We are excited to share the Table of Contents for the 2016 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of 25 of our favorite short stories and novelettes selected from the 57 stories we will have published this year. The ebook edition will be available as a free download on January 10th. Of course, you can enjoy all of these stories right now at the links below.
These stories were acquired and edited for Tor.com by Ellen Datlow, Ann VanderMeer, Carl Engle-Laird, Liz Gorinsky, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Justin Landon, Diana Pho, and Miriam Weinberg. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration.
Some of the Best of Tor.com, 2016 — Table of Contents
- “Clover” Charlie Jane Anders
- “The Art of Space Travel” Nina Allan
- “The Destroyer” Tara Isabella Burton
- “Traumphysik” Monica Byrne
- “The High Lonesome Frontier” Rebecca Campbell
- “Lullaby for a Lost World” Aliette de Bodard
- “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” P. Djeli Clark
- “Breaking Water” Indrapramit Das
- “Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage” Alix E. Harrow
- “The City Born Great” N. K. Jemisin
- “Everything That Isn’t Winter” Margaret Killjoy
- “The Weight of Memories” Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
- “The Maiden Thief” Melissa Marr
- “The Caretakers” David Nickle
- “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” Laurie Penny
- “meat+drink” Daniel Polansky
- “The Three Lives of Sonata James” Lettie Prell
- “The Great Detective” Delia Sherman
- “Finnegan’s Field” Angela Slatter
- “The Weather” Caighlan Smith
- “Terminal” Lavie Tidhar
- “Her Scales Shine Like Music” Rajnar Vajra
- “La beauté sans vertu” Genevieve Valentine
- “That Game We Played During the War” Carrie Vaughn
- “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” Alyssa Wong