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• Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2018 • essay by Neil Clarke
• When We Were Starless • (2018) • novelette by Simone Heller
• Intervention • [The Lucky Peach] • (2018) • novelette by Kelly Robson
• All the Time We've Left to Spend • (2018) • short story by Alyssa Wong
• Domestic Violence • (2018) • short story by Madeline Ashby
• Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae • (2018) • short story by Ian McDonald
• Prophet of the Roads • (2018) • short story by Naomi Kritzer
• Traces of Us • (2018) • short story by Vanessa Fogg
• Theories of Flight • (2018) • short story by Linda Nagata
• Lab B-15 • (2018) • novelette by Nick Wolven
• Requiem • (2018) • novella by Vandana Singh
• Sour Milk Girls • (2018) • short story by Erin Roberts
• Mother Tongues • (2018) • short story by S. Qiouyi Lu
• Singles' Day • (2018) • short story by Samantha Murray
• Nine Last Days on Planet Earth • (2018) • novelette by Daryl Gregory
• The Buried Giant • (2018) • short story by Lavie Tidhar
• The Anchorite Wakes • (2018) • short story by R. S. A. Garcia
• Entropy War • (2018) • short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• An Equation of State • (2018) • short story by Robert Reed
• Quantifying Trust • (2018) • short story by John Chu
• Hard Mary • (2018) • novelette by Sofia Samatar
• Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling • (2018) • novella by A. M. Dellamonica [as by L. X. Beckett]
• Okay, Glory • (2018) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• Heavy Lifting • (2018) • short story by A. T. Greenblatt
• Lions and Gazelles • (2018) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
• Different Seas • (2018) • short story by Alastair Reynolds
• Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger's Steps • (2018) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• Byzantine Empathy • (2018) • novelette by Ken Liu
• Meat and Salt and Sparks • (2018) • short story by Rich Larson
• Umbernight • (2018) • novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• 2018 Recommended Reading List (The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4) • (2017) • essay by Neil Clarke