This is the same set of stories listed in the Year-To-Date by
Rating page, grouped by magazine and
issue, to show which issues have multiple recommended stories.
Each magazine section has links to reviews of individual
issues by Locus (Lois Tilton), SFRevu (Sam Tomaino), Tangent (various
reviewers), and GoodReads (various reviewers). This makes it easier to read
reviews by those reviewers even if the stories weren't recommended by them (but
recommended by others).
Magazines
Analog
Science Fiction & Fact
Apex
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Interzone
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Tor.com
Uncanny
Other Magazines, etc
Apex
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Interzone
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Tor.com
Uncanny
Other Magazines, etc
Anthologies
Analog
Science Fiction & Fact
Recommended stories in the same issue have the same shading,
which alternate by issue.
SFRevu Reviews: Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun
Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec
(Near-Future SF) You travel to visit
an AI so powerful that it has to be isolated from all possible contact with
modern technology.
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(SF Adventure; Andrea Cort) Draiken
and Thorne seek out a torturer they once knew in hopes he can lead them to
surviving leaders of the organizations they once worked for but are now sworn
to destroy.
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(SF Mystery) The hard-boiled narrator
runs investigations in cyberspace and reality. This time they’ve got a murder
to solve, and it’s proving a challenge—even though they saw it happen.
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(Colony SF) On planet Skale, the
seasons are three years long, and as winter ends, Jadey finds that spring
brings real challenges to the ranch she works on.
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(SF) James and Dick would do anything
to get their candidate elected. Well, almost anything.
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(Hard SF) Claire is sure she can teach
sign language to cuttlefish, but progress has been slow and her grant is
running out.
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The Journeyman: Through Madness Gap by Michael F. Flynn Time: 49m (Novelette)
Issue: Analog 01.02|18
(SF Adventure; The Journeyman) Teo has
command of some forces for the invasion of Yavalprawns, but they’re only
half-trained, so he and Sammi look for a way to sneak through a forgotten
pass and take the enemy by surprise.
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Apex
Recommended stories in the same issue have the same shading,
which alternate by issue.
SFRevu Reviews: 104 105 106 107 108
109 110 111 112 113 114 115
(Surreal SF) A godlike being descended
from human uploads downloads into a “limbsuit” and goes slumming with real
human beings aka has a date.
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(Alternate History Fantasy Adventure)
In a wild West with magic, Rhett and his crew of rangers run into trouble in
a town where the local sheriff thinks Rhett is an escaped horse thief.
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(Hard SF Adventure) Zhang Xuan steals
a starship to go hunt for her brother Kai, who went off to look for living
alien civilizations in the galactic core and never came back.
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Asimov’s
Science Fiction
Recommended stories in the same issue have the same shading,
which alternate by issue.
SFRevu Reviews: Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun
Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec
(Near-Future SF Adventure) The
narrator boards an aerostat for a leisurely aerial cruise, but his job is to
protect the life of a scientist, and he has no idea why anyone wants to kill
him.
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(SF Background) In which we learn the
history of the intelligent plants of planet Flora and how 4107 came to travel
to planet Terminal.
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In the Lost City of Leng by Rudy Rucker and Paul Di
Filippo Time: 1h:11m (Novella) Issue: Asimov's 01.02|18
(Lovecraft Pastiche) In 1933, Doug
quits his job to go on an expedition to Antarctica to kill the Great Shoggoth
and retrieve the priceless treasures of the lost city of Leng.
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(Near-Future SF) A Chinese woman
living in the Bay Area needs to raise money to get her daughter into
Stanford. She tries to sell her English-language proficiency, but even after
fifteen years, it’s not good enough. But her native fluency in Mandarin is w
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(Epic SF) The Low-Temperature Artist
arrives from outer space, with plans for a fantastic work of art made of ice.
He won’t talk to any Earth people but ice sculptor Yan Dong, who struggles to
get the alien not to use up all the water for his sculpture.
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(SF Adventure) A rich aristocrat hires
Kaslo to track down her young heir, who has gone off to a wild, dangerous continent
with an off-world woman he barely knows.
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Beneath
Ceaseless Skies
Tangent
Reviews: 241
242
243
244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263
264 265 266
GoodReads
Reviews: 241
242
243
244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263
264 265 266
(High Fantasy) As a composer,
D’Isle knows that the Bloodlords
tightly control music because it can attract demons from the forest. He’s
alarmed when his new prima donna starts improvising illegally.
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(Clockwork Fantasy) Rielle accepts an
offer from her husband’s rival to play accompaniment for his daughter in a
competition. They need the money, but there’s something too perfect about
this daughter.
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Clarkesworld
Recommended stories in the same issue have the same shading,
which alternate by issue.
SFRevu Reviews: 136 137 138 139 140
141 142 143 144 145 146 147
(Apocalypse) After memory-loss plague
strikes the world, Gouda helps clients track missing family members they can
barely remember—even though she can’t even remember her own last name.
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(Near-Future SF) Fourteen-year-old
Ghost gave up on finding a foster family a long time ago. She’s just waiting
until she turns 18 and can leave “the Agency.” Then a new girl turns up—one
who can actually remember her life before she was sent there.
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(Uncanny SF) Rourou is a Chinese
little girl who loves her papa but wonders what happened to her momma. And
why she can’t remember anything before age 5. And why she speaks fluent
English.
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Fantasy &
Science Fiction
Recommended stories in the same issue have the same shading,
which alternate by issue.
SFRevu Reviews: Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun
Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec
(Mannerpunk) Biantera doesn’t make
enough in her hat business, so she moonlights as an assassin. A customer has
stiffed her, so she decides to teach him a lesson.
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(Dystopia) Levi is not telling this
story. He is not a freedom fighter—the world is so perfect no one needs to be
a freedom fighter. Secrets don’t exist anymore.
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(SF) On a whim, Rick decides to make
himself 100% female for a night out with friends, but he meets a special guy
who falls in love with “her” and he’s not sure he wants to be female for him
all the time.
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(Fantasy Adventure; Baldemar) Baldemar
is just a young henchman for the mage Thelerion, but he’s the only one who
can wear the Helm of Sagacity, and right at the moment, they’re doomed
without its help. But that help comes at a price.
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(Near-Future SF) The narrator is a
cyborg hitman, but the target is guarded by two Neanderthals, either of whom
would be a challenge to defeat.
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(Alternate History Horror) In this
version of 19th-Century England, only the upper classes are entitled to eat
human flesh once a year in a special ceremony.
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(Math Fantasy) Niall had a powerful
gift for math, starting as a child. So powerful he can identify people with
equations and predict their futures.
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Interzone
Recommended stories in the same issue have the same shading,
which alternate by issue.
SFRevu Reviews: 274 275 276 277 278
Tangent
Reviews: 274 275 276 277 278
GoodReads
Reviews: 274 275 276 277 278
Lightspeed
Recommended stories in the same issue have the same shading,
which alternate by issue.
SFRevu Reviews: 92 93 94 95 96 97
98 99 100 101 102 103
(High Fantasy) In which we learn how
the new court magician was recruited and find out how even a “market rat” can
qualify. We learn that there is real magic, but it comes with a price.
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(Allegory) A man in the countryside is
scooped up by one of the “living cities” which immediately impresses him into
its workforce.
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The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our
Births by JosΓ© Pablo
Iriarte
Time: 25m (Novelette) Issue: Lightspeed 92
(Modern Fantasy) Jamie’s a non-binary
teenager in a small town, but they remember at least a dozen past lives, one
of which relates to a forty-year-old murder.
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Strange Horizons
Tangent
Reviews: 01/01
01/08
01/15
01/22 01/29
02/05 02/12 02/19 02/26 03/05 03/12 03/19 03/26 04/02 04/09 04/16 04/23 04/30
05/07 05/14 05/21 05/28 06/04 06/11 06/18 06/25 07/02 07/09 07/16 07/23 07/30
08/06 08/13 08/20 08/27 09/03 09/10 09/17 09/24 10/01 10/08 10/15 10/22 10/29
11/05 11/12 11/19 11/26 12/03 12/10 12/17 12/24 12/31
(Modern Fantasy) The narrator and her
friends go fishing for snakehead in a stream in Singapore, but the biggest
one is something more than just a fish.
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Tor.com
GoodReads Reviews: Search
for the title and author
Uncanny
Recommended stories in the same issue have the same shading,
which alternate by issue.
(SF Adventure) Mallory Iheji would do
anything to watch her favorite artist’s lost movie, “The Hydraulic Emperor.”
But what would she really sacrifice for it?
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Other
Magazines, Anthologies, etc
(Portal Fantasy; Wayward Children)
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children caters to children who went to a
portal world, came back, and can’t cope. No one planned on the arrival of a
child born in a portal world, much less one asking for help—from a dea
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