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• Foreword (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) • essay by Rebecca Roanhorse
• 10 Steps to a Whole New You • (2021) • short story by Tonya Liburd
• The Pizza Boy • (2021) • short story by Meg Elison
• If the Martians Have Magic • (2021) • short story by
  P. Djèlí Clark^?P. Djeli Clark
• Delete Your First Memory for Free • (2021) • short story by Kel Coleman
• The Red Mother • (2021) • short fiction by Elizabeth Bear
• The Cold Calculations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (2021) • short fiction by Aimee Ogden
• The Captain and the Quartermaster • (2021) • short story by C. L. Clark
• Broad Dutty Water • (2021) • novelette by Nalo Hopkinson
• I Was a Teenage Space Jockey • (2021) • short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• Let All the Children Boogie • (2021) • short story by Sam J. Miller
• Skinder's Veil • (2021) • novelette by Kelly Link
• The Algorithm Will See You Now • (2021) • short fiction by Justin C. Key
• The Cloud Lake Unicorn • (2021) • short fiction by Karen Russell
• Proof by Induction • (2021) • short story by José Pablo Iriarte
• Colors of the Immortal Palette • (2021) • novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
• The Future Library • (2021) • novelette by Peng Shepherd
• L'esprit De L'escalier • (2021) • novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• Tripping Through Time • (2021) • short fiction by Rich Larson
• The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han • (2021) • short fiction by Maria Dong
• Root Rot • (2021) • short story by Fargo Tbakhi
• Contributors' Notes (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) • essay by uncredited
• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2021 • essay by John Joseph Adams