Ansible Press and series editor Stephen Kotowych has announced the full Table of Contents for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two. The book will be published on October 4, 2024.

This year’s cover image is “Summon” by Xiaofan Zhang.

Table of Contents

• Editor’s Introduction: 2023 Year in Review – Stephen Kotowych

• “The Canadian Miracle” — Cory Doctorow
• “John Hollowback and the Witch” — Amal El-Mohtar
• “Third Life” — Julie Czerneda
• “The Girl Who Cried Diamonds” — Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
• “The Nothings” — Beth Cato and Rhonda Parrish (Poem)
• “Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel” — Derek Künsken
• “Manic Pixie Girl” — A.C. Wise
• “The Distance Between Us” — Rati Mehrotra (Poem)
• “At Every Door a Ghost” — Premee Mohamed
• “Negative Theology of the Child from ‘The King of Tars’” — Sonia Sulaiman
• “The Bestiary” — Diana Dima (Poem)
• “If I Should Fall Behind” — Douglas Smith
• “A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking” — Kim Harbridge
• “Your Great Mother Across the Salt Sea” — Kelsey Hutton
• “Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil” — Elis Montgomery (Poem)
• “Solar Gravitational Lens” — Pauline Barmby
• “The Toll of the Snake” — Grace P. Fong
• “How Noah Saved the Dinosaurs—a Litany” — David Clink (Poem)
• “The Long Way Home from Gaia BH1” — Manuela Amiouny
• “Solitaire for Three” — James Alan Gardner
• “Sleeper Ship” — Carolyn Clink (Poem)
• “Secondhand Music” — Aleksandra Hill
• “Sink Your Sorrows to the Sea” — Chandra Fisher
• “The Lover” — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• “For the Robots” — J.D. Dresner (Poem)
• “What’s Left Behind” — Isabelle Piette
• “Exit Greeting” — Chadwick Ginther
• “Svitla” — A.D. Sui
• “predictive text” — Dominik Parisien (Poem)
• “LOL, Said the Scorpion” — Rich Larson
• “Hunger” — Remy Boudreau
• “The Dust Bowl Café” — Justin Dill
• “Letter to a Brother on a Generation Ship” — M.W. Irving (Poem)
• “Revelstoke” — Gemma Files
• “Tongue Mining” — Jack Morton
• “A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream” — Ai Jiang (Poem)
• “Wapnintu’tijig They Sang Until Dawn” — Tiffany Morris
• “Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont” — PA Cornell
• “Scarecrow” — David Shultz (Poem)
• “Hemlock on Mars” — Eric Choi
• “Lying Flat” — Lynne Sargent (Poem)
• “Lady Koi Koi: A book Report” — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
• “In a Cabin, In a Wood” — Kelly Robson
• “Eclipsed” — Lisa Timpf (Poem)
• “The Spoil Heap” — Fiona Moore
• “As a, I want to, so I can” — Kelley Tai (Poem)
• “And Prison on My Back” — Phoebe Barton
• “Seeds for Titanium” — Brandon Crilly
• “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World” — Nalo Hopkinson