Star editor Gardner Dozois has released the table of contents for his upcoming anthology The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, and we are honored to announce that two Tor.com Originals have made the list.
Included are Carrie Vaughn’s deeply moving short story about the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence “The Best We Can,” and Nancy Kress’ incredible novella “One,” which follows a brutal boxer who is burdened with super-empathy after a blow to the head, and struggles to resist the intimacies his new powers reveal to him. Also on Dozois’ list is Ken Liu’s “The Plague,” which was published as part of Nature magazine’s “Futures” series and reprinted on Tor.com here.
You can see the complete table of contents below the cut.
Table of Contents:
- “The Discovered Country” by Ian R. MacLeod
- “The Book Seller” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Pathways” by Nancy Kress
- “A Heap of Broken Images” by Sunny Moraine
- “Rock of Ages” by Jay Lake
- “Rosary and Goldenstar” by Geoff Ryman
- “Gray Wings” by Karl Bunker
- “The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn
- “Transitional Forms” by Paul McAuley
- “Precious Mental” by Robert Reed
- “Martian Blood” by Allen M. Steele
- “Zero For Conduct” by Greg Egan
- “The Waiting Stars” by Aliette de Bodard
- “A Map of Mercury” by Alastair Reynolds
- “One” by Nancy Kress
- “Murder on the Aldrin Express” by Martin L. Shoemaker
- “Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince” by Jake Kerr
- “The Plague” by Ken Liu
- “Fleet” by Sandra McDonald
- “The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin” by Michael Swanwick
- “Bad Day on Boscobel” by Alexander Jablokov
- “The Irish Astronaut” by Val Nolan
- “The Other Gun” by Neal Asher
- “Only Human” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Entangled” by Ian R. MacLeod
- “Earth 1″ by Stephen Baxter
- “Technarion” by Sean McMullen
- “Finders” by Melissa Scott
- “The Queen of Night’s Aria” by Ian McDonald
- “Hard Stars” by Brendan DuBois
- “The Promise of Space” by James Patrick Kelly
- “Quicken” by Damien Broderick
