The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven

Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass.

Contents
Introduction by Jonathan Strahan
The Future Is Blue / Catherynne M. Valente
Mika Model / Paolo Bacigalupi
Spinning Silver / Naomi Novik
Two's Company (The First Law Universe) / Joe Abercrombie
You Make Pattaya / Rich Larson
You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay / Alyssa Wong
A Salvaging of Ghosts (Universe of Xuya) / Aliette de Bodard
Even the Crumbs Were Delicious / Daryl Gregory
Number Nine Moon / Alex Irvine
Things with Beards / Sam J. Miller
Successor, Usurper, Replacement / Alice Sola Kim
Laws of Night and Silk / Seth Dickinson
Touring with the Alien / Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Great Detective (Cwmlech Manor #2) / Delia Sherman
Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home / Genevieve Valentine
Those Shadows Laugh / Geoff Ryman
Seasons of Glass and Iron / Amal El-Mohtar
The Art of Space Travel / Nina Allan
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) / Caitlín R. Kiernan
Red Dirt Witch / N. K. Jemisin
Red as Blood and White as Bone / Theodora Goss
Terminal / Lavie Tidhar
Foxfire, Foxfire / Yoon Ha Lee
Elves of Antarctica / Paul J. McAuley
The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight / E. Lily Yu
Seven Birthdays / Ken Liu
The Visitor from Taured / Ian R. MacLeod
Fable / Charles Yu
Honorable Mentions: 2016 -- essay View Less