We Are Where the Nightmares Go. We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories (Harper Voyager)
Castro, Adam-Troy
The Last to Matter. Lightspeed Magazine, September
Red Rain. Nightmare Magazine, June
Clark, P. Djèlí
Night Doctors. Eyedolon, August
Fawver, Kurt
The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking. Vastarien, Spring
The Myth of You. The Dissolution of Small Worlds (Lethe)
Goodfellow, Cody
The Sister City. Eyedolon, November
Goss, Theodora
Queen Lily. Lightspeed Magazine, November
Greenblatt, A. T.
And Yet. Uncanny Magazine, March/April
Harn, Darby
Princess Mine. Strange Horizons, March
Harrow, Alix E.
A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies. Apex Magazine, February
Headley, Maria Dahvana
You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You. Lightspeed Magazine, September
Hill, Joe
You Are Released. Flight or Fright, ed. Stephen King and Bev Vincent (Cemetery Dance)
Ho, Millie
Hehua. Fireside Fiction, January
Huang, S. L.
The Woman Who Destroyed Us. Twelve Tomorrows, ed. Wade Roush (MIT Press)
Iriarte, José Pablo
The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births. Lightspeed Magazine, January
Jemisin, N. K.
The Ones Who Stay and Fight. How Long ’til Black Future Month? (Orbit)
Joffre, Ruth
Nitrate Nocturnes. Lightspeed Magazine, April
Jones, Stephen Graham
Broken Record. The Devil and the Deep, ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade)
Kerr, Jake
Three Speeches About Billy Granger. Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against, ed. Gary Whitta, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey (Broad Reach)
La Farge, Paul
The Adventure of You. Welcome to Dystopia, ed. Gordon Van Gelder (OR Books)
LaValle, Victor
Ark of Light. Particulates, ed. Nalo Hopkinson (Dia Art Foundation)
Lee, Yoon Ha
The Starship and the Temple Cat. Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Firelight. The Paris Review, Summer
Liu, Ken
Byzantine Empathy. Twelve Tomorrows, ed. Wade Roush (MIT Press)
McGuire, Seanan
Swear Not by the Moon. Infinity’s End, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)
Miller, Sam J.
My Base Pair. Analog Science Fiction & Fact, May/June
Morris, Stephanie Malia
Bride Before You. Nightmare Magazine, May/June
Newitz, Annalee
The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto. Robots vs. Fairies, ed. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga)
Nichols, Russell
Con Con. Terraform, September
Okorafor, Nnedi
The Heart of the Matter. Twelve Tomorrows, ed. Wade Roush (MIT Press)
Olukotun, Deji Bryce
The Levellers. Welcome to Dystopia, ed. Gordon Van Gelder (OR Books)
Owomoyela, An
The Hard Spot in the Glacier. Mechanical Animals, ed. Selena Chambers and Jason Heller (Hex)
Pinsker, Sarah
The Court Magician. Lightspeed Magazine, January
Rivera, Lilliam
Crave. Nightmare Magazine, March
Robson, Kelly
Intervention. Infinity’s End, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)
Rolon, Nelson
Saudade. FIYAH, Autumn
Singh, Vandana
Widdam. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February
Vaughn, Carrie
The Huntsman and the Beast. Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October
Where Would You Be Now? Tor.com, February
Wasserstein, Izzy
Unplaces: An Atlas of Non-Existence. Clarkesworld Magazine, March
Wilber, Rick
Today Is Today. Stonecoast Review, no. 9
Wilson, Daniel H.
Bastion. Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against, ed. Gary Whitta, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey (Broad Reach)
Blood Memory. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters (Vintage)
Wise, A. C.
In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same. The Dark, June
Wong, Alyssa
All the Time We’ve Left to Spend. Robots vs. Fairies, ed. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga)
Olivia’s Table. A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, ed. Elsie Chapman and Ellen Oh (Greenwillow)
Yu, Charles
America: The Ride. Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against, ed. Gary Whitta, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey (Broad Reach)
Yu, E. Lily
Music for the Underworld. Terraform, March
The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther Shore. Clarkesworld Magazine, March
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Carmen Maria Machado, guest editor, is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, a finalist for the National Book Award, and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian fiction.
John Joseph Adams, series editor, is the editor of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s John Joseph Adams Books imprint, as well as more than thirty anthologies and the magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare.
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