Welcome to the Locus Annual Recommended Reading List!



The list is published in Locus Magazine’s February 2017 issue, and is a consensus by Locus editors, reviewers, and other professionals — editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi; reviews editor Jonathan Strahan; reviewers Liz Bourke, Carolyn Cushman, Paul Di Filippo, Gardner Dozois, Amy Goldschlager, Paula Guran, Rich Horton, John Langan, Russell Letson, Adrienne Martini, Faren Miller, Colleen Mondor, Tim Pratt, Rachel Swirsky, Tom Whitmore, and Gary K. Wolfe; Bob Blough; Mark R. Kelly; Paul Kincaid; Cheryl Morgan; and Graham Sleight. The young-adult list compiling group wrapped in Laurel Amberdine, Gwenda Bond, Barry Goldblatt, Justina Ireland, Justine Larbalestier, Eric Smith, and Tiffany Trent. The art book section had help from Arnie Fenner, Karen Haber, and Francesca Myman. The short fiction categories were compiled by Strahan with input from Dozois, Guran, Horton, Langan, Miller, Swirsky, and Wolfe; and editors and reviewers John Joseph Adams, Charles Payseur, Nisi Shawl, and A.C. Wise. Locus thanks everyone involved for their time, their expertise, and their affection for the field.

Essays by many of these contributors, highlighting and discussing their particular favorite books and stories, are also published in the February issue of Locus, along with the Magazine Summary and Book Summary for 2016.

You can vote on your favorites for the year in the Locus Poll & Survey, which will be live in early February here.

NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION

Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor)

The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Saga)

Take Back the Sky, Greg Bear (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Visitor, C.J. Cherryh (DAW)

Babylon’s Ashes, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Europe in Winter, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

False Hearts, Laura Lam (Tor; Macmillan)

Death’s End, Cixin Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus)

The Corporation Wars: Dissidence, Ken MacLeod (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Into Everywhere, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)

Faller, Will McIntosh (Tor)

After Atlas, Emma Newman (Roc)

The Core of the Sun, Johanna Sinisalo (Black Cat)

Occupy Me, Tricia Sullivan (Gollancz)

Rosewater, Tade Thompson (Apex)

Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)

Icon, Genevieve Valentine (Saga)

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; Fleet)

Alien Morning, Rick Wilber (Tor)

Impersonations, Walter Jon Williams (Tor.com Publishing)

Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Barren Cove, Ariel S. Winter (Bestler)

Underground Airlines, Ben H. Winters (Mulholland; Century)

NOVELS – FANTASY

The Spider’s War, Daniel Abraham (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)

Summerlong, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)

City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)

Masks and Shadows, Stephanie Burgis (Pyr)

Breath of Earth, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager US)

A Shadow All of Light, Fred Chappell (Tor)

Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?, Paul Cornell (Pan)

Four Roads Cross, Max Gladstone (Tor)

The Regional Office is Under Attack!, Manuel Gonzales (Riverhead)

Will Do Magic for Small Change, Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct)

Eterna and Omega, Leanna Renee Hieber (Tor)

Roadsouls, Betsy James (Aqueduct)

The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

The Perdition Score, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay (NAL; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Wall of Storms, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)

The Seer, Sonia Orin Lyris (Baen)

Kingfisher, Patricia McKillip (Ace)

An Accident of Stars, Foz Meadows (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)

The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)

Medusa’s Web, Tim Powers (Morrow; Corvus UK)

The Gradual, Christopher Priest (Titan US; Gollancz)

The Winged Histories, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)

The Trees, Ali Shaw (Bloomsbury Circus; Bloomsbury USA)

The Last Mortal Bond, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK)

The Nightmare Stacks, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)

The Liberation, Ian Tregillis (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Necessity, Jo Walton (Tor)

Cloudbound, Fran Wilde (Tor)

NOVELS – HORROR

The Brotherhood of the Wheel, R.S. Belcher (Tor)

Fellside, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

The Wretch of the Sun, Michael Cisco (Hippocampus)

The Fireman, Joe Hill (Morrow)

Good Girls, Glen Hirshberg (Tor)

Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (Morrow)

The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)

Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Dunne)

HEX, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Family Plot, Cherie Priest (Tor)

Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

The Rose & the Dagger, Renée Ahdieh (Putnam)

Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo (Holt)

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)

The Bronze Key, Holly Black & Cassandra Clare (Scholastic; Corgi)

Three Dark Crowns, Kendare Blake (HarperTeen; Macmillan)

Lois Lane: Double Down, Gwenda Bond (Switch)

The Swan Riders, Erin Bow (McElderry)

Labyrinth Lost, Zoraida Cordóva (Sourcebooks)

Truthwitch, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Tor UK)

Poisoned Blade, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)

Blood for Blood, Ryan Graudin (Little, Brown)

Aerie, Maria Dahvana Headley (Harper; Orion)

Gemina, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Knopf)

Rebellion of Thieves, Kekla Magoon (Bloomsbury USA)

Burning Midnight, Will McIntosh (Delacorte; Macmillan)

When the Moon Was Ours, Anna-Marie McLemore (Dunne)

The Left-Handed Fate, Kate Milford (Holt)

Goldenhand, Garth Nix (Harper; Allen & Unwin; Hot Key)

Revenger, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US ’17)

Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, Lindsay Ribar (Dawson)

This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab (Titan; Greenwillow)

The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)

And I Darken, Kiersten White (Delacorte; Corgi)

The Steep and Thorny Way, Cat Winters (Abrams)

FIRST NOVELS

The Reader, Traci Chee (Putnam)

Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis Chen (Dunne)

The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s)

The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow; Hot Key)

Roses and Rot, Kat Howard (Saga)

Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor)

A Fierce and Subtle Poison, Samantha Mabry (Algonquin)

Devil and the Bluebird, Jennifer Mason-Black (Amulet)

Infomocracy, Malka Older (Tor.com Publishing)

Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)

Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)

Azanian Bridges, Nick Wood (NewCon)

COLLECTIONS

Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)

The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories, Joan Aiken (Small Beer)

Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by Aliens, Eleanor Arnason (Aqueduct)

Swift to Chase, Laird Barron (JournalStone)

Slipping, Lauren Beukes (Tachyon)

Fathoms, Jack Cady (Underland)

A Long December, Richard Chizmar (Subterranean; Short, Scary Tales)

On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories, Tina Connolly (Fairwood)

A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)

The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria, Carlos Hernandez (Rosarium)

The Complete Orsinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)

The Found and the Lost, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)

Furnace, Livia Llewellyn (Word Horde)

The Best of Ian McDonald, Ian McDonald (PS)

Dreams of Distant Shores, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon)

Other Stories, Paul Park (PS)

Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean; Gollancz)

Early Days: More Tales from the Pulp Era, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean)

A Feast of Sorrows, Angela Slatter (Prime)

Project Elfhome, Wen Spencer (Baen)

Interior Darkness: Selected Stories, Peter Straub (Doubleday)

Not So Much, Said the Cat, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon)

Two Travelers, Sarah Tolmie (Aqueduct)

Amaryllis and Other Stories, Carrie Vaughn (Fairwood)

Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt (Shock Totem)

Children of the New World, Alexander Weinstein (Picador)

Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World and Other Stories, Caroline M. Yoachim (Fairwood)

ANTHOLOGIES

ORIGINAL

Clockwork Phoenix 5, Mike Allen, ed. (Mythic Delirium)

Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)

Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)

The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, Paula Guran, ed. (Robinson; Running Press)

Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Mikki Kendall & Chesya Burke, eds. (Crossed Genres)

Tremontaine, Ellen Kushner, ed. (Serial Box; Saga ’17)

Love Beyond Body, Space, & Time, Hope Nicholson, ed. (Bedside)

Monstrous Little Voices, Jonathan Oliver & David Moore, eds. (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)

The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

Bridging Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Drowned Worlds, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

The Grimm Future, Erin Underwood, ed. (NESFA)

Now We Are Ten, Ian Whates, ed. (NewCon)

REPRINTS/BESTS

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin; Robinson as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)

The Year’s Best SF & Fantasy: 2016 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)

Invisible Planets, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor; Head of Zeus)

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

The Big Book of Science Fiction, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

NON-FICTION

Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981-1990, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University)

Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan (University of Illinois Press)

Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction, André M. Carrington (University of Minnesota Press)

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright)

The View From the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline)

Time Travel: A History, James Gleick (Pantheon)

The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor)

Words Are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

The Merril Theory of Lit’ry Criticism, Judith Merril (Aqueduct)

Making Conversation, Teresa Nielsen Hayden (NESFA)

Castaway Tales: From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi, Christopher Palmer (Wesleyan)

The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition, Adam Roberts (Palgrave Macmillan)

Alfred Bester, Jad Smith (University of Illinois Press)

Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction, Lavie Tidhar & Shimon Adaf (Repeater)

…Flying Saucers Are Real!, Jack Womack (Anthology Editions)

Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

ART BOOKS

Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations, Yoshitaka Amano (VIZ Media)

Kinuko Y. Craft, Beauty and the Beast, Mahlon F. Craft (Harper)

Kinuko Y. Craft, Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Coloring Book (Amber Lotus)

Mélanie Delon, Magika: The Art of Mélanie Delon (SQP)

Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)

Patrick J. Jones, The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Art of Patrick J. Jones (Korero)

Stephanie Law, Descants & Cadences: The Art of Stephanie Law (Shadowscapes)

Jeffrey Alan Love, Notes From the Shadowed City (Flesk)

Michael Manomivibul, Fathoms: The Art of Michael Manomivibul (self-published)

Ralph McQuarrie, Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie (Abrams)

Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined, Ron Miller (Smithsonian/Elephant Book Company)

The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume Two: Gods & Goddesses, Malcolm R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer (Michael Publishing)

The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dermot Power, ed. (Harper Design; HarperCollins UK)

Shaun Tan, The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales (Allen & Unwin 2015; Arthur A. Levine; Walker UK)

Charles Vess, Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie (Faerie Magazine)

NOVELLAS

The Lost Child of Lychford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)

The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)

Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Publishing)

The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)

Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)

This Census-taker, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)

“The Charge and the Storm”, An Owomoyela (Asimov’s 6/16)

The Devil You Know, K.J. Parker (Tor.com Publishing)

The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds (NewCon)

The Dispatcher, John Scalzi (Audible; Subterranean 2017)

Pirate Utopia, Bruce Sterling (Tachyon)

“The Vanishing Kind”, Lavie Tidhar (F&SF 07-08/16)

A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTES

“The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com 7/27/16)

“Checkerboard Planet”, Eleanor Arnason (Clarkesworld 12/16)

“Fifty Shades of Grays”, Steven Barnes (Lightspeed 6/16)

“Salto Mortal”, Nick T. Chan (Lightspeed 6/16)

“A Dead Djinn in Cairo”, P. Djeli Clark (Tor.com 5/18/16)

“Pearl”, Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood)

“The Life and Times of Angel Evans”, Meredith Debonnaire (Booksmugglers 9/13/16)

“Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 4/16)

“Red as Blood and White as Bone”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 5/4/16)

“Number Nine Moon”, Alex Irvine (F&SF 1-2/16)

“Birdfather”, Stephen Graham Jones (Black Static 3-4/16)

“The Night Cyclist”, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com 9/21/16)

“Antediluvian Homesick Blues”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest 10/16)

“Jonas and the Fox”, Rich Larson (Clarkesworld 5/16)

“Foxfire, Foxfire”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/03/16)

“The Visitor from Taured”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 9/16)

“In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro”, Usman T. Malik (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu)

“Angel, Monster, Man”, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 1/16)

“Cold Comfort”, Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty (Bridging Infinity)

“Spinning Silver”, Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)

“Unauthorized Access”, An Owomoyela (Lightspeed 9/16)

“Told by an Idiot”, K.J. Parker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/04/16)

“Project Empathy”, Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov’s 3/16)

“Project Symmetry”, Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov’s 6/16)

“Those Shadows Laugh”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/16)

“Prodigal”, Gord Sellar (Analog 12/16)

“Inheritance, or the Ruby Tear”, Priya Sharma (Black Static 7-8/16)

“The Great Detective”, Delia Sherman (Tor.com 2/17/16)

“The Future is Blue”, Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds)

“Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home”, Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld 10/16)

“The Mind Is Its Own Place”, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 9/16)

The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)

“The Metal Demimonde”, Nick Wolven (Analog 7-8/16)

“Passion Summer”, Nick Wolven (Asimov’s 2/16)

“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 5-6/16)

SHORT STORIES

“Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived By Her Mercy”, Charlie Jane Anders (Drowned Worlds)

“Rager in Space”, Charlie Jane Anders (Bridging Infinity)

“Mika Model“, Paolo Bacigalupi (Slate 4/16)

“I Was a Teenage Werewolf“, Dale Bailey (Nightmare 12/16)

“The Story of Kao Yu“, Peter S. Beagle (Tor.com 12/7/16)

“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies“, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)

“The Voice in the Cornfield, the Word Made Flesh”, Desirina Boskovich (F&SF 9-10/16)

“The House That Jessica Built“, Nadia Bulkin (The Dark 11/16)

“Nesters”, Siobhan Carroll (Children of Lovecraft)

“Applied Cenotaphics in the Long, Long Latitudes“, Vajra Chandrasekera (Strange Horizons 9/5/16)

“A Tower for the Coming World“, Maggie Clark (Clarkesworld 12/16)

“The House That Creaks“, Elaine Cuyegkeng (The Dark 10/16)

“A Salvaging of Ghosts“, Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/17/16)

“The Sound That Grief Makes“, Kristi DeMeester (The Dark 10/16)

“Seasons of Glass and Iron“, Amal el-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)

“Ghost Pressure”, Gemma Files (What the #@&% Is That?)

“Not Without Mercy“, Jeffrey Ford (Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens)

“The Mutants Men Don’t See”, James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s 8/16)

“Even the Crumbs Were Delicious”, Daryl Gregory (The Starlit Wood)

“Tower of the Rosewater Goblet“, Nin Harris (Strange Horizons 1/4/16)

“Little Widow“, Maria Dahvana Headley (Nightmare 9/16)

“The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory”, Carlos Hernandez (The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria)

“The City Born Great“, N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com 9/28/16)

“Red Dirt Witch”, N.K. Jemisin (Fantasy 12/16)

“Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse”, Xia Jia (Invisible Planets)

“Breathe“, Cassandra Khaw (Clarkesworld 5/16)

“The Line Between the Devil’s Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10)”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest 11/16)

“Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest 7/16)

“Successor, Usurper, Replacement“, Alice Sola Kim (Buzzfeed 10/25/16)

“The One Who Isn’t“, Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed 7/16)

“Postcards from Natalie“, Carrie Laben (The Dark 7/16)

“The Finest, Fullest Flowering“, Marc Laidlaw (Nightmare 6/16)

“Sparks Fly“, Rich Larson (Lightspeed 3/16)

“You Make Pattaya”, Rich Larson (Interzone 11-12/16)

“Shadows Weave“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/26/16)

“Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit – Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts”, Ken Liu (Drowned Worlds)

“Seven Birthdays”, Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)

“A Good Home“, Karin Lowachee (Lightspeed 6/16)

“Ozymandias”, Karin Lowachee (Bridging Infinity)

“Her Sacred Spirit Soars“, S. Qiouyi Lu (Strange Horizons 7/18/16)

“My Body, Herself“, Carmen Maria Machado (Uncanny 9-10/16)

“The Wreck at Goat’s Head“, Alexandra Manglis (Strange Horizons 11/16)

“Elves of Antarctica”, Paul McAuley (Drowned Worlds)

“Something Happened Here, but We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was“, Paul McAuley (Tor.com 7/20/16)

“Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands“, Seanan McGuire (Uncanny 5-6/16)

“Last Gods”, Sam J. Miller (Drowned Worlds)

“Things with Beards“, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 6/16)

“Webs“, Mary Anne Mohanraj (Asimov’s 7/16)

“u wont remember dying“, Russell Nichols (Terraform 6/23/16)

“With Her Diamond Teeth“, Pear Nuallak (The Dark 11/16)

“Ever Changing, Ever Turning“, Yukimi Ogawa (Lackington’s Summer 2016)

“Afrofuturist 419“, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 11/16)

“Screamers“, Tochi Onyebuchi (Omenana 11/9/16)

“Between Dragons and Their Wrath“, An Owomoyela & Rachel Swirsky (Clarkesworld 2/16)

“Under One Roof“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 9-10/16)

“Left Behind“, Cat Rambo (Clarkesworld 5/16)

“Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee”, Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)

“Those Brighter Stars“, Mercurio D. Rivera (Lightspeed 8/16)

“The Bog Girl“, Karen Russell (The New Yorker 6/20/16)

“The Red Thread“, Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed 6/16)

“The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle”, Sofia Samatar (The Starlit Wood)

“Vulcanization“, Nisi Shawl (Nightmare 1/16)

“Wednesday’s Story“, Wole Talabi (Lightspeed 5/16)

“Drowned”, Lavie Tidhar (Drowned Worlds)

“Terminal“, Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com 4/13/16)

“The Abduction of Europa“, E. Catherine Tobler (Clarkesworld 1/16)

“La beauté sans vertu“, Genevieve Valentine (Tor.com 4/16)

“That Game We Played During the War“, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com 3/16/16)

“Dragon Brides“, Nghi Vo (Lightspeed 4/16)

“First Light at Mistaken Point“, Kali Wallace (Clarkesworld 8/16)

“Openness”, Alexander Weinstein (Beloit Fiction Journal Spring 2016)

“Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left“, Fran Wilde (Shimmer 9/16)

“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers“, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/02/16)

“Secondhand Bodies“, JY Yang (Lightspeed 1/16)

“Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 3/16)

“The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight“, E. Lily Yu (Uncanny 9-10/16)