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• ix • Foreword (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• xvii • Introduction (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018) • essay by N. K. Jemisin
• 1 • Rivers Run Free • (2017) • short story by Charles Payseur
• 13 • Destroy the City with Me Tonight • (2017) • short story by Kate Alice Marshall
• 22 • You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych • (2017) • novelette by Kathleen Kayembe
• 49 • Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities • (2017) • short story by Lettie Prell
• 57 • Loneliness Is in Your Blood • (2017) • short story by Cadwell Turnbull
• 63 • The Hermit of Houston • (2017) • novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• 92 • The Last Cheng Beng Gift • (2017) • short story by Jaymee Goh
• 100 • Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn • [Sun Lords of the Principality] • (2017) • short story by A. Merc Rustad
• 114 • The Resident • (2017) • novelette by Carmen Maria Machado
• 152 • The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant • (2017) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• 165 • Tasting Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast • (2017) • short story by Gwendolyn Clare
• 170 • Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue • (2017) • novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• 188 • Church of Birds • (2017) • short story by Micah Dean Hicks
• 201 • ZeroS • (2017) • novelette by Peter Watts
• 241 • Carnival Nine • (2017) • short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• 258 • The Wretched and the Beautiful • (2017) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• 265 • The Orange Tree • (2017) • novelette by Maria Dahvana Headley
• 292 • Cannibal Acts • (2017) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh [as by Maureen McHugh]
• 304 • Black Powder • (2017) • short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• 323 • Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance • (2017) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• 343 • Contributors' Notes (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018) • essay by various
• 355 • Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2017 • essay by John Joseph Adams