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A human detective and their partner, an enhanced chimpanzee, investigate a strange murder on the subway... a smart home goes into lockdown, turning a man's own home into his prison... at a robot factory, something has caused the machines to attempt to escape... mysterious seeds raining down from deep space could be the first sign of an alien invasion... a woman seeks to restore a broken AI, hoping it can help return humanity to better days...

For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-nine of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2018.

Table of Contents:

• "When We Were Starless" by Simone Heller (Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2018)
• "Intervention" by Kelly Robson (Infinity's End, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
• "All the Time We've Left to Spend" by Alyssa Wong (Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe)
• "Domestic Violence" by Madeline Ashby (Slate, March 26, 2018)
• "Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae" by Ian McDonald (2001: An Odyssey in Words, edited by Ian Whates and Tom Hunter)
• "Prophet of the Roads" by Naomi Kritzer (Infinity's End, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
• "Traces of Us" by Vanessa Fogg (GigaNotoSaurus, March 2018)
• "Theories of Flight" by Linda Nagata (Asimov's Science Fiction, November/December 2018)
• "Lab B-15" by Nick Wolven (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2018)
• "Requiem" by Vandana Singh (Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, Small Beer Press)
• "Sour Milk Girls" by Erin Roberts (Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2018)
• "Mother Tongues" by S. Qiouyi Lu (Asimov's Science Fiction, January/February 2018)
• "Singles' Day" by Samantha Murray (Interzone, September/October 2018)
• "Nine Last Days on Planet Earth" by Daryl Gregory (Tor.com, September 19, 2018)
• "The Buried Giant" by Lavie Tidhar (Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe)
• "The Anchorite Wakes" by R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2018)
• "Entropy War" by Yoon Ha Lee (2001: An Odyssey in Words, edited by Ian Whates and Tom Hunter)
• "An Equation of State" by Robert Reed (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2018)
• "Quantifying Trust" by John Chu (Mother of Invention, edited by Rivqa Rafael and Tansy Rayner Roberts)
• "Hard Mary" by Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018)
• "Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling" by L.X. Beckett (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2018)
• "Okay, Glory" by Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush)
• "Heavy Lifting" by A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine, September/October 2018)
• "Lions and Gazelles" by Hannu Rajaniemi (Slate, September 27, 2018)
• "Different Seas" by Alastair Reynolds (Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush)
• "Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger's Steps" by Aliette de Bodard (Mechanical Animals, edited by Selena Chambers and Jason Heller)
• "Byzantine Empathy" by Ken Liu (Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush)
• "Meat and Salt and Sparks" by Rich Larson (Tor.com, June 6, 2018)
• "Umbernight" by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2018)

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