A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food bloggers posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak; trapped in a matchmaking game, a couple tries to escape from the only world they know; a janitor risks everything to rescue a defective tank-born baby he can raise as his own.
For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether its a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction feeds the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can better understand ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume One, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and thirty-one of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2015.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2015 by Neil Clarke
Today I Am Paul by Martin Shoemaker
Calved by Sam J. Miller
Three Bodies at Mitanni by Seth Dickinson
The Smog Society by Chen Quifan
In Blue Lilys Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Hello, Hello by Seanan McGuire
Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfiang
Capitalism in the 22nd Century by Geoff Ryman
Hold-Time Violations by John Chu
Wild Honey by Paul McAuley
So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn
Another Word for World by Ann Leckie
The Cold Inequalities by Yoon Ha Lee
Iron Pegasus by Brenda Cooper
The Audience by Sean McMullen
Empty by Robert Reed
Gypsy by Carter Scholz
Violation of the TrueNet Security Act by Taiyo Fujii
Damage by David D. Levine
The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss by David Brin
No Placeholder for You, My Love by Nick Wolven
Outsider by An Owomeyla
The Gods Have Not Died in Vain by Ken Liu
Cocoons by Nancy Kress
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline M. Yoachim
Two-Year Man by Kelly Robson
Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald
Meshed by Rich Larson
A Murmuration by Alastair Reynolds
2015 Recommended Reading List
