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From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears -- of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people -- and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.

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(works which are available to read online for free are linked)

Editorial

Foreword by John Joseph Adams
Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler

Fantasy

Meet Me in Iram by Sofia Samatar from Meet Me in Iram/Those Are the Pearls
Interesting Facts by Adam Johnson from Harper's Magazine
The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary by Kij Johnson from Clarkesworld Magazine
The Mushroom Queen by Liz Ziemska from Tin House
Tea Time short story by Rachel Swirsky from Lightspeed Magazine
The Duniazát by Salman Rushdie from The New Yorker
The Thirteen Mercies by Maria Dahvana Headley from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Things You Can Buy for a Penny short story by Will Kaufman from Lightspeed Magazine
The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History by Sam J. Miller from Uncanny Magazine
Ambiguity Machines: An Examination by Vandana Singh from Tor.com

Science Fiction

The Game of Smash and Recovery by Kelly Link from Strange Horizons
Planet Lion by Catherynne M. Valente from Uncanny Magazine
By Degrees and Dilatory Time by S.L. Huang from Strange Horizons
The Daydreamer by Proxy by Dexter Palmer from The Bestiary
Headshot by Julian Mortimer Smith from Terraform
No Placeholder for You, My Love by Nick Wolven from Asimov's Science Fiction
Lightning Jack's Last Ride by Dale Bailey from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Rat Catcher's Yellows short story by Charlie Jane Anders from Press Start to Play
Three Bodies at Mitanni (podcast) by Seth Dickinson from Analog Science Fiction & Fact
The Great Silence by Allora & Calzadilla & Ted Chiang from e-flux journal

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