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• vii • Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2016 • essay by Neil Clarke
• 1 • The Visitor from Taured • (2016) • novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• 22 • Extraction Request • (2016) • novelette by Rich Larson
• 43 • A Good Home • (2016) • short story by Karin Lowachee
• 59 • Prodigal • (2016) • novelette by Gord Sellar
• 83 • Ten Days • (2016) • novelette by Nina Allan
• 115 • Terminal • (2016) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• 128 • Panic City • (2016) • short story by Madeline Ashby
• 136 • Last Gods • (2016) • short story by Sam J. Miller
• 150 • HigherWorks • (2016) • novelette by Gregory Norman Bossert
• 180 • A Strange Loop • (2016) • novelette by T. R. Napper
• 203 • Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse • (2016) • short story by Xia Jia (trans. of
  龙马夜行^?Lóngmǎ yèxíng
  Longma yexing
  Long ma yexing
  2015)
• 217 • Pearl • [Universe of Xuya] • (2016) • novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• 236 • The Metal Demimonde • (2016) • novelette by Nick Wolven
• 276 • The Iron Tactician • [Merlin (Alastair Reynolds) • 4] • (2016) • novella by Alastair Reynolds
• 344 • The Mighty Slinger • (2016) • novelette by Tobias S. Buckell and Karen Lord
• 368 • They Have All One Breath • (2016) • novelette by Karl Bunker
• 394 • Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea • (2016) • novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• 413 • And Then, One Day, the Air Was Full of Voices • (2016) • short story by Margaret Ronald
• 425 • The Three Lives of Sonata James • (2016) • novelette by Lettie Prell
• 444 • The Charge and the Storm • (2016) • novelette by An Owomoyela
• 485 • Parables of Infinity • [The Great Ship Universe] • (2016) • short story by Robert Reed
• 499 • Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man • (2016) • novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• 518 • You Make Pattaya • (2016) • short story by Rich Larson
• 532 • Number Nine Moon • (2016) • novelette by Alex Irvine
• 551 • Things with Beards • (2016) • short story by Sam J. Miller
• 563 • Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts • (2016) • short story by Ken Liu
• 577 • Touring with the Alien • (2016) • novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• 607 • Recommended Reading (The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2) • essay by Neil Clarke