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Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever--to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Jemisin bringing her lyrical, endlessly curious point of view to the series' latest edition.

Table of Contents:

FANTASY

• Loneliness is in Your Blood by Cadwell Turnbull
  from Nightmare Magazine
• The Resident by Carmen Maria Machado
  from Her Body and Other Parties
• Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim
  from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Rivers Run Free by Charles Payseur
  from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  
• Tasting Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast by Gwendolyn Clare
  from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• The Last Cheng Beng Gift by Jaymee Goh
  from Lightspeed Magazine
• You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych by Kathleen Kayembe
  from Nightmare Magazine
• Black Powder by Maria Dahvana Headley
  from The Djinn Falls in Love (ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin)
• The Orange Tree by Maria Dahvana Headley
  from The Weight of Words (ed. Dave McKean and William Schafer)
• Church of Birds by Micah Dean Hicks
  from Kenyon Review

SCIENCE FICTION

• Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn by A. Merc Rustad
  from Humans Wanted (ed. Vivian Caethe)
• Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue by Charlie Jane Anders
  from Boston Review: Global Dystopias
• The Wretched and the Beautiful by E. Lily Yu
  from Terraform
• Destroy the City with Me Tonight by Kate Alice Marshall
  from Behind the Mask (ed. Tricia Reeks and Kyle Richardson)
• Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities by Lettie Prell
  from Clarkesworld Magazine
• Cannibal Acts by Maureen F. McHugh
  from Boston Review: Global Dystopias
• ZeroS by Peter Watts
  from Infinity Wars (ed. Jonathan Strahan)
• The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant by Rachael K. Jones
  from Lightspeed Magazine
• The Hermit of Houston by Samuel R. Delany
  from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance by Tobias S. Buckell
  from Cosmic Powers (ed. John Joseph Adams)