Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• ix • Foreword (The Best American Science fiction and Fantasy 2020) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• xvii • Introduction (The Best American Science fiction and Fantasy 2020) • essay by Diana Gabaldon
• 1 • Life Sentence • (2019) • novelette by Matthew Baker
• 26 • Another Avatar • (2019) • novella by S. P. Somtow
• 65 • Between the Dark and the Dark • (2019) • novelette by Deji Bryce Olukotun
• 97 • Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters • (2019) • novelette by Kelly Barnhill
• 125 • Bullet Point • (2019) • short fiction by Elizabeth Bear
• 140 • The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary) • (2019) • short story by Gwendolyn Kiste
• 150 • The Archronology of Love • (2019) • novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
• 173 • Shape-Ups at Delilah's • (2019) • short story by Rion Amilcar Scott
• 192 • The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex • (2019) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• 204 • The Bookstore at the End of America • (2019) • short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• 223 • Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island • (2019) • short story by Nibedita Sen
• 227 • The Freedom of the Shifting Sea • (2019) • short story by Jaymee Goh
• 243 • Sacrid's Pod • (2019) • short fiction by Adam-Troy Castro
• 265 • Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan • (2019) • short story by Christopher Caldwell
• 280 • Thoughts and Prayers • (2019) • short story by Ken Liu
• 296 • The Time Invariance of Snow • (2019) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• 306 • The Robots of Eden • (2019) • short story by Anil Menon
• 323 • Erase, Erase, Erase • (2019) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• 348 • A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy • (2019) • short story by Rebecca Roanhorse
• 360 • Up from Slavery • (2019) • novelette by Victor LaValle
• 391 • Contributor's Notes (The Best American Science fiction and Fantasy 2020) • essay by uncredited
• 405 • Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2019 • essay by John Joseph Adams