the six sf or sf/fantasy annuals this year in English

• Publication: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine
• Editors: Jonathan Strahan
• Year: 2015-05-12
• ISBN: 978-1-78108-309-3 [1-78108-309-6]
• Publisher: Solaris
• Price: $19.99
• Pages: 609

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 11 • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine) • essay by Jonathan Strahan
• 17 • Slipping • (2014) • shortstory by Lauren Beukes
• 37 • Moriabe's Children • (2014) • shortstory by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 55 • The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family • (2014) • shortstory by Usman T. Malik
• 71 • The Lady and the Fox • (2014) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 97 • Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind) • (2014) • novelette by Holly Black
• 117 • The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 • (2014) • shortstory by Ken Liu
• 137 • Tough Times All Over • (2014) • novelette by Joe Abercrombie
• 171 • The Insects of Love • (2014) • novelette by Genevieve Valentine
• 195 • Cold Wind • (2014) • shortstory by Nicola Griffith
• 205 • Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) • (2014) • shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• 227 • Shadow Flock • (2014) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 255 • I Met a Man Who Wasn't There • (2013) • shortstory by Tom Holt [as by K. J. Parker ]
• 275 • Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) • (2014) • novella by Rachel Swirsky
• 329 • Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying • (2014) • shortstory by Alice Sola Kim
• 347 • Shay Corsham Worsted • (2014) • shortstory by Garth Nix
• 361 • Kheldyu • [Gennady] • (2014) • novelette by Karl Schroeder
• 393 • Caligo Lane • (2013) • shortstory by Ellen Klages
• 401 • The Devil in America • (2014) • novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson
• 439 • Tawny Petticoats • [Darger and Surplus • 4] • (2014) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
• 469 • The Fifth Dragon • (2014) • novelette by Ian McDonald
• 489 • The Truth About Owls • (2014) • shortstory by Amal El-Mohtar
• 503 • Four Days of Christmas • (2014) • shortstory by Tim Maughan
• 509 • Covenant • (2014) • shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
• 525 • Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology • (2014) • shortstory by Theodora Goss
• 543 • Collateral • (2014) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 571 • The Scrivener • (2013) • shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• 587 • Someday • (2014) • shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• 601 • Amicae Aeternum • (2014) • shortstory by Ellen Klages

• Publication: The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition
• Editors: Rich Horton
• Year: 2015-06-11
• ISBN: 978-1-60701-452-2 [1-60701-452-1]
• Publisher: Prime Books
• Price: $19.95
• Pages: 579
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• 9 • The Year in Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015 • essay by Rich Horton
• 13 • Schools of Clay • (2014) • novelette by Derek Künsken

• 47 • The Scrivener • (2013) • shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• 59 • Invisible Planets • (2014) • shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• 66 • Heaven Thunders the Truth • (2014) • novelette by Tom Holt [as by K. J. Parker ]
• 91 • Selfie • (2014) • shortstory by Sandra McDonald
• 103 • The Manor of Lost Time • (2014) • shortstory by Richard Parks
• 115 • How to Get Back to the Forest • (2014) • shortstory by Sofia Samatar
• 127 • Wine • (2014) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• 144 • Every Hill Ends with Sky • (2014) • shortstory by Robert Reed
• 153 • The Endless Sink • (2014) • shortstory by Damien Ober
• 166 • The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 • (2014) • shortstory by Ken Liu
• 181 • A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i • (2014) • novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• 202 • Ghost Story • (2014) • shortstory by John Grant
• 217 • Break! Break! Break! • (2014) • shortstory by Charlie Jane Anders
• 228 • Skull and Hyssop • (2014) • novelette by Kathleen Jennings
• 253 • Someday • (2014) • shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• 264 • Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology • (2014) • shortstory by Theodora Goss
• 278 • Drones Don't Kill People • (2014) • shortstory by Annalee Newitz
• 288 • I Can See Right Through You • (2014) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 311 • Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts • (2014) • novelette by Cory Doctorow
• 337 • The Wild And Hungry Times • (2014) • shortstory by Patricia Russo
• 351 • Trademark Bugs: A Legal History • (2014) • shortstory by Adam Roberts
• 366 • A Better Way to Die • (2014) • novelette by Paul Cornell
• 389 • The Instructive Tale of the Archeologist and His Wife • (2014) • shortstory by Alexander Jablokov
• 402 • Fift & Shria • (2014) • shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• 410 • The Magician and Laplace's Demon • (2014) • novelette by Tom Crosshill
• 429 • The Hand is Quicker • (2014) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• 446 • Sleeper • (2014) • shortstory by Jo Walton
• 455 • Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) • (2014) • novella by Rachel Swirsky
• 498 • Pernicious Romance • (2014) • shortstory by Robert Reed
• 512 • Witch, Beast, Saint: an Erotic Fairy Tale • [The Witch's Garden] • (2014) • shortstory by C. S. E. Cooney
• 525 • Collateral • (2014) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 548 • Aberration • (2014) • shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• 557 • Sadness • (2014) • shortstory by Timons Esaias
• 564 • Biographies (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition) • essay by uncredited
• 570 • Recommended Reading (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition) • essay by uncredited

• Publication: The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera
• Editors: David Afsharirad
• Year: 2015-06-02
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-8058-0 [1-4767-8058-7]
• Publisher: Baen
• Price: $16.00
• Pages: 349


Contents 

3 • Preface (The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera) • essay by David Afsharirad

9 • Excitement! Adventure! Science Fiction! • essay by David Drake

17 • Codename: Delphi • [The Red] • (2014) • shortstory by Linda Nagata

29 • Persephone Descending • (2014) • novelette by Derek Künsken

61 • The End of the Silk Road • (2014) • novelette by David D. Levine

91 • Picket Ship • shortstory by Brad R. Torgersen

113 • Decaying Orbit • (2014) • shortstory by Robert R. Chase

133 • Morrigan in the Sunglare • (2014) • shortstory by Seth Dickinson

153 • Light and Shadow • (2014) • shortstory by Linda Nagata

175 • Icarus at Noon • (2014) • shortstory by Eric Leif Davin

183 • Soft Casualty • shortstory by Michael Z. Williamson

201 • Palm Strike's Last Case • (2014) • novelette by Charlie Jane Anders

231 • Brood • (2013) • novelette by Stephen Gaskell

259 • Stealing Arturo • novelette by William Ledbetter

285 • Rules of Engagement • (2014) • novelette by Matthew Johnson

309 • Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind) • (2014) • novelette by Holly Black

331 • War Dog • (2014) • shortstory by Mike Barretta [as by Michael Barretta 

 The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 

Thirty-Second Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

• The Fifth Dragon, Ian McDonald (Reach for Infinity)
• The Rider, Jérôme Cigut (F&SF)
• The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Online)
• The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini, Chaz Brenchley (Subterranean Online)
• The Regular, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
• The Woman from the Ocean, Karl Bunker (Asimov’s)
• Shooting the Apocalypse, Paolo Bachigalupi (The End Is Nigh)
• Weather, Susan Palwick (Clarkesworld)
• The Hand Is Quicker, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Robert Silverberg)
• The Man Who Sold the Moon, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph)
• Vladimir Chong Chooses To Die, Lavie Tidhar (Analog)
• Beside the Damned River, D.J. Cockburn (Interzone)
• The Colonel, Peter Watts (Tor.com)
• Entanglement, Vandana Singh (Hieroglyph)
• White Curtain, Pavel Amnuel (F&SF)
• Slipping, Lauren Beukes (Twelve Tomorrows)
• Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick (Clarkesworld)
• Amicae Aeternum, Ellen Klages (Reach for Infinity)
• In Babelsberg, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
• Sadness, Timons Esaias (Analog)
• West to East, Jay Lake (Subterranean Online)
• Grand Jeté (The Great Leap), Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Online)
• Covenant, Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)
• Jubilee, Karl Schroeder (Tor.com)
• Los Pirates del Mar de Plastico (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean), Paul Graham Raven (Twelve Tomorrows)
• Red Lights, and Rain, Gareth L. Powell (Solaris Rising 3)
• Coma Kings, Jessica Barber (Lightspeed)
• The Prodigal Son, Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s)
• God Decay, Rich Larson (Upgraded)
• Blood Wedding, Robert Reed (Asimov’s)
• The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu (Clarkesworld)
• Shadow Flock, Greg Egan (Coming Soon Enough)
• Thing and Sick, Adam Roberts (Solaris Rising 3)
• Communion, Mary Anne Mohanraj (Clarkesworld)
• Someday, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s)
• Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 edited by Paula Guran

“In Her Eyes” by Seth Chambers (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2014)

The Churn: An Expanse Novella by James S. A. Corey (Orbit)

“Where the Trains Turn” by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (translated by Liisa Rantalaiho) (Tor.com, 15 November 2014)

Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)

“Claudius Rex” by John P. Murphy (Alembical 3: A Distillation of Three Novellas, eds. Schoen & Dorrance)

“The Things We Do For Love” by K. J. Parker (Subterranean Press Magazine, Summer 2014)

“The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert, (Tor.com, 30 Apr 2014)

“The Lightning Tree” by Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues, eds. Martin & Dozois)

Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine (Dream Houses WSFA/ Wyrm Publishing)

Contents TBA