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LEE, YOON HA
Foxfire, Foxfire. Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May
LIU, KEN
An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Saga)
Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts. Drowned Worlds, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)
The Snow Train. Genius Loci, ed. Jaym Gates (Ragnarok)
LOWACHEE, KARIN
A Good Home. Lightspeed (People of Colour Destroy Science Fiction! special issue), June
MACHADO, CARMEN MARIA
My Body, Herself. Uncanny, September/October
The Old Women Who Were Skinned. Fairy Tale Review, 2016
MALERMAN, JOSH
The Jupiter Drop. You, Human, ed. Michael Bailey (Dark Regions)
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MOHANRAJ, MARY ANNE
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NOVIK, NAOMI
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Spinning Silver. The Starlit Wood, ed. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga)
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POWER, STEPHEN S.
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REED, ROBERT
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RUSSELL, KAREN
The Bog Girl. The New Yorker, June
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The Gentleman of Chaos. Apex Magazine, August
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SCHNEYER, KENNETH
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SELLAR, GORD
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THOMAS, SHEREE RENEE
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The Return. Terraform, September
VAUGHN, CARRIE
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WERKHEISER, JAY
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WOLVEN, NICK
Passion Summer. Asimov’s Science Fiction, February
WONG, ALYSSA
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers. Tor.com, March
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The Right Place to Start a Family. Humanity 2.0, ed. Alex Shvartsman (Phoenix Pick)
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