Table of Contents
Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2020 Neil Clarke vii
Scar Tissue Tobias S. Buckell 1
Eyes of the Forest Ray Nayler 14
Sinew and Steel and What They Told Carrie Vaughn 29
An Important Failure Rebecca Campbell 41
The Long lapetan Night Julie Nováková 63
Air Body Sameem Siddiqui 95
The Bahrain Underground Bazaar Nadia Afifi 106
Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City Arula Ratnakar 124
Your Boyfriend Experience James Patrick Kelly 145
Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars Mercurio D. Rivera 172
The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade Bogi Takács 193
Oannes, From The Flood Adrian Tchaikovsky 214
Yellow and the Perception of Reality Maureen McHugh 223
Exile's End Carolyn Ives Gilman 243
Invisible People Nancy Kress 277
Red_Bati Dilman Dila 299
Textbooks in the Attic S.B. Divya 309
Seeding the Mountain M. L. Clark 325
Knock Knock Said the Ship Rati Mehrotra 359
Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air Matthew Kressel 374
Tunnels Eleanor Arnason 388
Test 4 Echo Peter Watts 430
Uma Ken Liu 447
Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love Usman T. Malik 457
The Translator, at Low Tide Vajra Chandrasekera 465
Fairy Tales for Robots Sofia Samatar 474
This World is Made for Monsters M. Rickert 496
Elsewhere James S. A. Corey 501
Salvage Andy Dudak 509
The Long Tail Aliette de Bodard 537
Rhizome-Starlight Fran Wilde 549
How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar Rich Larson 558
Permissions 585
Acknowledgments 589
2020 Recommended Reading List 591
About the Editor 595