Overview
For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether itās a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-nine of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2018. Table of Contents
Ā Introduction: A State of Short SF Field in 2018
Ā When We Were StarlessāSimone Heller
InterventionāKelly Robson
All the Time Weāve Left to SpendāAlyssa Wong
Domestic ViolenceāMadeline Ashby
Ten Landscapes of Nili FossaeāIan McDonald
Prophet of the RoadsāNaomi Kritzer
Traces of UsāVanessa Fogg
Theories of FlightāLinda Nagata
Lab Bā15āNick Wolven
RequiemāVandana Singh
Sour Milk GirlsāErin Roberts
Mother TonguesāS. Qiouyi Lu
Singlesā DayāSamantha Murray
Nine Last Days on Planet EarthāDaryl Gregory
The Buried GiantāLavie Tidhar
The Anchorite WakesāR.S.A. Garcia
Entropy WarāYoon Ha Lee
An Equation of StateāRobert Reed
Quantifying TrustāJohn Chu
Hard MaryāSofia Samatar
Freezing Rain, a Chance of FallingāL.X. Beckett
Okay, GloryāElizabeth Bear
Heavy LiftingāA.T. Greenblatt
Lions and GazellesāHannu Rajaniemi
Different SeasāAlastair Reynolds
Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tigerās StepsāAliette de Bodard
Byzantine EmpathyāKen Liu
Meat and Salt and SparksāRich Larson
UmbernightāCarolyn Ives GilmanĀ
2018 Recommended Reading List
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