On my list of things to do in 2017: keep better track of which stories I liked in anthologies, not readily linkable. There are a few on this list from things I read on my Kindle once I thought of that, but not many, and while I went through my book posts trying to spot the anthologies that came out this year and the stories I liked in them, I am tired and have a cold and probably missed some. And again: this list makes no pretense at being comprehensive, nor is it the N best for your award-nominating needs. I care about getting short stories into brains; that is what this is for, and secondarily to pat people on the back and say go team. I have not read all of any one thing, and I have not read some of everything. I have just read some things and liked them. Here they are.<\/p>\n
Das Steingeschopf, by G. V. Anderson (Strange Horizons)<\/a><\/p>\n Palingenesis, by Megan Arkenberg (Shimmer)<\/a><\/p>\n Blood Reckonings, by Alec Austin (BCS)<\/a><\/p>\n The Paper Sword, by Alec Austin (Hidden Youth)<\/p>\n The Spy Who Never Grew Up, by Sarah Rees Brennan (Uncanny)<\/a><\/p>\n The Signal Birds, by Octavia Cade (Liminal)<\/a><\/p>\n Mortal Eyes, by Ann Chatham (BCS)<\/a><\/p>\n A Dead Djinn in Cairo, by P. Djeli Clark (Tor.com)<\/a><\/p>\n A Hundred and Seventy Storms, by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny)<\/a><\/p>\n Anon and the Antlers, by Michael J. DeLuca (Orthogonal)<\/p>\n Asleep in the Traces, by Michael J. DeLuca (Middle Planet)<\/a><\/p>\n Binaries, by S. B. Divya (Lightspeed: PoC Destroy SF)<\/p>\n Written in the Book of the Woods, by L.J. Geoffrion (Reckoning)<\/p>\n Big Thrull and the Askin Man, by Max Gladstone (Uncanny)<\/a><\/p>\n A Name to Ashes, by Jaymee Goh (Hidden Youth)<\/p>\n Civitas Sylvatica, by Cae Hawksmoor (Reckoning)<\/p>\n The Stone Garden, by C. A. Hawksmoor (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)<\/a><\/p>\n The Virgin Played Bass, by Maria Dahvana Headley (Uncanny)<\/a><\/p>\n Transition, by Erin Hoffman (Reckoning) (a poem, not a story)<\/p>\n Plague Winter, by Emily Houk (Reckoning)<\/p>\n My Grandmother’s Bones, by S. L. Huang (Daily SF)<\/a><\/p>\n Spirit of Home, by Jose Pablo Iriarte (Motherboard)<\/a><\/p>\n The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles, by Rachael K. Jones (BCS)<\/a><\/p>\n Zombies in Winter, by Naomi Kritzer (Persistent Visions)<\/a><\/p>\n The True and Otherworldly Origins of the Name Calamity Jane, by Jordan Kurella (BCS)<\/a><\/p>\n Foxfire, Foxfire, by Yoon Ha Lee (BCS)<\/a><\/p>\n Where She Went, by Linden A. Lewis (BCS)<\/a><\/p>\n The Governess With a Mechanical Womb, by Leena Likitalo (Clarkesworld)<\/a><\/p>\n A New Home, by Karin Lowachee (Lightspeed: PoC Destroy SF)<\/p>\n Contra Gravitatem (Vita Genevievis), by Arkady Martine (Lackington’s)<\/a><\/p>\n “Fear Death by Water,” by Arkady Martine (Unlikely Story)<\/a><\/p>\n Skills to Keep the Devil in His Place, by Lia Swope Mitchell (Shimmer)<\/a><\/p>\n In His Own Image, by E. C. Myers (Hidden Youth)<\/p>\n Hundreds, by Mari Ness (Daily SF)<\/a><\/p>\n The Middle Child’s Practical Guide to Surviving a Fairy Tale, by Mari Ness (Fireside)<\/a><\/p>\n A Citizen’s Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven, by Josh Pearce (Orthogonal)<\/p>\n The Sweetest Skill, by Tony Pi (BCS)<\/a><\/p>\n Left the Century to Sit Unmoved, by Sarah Pinsker (Strange Horizons)<\/a><\/p>\n Recalled to Service, by Alter S. Reiss (Tor.com)<\/a><\/p>\n Playing Prometheus, by Frances Rowat (Persistent Visions)<\/a><\/p>\n Once I, Rose, by Merc Rustad (Daily Science Fiction)<\/a><\/p>\n Blue Flowers: Fragments, by Sofia Samatar (Uncanny)<\/a> (This also may be a poem. Or not. As you will. It is a thing I like.)<\/p>\n The Right Sort of Monsters, by Kelly Sandoval (Strange Horizons)<\/a><\/p>\n As Long as It Takes to Make the World, by Gabriela Santiago (Lightspeed: PoC Destroy SF)<\/p>\n Three Alternate Histories, by Kate Schapira (Reckoning)<\/p>\n Today I Am Paul, by Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld)<\/a><\/p>\n Listen, by Karin Tidbeck (Tor.com)<\/a><\/p>\n Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left, by Fran Wilde (Shimmer)<\/a><\/p>\n Foreign Tongues, by John Wiswell (Flash Fiction Online)<\/a><\/p>\n Project Daffodil, by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Nature Futures)<\/a><\/p>\n