Introduction: launching rockets --
How to get back to the forest / Sofia Samatar --
Help me follow my sister into the Land of the Dead / Carmen Maria Machado --
Tortoiseshell cats are not refundable / Cat Rambo --
The bad graft / Karen Russell --
A guide to the fruits of Hawai'i / Alaya Dawn Johnson --
Each to each / Seanan McGuire --
Orges of East Africa / Sofia Samatar --
Cimmeria: from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology / Theodora Goss --
How the marquis got his coat back / Neil Gaiman --
Windows / Susan Palwick --
The thing about shapes to come / Adam-Troy Castro --
We are the cloud / Sam J. Miller --
The blue afternoon that lasted forever / Daniel H. Wilson --
Skullpocket / Nathan Ballingrud --
I can see right through you / Kelly Link --
The empties / Jess Row --
The one they took before / Kelly Sandoval --
The relieve box / T. C. Boyle --
How to become a robot in 12 easy steps / A. Merc Rustad --
Other notable science fiction and fantasy stories of 2014
Meet me in Iram / Sofia Samatar --
The game of smash and recovery / Kelly Link --
Interesting facts / Adam Johnson --
Planet Lion / Catherynne M. Valente --
The apartment dweller's bestiary / Kij Johnson --
By degrees and dilatory time S. L. Huang --
The mushroon queen / Liz Ziemska --
The daydreamer by proxy / Dexter Palmer --
Tea time / Rachel Swirsky --
Headshot / Julian Mortimer Smith --
The Duniazát / Salman Rushdie --
No placeholder for you, my love / Nick Wolven --
The thirteen mercies / Maria Dahvana Headley --
Lightning Jack's last ride / Dale Bailey --
Things you can buy for a penny / Will Kaufman --
Rat catcher's yellows / Charlie Jane Anders --
The heat of us: notes toward an oral history / Sam J. Miller --
Three bodies at Mitanni / Seth Dickinson --
Ambiguity machines: an examination / Vandana Singh --
The great silence / Ted Chaing --
Notable science fiction and fantasy stories of 2015.
2018. Rivers run free / Charles Payseur --
Destroy the city with me tonight / Kate Alice Marshall --
You will always have family: a triptych / Kathleen Kayembe --
Justice systems in quantum parallel probabilities / Lettie Prell --
Loneliness is in your blood / Cadwell Turnbull --
The hermit of Houston / Samuel R. Delany --
The last Cheng Beng gift / Jaymee Goh --
Brightened star, ascending dawn / A. Merc Rustad --
The resident / Carmen Maria Machado --
The greatest one-star restaurant in the whole quadrant / Rachael K. Jones --
Tasting notes on the varietals of the southern coast / Gwendolyn Clare --
Don't press charges and I won't sue / Charlie Jane Anders --
Church of birds / Micah Dean Hicks --
Carnival Nine / Caroline M. Yoachim --
The wretched and the beautiful / E. Lily Yu --
The orange tree / Maria Dahvana Headley --
Cannibal acts / Maureen McHugh --
Black powder / Maria Dahvana Headley --
Zen and the art of starship maintenance / Tobias S. Buckell.
2023. Readings in the slantwise sciences / Sofia Samatar --
Air to shape lungs / Shingai Njeri Kagunda --
Beginnings / Kristina Ten --
Sparrows / Susan Palwick --
The six deaths of the saint / Alix E. Harrow --
Termination stories for the cyberpunk dystopia protagonist / Isabel J. Kim --
Men, women, and chainsaws / Stephen Graham Jones --
Rabbit test / Samantha Mills --
There are no monsters on Rancho Buenavista / Isabel Cañas --
Murder by pixel: crime and responsibility in the digital darkness / S. L. Huang --
White water, blue ocean / Linda Raquel Nieves Peŕez --
The CRISPR cookbook: a guide to biohacking your own abortion in a post-Roe world / Mkrnyilgld --
Three Mothers Mountain / Nathan Ballingrud --
The Odyssey problem / Chris Willrich --
Pellargonia: a letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology / Theodora Goss --
Pre-simulation consultation XF007867 / Kim Fu --
In the beginning of me, I was a bird / Maria Dong --
The difference between love and time / Catherynne M. Valente --
Folk hero motifs in tales told by the dead / KT Bryski --
Cumulative ethical guidelines for mid-range interstellar storytellers / Malka Older.
