Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen) • essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Mother Tongues • (2018) • short story by S. Qiouyi Lu
• Olivia's Table • (2018) • short story by Alyssa Wong
• The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington • (2018) • short story by
  P. Djèlí Clark^?P. Djeli Clark
• Yard Dog • (2018) • short story by Tade Thompson
• The Woman Who Destroyed Us • (2018) • novelette by S. L. Huang
• The Blue Fairy's Manifesto • (2018) • short story by Annalee Newitz
• The Starship and the Temple Cat • (2018) • short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• A Brief and Fearful Star • (2018) • short story by Carmen Maria Machado
• Field Biology of the Wee Fairies • (2018) • short story by Naomi Kritzer
• Intervention • [The Lucky Peach] • (2018) • novelette by Kelly Robson
• The Bookcase Expedition • (2018) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies • (2018) • short story by Alix E. Harrow
• The Staff in the Stone • (2018) • novelette by Garth Nix
• Okay, Glory • (2018) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• Widdam • (2018) • novelette by Vandana Singh
• Dreadful Young Ladies • (2018) • short story by Kelly Barnhill
• The Only Harmless Great Thing • (2018) • novelette by Brooke Bolander
• The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society • (2018) • short story by Ursula Vernon [as by T. Kingfisher]
• When We Were Starless • (2018) • novelette by Simone Heller
• If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again • (2018) • novelette by Zen Cho
• Blessings • (2018) • short story by Naomi Novik
• Meat and Salt and Sparks • (2018) • short story by Rich Larson
• Nine Last Days on Planet Earth • (2018) • novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Golgotha • (2018) • short story by Dave Hutchinson
• Flint and Mirror • [
  Ægypt^?Egypt
  Aegypt
  ] • (2018) • novelette by John Crowley
• An Agent of Utopia • (2018) • novelette by Andy Duncan
• You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I'll Pretend Like I Never Met You • (2018) • short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• Quality Time • (2018) • novelette by Ken Liu
• The Storyteller's Replacement • (2018) • short story by N. K. Jemisin
• Firelight • [Earthsea Cycle] • (2018) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin