THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY: 2014 edited by Rich Horton

This sixth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and other top venues, The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

“Social Services” by Madeline Ash (An Aura of Familiarity)
“Out in the Dark” by Linda Nagata (Analog)
“The End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine” by Harry Turtledove (Analog)
“The Oracle” by Lavie Tidhar (Analog)
“Call Girl” by Tang Fei (Apex)
“Ilse, Who Saw Clearly” by E. Lily Yu (Apex)
“They Shall Salt the Earth With Seeds of Glass” by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s)
“The Wildfires of Antarctica” by Alan De Niro (Asimov’s)
“The Discovered Country” by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s)
“A Stranger from a Foreign Ship” by Tom Purdom (Asimov’s)
“On the Origin of Song” by Naim Kabir (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
“Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
“Soulcatcher” by James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld)
“Found” by Alex Dally MacFarlane (Clarkesworld)
“The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
“Loss, With Chalk Diagrams” by E. Lily Yu (Eclipse Online)
“A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel” by Ken Liu (F&SF)
“Kormak the Lucky” by Eleanor Arnason (F&SF)
“Grizzled Veterans of Many and Much” by Robert Reed (F&SF)
“Rosary and Goldenstar” by Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
“The Dragons of Merebarton” by K.J. Parker (Fearsome Journeys)
“Martyr’s Gem” by C. S. E. Cooney (Giganotosaurus)
“Such & Such Said to So & So” by Maria Dahvana Headley (Glitter & Mayhem)
“Killing Curses, a Caught-Heart Quest” by Krista Hoeppner Leahy (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet)
“A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain” by Karin Tidbeck (Lightspeed)
“Paranormal Romance” by Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed)
“The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls” by Howard Waldrop (Old Mars)
“Blanchefleur” by Theodora Goss (Once Upon a Time)
“The Memory Book” by Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells)
“Live Arcade” by Erik Amundsen (Strange Horizons)
“Town’s End” by Yukimi Ogawa (Strange Horizons)
“A Window or a Small Box” by Jedediah Berry (Tor.com)
“Trafalgar and Josefina” by Angelica Gorodischer (Trafalgar)
“Firebrand” by Peter Watts (Twelve Tomorrows)
“Game of Chance” by Carrie Vaughn (Unfettered)

SPACE OPERA edited by Rich Horton

More than five hundred pages, over one-quarter of a million words… Space Opera spans a vast range of epic interstellar adventure stories told against a limitless cosmos filled with exotic aliens, heroic characters, and incredible settings. A truly stellar compilation of tales from one of the defining streams of science fiction, old and new, written by a supernova of genre talent.

“The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars” by Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed)
“The Wreck of the Godspeed” by James Patrick Kelly (Between Worlds)
“Saving Tiamaat” by Gwyneth Jones (The New Space Opera)
“Six Lights Off Green Scar” by Gareth L. Powell (Aphelion)
“Glory” by Greg Egan (The New Space Opera)
“The Mote Dancer and the Firelife” by Chris Willrich (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
“On Rickety Thistlewaite” by Michael F. Flynn (Analog)
“War Without End” by Una McCormack (Conflicts)
“Finisterra” by David Moles (F&SF)
“Seven Years from Home” by Naomi Novik (Warriors)
“Plotters and Shooters” by Kage Baker (Fast Forward 1)
“The Muse of Empires Lost” by Paul Berger (Twenty Epics)
“Boojum” by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette (Fast Ships and Black Sails)
“Lehr Rex” by Jay Lake (Forbidden Planets)
“Cracklegrackle” by Justina Robson (The New Space Opera 2)
“Hideaway” by Alastair Reynolds (Interzone)
“Isabel of the Fall” by Ian R. MacLeod (Interzone)
“Precious Mental” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s)
“Two Sisters in Exile” by Aliette de Bodard (Solaris Rising 1.5)
“Lode Stars” by Lavie Tidhar (The Immersion Book of SF)
“Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clarkesworld)
“The Tear” by Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)