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• Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2017 • (2018) • essay by Neil Clarke
• A Series of Steaks • (2017) • novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• Holdfast • (2017) • short story by Alastair Reynolds
• Every Hour of Light and Dark • (2017) • short story by Nancy Kress
• The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) • (2017) • short story by Matthew Kressel
• Shikasta • (2017) • novelette by Vandana Singh
• Wind Will Rove • (2017) • novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• Focus • (2017) • short story by Gord Sellar
• The Martian Obelisk • (2017) • short story by Linda Nagata
• Shadows of Eternity • (2017) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Worldless • (2017) • short story by Indrapramit Das
• Regarding the Robot Raccoons Attached to the Hull of My Ship • (2017) • short story by Rachael K. Jones and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
• Belly Up • (2017) • novelette by Maggie Clark
• Uncanny Valley • (2017) • novelette by Greg Egan
• We Who Live in the Heart • [The Lucky Peach] • (2017) • novelette by Kelly Robson
• A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World • (2017) • short story by A. C. Wise
• Meridian • (2017) • short story by Karin Lowachee
• The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse • (2017) • novella by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Extracurricular Activities • [The Machineries of Empire] • (2017) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• In Everlasting Wisdom • (2017) • short story by Aliette de Bodard
• The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon • (2017) • short story by Finbarr O'Reilly
• The Speed of Belief • [The Great Ship Universe] • (2017) • novella by Robert Reed
• Death on Mars • (2017) • novelette by Madeline Ashby
• An Evening with Severyn Grimes • (2017) • short story by Rich Larson
• ZeroS • (2017) • novelette by Peter Watts
• The Secret Life of Bots • [Bot 9 • 1] • (2017) • novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance • (2017) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• Recommended Reading (The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3) • (2018) • essay by Neil Clarke