Neil Clarke, co-founder and now editor-in-chief of online magazine
Clarkesworld, launched his annual series in 2016 for Night Shade Books (which had published Strahan's series until four years earlier). Another large trade paperback series, Clarke's contents are nominally limited to science fiction (in contrast to Strahan and Horton) and his introductions explore the business aspects of publishing as well as highlighting exceptional works and new writers of each year.
Most reprinted authors: Rich Larson (6), Aliette de Bodard and Alastair Reynolds (5 each), then Yoon Ha Lee and Robert Reed (4 each). (Updated Dec 2021)
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume One, (Night Shade Books, 2016)
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume Two, (Night Shade Books, 2017)
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume Three, (Night Shade Books, 2018)
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4, (Night Shade Books, 2019)
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 5, (Night Shade Books, 2020)
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6, (Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, 2022)
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Combined Contents by Author and Title
Nadia Afifi
The Bahrain Underground Bazaar
-- Vol. #6
Nina Allan
Ten Days
-- Vol. #2
Eleanor Arnason
Tunnels
-- Vol. #6
Madeline Ashby
Death on Mars
(Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities, 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Domestic Violence
-- Vol. #4
Panic City
-- Vol. #2
Elizabeth Bear
Deriving Life
-- Vol. #5
Okay, Glory
-- Vol. #4
L. X. Beckett
Freezing Rain, A Chance of Falling
-- Vol. #4
Gregory Benford
Shadows of Eternity
-- Vol. #3
Gregory Norman Bossert
HigherWorks
-- Vol. #2
David Brin
The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss
-- Vol. #1
Tobias S. Buckell
By the Warmth of Their Calculus
-- Vol. #5
Scar Tissue
-- Vol. #6
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance
(Cosmic Powers, 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Karl Bunker
They Have All One Breath
(Asimov's Dec 2016)
-- Vol. #2
Rebecca Campbell
An Important Failure
-- Vol. #6
Such Thoughts Are Unproductive
-- Vol. #5
Vajra Chandrasekera
The Translator, at Low Tide
-- Vol. #6
John Chu
Close Enough for Jazz
-- Vol. #5
Hold-Time Violations
-- Vol. #1
Quantifying Trust
-- Vol. #4
Maggie Clark
Belly Up
-- Vol. #3
Seeding the Mountain
-- Vol. #6
Brenda Cooper
Iron Pegasus
-- Vol. #1
James S. A. Corey
Elsewhere
-- Vol. #6
Indra Das
Kali_Na
-- Vol. #5
The Worldless
-- Vol. #3
Aliette de Bodard
Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger's Steps
-- Vol. #4
In Blue Lily's Wake
-- Vol. #1
In Everlasting Wisdom
-- Vol. #3
The Long Tail
-- Vol. #6
Pearl
(The Starlit Wood, 2016)
-- Vol. #2
Rescue Party
-- Vol. #5
Seth Dickinson
Three Bodies at Mitanni
-- Vol. #1
Dilman Dila
Red_Bati
-- Vol. #6
S. B. Divya
Textbooks in the Attic
-- Vol. #6
Andy Dudak
Salvage
-- Vol. #6
Greg Egan
Uncanny Valley
(Tor.com 9 Aug 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Vanessa Fogg
Traces of Us
-- Vol. #4
Taiyo Fujii
Violation of the TrueNet Security Act
-- Vol. #1
R. S. A. Garcia
The Anchorite Wakes
-- Vol. #4
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Exile's End
-- Vol. #6
On the Shores of Ligeia
-- Vol. #5
Touring with the Alien
(Clarkesworld Apr 2016)
-- Vol. #2
Umbernight
-- Vol. #4
Kathleen Ann Goonan
The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse
-- Vol. #3
A. T. Greenblatt
Give the Family My Love
-- Vol. #5
Heavy Lifting
-- Vol. #4
Daryl Gregory
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
-- Vol. #4
Simone Heller
When We Were Starless
-- Vol. #4
Alexander C. Irvine
Number Nine Moon
-- Vol. #2
N. K. Jemisin
Emergency Skin
-- Vol. #5
Xia Jia
Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse
-- Vol. #2
Hao Jingfang
Folding Beijing
(Uncanny Jan/Feb 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Gwyneth Jones
The Little Shepherdess
-- Vol. #5
Rachael K. Jones
Regarding the Robot Raccoons Attached to the Hull of My Ship
-- Vol. #3
James Patrick Kelly
Your Boyfriend Experience
-- Vol. #6
Nancy Kress
Cocoons
-- Vol. #1
Every Hour of Light and Dark
-- Vol. #3
Invisible People
-- Vol. #6
Matthew Kressel
The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)
(Tor.com 15 Mar 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air
-- Vol. #6
Naomi Kritzer
Cat Pictures Please
(Clarkesworld Jan 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Prophet of the Roads
-- Vol. #4
So Much Cooking
-- Vol. #1
Rich Larson
An Evening with Severyn Grimes
(Asimov's Jul/Aug 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Extraction Request
-- Vol. #2
How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar
-- Vol. #6
Meat and Salt and Sparks
-- Vol. #4
Meshed
(Clarkesworld Feb 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Painless
-- Vol. #5
You Make Pattaya
-- Vol. #2
Ann Leckie
Another Word for World
(Future Visions, 2015)
-- Vol. #1
The Justified
-- Vol. #5
Yoon Ha Lee
The Cold Inequalities
-- Vol. #1
The Empty Gun
-- Vol. #5
Entropy War
-- Vol. #4
Extracurricular Activities
(Tor.com 15 Feb 2017)
-- Vol. #3
David D. Levine
Damage
(Tor.com 21 Jan 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Cixin Liu
Moonlight
-- Vol. #5
Ken Liu
Byzantine Empathy
-- Vol. #4
Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts
(Drowned Worlds, 2016)
-- Vol. #2
The Gods Have Not Died in Vain
-- Vol. #1
Uma
-- Vol. #6
Karen Lord
The Mighty Slinger
-- Vol. #2
Karin Lowachee
A Good Home
-- Vol. #2
Meridian
(Where the Stars Rise, 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Sympathizer
-- Vol. #5
S. Qiouyi Lu
Mother Tongues
-- Vol. #4
Ian R. MacLeod
The Visitor from Taured
(Asimov's Sep 2016)
-- Vol. #2
Usman T. Malik
Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love
-- Vol. #6
Paul J. McAuley
Wild Honey
-- Vol. #1
Ian McDonald
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan
(Old Venus, 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae
-- Vol. #4
Seanan McGuire
Hello, Hello
-- Vol. #1
Maureen F. McHugh
Yellow and the Perception of Reality
-- Vol. #6
Sean McMullen
The Audience
(Analog Jun 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Rati Mehrotra
Knock, Knock Said the Ship
-- Vol. #6
Sam J. Miller
Calved
(Asimov' Sep 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Last Gods
-- Vol. #2
Things With Beards
(Clarkesworld Jun 2016)
-- Vol. #2
Tegan Moore
The Work of Wolves
-- Vol. #5
Samantha Murray
Singles' Day
-- Vol. #4
Linda Nagata
The Martian Obelisk
(Tor.com 19 Jul 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Theories of Flight
-- Vol. #4
T. R. Napper
A Strange Loop
-- Vol. #2
Ray Nayler
Eyes of the Forest
-- Vol. #6
The Ocean Between the Leaves
-- Vol. #5
Alec Nevala-Lee
At the Fall
-- Vol. #5
Annalee Newitz
Old Media
-- Vol. #5
Julie Novakova
The Long Iapetan Night
-- Vol. #6
Finbarr O'Reilly
The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon
(Clarkesworld Oct 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Karen Osborne
Cratered
-- Vol. #5
An Owomoyela
The Charge and the Storm
-- Vol. #2
Outsider
-- Vol. #1
Suzanne Palmer
The Painter of Trees
-- Vol. #5
The Secret Life of Bots
(Clarkesworld Sep 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man
-- Vol. #2
Dominica Phetteplace
One Thousand Beetles in a Jumpsuit
-- Vol. #5
Sarah Pinsker
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
(Lightspeed Feb 2016)
-- Vol. #2
Wind Will Rove
(Asimov's Sep/Oct 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Vina Jie-Min Prasad
A Series of Steaks
(Clarkesworld Jan 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Lettie Prell
The Three Lives of Sonata James
-- Vol. #2
Chen Qiufan
The Smog Society
-- Vol. #1
A Que
Song Xiuyun
-- Vol. #5
Hannu Rajaniemi
Lions and Gazelles
-- Vol. #4
Arula Ratnakar
Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City
-- Vol. #6
Robert Reed
Empty
-- Vol. #1
An Equation of State
-- Vol. #4
Parables of Infinity
-- Vol. #2
The Speed of Belief
(Asimov's Jan/Feb 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Alastair Reynolds
Different Seas
-- Vol. #4
Holdfast
-- Vol. #3
The Iron Tactician
(NewCon Press)
-- Vol. #2
A Murmuration
-- Vol. #1
Permafrost
-- Vol. #5
M. Rickert
This World Is Made for Monsters
-- Vol. #6
Mercurio D. Rivera
Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars
-- Vol. #6
In the Stillness Between the Stars
-- Vol. #5
Erin Roberts
Sour Milk Girls
-- Vol. #4
Kelly Robson
Intervention
-- Vol. #4
Two-Year Man
(Asimov's Aug 2015)
-- Vol. #1
We Who Live in the Heart
(Clarkesworld May 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Margaret Ronald
And Then, One Day, the Air Was Full of Voices
-- Vol. #2
Geoff Ryman
Capitalism in the 22nd Century or A.I.r.
(Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Sofia Samatar
Fairy Tales for Robots
-- Vol. #6
Hard Mary
-- Vol. #4
Carter Scholz
Gypsy
(PM Press)
-- Vol. #1
Gord Sellar
Focus
(Analog May/Jun 2017)
-- Vol. #3
Prodigal
(Analog Dec 2016)
-- Vol. #2
Martin L. Shoemaker
Today I Am Paul
(Clarkesworld Aug 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Sameem Siddiqui
AirBody
-- Vol. #6
Vandana Singh
Mother Ocean
-- Vol. #5
Requiem
-- Vol. #4
Shikasta
-- Vol. #3
Bogi Takács
The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade
-- Vol. #6
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Oannes, From the Flood
-- Vol. #6
Lavie Tidhar
The Buried Giant
-- Vol. #4
Terminal
(Tor.com 14 Apr 2016)
-- Vol. #2
Carrie Vaughn
Bannerless
(The End Has Come, 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Sinew and Steel and What They Told
-- Vol. #6
Marie Vibbert
Knit Three, Save Four
-- Vol. #5
Kali Wallace
The River of Blood and Wine
-- Vol. #5
Peter Watts
Test 4 Echo
-- Vol. #6
ZeroS
-- Vol. #3
Fran Wilde
Rhizome, by Starlight
-- Vol. #6
A. C. Wise
A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World
-- Vol. #3
Nick Wolven
Lab B-15
-- Vol. #4
The Metal Demimonde
-- Vol. #2
No Placeholder for You, My Love
(Asimov's Aug 2015)
-- Vol. #1
Alyssa Wong
All the Time We've Left to Spend
-- Vol. #4
Caroline M. Yoachim
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World
-- Vol. #1
