Aquí os pongo los contenidos seleccionados por Rich Horton como lo mejor del año (entre paréntesis, la fuente donde se publicaron originalmente los relatos).
- “Social Services” de Madeline Ash (An Aura of Familiarity)
- “Out in the Dark” de Linda Nagata (Analog)
- “The End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine” de Harry Turtledove (Analog)
- “The Oracle” de Lavie Tidhar (Analog)
- “Call Girl” de Tang Fei (Apex)
- “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly” de E. Lily Yu (Apex)
- “They Shall Salt the Earth With Seeds of Glass” de Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s)
- “The Wildfires of Antarctica” de Alan De Niro (Asimov’s)
- “The Discovered Country” de Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s)
- “A Stranger from a Foreign Ship” de Tom Purdom (Asimov’s)
- “On the Origin of Song” de Naim Kabir (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- “Effigy Nights” de Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
- “Soulcatcher” de James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld)
- “Found” de Alex Dally MacFarlane (Clarkesworld)
- “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly” de Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
- “Loss, With Chalk Diagrams” de E. Lily Yu (Eclipse Online)
- “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel” de Ken Liu (F&SF)
- “Kormak the Lucky” de Eleanor Arnason (F&SF)
- “Grizzled Veterans of Many and Much” de Robert Reed (F&SF)
- “Rosary and Goldenstar” de Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
- “The Dragonslayer of Merebarton” de K.J. Parker (Fearsome Journeys)
- “Martyr’s Gem” de C. S. E. Cooney (Giganotosaurus)
- “Such & Such Said to So & So” de Maria Dahvana Headley (Glitter & Mayhem)
- “Killing Curses, a Caught-Heart Quest” de Krista Hoeppner Leahy (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet)
- “A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain” de Karin Tidbeck (Lightspeed)
- “Paranormal Romance” de Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed)
- “The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls” de Howard Waldrop (Old Mars)
- “Blanchefleur” de Theodora Goss (Once Upon a Time)
- “The Memory Book” de Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells)
- “Live Arcade” de Erik Amundsen (Strange Horizons)
- “Town’s End” de Yukimi Ogawa (Strange Horizons)
- “A Window or a Small Box” de Jedediah Berry (Tor.com)
- “Trafalgar and Josefina” de Angelica Gorodischer (Trafalgar)
- “Firebrand” de Peter Watts (Twelve Tomorrows)
- “Game of Chance” de Carrie Vaughn (Unfettered)