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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

by Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang (Editors)

“The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu ★★★
“What Does the Fox Say?” by Xia Jia ★★★
“Blackbird” by Shen Dacheng ★½
“The Name of the Dragon” by Ling Chen ★★½
“New Year Painting, Ink and Color on Rice Paper, Zhaoqiao Village” by Chen

Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 3

Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)

“New Zealand Gothic” by Jack Remiel Cottrell ★★★
“Synaesthete” by Melanie Harding-Shaw ★★★
“Death confetti” by Zoë Meager ★★★
“How To Get A Girlfriend (When You’re A Terrifying Monster)” by Marie Cardno ★★★
“Salt White, Rose Red” by Emily Brill-Holland ★★★
“You Can’t Beat Wellington on a Good

Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1

Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)

“Trees” by Toni Wi ★★★
“The Garden” by Isabelle McNeur ★★★½
“Logistics” by A.J. Fitzwater ★★★★
“The Billows of Sarto” by Sean Monaghan ★★★
“A Most Elegant Solution” by M. Darusha Wehm ★★★★★
“A Brighter Future” by Grant Stone ★★★½
“The Glassblower’s Peace” by James Rowland ★★★½
“Mirror

The Best of World SF: Volume 2

by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)

“The Bahrain Underground Bazaar” by Nadia Afifi ★★★★★
“The Ten-Percent Thief” by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ★★★
“At Desk 9501” by Frances Ogamba ★★★
“Bring Your Own Spoon” (reread) by Saad Z. Hossain ★★★★★
“Blue Grey Blue” by Yukimi Ogawa ★★★½
“Your Multicolored Life” by Xing He ★★
“The

To Hold up the Sky

by Liu Cixin

★★★¼ Liu was able to hold back on overt sexist commentary until the last story. Detailed dives into narrow points of imagination. He can’t conceive of worlds where leaders aren’t men, where justice and art thrive together, where god-like entities have more emotional intelligence than insecure, petulant babies.… Read more

Ten Little Indians

by Sherman Alexie

“The Search Engine” ★★★★
“Lawyer’s League” ★★★½
“Can I Get a Witness?” ★★★
“Do Not Go Gentle” ★★★
“Flight Patterns” ★★½
“The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above” ★★½
“Do You Know Where I Am?” ★★★★
“What You Pawn I Will Redeem” ★★★★
“What Ever Happened to

The Best of World SF: Volume 1

by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)

“What the Dead Man Said” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
“Delhi” by Vandana Singh ★★★★
“The Wheel of Samsara” by Han Song ★★
“Xingzhou” by Ng Yi-Sheng ★★★
“Prayer” by Taiyo Fujii ★★
“The Green Ship” by Francesco Verso ★★½
“Eyes of the Crocodile” by Malena Salazar Maciá

Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry

by David Ly (Editor)

“The Vetala’s Song” by Anuja Varghese ★★★½
“#WWMD?” by jaye simpson ★★★
“Gruesome My Love” by Levi Cain ★★★
“Glamour-Us” by Andrew Wilmot ★★★
“And the Moon Spun Round like a Top” by Hiromi Goto ★★★½
“The Minotaur and Theseus (and Other Bullshit)” by Ben Rawluk ★★★½

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Editor)

“The Many Lives of an Abiku” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★★
“A Love Song for Herkinal as composed by Ashkernas amid the ruins of New Haven” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
“Are We Ourselves?” by Michelle Mellon ★★½
“The Goatkeeper’s Harvest” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★½
“Baba Klep” by Eugen