Outstanding SF/F by People of Color 2018

In the spirit of Lightspeed Magazine's famous People of Color Destroy Science Fiction series, here are 65 stories by 53 people of color that had scores of 2 or higher from RSR's 2018 Best SF/F list. That list contains the 342 most-recommended stories out of 785 covered, so the 65 stories by people of color make up around 19% of the best of 2018.

Some stories not reviewed by RSR are in the Best SF/F list because they were award finalists 🏆, included in year's best anthologies 📙, or recommended by other prolific reviewers 👍 (see Q&A for SF/F awards, year's best anthologies, and prolific reviewers followed).

Readers asked us to make it easy for them to find good stories written by authors with diverse racial backgrounds, and that’s what this list is meant to accomplish (author identity plays no role in our ratings). This is the third year we've done this list (2017, 2015-2016).

Please leave a comment if you see a story by a person of color in our 2018 Best SF/F list that isn't included here, or if a story here isn't by a person of color. We browsed author bios on the web to identify people of color but with hundreds of authors to look up, it's easy to make mistakes. Thank you.

Observations:
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• 39 are free online (highlighted in default view), 27 have podcasts.
• Among 📚publications, Clarkesworld has the most here with 10 stories (15%) of which 4 are translations, followed by Lightspeed with 6 stories (9%).
• Among ️️✒️authors, Ken Liu and Nnedi Okorafor each have 3 stories here, followed by P. Djèlí Clark, Aliette de Bodard, N.K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Vandana Singh, Cadwell Turnbull, Alyssa Wong, and Isabel Yap with 2 each.
• Stories by People of Color make up 18% of SF/F 🏆awards finalists with 18 stories out of 101 award-finalist stories from the 2018 Best SF/F. Two stories each won two awards in their respective categories.
• These stories did much better, at 28%, among "year's best" 📙anthologies with 34 stories out of 121 anthology-included stories from the 2018 Best SF/F. Neil Clarke's anthology has 11 stories listed here, though Jonathan Strahan and the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy were close behind with 9 stories each.
• These stories did the worst, at 16%, among prolific 👍reviewers with 20 stories out of 123 award-worthy stories from the 2018 Best SF/F. Gary Tognetti thought 8 of the 20 were award-worthy.
• As for RSR, we recommended 16 stories (4 award worthy), were neutral on 14 stories, and recommended against 6 stories (view by RSR rating).