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...

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