Outstanding SF/F by People of Color 2019

In the spirit of Lightspeed Magazine's famous People of Color Destroy Science Fiction series, here are 67 stories by 60 people of color that had scores of 3 or higher from RSR's 2019 Best SF/F list. That list contains the 331 most-recommended stories out of 700+ covered, so the 67 stories by people of color make up around 20% of the best of 2019.

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 fourth year we've done this list (2018, 2017, 2015-2016).

Please leave a comment if you see a story by a person of color in our 2019 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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• 44 are free online (highlighted in default view), 21 have podcasts.
• Among 📚publications, Uncanny, Tor.com and Tor Novellas have the most here with 5 stories each (22% total).
• Among ️️✒️authors, Ted Chiang and E. Lily Yu each have 3 stories here, followed by Shweta Adhyam, Tobias S. Buckell, and Rivers Solomon with 2 each.
• Stories by People of Color make up 29% of SF/F 🏆awards finalists with 29 stories out of 99 award-finalist stories from the 2019 Best SF/F. Nine stories won awards in their respective categories.
• These stories did about the same, at 26%, among "year's best" 📙anthologies with 32 stories out of 122 anthology-included stories from the 2019 Best SF/F. Jonathan Strahan's anthology has 12 stories listed here, followed by the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy anthology (11).
• These stories did the worst, at 25%, among prolific 👍reviewers with 26 stories out of 105 award-worthy stories from the 2019 Best SF/F. A.C. Wise thought 11 of the 26 were award-worthy, followed by Gary Tognetti who thought 10 were award-worthy.
• As for RSR, we recommended 11 stories (3 award worthy), were neutral on 18 stories, recommended against 13 stories, and did not review 25 (view by RSR rating).