2016 Best SF/F Anthologies

Update 3/6/17: Added Nebula & Readers (magazine polls) recommendations, which are +2 to a story's score.
Update 3/2/17: Added 4 story links for Asimov's Readers' Awards Finalists.
Update 2/15/17: Added Rich Larson's Innumerable Glimmering Lights and updated charts.
Update 2/2/17: Added RHorton recommendations from 2/1/17 Locus Magazine.
Update 1/10/17: Added recommendations from Neil Clarke's "year's best" SF/F TOC.
Update 1/1/17: Added GDozois & RHorton recommendations from 1/1/17 Locus Magazine.

Here are 96 stories from the "year's best" SF/F anthologies for 2016, scored by reviewer recommendations, and sorted by highest to lowest score. (Note this is a subset of RSR's YTD By Score page, which also contains stories not included in the "year's best" SF/F anthologies, starting with score 5 and below.)

The "year's best" SF/F anthologies include the following:

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirty Fourth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (39 stories)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 by Rich Horton (30 stories)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11 by Jonathan Strahan (28 stories)
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two by Neil Clarke (27 stories)

The score for each story is calculated as follows:

• +2 points for each inclusion in a year’s best SF/F anthology (GDozois:5, RHorton:5, JStrahan, NClarke), marked as award-worthy by Rocket Stack Rank (RSR:5, currently 36 out of 800 stories reviewed as of Dec 2016) or SFRevu (SFRevu:5), a finalist for a Nebula Award or in a magazine readers' poll.
• +1 point for each recommendation by a prolific reviewer on the web (RSR:4, SFRevu:4) or Locus Magazine (GDozois:4, RHorton:4).

The table will be updated in Jan and Feb 2017 as Dozois and Horton list their recommendations from stories published in fall 2016, when Clarke releases the table of contents for his anthology, and as Rocket Stack Rank reads some stories it hasn’t reviewed. Updates will be posted on Facebook and tweeted on Twitter.