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

4.0

Charles Yu is one of my favorite authors, so I had to check out his taste in short stories. They are strong on story-telling rather than being impressionistic, and tend to be longer rather than shorter. It's nice to see an SFF collection with such author diversity too. I read about 3/4 of the stories, which is better than my usual rate with anthologies. My absolute#1 favorite was the last story, The Venus Effect by Joseph Allen Hill. Others that charmed and stuck with me are Head Scales, Tongue, Tail by Leigh Bardugo (my first taste of Bardugo), I've Come to Marry the Princess by Helena Bell, Everyone From Themis Sends Letters Home by Genvieve Valentine, The Story of Kao Yu by Peter Beagle.