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by Gardner Dozois


  Django Wexler, “The End of the War,” Asimov’s, June.

  ______, “The Guns of the Wastes,” Operation Arcana.

  ______, “Real,” Press Start to Play.

  Aliva Whiteley, “Blossoms Falling Down,” Interzone 257.

  Rick Wilber, “Walking to Boston,” Asimov’s, October/November.

  Fran Wilde, “Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 3.

  ______, “How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Post-Digital Age,” Asimov’s, April/May.

  Liz Williams, “The Marriage of the Sea,” Asimov’s, April/May.

  Sean Williams, “All the Wrong Places,” Meeting at Infinity.

  Neil Williamson, “Fish on Friday,” Interzone 256.

  Kai Ashante Wilson, Kaiju Maximus,” Fantasy Magazine.

  Gene Wolfe, “Incubator,” Onward, Drake!

  Nick Wolven, “We’re So Very Sorry for Your Recent Tragic Loss,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October.

  Ray Wood, “Schrodinger’s Gun,” Tor.com, February 18.

  Frank Wu, “Season of the Ants,” Analog, November.

  J.V. Yang, Cold Hands and the Smell of Salt,” Daily SF, January 23.

  Isabel Yap, “Milagroso,” Tor.com, August 12.

  Caroline M. Yoachim, “Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June.

  ______, “Goodbye, First Love,” Daily SF, May 1.

  ______, “Ninety-Five Percent Sure,” Asimov’s, January.

  ______, “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love,” Lightspeed, November.

  ______, “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World,” Lightspeed, September.

  Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, “Endless Forms Most Beautiful,” Analog, September.

  K.J. Zimring, “Partible,” Analog, April.

  ALSO BY GARDNER DOZOIS

  ANTHOLOGIES

  A DAY IN THE LIFE

  ANOTHER WORLD

  BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR #6–10

  THE BEST OF ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE

  TIME-TRAVELERS FROM ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE

  TRANSCENDENTAL TALES FROM ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S ALIENS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S MARS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S SF LITE

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S WAR

  ROADS NOT TAKEN (with Stanley Schmidt)

  THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #1–32

  FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (with Mike Resnick)

  FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER SOUTH AMERICAN SKIES (with Mike Resnick)

  RIPPER! (with Susan Casper)

  MODERN CLASSIC SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION

  MODERN CLASSICS OF FANTASY

  KILLING ME SOFTLY

  DYING FOR IT

  THE GOOD OLD STUFF

  THE GOOD NEW STUFF

  EXPLORERS

  THE FURTHEST HORIZON

  WORLDMAKERS

  SUPERMEN

  COEDITED WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S PLANET EARTH

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S ROBOTS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S VALENTINES

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S SKIN DEEP

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S GHOSTS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S VAMPIRES

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S MOONS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S CHRISTMAS

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S CAMELOT

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S WEREWOLVES

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S SOLAR SYSTEM

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S DETECTIVES

  ISAAC ASIMOV’S CYBERDREAMS

  COEDITED WITH JACK DANN

  ALIENS!

  UNICORNS!

  MAGICATS!

  MAGICATS 2!

  BESTIARY!

  MERMAIDS!

  SORCERERS!

  DEMONS!

  DOGTALES!

  SEASERPENTS!

  DINOSAURS!

  LITTLE PEOPLE!

  DRAGONS!

  HORSES!

  UNICORNS 2

  INVADERS!

  ANGELS!

  DINOSAURS II

  HACKERS

  TIMEGATES

  CLONES

  NANOTECH

  IMMORTALS

  FICTION

  STRANGERS

  THE VISIBLE MAN (Collection)

  NIGHTMARE BLUE (with George Alec Effinger)

  SLOW DANCING THROUGH TIME (with Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Susan Casper and Jack C. Haldeman II)

  THE PEACEMAKER

  GEODESIC DREAMS (collection)

  NONFICTION

  THE FICTION OF JAMES TIPTREE, JR.

  about the author

  GARDNER DOZOIS has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction, during which time he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  TITLE PAGE

  COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  PERMISSIONS

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  SUMMATION: 2015

  THE FALLS: A LUNA STORY • Ian McDonald

  THREE CUPS OF GRIEF, BY STARLIGHT • Aliette de Bodard

  RUINS • Eleanor Arnason

  ANOTHER WORD FOR WORLD • Ann Leckie

  MESHED • Rich Larson

  EMERGENCE • Gwyneth Jones

  GYPSY • Carter Scholz

  THE ASTRAKHAN, THE HOMBURG, AND THE RED RED COAT • Chaz Brenchley

  THE MUSES OF SHUYEDAN-18 • Indrapramit Das

  BANNERLESS • Carrie Vaughn

  THE AUDIENCE • Sean McMullen

  RATES OF CHANGE • James S. A. Corey

  CALVED • Sam J. Miller

  BOTANICA VENERIS: THIRTEEN PAPERCUTS BY IDA COUNTESS RATHAGAN • Ian McDonald

  CONSOLATION • John Kessel

  THE CHILDREN OF GAL • Allen M. Steele

  TODAY I AM PAUL • Martin L. Shoemaker

  CITY OF ASH • Paolo Bacigalupi

  TRAPPING THE PLEISTECENE • James Sarafin

  MACHINE LEARNING • Nancy Kress

  INHUMAN GARBAGE • Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  PLANET OF FEAR • Paul J. McAuley

  IT TAKES MORE MUSCLES TO FROWN • Ned Beauman

  THE DAUGHTERS OF JOHN DEMETRIUS • Joe Pitkin

  SILENCE LIKE DIAMONDS • John Barnes

  BILLY TUMULT • Nick Harkaway

  HELLO, HELLO; CAN YOU HEAR ME, HELLO • Seanan McGuire

  CAPITALISM IN THE 22ND CENTURY OR A.I.R • Geoff Ryman

  ICE • Rich Larson

  THE FIRST GATE OF LOGIC • Benjamin Rosenbaum

  IN PANIC TOWN, ON THE BACKWARD MOON • Michael F. Flynn

  THE THREE RESURRECTIONS OF JESSICA CHURCHILL • Kelly Robson

  NO PLACEHOLDER FOR YOU, MY LOVE • Nick Wolven

  THE GAME OF SMASH AND RECOVERY • Kelly Link

  A STOPPED CLOCK • Madeline Ashby

  THE CITADEL OF WEEPING PEARLS • Aliette de Bodard

  HONORABLE MENTIONS: 2015

  ALSO BY GARDNER DOZOIS

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  COPYRIGHT

  These short stories are works of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.

  THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL COLLECTION. Copyright © 2016 by Gardner Dozois. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover illustration by James Burns

 
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  ISBN 978-1-250-08083-7 (hardcover)

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  First Edition: July 2016

 

 

 


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