Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Foreword (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017) • essay by Charles Yu
• Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail • (2016) • novelette by Leigh Bardugo
• Teenagers from Outer Space • (2016) • novelette by Dale Bailey
• I've Come to Marry the Princess • (2016) • short story by Helena Bell
• Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home • (2016) • novelette by Genevieve Valentine
• The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight • (2016) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• When They Came to Us • (2016) • short story by Debbie Urbanski
• Vulcanization • [Everfair] • (2016) • short story by Nisi Shawl
• Openness • (2016) • short story by Alexander Weinstein
• Not by Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass • (2016) • short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• The Future Is Blue • [Garbagetown • 1] • (2016) • novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• This Is Not a Wardrobe Door • (2016) • short story by A. Merc Rustad
• On the Fringes of the Fractal • (2016) • short story by Greg van Eekhout
• The Story of Kao Yu • (2016) • short story by Peter S. Beagle
• Smear • (2016) • short story by Brian Evenson
• The City Born Great • [The Great Cities] • (2016) • short story by N. K. Jemisin
• Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 • (2016) • short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• Successor, Usurper, Replacement • (2016) • short story by Alice Sola Kim
• Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? • (2016) • short story by Nick Wolven
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf • (2016) • short story by Dale Bailey
• The Venus Effect • (2016) • novelette by Violet Allen [as by Joseph Allen Hill]
• Contributors' Notes (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017) • essay by uncredited
• Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2016 • essay by John Joseph Adams