The best American science fiction and fantasy 2017
By: edited and with an introduction by Charles Yu ; John Joseph Adams, series editor
Contributors: Bardugo, Leigh, author; Bailey, Dale, author; Bell, Helena, author; Valentine, Genevieve, author; Urbanski, Debbie, author; Shawl, Nisi, author; Weinstein, Alexander, author; Tolbert, Jeremiah, 1977- author; Valente, Catherynne M., 1979- author; Rustad, A. Merc, author; Van Eekhout, Greg, author; Beagle, Peter S., author; Evenson, Brian, 1966- author; Jemisin, N. K., author; Yoachim, Caroline M., author; Kim, Alice Sola, author; Wolven, Nick, 1977- author; Hill, Joseph Allen, author
Series: The best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780544973985
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: American Science fiction; American Short stories; American Fantasy fiction
Description: Presents a collection of the best science fiction and fantasy short stories written during 2016.
Notes: "A Mariner Original."

Includes contributor's notes and notable science fiction and fantasy stories of 2016.
Table of contents: title: Head, scales, tongue, tail  -- Leigh Bardugo -- (from Summer days and summer nights); title: Teenagers from outer space  -- Dale Bailey -- (from Clarkesworld magazine); title: I've coming to marry the princess  -- Helena Bell -- (from Lightspeed magazine); title: Everyone from Themis sends letters home  -- Genevieve Valentine -- (from Clarkesworld magazine); title: The witch of Orion Waste and the boy knight  -- E. Lily Yu -- (from Uncanny magazine); title: When they came to us  -- Debbie Urbanski -- (from The sun); title: Vulcanization  -- Nisi Shawl -- (from Nightmare magazine); title: Openness  -- Alexander Weinstein -- (from Beloit fiction journal); title: Not by wardrobe, tornado, or looking glass  -- Jeremiah Tolbert -- (from Lightspeed magazine); title: The future is blue  -- Catherynne M. Valente -- (from Drowned worlds); title: This is not a wardrobe door  -- A. Merc Rustad -- (from Fireside magazine); title: On the fringes of the fractal  -- Greg Van Eekhout -- (from 2113: stories inspired by the music of Rush); title: The story of Kao Yu  -- Peter S. Beagle -- (from Tor.com); title: Smear  -- Brian Evenson -- (from Conjunctions: 67, other aliens); title: The city born great  -- N. K. Jemisin -- (from Tor.com); title: Welcome to the medical clinic at the interplanetary relay station/Hours since the last planet's death: o  -- Caroline M. Yoachim -- (from Lightspeed magazine); title: Successor, usurper, replacement  -- Alice Sola Kim -- (from Buzzfeed reader); title: Caspar D. Luckinbill, what are you going to do?  -- Nick Wolven -- (from The magazine of fantasy & science fiction); title: I was a teenage werewolf  -- Dale Bailey -- (from Nightmare magazine); title: The Venus effect -- Joseph Allen Hill-- (from Lightspeed magazine).