The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011

Edited by Rich Horton

(Prime Books, 2011)

“Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Amor Vincit Omnia” by K.J. Parker
“The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar
“The Other Graces” by Alice Sola Kim
“The Sultan of the Clouds” by Geoffrey A. Landis
“The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories” by Christie Yant
“A Letter From the Emperor” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“Holdfast” by Matthew Johnson
“Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu
“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky
“Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro
“Merrythoughts” by Bill Kte’pi
“Red Bride” by Samantha Henderson
“Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance” by Paul Park
“Bloodsport” by Gene Wolfe
“No Time Like the Present” by Carol Emshwiller
“Braiding the Ghosts” by C.S.E. Cooney
“The Thing About Cassandra” by Neil Gaiman
“The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn’s Coat” by Willow Fagan
“The Things” by Peter Watts
“Stereogram of the Gray Fort, In The Days of Her Glory” by Paul M. Berger
“Amor Fugit” by Alexandra Duncan
“Dead Man’s Run” by Robert Reed
“The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model” by Charlie Jane Anders
“The Word of Azrael” by Matthew David Surridge
“Under the Moons of Venus” by Damien Broderick
“Abandonware” by An Omowoyela
“The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon” by Elizabeth Hand