Title: The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2
Description: This is a collection of the best science fiction stories set on planet Earth published in 2023 by leading authors of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.

 - **"A Soul in the World" by Charlie Jane Anders**—A childless woman is given a most unusual child to raise as her own.
 - **"A Kingdom of Seagrass and Silk" by Cécile Cristofari**—An elderly couple fend for themselves on a deserted island while waiting out an epidemic.
 - **"LOL, Said the Scorpion" by Rich Larson**—Wealthy tourists wear bio-filtering suits to go on live vacations to impoverished countries.
 - **"A Borrowing of Bones" by Karin Lowachee**—Reality blurs as people become menageries of other lives.
 - **"Devil in the Deep" by Lucie Lukačovičová**—A Bolivian mining community blames lady scientists for their bad luck.
 - **"Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene" by Paul McAuley**—An army veteran, suffering from the aftereffects of a psych bomb, convalesces in the eco-stressed marshes of the Thames.
 - **"Sigh No More" by Ian McDonald**—The show must go on despite a solar flare that has crashed London’s power grid.
 - **"Cuttlefish" by Anil Menon**—A family seeks to escape the modern world at an old fashioned Indian guesthouse.
 - **"Highway Requiem" by T. R. Napper**—A trucker’s way of life on the roads of the Outback is threatened by automation.
 - **"Contracting Iris" by Peter Watts**—A novel microbial infection changes the behavior of a woman diagnosed with MS.
 - **"Deep Blue Jump" by Dean Whitlock**—Children are forced to pick drug-like dreamberries in desert canyons under austere conditions.
Subjects: Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Anthologies, Fiction, science fiction, collections & anthologies, Fiction, anthologies (multiple authors), Short Stories