A review by thessilian
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 by N.K. Jemisin, John Joseph Adams

5.0

Series editor John Joseph Adams compiles a list of eighty short stories that he considers the best American S&SF of the year. He passes those onto a guest editor – this year N.K. Jemisin, who chooses their top ten fantasy and ten sci-fi. Of course, with twenty stories you’ll find some you love more than others, but I enjoyed or was made to think by every single story in this anthology. There is a real diverse range of innovative, thoughtful stories and I’m hard pressed to pick one favourite, so I’ll mention the ones I’m still thinking about:

You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych, by Kathleen Kayembe
Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn by A. Merc Rustad
The Resident by Carmen by Maria Machado
Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sure by Charlie Jane Anders (transphobia TW)
The Orange Tree by Maria Dahvana Headley