“Skinner Box,” Carole Johnstone (Tor.com, 6/12/19)
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com)
“Between Zero and One,” Bo-Young Kim (Readymade Bodhisattva)
“How Alike Are We,” Bo-Young Kim (Clarkesworld, 10/19)
“Nice Things,” Ellen Klages (Uncanny, 5-6/19)
The Ghosts of Ganymede, Derek Künsken (Clarkesworld, 1/19)
“The Justified,” Ann Leckie (The Mythic Dream)
“Glass Cannon,” Yoon Ha Lee (Hexarchate Stories)
“The Empty Gun,” Yoon Ha Lee (Mission Critical)
“The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,” Kelly Link (Tin House, Summer ’19)
“Moonlight,” Cixin Liu (Broken Stars)
“Haven,” Karen Lord (Current Futures)
“Fare,” Danny Lore (Fireside, 8/1/19)
“As Dark as Hunger,” S. Qiouyi Lu (Black Static #72)
“The Things Eric Eats Before He Eats Himself,” Carmen Maria Machado (The Mythic Dream)
“Labbatu Takes Command of the Flagship Heaven Dwells Within,” Arkady Martine (The Mythic Dream)
The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald (Tor.com)
“Phantoms of the Midway,” Seanan McGuire (The Mythic Dream)
“Under the Hill,” Maureen McHugh (F&SF, 9-10/19)
“It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right,” Sam J. Miller (A People’s Future of the United States)
“Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart,” Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld, 7/19)
“Shucked,” Sam J. Miller (F&SF, 11-12/19)
“Adrianna in Pomegranate,” Samantha Mills (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #271)
“His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light,” Mimi Mondal (Tor.com, 1/23/19)
“A Forest, or a Tree,” Tegan Moore (Tor.com, 6/26/19)
“On the Lonely Shore,” Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Uncanny, 3-4/19)
“Devil in the Dust,” Linda Nagata (Mission Critical)
“The Death of Fire Station 10,” Ray Nayler (Lightspeed, 10/19)
“The Ocean Between the Leaves,” Ray Nayler (Asimov’s, 7-8/19)
“Old Media,” Annalee Newitz (Tor.com, 2/19)
“Beyond Comprehensions,” Russell Nichols (Fireside, 1/19)
“Dislocation Space,” Garth Nix (Tor.com, 12/11/19)
“Tiny Bravery,” Ada Nnadi (Omenana, 11/19)
“Binti: Sacred Fire,” Nnedi Okorafor (Binti: The Complete Trilogy)
“Dave’s Head,” Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, 9/19)
“Waterlines,” Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s, 7-8/19)
“More Real Than Him,” Silvia Park (Tor.com, 8/5/19)
My Beautiful Life, K. J. Parker (Subterranean)
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye,” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny, 7-8/19)
“The Narwhal,” Sarah Pinsker (Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea)
“In This Moment, We Are Happy,” Chen Qiufan (Clarkesworld, 8/19)
“Space Leek,” Chen Qiufan (Slate: Future Tense, 6/29/19)
“Whom My Soul Loves,” Rivqa Rafael (Strange Horizons, 11/19)
“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing,” Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons, 9/9/19)
Sisters of the Vast Black, Lina Rather (Tor.com)
Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds (Tor.com)
“Learning Report,” Sofia Rhei (Everything Is Made of Letters)
“A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy,” Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
The Man Who Would Be Kling, Adam Roberts (NewCon)
“Ice Breakers,” Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Mission Critical)
“The Gondoliers,” Karen Russell (Tin House, Summer ’19)
“In That Place She Grows a Garden,” Del Sandeen (Fiyah, Spring ’19)
“Advice for Your First Time at the Faerie Market,” Nibedita Sen (Fireside, 7/19)
Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
“Mother Ocean,” Vandana Singh (Current Futures)
“The Wilderling,” Angela Slatter (The Dark #48)
“The Burning Woods,” Michael Marshall Smith (I Am the Abyss)
“Blood Is Another Word for Hunger,” Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, 7/24/19)
The Deep, Rivers Solomon (Saga)
“Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future,” Carlie St. George (Nightmare #85, 10/19)
“You Were Once Wild Here,” Carlie St. George (The Dark 12/19)
“Every Song Must End,” Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Uncanny #27)
Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh (Tor.com)
The Survival of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
“In Xanadu,” Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com, 11/6/19)
“New Atlantis,” Lavie Tidhar (F&SF, 5-6/19)
“Who Will Clean Our Spirits When We’re Gone?” Tlotlo Tsamaase (The Dark #50)
“Gremlin,” Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s, 5-6/19)
“My Snakes,” Frieda Vaughn (Fiyah, Spring ’19)
“Boiled Bones and Black Eggs,” Nghi Vo (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #275)
Into Bones Like Oil, Kaaron Warren (Meerkat)
“The Crafter at the Web’s Heart,” Izzy Wasserstein (Apex 117)
The Ascent to Godhood, JY Yang (Tor.com)
“Windrose in Scarlet,” Isabel Yap (Lightspeed, 10/19)
“The Time Invariance of Snow,” E. Lily Yu (Tor.com, 4/14/19)
“Valley of Wounded Deer,” E. Lily Yu (Lightspeed, 10/19)
“Zero in Babel,” E. Lily Yu (Slate: Future Tense, 7/27/19)
COPYRIGHT CREDITS
Selection and “Introduction” by Jonathan Strahan. © Copyright 2020 by Jonathan Strahan.
“The Bookstore at the End of America” by Charlie Jane Anders. © Copyright 2019 Charlie Jane Anders. Originally published in A People’s Future of the United States (One World). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“Soft Edges” by Elizabeth Bear. © Copyright 2019 Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology (XPrize). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex” by Tobias S. Buckell. © Copyright 2019 Tobias S. Buckell. Originally published in New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Solaris). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
“It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning” by Ted Chiang. © Copyright 2019 Ted Chiang and The New York Times. Originally published in The New York Times, 27 May 2019. Reprinted by kind permission of the author and the author’s agent.