Saga Press has revealed the cover and table of contents of their upcoming Year’s Best Science Fiction, Vol. 1, edited by Jonathan Strahan. Of the twenty-eight stories, eleven were originally published in original book anthologies, nine in online magazines, three in print magazines, two in an original online anthology, one in a collection, one in a newspaper, and one as a digital stand-alone.
- “The Bookstore at the End of America” by Charlie Jane Anders. (A People’s Future of the United States, One World.)
- “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex” by Tobias S. Buckell. (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Solaris.)
- “Kali_Na” by Indrapramit Das. (The Mythic Dream, Saga Press.)
- “Song of the Birds” by Saleem Haddad. (Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century After the Nakhba, Comma Press.)
- “The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer. (Clarkesworld, June 2019.)
- “The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir” by Karin Tidbeck. (Tor.com, 14 January 2019.)
- “Sturdy Ladders and Lanterns” by Malka Older. (Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology, XPRIZE.)
- “It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning” by Ted Chiang. (The New York Times, 27 May 2019.)
- “Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous” by Rich Larson. (F&SF, March/April 2019.)
- “Submarines” by Han Song. (Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Tor.)
- “As the Last I May Know” by S.L. Huang. (Tor.com, 6 November 2019.)
- “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde. (Uncanny, January-February 2019.)
- “The Robots of Eden” by Anil Menon. (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Solaris.)
- “Now Wait for This Week” by Alice Sola Kim. (A People’s Future of the United States, One World.)
- “Cyclopterus” by Peter Watts. (Mission Critical, Solaris.)
- “Dune Song” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. (Apex, 7 May 2019.)
- “The Work of Wolves” by Tegan Moore. (Asimov’s, July/August 2019.)
- “The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. Yoachim. (Lightspeed, April 2019.)
- “Soft Edges” by Elizabeth Bear. (Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology, XPRIZE.)
- “Emergency Skin” by N. K. Jemisin. (Amazon Original Stories.)
- “Thoughts and Prayers” by Ken Liu. (Slate, 26 January 2019.)
- “At the Fall” by Alec Nevala-Lee. (Analog, May/June 2019.)
- “Reunion” by Vandana Singh. (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Hachette India.)
- “Green Glass: A Love Story” by E. Lily Yu. (If This Goes On, Parvus Press.)
- “Secret Stories of Doors” by Sofia Rhei. (Everything is Made of Letters, Aqueduct Press.)
- “This Is Not the Way Home” by Greg Egan. (Mission Critical, Solaris.)
- “What the Dead Man Said” by Chinelo Onwualu. (Slate, 24 August 2019.)
- “I (28M) Created a Deepfake Girlfriend and Now My Parents Think We’re Getting Married” by Fonda Lee. (MIT Technology Review, 27 December 2019.)
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