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“Beautiful” by Juliet Marillier. © by Juliet Marillier. Originally published in Aurum, edited by Russell B. Farr. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Dayenu” by James Sallis. © by James Sallis. Originally published in LCRW, Spring 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Firelight” by Ursula K. Le Guin. © by Ursula K. Le Guin. Originally published in Paris Review, Summer 2018. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

About the Editor

Rich Horton is an associate technical fellow in software for a major aerospace corporation and the reprint editor for the Hugo Award-winning semiprozine Lightspeed. He is also a columnist for Locus and for Black Gate. He edits a series of best of the year anthologies for Prime Books, and also for Prime Books he has co-edited Robots: The Recent A.I. and War & Space: Recent Combat.

Other Books by Rich Horton

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition

Robots: The Recent A.I. (with Sean Wallace)

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition

Space Opera

Unplugged: The Web’s Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2016 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 Edition

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018 Edition

War & Space: Recent Combat (with Sean Wallace)

Copyright

Copyright © 2019 by Rich Horton.

Cover art by Tithi Luadthong.

Cover design by Stephen H. Segal & Sherin Nicole.

Ebook design by Neil Clarke.

All stories are copyrighted to their respective authors, and used here with their permission.

ISBN: 978-1-60701-534-5 (ebook)

ISBN: 978-1-60701-531-4 (trade paperback)

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