From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single paperback volume. 

The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer. 

• When We Were Starless-Simone Heller 
• Intervention-Kelly Robson 
• ll the Time We've Left to Spend-Alyssa Wong
• Domestic Violence-Madeline Ashby 
• Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae-Ian McDonald 
• Prophet of the Roads-Naomi Kritzer 
• Traces of Us-Vanessa Fogg 
• Theories of Flight-Linda Nagata 
• Lab B-15-Nick Wolven 
• Requiem-Vandana Singh 
• Sour Milk Girls-Erin Roberts 
• Mother Tongues-S. Qiouyi Lu 
• Singles' Day-Samantha Murray 
• Nine Last Days on Planet Earth-Daryl Gregory 
• The Buried Giant-Lavie Tidhar 
• The Anchorite Wakes-R.S.A. Garcia Entropy 
• War-Yoon Ha Lee 
• An Equation of State-Robert Reed 
• Quantifying Trust-John Chu 
• Hard Mary-Sofia Samatar 
• Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling-L.X. Beckett 
• Okay, Glory-Elizabeth Bear 
• Heavy Lifting-A.T. Greenblatt 
• Lions and Gazelles-Hannu Rajaniemi 
• Different Seas-Alastair Reynolds 
• Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger's Steps-Aliette de Bodard 
• Byzantine Empathy-Ken Liu 
• Meat and Salt and Sparks-Rich Larson 
• Umbernight-Carolyn Ives Gilman