A review by spygrl1
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by John Joseph Adams, Charles Yu

3.0

The collection overall was OK -- a few fantasy stories I skipped, a few sci-fi stories I felt were repetitive. The five-star standout is The Venus Effect by Joseph Allen Hill, in which a writer keeps trying to tell a science fiction or fantasy story, only for his protagonist to repeatedly be shot by a cop. Science fiction is often about the anxieties of its time, and Hill captures the sickening dread and queasy unease of 2015/2016 with a lively, fresh voice.