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• Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2016 • essay by Neil Clarke
• The Visitor from Taured • (2016) • novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• Extraction Request • (2016) • novelette by Rich Larson
• A Good Home • (2016) • short story by Karin Lowachee
• Prodigal • (2016) • novelette by Gord Sellar
• Ten Days • (2016) • novelette by Nina Allan
• Terminal • (2016) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• Panic City • (2016) • short story by Madeline Ashby
• Last Gods • (2016) • short story by Sam J. Miller
• HigherWorks • (2016) • novelette by Gregory Norman Bossert
• A Strange Loop • (2016) • novelette by T. R. Napper
• 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)
• Pearl • [Universe of Xuya] • (2016) • novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• The Metal Demimonde • (2016) • novelette by Nick Wolven
• The Iron Tactician • [Merlin [4] • 4] • (2016) • novella by Alastair Reynolds
• The Mighty Slinger • (2016) • novelette by Tobias S. Buckell and Karen Lord
• They Have All One Breath • (2016) • novelette by Karl Bunker
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea • (2016) • novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• And Then, One Day, the Air Was Full of Voices • (2016) • short story by Margaret Ronald
• The Three Lives of Sonata James • (2016) • novelette by Lettie Prell
• The Charge and the Storm • (2016) • novelette by An Owomoyela
• Parables of Infinity • [The Great Ship Universe] • (2016) • short story by Robert Reed
• Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man • (2016) • novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• You Make Pattaya • (2016) • short story by Rich Larson
• Number Nine Moon • (2016) • novelette by Alex Irvine
• Things with Beards • (2016) • short story by Sam J. Miller
• Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts • (2016) • short story by Ken Liu
• Touring with the Alien • (2016) • novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Recommended Reading (The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2) • essay by Neil Clarke