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• Foreword (The Best American Science fiction and Fantasy 2020) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction (The Best American Science fiction and Fantasy 2020) • essay by Diana Gabaldon
• Life Sentence • (2019) • novelette by Matthew Baker
• Another Avatar • (2019) • novella by S. P. Somtow
• Between the Dark and the Dark • (2019) • novelette by Deji Bryce Olukotun
• Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters • (2019) • novelette by Kelly Barnhill
• Bullet Point • (2019) • short fiction by Elizabeth Bear
• The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary) • (2019) • short story by Gwendolyn Kiste
• The Archronology of Love • (2019) • novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
• Shape-Ups at Delilah's • (2019) • short story by Rion Amilcar Scott
• The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex • (2019) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• The Bookstore at the End of America • (2019) • short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island • (2019) • short story by Nibedita Sen
• The Freedom of the Shifting Sea • (2019) • short story by Jaymee Goh
• Sacrid's Pod • (2019) • short fiction by Adam-Troy Castro
• Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan • (2019) • short story by Christopher Caldwell
• Thoughts and Prayers • (2019) • short story by Ken Liu
• The Time Invariance of Snow • (2019) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• The Robots of Eden • (2019) • short story by Anil Menon
• Erase, Erase, Erase • (2019) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy • (2019) • short story by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Up from Slavery • (2019) • novelette by Victor LaValle
• Contributors' Notes (The Best American Science fiction and Fantasy 2020)^?Contributor's Notes (The Best American Science fiction and Fantasy 2020)
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• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2019 • essay by John Joseph Adams