The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016

trade paperback, 293 pages

English language

Published Dec. 29, 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN:: 978-0-544-55520-4

(1 review)

FROM QUIET, ELEGIAC, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and fears--of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people--and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.

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4 stars

There were some really delightful stories in here, and only one that I really didn't enjoy.

It was fascinating to find that such a new book (only a year old, and the stories inside two years old, published in 2015) felt a little dated. The world has changed so much in 2 years, and some of the going concerns in sci-fi then simply aren't the most pressing concerns today. But they are still really interesting.

I started to list my favorites, but the list was half the table of contents. Suffice it to say, there's lots of great stories here.