Author(s): Neil Clarke

Science Fiction

A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food blogger s posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak; trapped in a matchmaking game, a couple tries to escape from the only world they know; a janitor risks everything to rescue a defective tank-born baby he can raise as his own. For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction feeds the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can better understand ourselves and the world around us. With "The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume One," award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and thirty-one of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2015. Table of Contents: Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2015 by Neil Clarke Today I Am Paul by Martin Shoemaker Calved by Sam J. Miller Three Bodies at Mitanni by Seth Dickinson The Smog Society by Chen Quifan In Blue Lily s Wake by Aliette de Bodard Hello, Hello by Seanan McGuire Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfiang Capitalism in the 22nd Century by Geoff Ryman Hold-Time Violations by John Chu Wild Honey by Paul McAuley So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn Another Word for World by Ann Leckie The Cold Inequalities by Yoon Ha Lee Iron Pegasus by Brenda Cooper The Audience by Sean McMullen Empty by Robert Reed Gypsy by Carter Scholz Violation of the TrueNet Security Act by Taiyo Fujii Damage by David D. Levine The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss by David Brin No Placeholder for You, My Love by Nick Wolven Outsider by An Owomeyla The Gods Have Not Died in Vain by Ken Liu Cocoons by Nancy Kress Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline M. Yoachim Two-Year Man by Kelly Robson Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald Meshed by Rich Larson A Murmuration by Alastair Reynolds2015 Recommended Reading List"