Publisher's Synopsis
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 blogger's 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 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 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 Lily's 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
