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• xv • Summation: 2016 • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Terminal • (2016) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• 12 • Touring with the Alien • (2016) • novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• 36 • Patience Lake • (2016) • novelette by Matthew Claxton
• 53 • Jonas and the Fox • (2016) • novelette by Rich Larson
• 69 • Prodigal • (2016) • novelette by Gord Sellar
• 88 • KIT: Some Assembly Required • (2016) • short story by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
• 98 • Vortex • (2016) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 112 • Elves of Antarctica • (2016) • short story by Paul J. McAuley
• 125 • The Baby Eaters • (2016) • short story by Ian McHugh
• 135 • A Salvaging of Ghosts • [Universe of Xuya] • (2016) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• 144 • Those Shadows Laugh • (2016) • novelette by Geoff Ryman
• 162 • Redking • (2016) • short story by Craig DeLancey
• 175 • Things with Beards • (2016) • short story by Sam J. Miller
• 185 • Fieldwork • (2016) • novelette by Shariann Lewitt
• 203 • The Further Adventures of Mr. Costello • (2016) • novella by David Gerrold
• 239 • Innumerable Glimmering Lights • (2016) • short story by Rich Larson
• 252 • Fifty Shades of Grays • (2016) • novelette by Steven Barnes
• 276 • Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee • (2016) • short story by Alastair Reynolds
• 285 • Cold Comfort • (2016) • novelette by Paul Doherty and Pat Murphy
• 300 • The Art of Space Travel • (2016) • novelette by Nina Allan
• 322 • Flight from the Ages • (2016) • novelette by
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• 346 • My Generations Shall Praise • (2016) • short story by Samantha Henderson
• 356 • Mars Abides • (2016) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 371 • The Visitor from Taured • (2016) • novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• 388 • When the Stone Eagle Flies • [Martin & Artie] • (2016) • novelette by Bill Johnson
• 406 • The Vanishing Kind • (2016) • novella by Lavie Tidhar
• 445 • One Sister, Two Sisters, Three • (2016) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 462 • Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts • (2016) • short story by Ken Liu
• 474 • Checkerboard Planet • [Lydia Duluth] • (2016) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• 497 • They Have All One Breath • (2016) • novelette by Karl Bunker
• 518 • Mika Model • (2016) • short story by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 528 • That Game We Played During the War • (2016) • short story by Carrie Vaughn
• 540 • Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived By Her Mercy • (2016) • short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• 552 • The One Who Isn't • (2016) • short story by Ted Kosmatka
• 563 • Those Brighter Stars • (2016) • short story by Mercurio D. Rivera
• 575 • A Tower for the Coming World • (2016) • short story by Maggie Clark
• 585 • Firstborn, Lastborn • (2016) • short story by Melissa Scott
• 594 • Women's Christmas • (2016) • short story by Ian McDonald
• 599 • The Iron Tactician • [Merlin (Alastair Reynolds) • 4] • (2016) • novella by Alastair Reynolds
• 653 • Honorable Mentions: 2016 • essay by Gardner Dozois