The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019

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Welcome to year five of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy! This volume presents the best science fiction and fantasy (SF/F) short stories published during the 2018 calendar year as selected by myself and guest editor Carmen Maria Machado.

Simply put, Carmen Maria Machado is one of short fiction’s contemporary masters. Indeed, if you pay attention to short fiction at all, you almost certainly have already read—and been blown away by—her work. She’s a force in both the literary and the genre worlds, first publishing a plethora of much-lauded short fiction that made her a star and then going supernova with the release of her collection Her Body and Other Parties. That book, which gathers much but not all of her body of work, won many awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the Bard Fiction Prize, and was a finalist for many others, including the National Book Award, the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (L.A. Times Book Prize), the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the World Fantasy Award, the Kirkus Prize, and others. And if all that weren’t impressive enough, it’s also in development as a television show at FX.

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