A review by jefffrane
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve, Volume 12 by Jonathan Strahan

4.0

I wanted to get a taste of what's being published in short sf/f these days because I mostly read novels. This seemed like a good place to start and it was an interesting, if lengthy read. I have to give due credit to Jonathan Strahan, who must have read a few thousand stories last year to whittle it down to these. They're virtually all actual short stories, rather than novelettes or novellas, which allows the editor to offer a really diverse selection, from fairy tales to hard sf and I got to sample a great many authors I'd not run across before. Some of my favorites were by Kelly Barnhill, Linda Nagata, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Yoon Ha Lee, Suzanne Palmer, Greg Egan, Rich Larson, and Mary Robinette Kowal. There were a few stories I simply didn't enjoy, which is unsurprising, and only one I couldn't finish, which is actually very surprising given how many there are here.