The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 by Rich Horton


Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. This captivating compilation of science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases stories of librarians—mysterious curators, heroic bibliognosts, arcane archivists, catalogers of very special collections—and libraries—repositories of arcane wisdom, storehouses of signals from other galaxies, bastions of culture, the last outposts of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world…
Contents
•Introduction: The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016, by Rich Horton
•Project Empathy, by Dominica Phetteplace
•Fifty Shades of Grays, by Steven Barnes
•All That Robot Shit, by Rich Larson
•That Game We Played During the War, by Carrie Vaughn
•Blood Grains Speak Through Memories, by Jason Sanford
•A Non-Hero’s Guide to the Road of Monsters, by A. T. Greenblatt
•Empty Planets, by Rahul Kanakia
•Lazy Dog Out, by Suzanne Palmer
•Things With Beards, by Sam J. Miller
•Red in Tooth and Cog, by Cat Rambo
•The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory, by Carlos Hernandez
•Ozymandias, by Karin Lowachee
•In Skander, for a Boy, by Chaz Brenchley
•Between Nine and Eleven, by Adam Roberts
•Gorse Daughter, Sparrow Son, by Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan
•The Visitor from Taured, by Ian R. MacLeod
•RedKing, by Craig DeLauncey
•A Fine Balance, by Charlotte Ashley
•The Bridge of Dreams, by Gregory Feeley
•I’ve Come to Marry the Princess, by Helena Bell
•Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was, by Ray Nayler
•Innumerable Glimmering Lights, by Rich Larson
•The Plague Givers, by Kameron Hurley
•Laws of Night and Silk, by Seth Dickinson
•Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan, by Maggie Clark
•Openness, by Alexander Weinstein
•Rager in Space, by Charlie Jane Anders
•Dress Rehearsal, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
•Everybody from Themis Sends Letters Home, by Genevieve Valentine
•The Vanishing Kind, by Lavie Tidhar