The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (47 page)

CATANEO, EMILY B.

The Emerald Coat and Other Wishes.
Interfictions
, November

CHAON, DAN, AND LYNDA BARRY

Mrs. Popkin.
Seize the Night
, ed. Christopher Golden (Gallery)

CHU, JOHN

Hold-Time Violations.
Tor.com
, October

勢孤取和 (Influence Isolated, Make Peace).
Lightspeed
, June (special issue: Queers Destroy Science Fiction!)

COREY, JAMES S. A.

Rates of Change.
Meeting Infinity
, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

EL-MOHTAR, AMAL

Madeleine.
Lightspeed
, June (special issue: Queers Destroy Science Fiction!)

Pockets.
Uncanny
, January/February

Weialalalea.
The Bestiary
, ed. Ann VanderMeer (Cheeky Frawg/Centipede)

FORD, JEFFREY

Word Doll.
The Doll Collection
, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor)

GRAY, CASPIAN

The King of Ashland County.
Nightmare
, December

HEADLEY, MARIA DAHVANA

And the Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea.
Lightspeed
, February

The Scavenger's Nursery.
Shimmer
, March

Some Gods of El Paso.
Tor.com
, October

HENDERSON, BERRIEN C.

Let Baser Things Devise.
Clarkesworld
, April

HOFFMAN, BEN

Substitutes.
Granta
, October

HOWARD, A. G.

Stitches.
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
, ed. April Genevieve Tucholke (Dial)

HRBEK, GREG

Paternity.
Tin House
, June

HURLEY, KAMERON

The Light Brigade. Patreon.com/KameronHurley, July /
Lightspeed
, November

KABZA, K. J.

Steady on Her Feet.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
, March

KANAKIA, RAHUL

Here Is My Thinking on a Situation That Affects Us All.
Lightspeed
, November

KAUFMAN, WILL

October's Son.
Wag's Revue
, Fall

KESSEL, JOHN

Consolation.
Twelve Tomorrows 2015
, ed. Bruce Sterling (MIT Technology Review)

KIM, ALICE SOLA

A Residence for Friendless Ladies.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, March/April

KRESS, NANCY

Cocoon.
Meeting Infinity
, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

LARSON, RICH

Meshed.
Clarkesworld
, February

LEE, YOON HA

The Graphology of Hemorrhage.
Operation Arcana
, ed. John Joseph Adams (Baen)

LUDWIGSEN, WILL

Acres of Perhaps.
Asimov's Science Fiction
, July

MACHADO, CARMEN MARIA

Horror Story.
Granta
, October

MAMATAS, NICK

We Never Sleep.
The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk
, ed. Sean Wallace (Running Press)

MCGUIRE, SEANAN

Hello Hello.
Future Visions
, ed. Jennifer Henshaw and Allison Linn (Microsoft)

MILLER, SAM J.

Calved.
Asimov's Science Fiction
, September

MORAINE, SUNNY

Dispatches from a Hole in the World.
Nightmare
, October (special issue: Queers Destroy Horror!)

Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams.
Cyborgology
, June

PINSKER, SARAH

When the Circus Lights Down.
Uncanny
, March/April

RUCKER, RUDY

Like a Sea Cucumber.
Terraform
, June

RUSTAD, A. MERC

Tomorrow When We See the Sun.
Lightspeed
, December

SHOEMAKER, MARTIN L.

Today I Am Paul.
Clarkesworld
, August

SINGH, VANDANA

Yakshantariksh.
The Bestiary
, ed. Ann VanderMeer (Cheeky Frawg/Centipede)

SKILLINGSTEAD, JACK

Tribute.
Mission: Tomorrow
, ed. Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Baen)

STEINBACHER, JULIE

Chimeras.
Escape Pod
, February

SUAREZ, DANIEL

All the Childhood You Can Afford.
Twelve Tomorrows 2015
, ed. Bruce Sterling (MIT Technology Review)

SWANWICK, MICHAEL

The Phantom in the Maze.
Tor.com
, December

TOBLER, E. CATHERINE

Lockbox.
She Walks in Shadows
, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (Innsmouth Free Press)

TOM, LAURIE

Even the Mountains Are Not Forever.
Strange Horizons
, March

VALENTINE, GENEVIEVE

Blood, Ash, Braids.
Operation Arcana
, ed. John Joseph Adams (Baen)

Given the Advantage of the Blade.
Lightspeed
, August

VAUGHN, CARRIE

Bannerless.
The End Has Come
, ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Broad Reach)

Sun, Stone, Spear.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
, March

WILSON, DANIEL H.

God Mode.
Press Start to Play
, ed. John Joseph Adams and Daniel H. Wilson (Vintage)

WILSON, KAI ASHANTE

Kaiju maximus®: “So Various, So Beautiful, So New.”
Fantasy Magazine
, December (special issue: Queers Destroy Fantasy!)

WONG, ALYSSA

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers.
Nightmare
, October (special issue: Queers Destroy Horror!)

YOACHIM, CAROLINE M.

Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World.
Lightspeed
, September

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K
AREN
J
OY
F
OWLER
, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
. She was the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and the recipient of numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards.

J
OHN
J
OSEPH
A
DAMS
, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including
Brave New Worlds
and
Wastelands
. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines
Lightspeed
and
Nightmare
, and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a science fiction/fantasy imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

* That's “no” in Shyriiwook, a Wookie language. Sorry, not sure of my spelling.

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† That's “not true” in Sindarin, an Elvish language. Experts verify that my spelling is correct on this one.

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‡ As Gandalf might say.

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* If you'd like to see my longer, more extensive discussion of the definition and/or history of the genre, the full text of my 2015 foreword is available online at
johnjosephadams.com/BASFF-2015
.

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† For more, see the project's website at
breakthroughinitiatives.org
, or the
New York Times
article “Reaching for the Stars, Across 4.37 Light-Years,” at
nyti.ms/25XoewM
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