“Things With Beards” in YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY, 2017 Ed

The complete table of contents for Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 Edition has been released – and it includes my short story “Things With Beards,” originally published in Clarkesworld.

Here’s the full list of incredible stories contained in this year’s edition. I’m so honored to see my story alongside so many other fab folks.

On a very narcissistic side-note, this is the first time that my name has appeared on the cover! Usually I’m just subsumed into the AND MORE down at the bottom….

• “Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan” by Maggie
  Clark, Analog
• “All that Robot Shit” by Rich Larson, Asimov’s
• “Project Empathy” by Dominica Phetteplace, Asimov’s
• “Lazy Dog Out” by Suzanne Palmer, Asimov’s
• “The Visitor from Taured” by Ian R. MacLeod, Asimov’s
• “Openness” by Alexander Weinstein, Beloit Fiction Journal
• “In Skander, for a Boy” by Chaz Brenchley, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• “Laws of Night and Silk” by Seth Dickinson, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• “Blood Grains Speak Through Memories” by Jason Sanford, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• “Rager in Space” by Charlie Jane Anders, Bridging Infinity
• “Ozymandias” by Karin Lowachee, Bridging Infinity
• “The Bridge of Dreams” by Gregory Feeley, Clarkesworld
• “Everybody from Themis Sends Letters Home” by Genevieve Valentine, Clarkesworld
• “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller, Clarkesworld
• “Innumerable Glimmering Lights” by Rich Larson, Clockwork Phoenix 5
• “Between Nine and Eleven” by Adam Roberts, Crises and Conflicts
• “Red of Tooth and Cog” by Cat Rambo, F&SF
• “The Vanishing Kind” by Lavie Tidhar, F&SF
• “A Fine Balance” by Charlotte Ashley, F&SF
• “Empty Planets” by Rahul Kanakia, Interzone
• “Fifty Shades of Grays” by Steven Barnes, Lightspeed
• “I’ve Come to Marry the Princess” by Helena Bell, Lightspeed
• “RedKing” by Craig deLancey, Lightspeed
• “A Non-Hero’s Guide to The Road of Monsters” by A.T. Greenblatt, Mothershipship Zeta
• “Dress Rehearsal” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Now We Are Ten
• “The Plague Givers” by Kameron Hurley, Patreon
• “Gorse Daughter, Sparrow Son” by Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan, Strange Horizons
• “The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory” by Carlos Hernandez, The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria
• “Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was” by Paul McAuley, Tor.com
• “That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn, Tor.com