Search Worlds Without End

Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy award-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing traditional fiction with speculative elements, these stories uphold a longstanding tradition in both genres - looking at the world and asking, What if...?

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction - by Joe Hill

Science Fiction

• The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever - short story by Daniel H. Wilson - from Carbide Tipped Pens - Eric Choi & Ben Bova, editors
• Each to Each - novelette by Seanan McGuire - from Lightspeed, Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue - Christie Yant, editor
• How to Get Back to the Forest - short story by Sofia Samatar - from Lightspeed
• Sleeper - short story by Jo Walton - from Tor.com
• The Empties - novelette by Jess Row - from The New Yorker
• The Relive Box - novelette by T.C. Boyle - from The New Yorker
• Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable - short story by Cat Rambo - from Clarkesworld
• We Are the Cloud - novelette by Sam J. Miller - from Lightspeed
• Windows - short story by Susan Palwick - from Asimov's
• How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps - short story by A. Merc Rustad - from Scigentasy

Fantasy

• A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i - novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson - from F&SF
• Cimmeria, from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology - short story by Theodora Goss - from Lightspeed
• Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead - short story by Carmen Maria Machado - from HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects - John Joseph Adams, editor
• How the Marquis Got His Coat Back - novelette by Neil Gaiman - from Rogues - George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, editors
• I Can See Right Through You - novelette by Kelly Link - from McSweeney's
• Ogres of East Africa - short story by Sofia Samatar - from Long Hidden - Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, editors
• Skullpocket - novelette by Nathan Ballingrud - from Nightmare Carnival - Ellen Datlow, editor
• The Bad Graft - novelette by Karen Russell - from The New Yorker
• The One They Took Before - short story by Kelly Sandoval - from Shimmer
• The Thing About Shapes To Come - short story by Adam-Troy Castro - from Lightspeed