Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve) • essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance • (2017) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• Probably Still the Chosen One • (2017) • short story by Kelly Barnhill
• The Martian Obelisk • (2017) • short story by Linda Nagata
• A Series of Steaks • (2017) • novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• Carnival Nine • (2017) • short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• Eminence • (2017) • short story by Karl Schroeder
• The Chameleon's Gloves • [The Machineries of Empire] • (2017) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Faerie Tree • (2017) • short story by Kathleen Kayembe
• The Mocking Tower • (2017) • novelette by Daniel Abraham
• Sidewalks • (2017) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh [as by Maureen McHugh]
• My English Name • (2017) • novelette by R. S. Benedict
• Crispin's Model • (2017) • novelette by Max Gladstone
• The Secret Life of Bots • [Bot 9 • 1] • (2017) • novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• Concessions • (2017) • novelette by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
• Confessions of a Con Girl • (2017) • short story by Nick Wolven
• The Smoke of Gold Is Glory • (2017) • novelette by Scott Lynch
• The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine • (2017) • novelette by Greg Egan
• The Lamentation of Their Women • (2017) • novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson
• An Evening with Severyn Grimes • (2017) • short story by Rich Larson
• Though She Be But Little • (2017) • short story by C. S. E. Cooney
• The Moon Is Not a Battlefield • (2017) • novelette by Indrapramit Das
• The Worshipful Society of Glovers • (2017) • novelette by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Come See the Living Dryad • (2017) • novelette by Theodora Goss
• Fairy Tale of Wood Street • (2017) • short story by
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• Babylon • (2017) • short story by Dave Hutchinson
• Bring Your Own Spoon • (2017) • short story by Saad Z. Hossain
• The Hermit of Houston • (2017) • novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• Belladonna Nights • [House of Suns] • (2017) • short story by Alastair Reynolds
• Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue • (2017) • novelette by Charlie Jane Anders