘ first appeared in ‘When It Changed' (ed Geoff Ryman 2009) and is copyright Gwyneth Jones, with whose kind permission it is reprinted here. Does size matter? You can build a particle accelerator on a desk top, but the Buonarotti Torus was huge, its internal dimensions dwarfing the two avatars who strolled, gazing about them
- [Gareth L. Powell. The Last Reef.](https://bestsf.net/gareth-l-powell-the-last-reef/) - 'The Last Reef' first appeared in Interzone #202, Jan/Feb 2006. The story remains copyright Gareth L Powell and is reprinted her with his kind permission. A lone quad bike rattles across the frozen Martian desert, kicking up dust. Riding with the wind at his back, Kenji's been on the move since first light. In his
- [Jonathan Sherwood. Under the Graying Sea.](https://bestsf.net/jonathan-sherwood-under-the-graying-sea/) - 'Under the Graying Sea' appeared in Asimovs, February 2006. The story is copyright Jonathan Sherwood, and appears here with his kind permission. Ignition. Tessa’s head snapped back into its cradle and her lips slid away from her teeth. The shock slapped the fog off the inside of her helmet and misted her face. Behind her,
- [Chris Roberson. Companion to Owls.](https://bestsf.net/chris-roberson-companion-to-owls/) - 'Companion to Owls' appeared in Asimovs, March 2006. The story is copyright MonkeyBrain Inc, 2006, and appears here with his kind permission. His name was Steeplejack North, the former because a steeple jack was his profession, the latter because the northernmost Steeple of the Cathedral was his responsibility. No one knew his christening name. It
- [Tony Ballantyne. A New Beginning.](https://bestsf.net/tony-ballantyne-a-new-beginning/) - 'A New Beginning' originally appeared in Interzone #163, January 2001. It appears here courtesy of, and is copyright Tony Ballantyne. I had to apologise as soon as I got back to the flat. “I want to say I’m sorry.” I said, taking off my coat. Julia looked up from her book with a drained expression
- [Ian R. MacLeod. Isabel of the Fall.](https://bestsf.net/ian-r-macleod-isabel-of-the-fall/) - 'Isabel of the Fall' originally appeared Interzone 169, July 2001, and is copyright Ian R. MacLeod. It appears here with kind permission of the author. Once, in the time which was always long ago, there lived a girl. She was called Isabel and — in some versions of this tale, you will hear of the
- [Jack Skillingstead. Bean There.](https://bestsf.net/jack-skillingstead-bean-there/) - 'Bean There' originally appeared Asimovs April/May 2005, and is copyright Jack Skillingstead, and appears on Best SF with his kind permission. I fell flat on my ass, stunned, jaw unhinged, gaping at the thing. Implications piled up fast. My gaze wandered briefly off the marble block, then I fell again. Inside, this time, as my
- [Paul Di Filippo. Return to Cockaigne.](https://bestsf.net/paul-di-filippo-return-to-cockaigne/) - 'Return to Cockaigne' originally appeared Interzone 163, January 2001, and is copyright Paul Di Filippo, and appears on Best SF with his kind permission. The pretty, nervous-looking woman - thirtyish, dark hair in bangs, long cloth winter coat concealing her taste in clothes - entered the Kirby-Ditko Extended Care Residence hurriedly. She brushed past the
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- [Interzone](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/magazines/interzone/) - Certainly the best looking SF mag, with the fiction not that far behind. Browse recent reviews below, or older issues through the index to the right.
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- [Nebulas](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/awards/nebulas/) - Plaudits for the SFWA for keeping up an anthology marking their annual awards for over half a century. Less so for adding fantasy, horror and anything written by genre writers into their scope.
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- [Year's Best](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/years-best/) - There are three current Year’s Best anthologists (Strahan, Horton, and Clarke) of which the first two are SF&F and the latter purely SF. Prior to this there have been several other series, going back to the 1950s. Use the sub-categories under Years Best in the right hand column to browse these.
- [Dozois](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/years-best/dozois/)
- [Wollheim](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/years-best/wollheim/) - A handsome collection of hardback volumes sits on my bookshelves, marred by the fact that just one volume from the 1972-1990 series has a different spine colour than all the others. FFS.
- [Bleiler Dikty](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/years-best/bleiler-dikty/) - One of the very first Year’s Best series. Only 3 in my collection so far!
- [Merril](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/years-best/merril/) - Following on from the Bleiler/Dikty anthologies of the 50s, Merril’s anthology straddled the 50s/60s. Variously titled paperback reprints make up my collection, which is still missing two of the early volumes…
- [Wollheim Carr](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/years-best/wollheim-carr/) - The Wollheim/Carr series (1965-1971) carried on for two volumes after the pair went their separate ways and set up their own long-running series.
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- [Carr](https://bestsf.net/category/reviews/years-best/carr/) - After both Wollheim and Carr went their separate ways after their jointly edited anthology series, Terry Carr continued for many years, and had a short-lived attempt at a matching novellas anthology.
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