Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams. Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool and the Molly Fyde series, selects twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of science fiction and fantasy today. Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 contains the following stories. FANTASY The Ankle-Snatcher by Grady Hendrix from Creature Feature (Amazon Original Stories) Bari and the Resurrection Flower by Hana Lee from Fantasy Magazine The Blade and Bloodwright by Sloane Leong from Lightspeed Bruised-Eye Dusk by Jonathan Louis Duckworth from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Disassembling Light by Kel Coleman from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Eye & Tooth by Rebecca Roanhorse from Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub by P. Djeli Clark from Uncanny If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak by Sam J. Miller from The Dark John Hollowback and the Witch by Amal El-Mohtar from The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan Resurrection Highway by A.R. Capetta from Sunday Morning Transport SCIENCE FICTION Calypso’s Guest by Andrew Sean Greer from Amazon Original Stories Emotional Resonance by V.M. Ayala from Escape Pod Falling Bodies by Rebecca Roanhorse from The Far Reaches edited by John Joseph Adams (Amazon Original Stories) Form 8774-D by Alex Irvine from Reactor The Four Last Things by Christopher Rowe from Asimov’s How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey from The Far Reaches edited by John Joseph Adams (Amazon Original Stories) The Long Game by Ann Leckie from The Far Reaches edited by John Joseph Adams (Amazon Original Stories) Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont by P.A. Cornell from Fantasy Magazine Window Boy by Thomas Ha from Clarkesworld Zeta-Epsilon by Isabel J. Kim from Clarkesworld