The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012

Suzanne Palmer, “Surf” (Asimov’s, 12/11)

Paul Park, “Mysteries of the Old Quarter” (Ghosts by Gaslight)

K.J. Parker, Blue and Gold (Subterranean Press)

Richard Parks, “The Ghost of Shinoda Forest” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

Richard Parks, “The Swan Troika” (Realms of Fantasy, 2/11)

David Prill, “A Pulp Called Joe” (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2)

Tom Purdom, “A Response from EST17” (Asimov’s, 4-5/11)

Cat Rambo, “The Immortality Game” (Fantasy, 6/11)

Robert Reed, “Purple” (Asimov’s, 3/11)

Robert Reed, “The Ants of Flanders” (F&SF, 7-8/11)

Robert Reed, “Stalker” (Asimov’s, 9/11)

Alastair Reynolds, “The Old Man and the Martian Sea” (Life on Mars)

M. Rickert, “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece” (F&SF, 7-8/11)

Kate Riedel, “The Guardians” (On Spec, Spring/11)

Mercurio D. Rivera, “For Love’s Delirium Haunts the Fractured Mind” (Interzone, 7 -8/11)

Tansy Rayner Roberts, “The Patrician” (Love and Romanpunk)

Christopher Rowe, “Nowhere Fast” (Steampunk!)

Geoff Ryman, “What We Found” (F&SF, 9-10/11)

Grace Seybold, “Linking Words” (Chiaroscuro, 7/11)

Carter Scholz, “Signs of Life” (F&SF, 5-6/11)

Michael Swanwick, “For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Get Up Again” (Asimov’s, 4/11)

Michael Swanwick, “The Dala Horse” (Tor.com, 7/11)

Sonya Taaffe, “A Wolf in Iceland in the Child of a Lie” (Not One of Us, 4/11)

Lavie Tidhar, “Red Dawn” (Fantasy, 11/11)

Lavie Tidhar, “The Projected Girl” (Naked City)

Lavie Tidhar, Jesus and the Eightfold Path (PS Publishing)

Catherynne M. Valente, “The Bread We Eat in Dreams” (Apex, 11/11)

Catherynne M. Valente, Silently and Very Fast (WSFA Press, Clarkesworld Magazine)

Genevieve Valentine, “Demons, Your Body, and You” (Subterranean)

Genevieve Valentine, “Things to Know About Being Dead” (Teeth)

Kali Wallace, “Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls” (F&SF, 3-4/11)

Jo Walton, “The Panda Coin” (Eclipse Four)

Peter Watts, “Malak” (Engineering Infinity)

Sarah Harris Wallman, “The Malanesian” (LCRW, 8/11)

Kathryn Weaver, “The Doves of Hartleigh Gardens” (Apex, 6/11)

Liz Williams and Alastair Reynolds, “Lune and the Red Empress”(Eastercon Souvenir Book)

Publication History

“Ghostweight” by Yoon Ha Lee. © by Yoon Ha Lee. Originally published in Clarkesworld, January. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Sandal-Bride” by Genevieve Valentine. © by Genevieve Valentine. Originally published in Fantasy, March. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Adakian Eagle” by Bradley Denton. © by Bradley Denton. Originally published in Down These Strange Streets. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Sighted Watchmaker” by Vylar Kaftan. © by Vylar Kaftan. Originally published in Lightspeed, December. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland, for a Little While” by Catherynne M. Valente. © by Catherynne M. Valente. Originally published in Tor.com, July 27. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Walking Stick Fires” by Alan DeNiro. © by Alan DeNiro. Originally published in Asimov’s, June. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Late Bloomer” by Suzy McKee Charnas. © by Suzy McKee Charnas. Originally published in Teeth. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Choice” by Paul McAuley. © by Paul McAuley. Originally published in Asimov’s, February. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“East of Furious” by Jonathan Carroll. © by Jonathan Carroll. Originally published in Conjunctions 56. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Martian Heart” by John Barnes. © by John Barnes. Originally published in Life on Mars. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Pug” by Theodora Goss. © by Theodora Goss. Originally published in Asimov’s, July. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Rampion” by Alexandra Duncan. © by Alexandra Duncan. Originally published in F&SF, May-June. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“And Weep Like Alexander” by Neil Gaiman. © by Neil Gaiman. Originally published in Fables from the Fountain. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Widows in the World” by Gavin J. Grant. © by Gavin J. Grant. Originally published in Strange Horizons, February 7-14. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Younger Women” by Karen Joy Fowler. © by Karen Joy Fowler. Originally published in Subterranean, Summer. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Canterbury Hollow” by Chris Lawson. © by Chris Lawson. Originally published in F&SF, January-February. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Summer People” by Kelly Link. © by Kelly Link. Originally published in Tin House, Fall; Steampunk! Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Mulberry Boys” by Margo Lanagan. © by Margo Lanagan. Originally published in Blood and Other Cravings. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Silver Wind” by Nina Allan. © by Nina Allan. Originally published in Interzone, March-April. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Choose Your Own Adventure” by Kat Howard. © by Kat Howard. Originally published in Fantasy, April. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong” by K.J. Parker. © by K.J. Parker. Originally published in Subterranean, Winter. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Woman Leaves Room” by Robert Reed. © by Robert Reed. Originally published in Lightspeed, March. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“My Chivalric Fiasco” by George Saunders. © by George Saunders. Originally published in Harper’s, September. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Last Sophia” by C.S.E. Cooney. © by C.S.E. Cooney. Originally published in Strange Horizons, March 7. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Some of Them Closer” by Marissa Lingen. © by Marissa Lingen. Originally published in Analog, January. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Fields of Gold” by Rachel Swirsky. © by Rachel Swirsky. Originally published in Eclipse 4. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Smell of Orange Groves” by Lavie Tidhar. © by Lavie Tidhar. Originally published in Clarkesworld, November. Reprinted by permission of the author.