The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012

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Last year I made a point of noticing how many stories—well over half—in this book were from online sources. So it seems natural to revisit the subject this year. Online sources remain strong, though this year only twelve of twenty-nine stories came from them—still a healthy total. (And as I’ve noted before, the distinction can get blurry. Many of the magazines are available electronically—in Kindle editions, for example. And it’s not unusual for an online magazine to publish a print anthology of their stories for a year—Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and the sadly defunct Zahir all have done this.) Where did the other stories come from? Six came from original anthologies (and one more was published in an original anthology shortly after appearing in a non-genre magazine). Eight came from the traditional genre print magazines—all this year from the so-called “Big Four” SF magazines: Asimov’s, F&SF, Analog, and Interzone. And three came from outside the field: one each from Harper’s, Tin House, and Conjunctions.

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