The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four

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Thrilling smart and brilliant short science fiction from Simone Heller Ken Liu Ian McDonald and many more. A human detective and their partner an enhanced chimpanzee investigate a strange murder on the subway . . . a smart home goes into lockdown turning a mans own home into his prison . . . at a robot factory something has caused the machines to attempt to escape . . . mysterious seeds raining down from deep space could be the first sign of an alien invasion . . . a woman seeks to restore a broken AI hoping it can help return humanity to better days . . . For decades science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether its a warning message from a survey ship a harrowing journey to a new world or the adventures of well-meaning AI science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-nine of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2018: When We Were StarlessSimone Heller InterventionKelly Robson All the Time Weve Left to SpendAlyssa Wong Domestic ViolenceMadeline Ashby Ten Landscapes of Nili FossaeIan McDonald Prophet of the RoadsNaomi Kritzer Traces of UsVanessa Fogg Theories of FlightLinda Nagata Lab B15Nick Wolven RequiemVandana Singh Sour Milk GirlsErin Roberts Mother TonguesS. Qiouyi Lu Singles DaySamantha Murray Nine Last Days on Planet EarthDaryl Gregory The Buried GiantLavie Tidhar The Anchorite WakesR.S.A. Garcia Entropy WarYoon Ha Lee An Equation of StateRobert Reed Quantifying TrustJohn Chu Hard MarySofia Samatar Freezing Rain a Chance of FallingL.X. Beckett Okay GloryElizabeth Bear Heavy LiftingA.T. Greenblatt Lions and GazellesHannu Rajaniemi Different SeasAlastair Reynolds Among the Water Buffaloes a Tigers StepsAliette de Bodard Byzantine EmpathyKen Liu Meat and Salt and SparksRich Larson UmbernightCarolyn Ives Gilman