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• The Plague Doctors • (2020) • short fiction by Karen Lord
• Brother Rifle • (2020) • short fiction by Daryl Gregory
• Glass Bottle Dancer • (2020) • short fiction by Celeste Rita Baker
• The Pill • (2020) • novelette by Meg Elison
• The Long Walk • (2020) • short fiction by Kate Elliott
• The Beast Adjoins • (2020) • novelette by Ted Kosmatka
• Beyond the Dragon's Gate • (2020) • short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• Two Truths and a Lie • (2020) • novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• One Time, a Reluctant Traveler • (2020) • short fiction by A. T. Greenblatt
• The Cleaners • (2020) • short story by Ken Liu
• How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary • (2020) • short story by Tochi Onyebuchi
• Crawfather • (2020) • short story by Mel Kassel
• And This Is How to Stay Alive • (2020) • short fiction by Shingai Njeri Kagunda [as by Shingai Kagunda]
• Tiger's Feast • (2020) • short story by K. T. Bryski
• Skipping Stones in the Dark • (2020) • short story by Amman Sabet
• Schrödinger's Catastrophe • (2020) • short fiction by Gene Doucette
• Survival Guide • (2020) • short story by Karin Lowachee
• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2020 (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Let's Play Dead • (2020) • short story by Senaa Ahmad
• Our Language • (2021) • short story by Yohanca Delgado
• The Rat • (2020) • short story by Yohanca Delgado