The Best Science Fiction of the Year

The Best Science Fiction of the Year

by Neil Clarke
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/04/2018

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As Earth dies, an architect is commissioned to remote build a monument on Mars from the remains of a failed colony; a man who has transferred his consciousness into a humanoid robot discovers he’s missing thirty percent of his memories, and tries to discover why; bored with life in the underground colony of an alien world, a few risk life inside one of the “whales” floating in the planet’s atmosphere; an apprentice librarian searching through centuries of SETI messages from alien civilizations makes an ominous discovery; a ship in crisis pulls a veteran multibot out from storage with an unusual assignment: pest control; the dead are given a second shot at life, in exchange for a five-year term in a zombie military program. For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s 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 Three, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-seven of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2017.


Table of Contents


Introduction: The State of Short SF Field in 2017


A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad


Holdfast by Alastair Reynolds


Every Hour of Light and Dark by Nancy Kress


The Last Novelist, or a Dead Lizard in the Yard by Matthew Kressel


Shikasta by Vandana Singh


Wind Will Rove by Sarah Pinsker


Focus by Gord Sellar


The Martian Obelisk by Linda Nagata


Shadows of Eternity by Gregory Benford


The Worldless by Indrapramit Das


Regarding the Robot Raccoons Attached to the Hull of My Ship by Rachel Jones and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali


Belly Up by Maggie Clark


Uncanny Valley by Greg Egan


We Who Live in the Heart by Kelly Robson


A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World by A.C. Wise


Meridian by Karin Lowachee


The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse by Kathleen Ann Goonan


Extracurricular Activities by Yoon Ha Lee


In Everlasting Wisdom by Aliette de Bodard


The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon by Finbarr O’Reilly


The Speed of Belief by Robert Reed


Death on Mars by Madeline Ashby


An Evening with Severyn Grimes by Rich Larson


ZeroS by Peter Watts


The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer


Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance by Tobias S. Buckell


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ISBN:
9781597806190
9781597806190
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-04-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Start Publishing LLC
Neil Clarke

Neil Clarke is the editor of Clarkesworld and Forever Magazine; owner of Wyrm Publishing; and a five-time Hugo Award Nominee for Best Editor (short form).

He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

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