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 K. 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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