By Carl Slaughter: A dozen editors, some of them household names in the speculative community, take their stab at the year’s best stories.
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One edited by Neil Clarke
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 edited by Joe Hill and John Joseph Adams
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 Edition edited by Rich Horton
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 edited by Karen Joy Fowler and John Joseph Adams
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas 2016 edited by Paula Guran
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 edited by Mercedes Lackey
The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF 2015: Volume 2 edited by David Afsharirad
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight edited by Ellen Datlow
The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster
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The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF 2015: Volume 2 edited by David Afsharirad – David Drake’s Hammers Slammers story was voted by purchasers as the best story of the anthology.
Top link typo: Third-Third Annual Collection.
Because of all the recs at File 770, I’ve already read most of these stories. I used to buy one or more of these collections every year to get the best of the year before. Now I’ll have to go through and see if any have enough stories that I don’t already have or have read to justify buying the collection. A high class problem! ?
Jayn: Typo fixed now. Appertain yourself the beverage of your choice!
Just to be really confusing, the Dozois The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection is called the Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29 in the UK…
Yes! My first appertained beverage…
It’s kind of bizarre to have last year’s The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (as well as this year’s) on the list, and not have The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3 (2016) or Wilde Stories 2016: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, Vol. 9 on it.
We get both versions, so one year, I got really confused because even though it had a different title, the anthology I bought had identical contents to another anthology I recently purchased. I have learnt better.