Editor Rich Horton has released the list of stories in Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 edition (stories from 2020).

The 2021 anthology has been delayed by such pandemic-related issues as the difficulty in getting a slot at the printer.

He says the TOC is nearly set, however, he is holding a slot open for one more by an author he hopes to hear from soon.

This list is in alphabetical order by author.

• Nadia Afifi, “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar”, (F&SF, 11-12/20)
• Rebecca Campbell, “An Important Failure”, (Clarkesworld, 8/20)
• Leah Cypess, “Stepsister”, (F&SF, 5-6/20)
• Andy Dudak, “Songs of Activation”, (Clarkesworld, 12/20)
• Bishop Garrison, “Silver Door Diner”, (FIYAH, Autumn/20)
• T. Greenblatt, “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”, (Uncanny, 5-6/20)
• Amanda Hollander, “A Feast of Butterflies”, (F&SF, 3-3/20)
• T. L. Huchu, “Egoli”, (Africanfuturism)
• John Kessel, “Spirit Level”, (F&SF, 7-8/20)
• Naomi Kritzer, “Little Free Library”, (Tor.com, 4/8/20)
• Sarah Langan, “You Have the Prettiest Mask”, (LCRW, 8/20)
• P. H. Lee, “The Garden Where No One Ever Goes”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 12/3/20)
• Yoon Ha Lee, “Beyond the Dragon’s Gate” (Tor.com, 5/20/20)
• Marissa Lingen, The Past, Like a River in Flood”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 8/27/20)
• Ken Liu, “50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know”, (Uncanny, 11-12/20)
• Rati Mehrotra, “Magnificent Maurice or the Flowers of Immortality”, (Lightspeed, 11/20)
• Annalee Newitz, “The Monogamy Hormone”, (Entanglements)
• Alec Nevala-Lee, “Retention”, (Analog, 7-8/20)
• Sarah Pinsker, “Two Truths and a Lie”, (Tor.com, 6-17/20)
• Vina Jie-Min Prasad, “A Guide for Working Breeds”, (Made to Order)
• Mercurio D. Rivera, “Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars”, (Asimov’s, 7-8/20)
• Benjamin Rosenbaum, “Bereft, I Come to a Nameless World”, (Asimov’s, 3-4/20)
• Sofia Samatar, “The Moon Fairy”, (Conjunctions #74)
• Ken Schneyer, “Laws of Impermanence”, (Uncanny, 9-10/20)
• Alexandra Seidel, “Lovers on a Bridge, (Past Tense)
• Michael Swanwick, “The Dragon Slayer”, (The Book of Dragons)
• Tade Thompson, “Thirty-Three”, (Avatars, Inc.)
• Ian Tregillis, “When God Sits in Your Lap”. (Asimov’s, 9-10/20)
• Eugenia Triantafyllou, “Those We Serve”, (Interzone, 5-6/20)
• Tlotlo Tsamaase,”Behind Our Irises”, (Africanfuturism)
• James Van Pelt, “Minerva Girls”, (Analog, 9-10/20)
• Aliya Whiteley, “Fog and Pearls at the King’s Cross Junction”, (London Centric)
• Jessica P. Wick, “An Unkindness”, (The Sinister Quartet)
• John Wiswell, “Open House on Haunted Hill”, (Diabolical Plots, 6/20)