Best Science Fiction of the Year: Recommended Reading List

When I first started work on The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One, I had the intention of documenting everything. That lasted about three months. By the end, my process evolved to a combination of digital and physical piles (read/not-read) and a long list of potential candidates. All of those stories are represented in the anthology, either as a reprints or in the recommended reading list at the end of the book. They were all great stories that deserve attention, so with my publisher’s permission, I share that list with you now:

2015 Recommended Reading List

“Ruins” by Eleanor Arnason, Old Venus
“A Stopped Clock” by Madeline Ashby, War Stories from the Future
“City of Ash” by Paolo Bacigalupi, Matter (July 2015)
“My Last Bringback” by John Barnes, Meeting Infinity
“The Heart’s Filthy Lesson” by Elizabeth Bear, Old Venus
“The Machine Starts” by Greg Bear, Future Visions
“It Takes More Muscles to Frown” by Ned Beauman, Twelve Tomorrows 2016
“Twelve and Tag” by Gregory Norman Bossert, Asimov’s (March 2015)
“Ratcatcher” by Tobias S. Buckell, Xenowealth
“Evangelist” by Adam-Troy Castro, Analog (November 2015)
“The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang, e-flux Journal (56th Venice Biennale)
“勢孤取和 (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)” by John Chu, Lightspeed (June 2015)
“The Vital Abyss” by James S.A. Corey, Orbit Books
“The Citadel of Weeping Pearls” by Aliette de Bodard, Asimov’s (October/November 2015)
“Taste the Whip” by Andy Dudak, Diabolical Plots (March 2015)
“The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred” by Greg Egan, Asimov’s (December 2015)
“The New Mother” by E. J. Fischer, Asimov’s (April/May 2015)
“Liminal Grid” by Jaymee Goh, Strange Horizons (November 9, 2015)
“The Light Brigade” by Kameron Hurley, Patreon
“The 1st Annual Lunar Biathlon” by Rachael Jones, Crossed Genres (October 2015)
“The Last Hunt” by Vylar Kaftan, Asimov’s (September 2015)
“Consolation” by John Kessel, Twelve Tomorrows 2016
“Machine Learning” by Nancy Kress, Future Visions
“Gamer’s End” by Yoon Ha Lee, Press Start to Play
“My Father’s Crab” by Bruce McAllister, Analog (October 2015)
“The Falls: A Luna Story” by Ian McDonald, Meeting Infinity
“Little Sisters” by Vonda McIntyre, Book View Cafe
“When Your Child Strays from God” by Sam J. Miller, Clarkesworld (July 2015)
“Plural” by Lia Swope Mitchell, Cosmos (February/March 2015)
“The Molenstraat Music Festival” by Sean Monaghan, Asimov’s (September 2015)
“Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor, Tor.com (August 17, 2015)
“Our Lady of the Open Road” by Sarah Pinsker, Asimov’s (June 2015)
“Today’s Smarthouse in Love” by Sarah Pinsker, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May/June 2015)
“The City of Your Soul” by Robert Reed, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November/December 2015)
“Slow Bullets” by Alastair Reynolds, Tachyon Publications
“The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson, Clarkesworld (February 2015)
“Inhuman Garbage” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Asimov’s (March 2015)
“The Museum of Modern Warfare” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Analog (December 2015)
“I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way up in the Air” by Clifford D. Simak, I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories: The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak
“The Reluctant Jew” by Rachel Swirsky, Jews vs Aliens
“Planet Lion” by Catherynne M. Valente, Uncanny (May/June 2015)
“The Internet of Things Your Mother Never Told You” by Jo Lindsay Walton, Twelve Tomorrows 2016
“On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers” by Nick Wolven, Asimov’s (February 2015)
“Ether” by Zhang Ran, Clarkesworld (January 2015)

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