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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol 3
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Vol 3 Author:Neil Clarke (Editor) To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more, a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce t... more »he latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor in chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome 'sensawunda' that the genre has to offer.
Content:
A Series of Steaks (2017) / novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Holdfast (2017) / short story by Alastair Reynolds
Every Hour of Light and Dark (2017) / short story by Nancy Kress
The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) (2017) / short story by Matthew Kressel
Shikasta (2017) / novelette by Vandana Singh
Wind Will Rove (2017) / novelette by Sarah Pinsker
Focus (2017) / short story by Gord Sellar
The Martian Obelisk (2017) / short story by Linda Nagata
Shadows of Eternity (2017) / novelette by Gregory Benford
The Worldless (2017) / short story by Indrapramit Das
Regarding the Robot Raccoons Attached to the Hull of My Ship (2017) / short story by Rachael K. Jones and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Belly Up (2017) / novelette by Maggie Clark
Uncanny Valley (2017) / novelette by Greg Egan
We Who Live in the Heart (2017) / novelette by Kelly Robson
A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World (2017) / short story by A. C. Wise
Meridian (2017) / short story by Karin Lowachee
The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse (2017) / novella by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Extracurricular Activities [The Machineries of Empire] (2017) / novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
In Everlasting Wisdom (2017) / short story by Aliette de Bodard
The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon (2017) / short story by Finbarr O'Reilly
The Speed of Belief [The Great Ship Universe] (2017) / novella by Robert Reed
Death on Mars (2017) / novelette by Madeline Ashby
An Evening with Severyn Grimes (2017) / short story by Rich Larson
ZeroS (2017) / novelette by Peter Watts
The Secret Life of Bots (2017) / novelette by Suzanne Palmer
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance (2017) / short story by Tobias S. Buckell