Here are 39 outstanding high fantasy stories from 2018 that were finalists for major SF/F 🏆awards, included in "year's best" SF/F 📙anthologies, or recommended by prolific 👍reviewers in short fiction ( see Q&A ). That's 39 out of 340+ best SF/F stories from 2018 . A story's score is the sum of the +points in it's "Recommended By" list (click the Details link to see the awards, year's best, and reviewers and the points).For our purposes, we define "high fantasy" as a fantasy story that takes place in a secondary world. That is, something like, where Middle Earth is clearlyin the past or future of our world.We've included portal fantasies, provided the destination is a secondary world.Click the links to highlight the stories discussed.