The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker
On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
The Wedding Album by David Marusek
Sublimation Angels by Jason Sanford
The God Engines by John Scalzi
Incarnation Day by Walter Jon Williams
Truth by Robert Reed
New Light On the Drake Equation by Ian R. Macleod
Act One by Nancy Kress
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu
The Wedding Album by David Marusek
Sublimation Angels by Jason Sanford
Kiosk by Bruce Sterling
Lindsey
Iseul’s Lexicon, published in Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee, blew me away.
Bogi Takács (prezzey, @bogiperson)
A few that I liked, in no particular order:
On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard (standalone)
All the Flavors: A Tale of Guan Yu, the Chinese God of War, in America by Ken Liu (GigaNotoSaurus)
Let Maps to Others by K. J. Parker (Subterranean)
Love and Other Monsters by Vandana Singh (standalone, Aqueduct Press)
Distances by Vandana Singh (standalone, Aqueduct Press)
Shtetl Days by Harry Turtledove (Tor.com)
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu (Panverse 3)
Dancing the Warrior by Marie Brennan (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Miriam
The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker
On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
The Wedding Album by David Marusek
Sublimation Angels by Jason Sanford
The God Engines by John Scalzi
Michael Habf
Incarnation Day by Walter Jon Williams
Truth by Robert Reed
New Light On the Drake Equation by Ian R. Macleod
Act One by Nancy Kress
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu
The Wedding Album by David Marusek
Sublimation Angels by Jason Sanford
Kiosk by Bruce Sterling
Helena
Katabasis by Robert Reed
Michael
The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams
The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
Tendeléo’s Story by Ian McDonald
Sam Tomaino
Without checking my extensive lists:
Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle
Memorare by Gene Wolfe
There are others but those I remember immediately.
Rebecca Adams Wright
one no one has mentioned yet that I really enjoyed was Ferret Steinmetz’s Sauerkraut Station, in GigaNotoSaurus.