Neil Clarke’s Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2 will feature these stories from 2016:

Table of Contents

• “The Visitor from Taured” by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s, September 2016)
• “Extraction Request” by Rich Larson (Clarkesworld, January 2016)
• “A Good Home” by Karin Lowachee (Lightspeed, June 2016)
• “Prodigal” by Gord Sellar (Analog, December 2016)
• “Ten Days” by Nina Allan (Now We Are Ten, edited by Ian Whates)
• “Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com, April 2016)
• “Panic City” by Madeline Ashby (CyberWorld, edited by Jason Heller and Joshua Viola)
• “Last Gods” by Sam J. Miller (Drowned Worlds, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
• “HigherWorks” by Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov’s, December 2016)
• “A Strange Loop” by T.R. Napper (Interzone, January/February 2016)
• “Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse” by Xia Jia (Invisible Planets, edited by Ken Liu)
• “Pearl” by Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe)
• “The Metal Demimonde” by Nick Wolven (Analog, June 2016)
• “The Iron Tactician” by Alastair Reynolds (Newcon Press)
• “The Mighty Slinger” by Tobias S. Buckell and Karen Lord (Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
• “They All Have One Breath” by Karl Bunker (Asimov’s, December 2016)
• “Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, February 2016)
• “And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices” by Margaret Ronald (Clarkesworld, June 2016)
• “The Three Lives of Sonata James” by Lettie Prell (Tor.com, October 2016)
• “The Charge and the Storm” by An Owomoyela (Asimov’s, February 2016)
• “Parables of Infinity” by Robert Reed (Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
• “Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man” by Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s, July 2016)
• “You Make Pattaya” by Rich Larson (Interzone, November/December 2016)
• “Number Nine Moon” by Alex Irvine (F&SF, January/February 2016)
• “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld, June 2016)
• “Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” by Ken Liu (Drowned Worlds, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
• “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld, April 2016)

Greg Hullender has updated the Rocket Stack Rank “2016 Best SF/F Anthologies” page and passed along his count of the stories that multiple editors picked for their year’s best volumes.

• “The Visitor from Taured,” by Ian R. Macleod, and “Things with Beards,” by Sam J. Miller, are the only two stories to appear in all four anthologies. [Clarke, Dozois, Horton, Strahan]
• Three other stories arguably got 4-way approval when you include stories the anthologists recommended during the year. (Horton and Dozois both review short fiction for Locus Magazine.)
• “Touring with the Alien,” by Carolyn Ives Gilman, and “Terminal,” by Lavie Tidhar, appeared in all but Horton’s anthology, but Horton recommended both works in his Locus Magazine column.
• “Number Nine Moon,” by Alex Irvine only appeared in Strahan and Clarke’s anthologies but Dozois and Horton both recommended it in their Locus Magazine columns.