{"id":7038,"date":"2021-09-01T10:04:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2021-09-01T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:04:31","slug":"the-years-best-science-fiction-volume-2-by-jonathan-strahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/the-years-best-science-fiction-volume-2-by-jonathan-strahan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Volume 2 by Jonathan Strahan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Volume 2:
\nThe Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021<\/a> <\/strong>by Jonathan Strahan
\n09\/28\/2021|Saga<\/h3>\n

Jonathan Strahan<\/span>‘s second Year’s Best Science Fiction<\/strong> collection arrives this month, and it’s chock full of the sort of stories that both expand the limits of science fiction (and your mind) and will keep you from getting anything done while reading it.\u00a0 Strahan makes it clear that it’s not a continuation of Gardner’s work but acknowledges the DNA, especially evident in the genre summary at the beginning, which I look forward to each year. I’m less interested in who won what award than what stories got included here because science fiction isn’t any one thing. As one of the preeminent editors in the field, and Review Editor for Locus,\u00a0Strahan is in a good position to deploy Damon Knight’s maxim: Science Fiction is what I point at when I say Science fiction, and this collection shows that he has the perspective to find the ten percent that’s good. Here you’ll find stories by well-known names like Alastair Reynolds, Pat Cadigan, Karl Schroeder, and Charlie Jane Anders as well as discovering many new (or new to you) as well.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Contents<\/h3>\n

Year in Review: 2020 – Jonathan Strahan
\nA Guide for Working Breeds – Vina Jie-Min Prasad
\nAn Important Failure – Rebecca Campbell
\nDrones to Ploughshares – Sarah Gailey
\nThe Pill – Meg Elison
\nThe Mermaid Astronaut – Yoon Ha Lee
\nIt Came From Cruden Farm – Max Barry
\nSchr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Catastrophe – Gene Doucette
\nMidstrathe Exploding – Andy Dudak
\nThe Bahrain Underground Bazaar – Nadia Afifi
\n50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know – Ken Liu
\nPolished Performance – Alastair Reynolds
\nGO. NOW. FIX. – Timons Esaias
\nBurn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super – A.T. Greenblatt
\nHow Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobu\u010dar – Rich Larson
\nThe Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie – Pat Cadigan
\nYellow and the Perception of Reality – Maureen McHugh
\nFather – Ray Nayler Don\u2019t Mind Me – Suzanne Palmer
\nThe Suicide of Our Troubles – Karl Schroeder
\nAirbody – Sameem Siddiqui
\nThe Transition of OSOOSI – Ozzie M. Gartrell
\nIf You Take My Meaning – Charlie Jane Anders
\nBeyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love – Usman T. Malik
\nA Mastery of German – Marian Denise Moore
\nHow to Pay Reparations: a Documentary – Tochi Onyebuchi
\nSparklybits – Nick Wolven
\nThe Search for [Flight X] – Neon Yang
\nRecommended Reading: 2020 –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Volume 2: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021 by Jonathan Strahan 09\/28\/2021|Saga Jonathan Strahan‘s second Year’s Best Science Fiction collection arrives this month, and it’s chock full of the sort of stories that both expand the limits of science fiction (and your mind) and will keep you from getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}