2018 Locus Recommended Reading List

Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List!

Published in Locus magazine’s February 2019 issue, the list is a consensus by Locus editors, reviewers, and other professionals — editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi; reviews editor Jonathan Strahan; Locus reviewers Liz Bourke, Katharine Coldiron, Carolyn Cushman, Paul Di Filippo, Lila Garrott, Amy Goldschlager, Paula Guran, Rich Horton, John Langan, Russell Letson, Adrienne Martini, Ian Mond, Colleen Mondor, Tim Pratt, Arley Sorg, Tom Whitmore, Gary K. Wolfe, and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro; Bob Blough; online editor Mark R. Kelly; critics Paul Kincaid, Cheryl Morgan, and Graham Sleight. The YA group wrapped in Locus assistant editor Laurel Amberdine, Gwenda Bond, Barry Goldblatt, Justine Larbalestier, and Tiffany Trent. Art books were compiled with help from Arnie Fenner, Karen Haber, and Locus design editor Francesca Myman. Short fiction recommendations had help from editors and reviewers John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, Lila Garrott, Liz Grzyb, Maria Haskins, Nisi Shawl, and Alison Wise plus our own reviewers.

Locus thanks all involved for their time, their expertise, and their affection for the field. Essays by many of these contributors, highlighting and discussing their particular favorite books and stories, are also published in the February issue, along with the Magazine Summary and Book Summary for 2018.

You can vote on your favorites for the year in the 2019 Poll & Survey! The Poll decides the winners of the Locus Awards, awarded in June 2019 at the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle. The ballot is open to all to vote on. We appreciate your input.

NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION

• Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Emergence, C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
• Chercher La Femme, L. Timmel Duchamp (Aqueduct)
• Europe at Dawn, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris UK)
• Shelter, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Pride and Prometheus, John Kessel (Saga)
• The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)
• Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)
• Embers of War, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK)
• The Overstory, Richard Powers (Norton; Heinemann)
• The Dreaming Stars, Tim Pratt (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
• An American Story, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
• By the Pricking of Her Thumb, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• Red Moon, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman (Europa)
• The Sky Is Yours, Chandler Klang Smith (Hogarth US)
• Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
• Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
• Irontown Blues, John Varley (Ace)
• The Wild Dead, Carrie Vaughn (John Joseph Adams)
• The Accidental War, Walter Jon Williams (Harper Voyager)
• Condomnauts, Yoss (Restless)

NOVELS – FANTASY

• Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
• Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)
• The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)
• Temper, Nicky Drayden (Harper Voyager US)
• Murmur, Will Eaves (CB; Bellevue Literary 2019)
• Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
• Ahab’s Return, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• Red Waters Rising, Laura Anne Gilman (Saga)
• European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss (Saga)
• The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)
• The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)
• Latchkey, Nicole Kornher-Stace (Mythic Delirium)
• Fire Dance, Ilana C. Myer (Tor)
• Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)
• Melmoth, Sarah Perry (Custom House; Serpent’s Tail)
• Summerland, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Phoenix Empress, K Arsenault Rivera (Tor)
• Salvation’s Fire, Justina Robson (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi (Penguin; Oneworld)
• Dreadful Company, Vivian Shaw (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)

NOVELS – HORROR

• In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)
• Unlanguage, Michael Cisco (Eraserhead)
• The Book of Hidden Things, Francesco Dimitri (Titan US; Titan UK)
• We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• The Immaculate Void, Brian Hodge (ChiZine)
• Coyote Songs, Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)
• Riddance, Shelley Jackson (Black Balloon)
• The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
• Providence, Caroline Kepnes (Lenny)
• The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)
• Cross Her Heart, Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK/Morrow)
• The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
• Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

YOUNG ADULT NOVELS

• Damsel, Elana K. Arnold (Balzer + Bray)
• The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)
• The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
• The Brilliant Death, Amy Rose Capetta (Viking)
• The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)
• Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
• For a Muse of Fire, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow)
• Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
• Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)
• Black Wings Beating, Alex London (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
• Blanca & Roja, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
• Bluecrowne, Kate Milford (Clarion)
• The Astonishing Color of After, Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)
• The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)
• Half-Witch, John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)
• A Room Away From the Wolves, Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin)
• Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)
• Mapping the Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)

FIRST NOVELS

• Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
• Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)
• Mirage, Somaiya Daud (Flatiron; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Breath of the Sun, Rachel Fellman (Aqueduct)
• I Am the River, T.E. Grau (Lethe)
• Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)
• The Deep and Shining Dark, Juliet Kemp (Elsewhen)
• The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Annex, Rich Larson (Orbit US)
• Severance, Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
• The Robots of Gotham, Todd McAulty (John Joseph Adams)
• A Blade So Black, L.L. McKinney (Imprint)
• Mem, Bethany C. Morrow (Unnamed)
• Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
• Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
• Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg (One World; Atlantic UK)
• Baby Teeth, Zoje Stage (St. Martin’s; Bantam Press UK)
• Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

COLLECTIONS

• Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Mariner; riverrun)
• The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)
• Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
• The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales, Michael Bishop (Kudzu Planet)
• All I Ever Dreamed, Michael Blumlein (Valancourt)
• Thoreau’s Microscope, Michael Blumlein (PM)
• Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace; Orbit UK)
• The End of All Our Exploring, F. Brett Cox (Fairwood)
• Ice and Other Stories, Candas Jane Dorsey (PS)
• An Agent of Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)
• The Ones Who Are Waving, Glen Hirshberg (Cemetery Dance)
• A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, Kat Howard (Saga)
• How Long ’til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Promise of Space and Other Stories, James Patrick Kelly (Prime)
• The Dinosaur Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
• Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• Alien Virus Love Disaster, Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer)
• The Father of Lies, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
• DJStories, David J. Schow (Subterranean)
• All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)
• Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories, Vandana Singh (Small Beer)
• Forget the Sleepless Shores, Sonya Taaffe (Lethe)
• Tales from the Inner City, Shaun Tan (Levine; Allen & Unwin Australia; Walker UK)
• The Future Is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
• Starlings, Jo Walton (Tachyon)
• How to Fracture a Fairy Tale, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

ANTHOLOGIES
ORIGINAL

• Future Fiction, Bill Campbell & Francesco Verso, eds. (Rosarium)
• The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• Shades Within Us, Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, eds. (Laksa)
• A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman, eds. (Greenwillow)
• Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• Mother of Invention, Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• Twelve Tomorrows, Wade Roush, ed. (MIT Press)
• Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Underwater Ballroom Society, Tiffany Trent & Stephanie Burgis, eds. (Five Fathoms)
• Welcome to Dystopia, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (OR)

REPRINTS/BESTS

• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
• The Final Frontier, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
• The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
• The Best of the Best Horror of the Year, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Zion’s Fiction, Sheldon Teitelbaum & Emanuel Lottem, eds. (Mandel Vilar)
• The Future Is Female!, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)

NON-FICTION

• Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster)
• Consciousness and Science Fiction, Damien Broderick (Springer)
• Psience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature, Damien Broderick (McFarland)
• Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017), Gardner Dozois (ReAnimus)
• Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analsyis: The Seminal 1951 Thesis with a New Introduction and Commentary, James Gunn (McFarland)
• Strange Stars, Jason Heller (Melville House)
• Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon (Tin House)
• Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility, Alexis Lothian (NYU Press)
• The Bend at the End of the Road, Barry N. Malzberg (Fantastic)
• Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine, ed. (Bodleian Library)
• Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street)
• Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK 2017)
• None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, Benjamin J. Robertson (University of Minnesota Press)
• An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor)
• A Conversation Larger than the Universe, Henry Wessells (The Grolier Club)
• Arthur C. Clarke, Gary Westfahl (University of Illinois Press)

ART BOOKS

• Yoshitaka Amano, Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography – Beyond the Fantasy, Florent Gorges (Les Éditions Pix’n Love 2015; Dark Horse)
• David B., Hâsib & the Queen of Serpents: A Tale of a Thousand and One Nights (Gallimard Jeunesse ’15; NBM)
• James Cawthorn, James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art, Maureen Cawthorn Bell (Jayde Design)
• J.A.W. Cooper, Pastoral (Flesk)
• Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Gary Gianni, The Illustrated Call of Cthulhu (Flesk)
• John Howe, A Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; HarperCollins UK)
• Jeffrey Alan Love, The Thousand Demon Tree (Flesk)
• Infected by Art: Volume 6, Todd Spoor & Bill Cox, eds. (ArtOrder)
• Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State (Fria Ligan ’17; Skybound)
• William Stout, Fantastic Worlds: The Art of William Stout, Ed Leimbacher (Insight Editions)
• Shaun Tan, Cicada (Lothian; Levine ’19)
• Charles Vess, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
• Michael Whelan, Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan (Baby Tattoo)
• Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, & Sam Witwer (Ten Speed)
• Lisbeth Zwerger, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling (Levine)

NOVELLAS

• “Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling”, L.X. Beckett (F&SF 7-8/18)
• The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• “Umbernight“, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 2/18)
• Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
• Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com Publishing)
• Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)
• “Requiem”, Vandana Singh (Ambiguity Machines)
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts (Tachyon)
• The Dragon’s Child, Janeen Webb (PS Australia)
• Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
• Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTES

• “The Donner Party”, Dale Bailey (F&SF 1–2/18)
• “The Ghoul Goes West“, Dale Bailey (Tor.com 1/17/18)
• “De MotherJumpers“, Celeste Rita Baker (Strange Horizons 10/15/18)
• “Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)
• “No Flight Without the Shatter“, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com 8/15/18)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
• “A World to Die For“, Tobias S. Buckell (Clarkesworld 1/18)
• “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again“, Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog 11/29/18)
• “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections“, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)
• “Flint and Mirror”, John Crowley (The Book of Magic)
• “An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
• “Joe Diabo’s Farewell”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
• “The Nearest“, Greg Egan (Tor.com 7/18/18)
• “Furious Girls”, Julianna Goodman (Fiyah Spring ’18)
• “Queen Lily“, Theodora Goss (Lightspeed 11/18)
• “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth“, Daryl Gregory (Tor.com 9/19/18)
• “When We Were Starless“, Simone Heller (Clarkesworld 10/18)
• “He Sings of Salt and Wormwood”, Brian Hodge (The Devil and the Deep)
• “The Privilege of the Happy Ending“, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/18)
• “M Is for Mars”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Houses Under the Sea)
• “Community Service”, Megan Lindholm (The Book of Magic)
• “Quality Time”, Ken Liu (Robots vs Fairies)
• “The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril”, Scott Lynch (The Book of Magic)
• “A Brief and Fearful Star“, Carmen Maria Machado (Future Tense) (moved to Short Stories)
• “Chasing the Start“, Evan Marcroft (Strange Horizons 7/9/18)
• “Triquetra“, Kirstyn McDermott (Tor.com 9/5/18)
• “The Spires”, Alec Nevala-Lee (Analog 3-4/18)
• “The Staff in the Stone”, Garth Nix (The Book of Magic)
• “Mother of Invention“, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense) (moved to Short Stories)
• “Recoveries“, Susan Palwick (Tor.com 6/20/18)
• “The Return of the Pig”, K.J. Parker (The Book of Magic)
• “The Thought That Counts“, K.J. Parker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/26/18)
• “Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing“, Sarah Pinsker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/1/18)
• “The Governor”, Tim Powers (The Book of Magic)
• “Foxy and Tiggs”, Justina Robson (Infinity’s End)
• “Intervention”, Kelly Robson (Infinity’s End)
• “A Study in Oils“, Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld 9/18)
• “Saudade”, Nelson Rolon (Fiyah Autumn ’18)
• “Orange World“, Karen Russell (New Yorker 6/4–11/18)
• “The Sweetness of Honey and Rot“, A. Merc Rustad (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/11/18)
• “The Tragedy of Zayred the Splendid“, Grace Seybold (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/4/18)
• “Son of the Sea”, Priya Sharma (All the Fabulous Beasts)
• “The Lighthouse Girl“, Bao Shu (Clarkesworld 1/18)
• “Widdam”, Vandana Singh (F&SF 1–2/18)
• “The Other Side of Otto Mountain”, Ivy Spadille (Fiyah Spring ’18)
• “The Crow Knight“, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/11/18)
• “Harry and Marlowe and the Secret of Ahomana“, Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed 9/18)
• “The Huntsman and the Beast”, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 9–10/18)
• “Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good”, LaShawn M. Wanak (Fiyah Summer ’18)
• “How to Swallow the Moon“, Isabel Yap (Uncanny 11–12/18)

SHORT STORIES

• “Down Where Sound Comes Blunt”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 3–4/18)
• “Waterbirds“, G.V. Anderson (Lightspeed 7/18)
• “Work Shadow/Shadow Work”, Madeline Ashby (Robots vs Fairies)
• “Dreadful Young Ladies”, Kelly Barnhill (Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories)
• “A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds“, James Beamon (Lightspeed 7/18)
• “Gone to Earth“, Octavia Cade (Shimmer 5/18)
• “The Temporary Suicides of Goldfish“, Octavia Cade (Kaleidotrope Winter ’18)
• “We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice“, Octavia Cade (Strange Horizons 5/7/18)
• “Hide Me in the Shadow of Your Wings“, Christopher Caldwell (Strange Horizons 7/30/18)
• “An Incomplete Catalog of Miraculous Births, or Secrets of the Uterus Abscondita“, Rebecca Campbell (Shimmer 1/18)
• “The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes“, Siobhan Carroll (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/15/18)
• “Red Rain“, Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare 6/18)
• “The Athuran Interpreter’s Flight“, Eleanna Castroianni (Strange Horizons 7/2/18)
• “By the Hand That Casts It“, Stephanie Charette (Shimmer 9/18)
• “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington“, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)
• “Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 1–2/18)
• “The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs Fairies)
• “Coyote Now Wears a Suit“, Ani Fox (Apex 9/18/18)
• “STET“, Sarah Gailey (Fireside 10/18)
• “And Yet“, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 3–4/18)
• “The Hurrah (aka Corpse Scene)“, Orrin Grey (The Dark 6/18)
• “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)
• “It’s Easy to Shoot a Dog“, Maria Haskins (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/13/18)
• “You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You“, Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed 9/18)
• “Variations on a Theme from Turandot“, Ada Hoffmann (Strange Horizons 5/14/18)
• “Carborundorum > /dev/null“, Annalee Flower Horne (Fireside 7/18)
• “The Unusual Customer“, Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Fireside 7/18)
• “Cuisine des Mémoires”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
• “The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
• “The Heart of Owl Abbas“, Kathleen Jennings (Tor.com 4/11/18)
• “Field Biology of the Wee Fairies“, Naomi Kritzer (Apex 9/4/18)
• “Meat and Salt and Sparks“, Rich Larson (Tor.com 6/6/18)
• “Firelight“, Ursula K. Le Guin (Paris Review Summer ’18)
• “The Starship and the Temple Cat“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)
• “Flow“, Marissa Lingen (Fireside 3/18)
• “Cosmic Spring“, Ken Liu (Lightspeed 3/18)
• “Mother Tongues”, S. Qiouyi Lu (Asimov’s 1–2/18)
• “The Passenger“, Emily Lundgren (Shimmer 7/18)
• “A Brief and Fearful Star“, Carmen Maria Machado (Future Tense)
• “The Hydraulic Emperor“, Arkady Martine (Uncanny 1–2/18)
• “The Starfish Girl“, Maureen McHugh (Future Tense 7/23/18)
• “Dying Light”, Maria Romasco Moore (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 7/18)
• “A Slip in the Slice“, Heather Morris (Kaleidotrope Winter ’18)
• “Bride Before You“, Stephanie Malia Morris (Nightmare 5/18)
• “She Searches for God in the Storm Within”, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Sword and Sonnet)
• “The Ceremony“, Mari Ness (Fireside Quarterly 7/18)
• “The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto”, Annalee Newitz (Robots vs Fairies)
• “Blessings“, Naomi Novik (Uncanny 5–6/18)
• “The Steam-Powered Princess“, Aimee Ogden (Augur 6/18)
• “Mother of Invention“, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)
• “The Bodice, The Hem, The Woman, Death“, Karen Osborne (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/25/18)
• “The Court Magician“, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)
• “A Portrait of Salai”, Hannu Rajaniemi (Infinity’s End)
• “True Crime“, M. Rickert (Nightmare 9/18)
• “Snake Season“, Erin Roberts (The Dark 4/18)
• “Sour Milk Girls“, Erin Roberts (Clarkesworld 1/18)
• “What Gentle Women Dare“, Kelly Robson (Uncanny 5-6/18)
• “One If by Sea“, Eden Royce (Augur 11/18)
• “Orange World“, Karen Russell (New Yorker 6/4–11/18) (moved to Novelettes)
• “The Triumphant Ward of the Railroad and the Sea“, Sara Saab (Shimmer 3/18)
• “Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep“, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 6/18)
• “On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog“, Adam R. Shannon (Apex 12/18)
• “You Can Make a Dinosaur, but You Can’t Help Me“, K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 7–8/18)
• “Teddy Bump”, Sheree Renee Thomas (Fiyah Summer ’18)
• “Yard Dog”, Tade Thompson (Fiyah Summer ’18)
• “The Buried Giant”, Lavie Tidhar (Robots vs Fairies)
• “From the Root“, Emma Törzs (Lightspeed 6/18)
• “A Fall Counts Anywhere”, Catherynne M. Valente (Robots vs Fairies)
• “Ghosts of Bari”, Wren Wallis (Shimmer 11/18)
• “Kindred”, Peter Watts (Infinity’s End)
• “The Pine Arch Collection“, Michael Wehunt (The Dark 5/18)
• “Ruby, Singing“, Fran Wilde (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/27/18)
• “Asphalt, River, Mother, Child“, Isabel Yap (Strange Horizons 10/8/18)
• “Music for the Underworld“, E. Lily Yu (Terraform 3/29/18)
• “Cast Off Tight“, Hal Y. Zhang (Fireside 6/18)

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