Published in 2018
386 pages
N. K. Jemisin is the author of several novels, including The Fifth Season, which won the Locus and Hugo awards (making her the first black author to win either award for best novel). Her short fiction and novels have also been multiply nominated for the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award, and short-listed for the Crawford and the Tiptree. She writes the bimonthly “Otherworldly” column at the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
What is this book about?
A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2017.
Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Jemisin bringing her lyrical, endlessly curious point of view to the series’ latest edition.
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
ZeroS / Peter Watts
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
