2020 Table of Contents

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 contains the following content.

FANTASY

  • Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters by Kelly Barnhill
    from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • Erase, Erase, Erase by Elizabeth Bear
    from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan by Christopher Caldwell
    from Uncanny Magazine
  • The Freedom of the Shifting Sea by Jaymee Goh
    from New Suns
  • The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary) by Gwendolyn Kiste
    from Nightmare Magazine
  • Up from Slavery by Victor LaValle
    from Weird Tales
  • Shape-ups at Delilah’s by Rion Amilcar Scott
    from The New Yorker
  • Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen
    from Nightmare Magazine
  • Another Avatar by S.P. Somtow
    from Amazing Stories
  • The Time Invariance of Snow by E. Lily Yu
    from Tor.com

SCIENCE FICTION

  • The Bookstore at the End of America by Charlie Jane Anders
    from A People’s Future of the United States
  • Life Sentence by Matthew Baker
    from Lightspeed Magazine
  • Bullet Point by Elizabeth Bear
    from Wastelands: The New Apocalypse
  • The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex by Tobias S. Buckell
    from New Suns
  • Sacrid’s Pod by Adam-Troy Castro
    from Lightspeed Magazine
  • Thoughts and Prayers by Ken Liu
    from Future Tense Fiction
  • The Robots of Eden by Anil Menon
    from New Suns
  • Between the Dark and the Dark by Deji Bryce Olukotun
    from Lightspeed Magazine
  • A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy by Rebecca Roanhorse
    from The Mythic Dream
  • The Archronology of Love by Caroline M. Yoachim
    from Lightspeed Magazine