A few days ago on his Facebook page, Gardner Dozois posted the Table of Contents for his upcoming Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirty-third Annual Collection. The anthology will be available next July, and is already available for pre-order on Amazon.
The TOC includes a story of mine. I’d be thrilled about this under any circumstances, but it turns out the story he chose is my very first published story, The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill, which appeared in Clarkesworld this past February. Hitting Gardner’s Year’s Best with a first published story feels — well, there are no words. Peter Watts reminded me a few days ago, however, that it’s all downhill from here. I could only laugh and agree with him. Peter is the happiest cynic I know.
Here are the stories appearing in the anthology. The list is in no particular order. I’m definitely the most junior writer in the bunch, though by no means the youngest. And look: Aliette de Bodard has two stories here. Nice!
- “The Falls: A Luna Story,” by Ian McDonald
- “Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight,” by Aliette de Bodard
- “Ruins,” by Eleanor Arnason
- “Gypsy,” by Carter Scholz
- “Emergence,” by Gwyneth Jones
- “Calved,” by Sam J. Miller
- “Meshed,” by Rich Larson
- “Bannerless,” by Carrie Vaughn
- “The Astrakhan, the Homberg, and the Red Red Coat,” by Chaz Brenchley
- “Another Word for World,” by Ann Leckie
- “City of Ash,” by Paolo Bacigalupi
- “The Muses of Shuyedan-18,” by Indrapramit Das
- “The Audience,” by Sean McMullen
- “Consolation,” by John Kessel
- “Botanica Veneris,” by Ian McDonald
- “Rates of Change,” by James S.A. Corey
- “The Children of Gal,” by Allen M. Steele
- “Today I Am Paul,” by Martin L. Shoemaker
- “Trapping the Pleistecene,” by James Sarafin
- “Machine Learning,” by Nancy Kress
- “Silence Like Diamonds,” by John Barnes
- “Inhuman Garbage,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- “Planet of Fear,” by Paul McAuley
- “It Takes More Than Muscles to Frown,” by Ned Beauman
- “The Daughters of John Demetrius,” by Joe Pitkin
- “Hello, Hello,” by Seanan McGuire
- “Capitalism in the 22nd Century,” by Geoff Ryman
- “Ice,” by Rich Larson
- “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill,” by Kelly Robson
- “In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon,” by Michael F. Flynn
- “The First Gate of Logic,” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- “Billy Tumult,” by Nick Harkaway
- “No Placeholder for You, My Love,” by Nick Wolven
- “The Game of Smash and Recovery,” by Kelly Link
- “A Stopped Clock,” by Madeline Ashby
- “Citadel of Weeping Pearls,” by Aliette de Bodard