These are stories included in the "year’s best SF" anthologies by
Gardner
Dozois, Rich
Horton or Neil
Clarke that we hadn’t reviewed earlier and aren’t part of the Operation
Arcana or The
End Has Come anthologies which we reviewed separately.
These stories will be the last update to the 2016 Hugo Awards
page and the 2015
Year-To-Date pages until the Locus Recommended Reading List comes out on February 1, 2016.
5- & 4-Star Stories: 3; Estimated Time: 1h:37m (29K words)
Recommended By
Stories: 11; Estimated Time: 5h:34m (100K words)
Total Stories: 14; Estimated Time: 6h:33m (118K words)
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Rating: 5 ->
Hugo-worthy
A Murmuration
by Alaistair Reynolds Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Interzone 257
(Hard SF) Scientist studying flock
behavior of starlings gets astonishing results but struggles to get her paper
accepted.
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Rating: 4 ->
Recommended
(SF) Anat doesn't remember her
parents, but she loves her brother Oscar. They live in a wonderful world full
of strange creatures and machines. The more she learns, the stranger things
seem.
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The Two Paupers
by C.S.E. Cooney Time: 1h:02m (19K words) Issue: The Two Paupers
(Fantasy) Gideon always destroys the statures he
carves. Analise (who both loves and hates him) decides to save one, not
expecting it to come to life.
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Rating: 3 -> Average
Blossoms Falling Down
by Aliya Whiteley Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Interzone 257
(SF) Katsumi's first night/she meets a
navigator/in the haiku room. The endless journey/of the generation ship/for
him, she brightens.
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Brainwhales are Stoners Too
by Rich Larson
Time: 18m (5K words) Issue: Interzone 257
(SF) Teenage Bea would do anything for
Theo, including breaking into the lab where her mom works to get pictures of
a real brainwhale. Fun read.
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(Science Fantasy) Lao Dao processes
trash in a fantastic future "third-space" Beijing. To get money for
his daughter's education, he makes a dangerous trip to first-space--a city
that unfolds when his own Beijing sleeps.
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Little Sisters
by Vonda N. McIntyre Time: 21m (7K words) Issue: Little Sisters
(SF) Badly damaged in action, Qad's
ship barely makes it to a shipyard. Qad expects a reward for his efforts, but
things have changed since his last visit.
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(High Fantasy) The usurped king lives
in exile, guarded (and tortured) by an automaton--so people say. The truth
seems to be a bit more comfortable than that though.
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The Worshipful Company of Milliners by Tendai Huchu Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Interzone 257
(Urban fantasy) Kitsi is a feline
spirit called into existence to create the invisible hats that give writers
their inspirations.
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Rating: 2 -> Not
Recommended
Songbird by
Fadzlishah Johanabas Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Interzone 257
(SF) In a near-future Malaysia, Arya
finds herself held captive by men who seem to be using her to produce some
sort of drug.
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This Evening's Performance
by Genevieve Valentine Time: 55m (17K words) Issue: The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk
(Steampunk) The last three human
actors struggle to find roles in a post-WWI world where automata have replaced
people on the stage.
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(SF) Yip, a software security
consultant, works for her sister, Yazzy. She expects cases to be challenging,
but not life-threatening. Until now.
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Rating: 1 -> Needs
Improvement
(SF) Flur leads humanity's first
mission to an alien race, the Cyclopes, with both scientific and diplomatic
objectives.
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Rating: Not Rated
Unearthly
Landscape by a Lady by Rebecca
Campbell Time: 11m (4K words) Issue: Beneath Ceaseless Skies 184
(Literary) From childhood, Flora,
painted disturbing paintings, and her nurse fears the young lady carried this
obsession into adulthood.
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