Como cada año, Jonathan Strahan ha recopilado la mejor ciencia ficción y fantasía en formato corto para nuestro disfrute. Estos son los relatos seleccionados:
- “Dreadful Young Ladies”, Kelly Barnhill (Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories)
- “Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)
- The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
- “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again”, Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, 11/31/18)
- “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, P Djeli Clark (Fireside Magazine)
- “Flint and Mirror”, John Crowley (The Book of Magic)
- “An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
- “The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs. Fairies)
- “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”, Daryl Gregory (Tor.com)
- “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine)
- “You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed,)
- “When We Were Starless”, Simone Heller (Clarkesworld)
- “The Woman Who Destroyed Us”, SL Huang (Twelve Tomorrows)
- “Golgotha “, Dave Hutchinson (2001: An Odyssey in Words)
- “The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N K Jemisin (How Long Till Black Future Month?)
- “The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society”, T. Kingfisher (Uncanny)
- “Field Biology of the Wee Fairies”, Naomi Kritzer (Apex, 9/4/18)
- “Meat and Salt and Sparks”, Rich Larson (Tor.com)
- “Firelight”, Ursula K Le Guin (The Paris Review 225)
- “The Starship and the Temple Cat”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- “Quality Time”, Ken Liu (Robots vs. Fairies)
- “A Brief and Fearful Star”, Carmen Maria Machado (Slate)
- “The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto”, Annalee Newitz (Robots vs. Fairies)
- “The Staff in the Stone”, Garth Nix (The Book of Magic)
- “Blessings”, Naomi Novik (Uncanny)
- “Mother Tongues”, S. Qiouyi Lu (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
- “Intervention”, Kelly Robson (Infinity’s End)
- “Widdam”, Vandana Singh (F&SF)
- “Yard Dog”, Tade Thompson (Fiyah #7)
- “Olivia’s Table”, Alyssa Wong (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
También tenemos la que será portada de Jim Burns, aunque solo la imagen es definitiva:
