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Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever--to illuminate what it means to be human.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by Rebecca Roanhorse
• 10 Steps to a Whole New You - (2021) - short story by Tonya Liburd
• The Pizza Boy - (2021) - short story by Meg Elison
• If the Martians Have Magic - (2021) - short story by P. Djèlí Clark?
• Delete Your First Memory for Free - (2021) - short story by Kel Coleman
• The Red Mother - (2021) - short fiction by Elizabeth Bear
• The Cold Calculations - (2021) - short fiction by Aimee Ogden
• The Captain and the Quartermaster - (2021) - short story by C. L. Clark
• Broad Dutty Water - (2021) - novelette by Nalo Hopkinson
• I Was a Teenage Space Jockey - (2021) - short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• Let All the Children Boogie - (2021) - short story by Sam J. Miller
• Skinder's Veil - (2021) - novelette by Kelly Link
• The Algorithm Will See You Now - (2021) - short fiction by Justin C. Key
• The Cloud Lake Unicorn - (2021) - short fiction by Karen Russell
• Proof by Induction - (2021) - short story by José Pablo Iriarte
• Colors of the Immortal Palette - (2021) - novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
• The Future Library - (2021) - novelette by Peng Shepherd
• L'esprit De L'escalier - (2021) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• Tripping Through Time - (2021) - short fiction by Rich Larson
• The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han - (2021) - short fiction by Maria Dong
• Root Rot - (2021) - short story by Fargo Tbakhi
• Contributors' Notes (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by uncredited
• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2021 - essay by John Joseph Adams