This doesn’t contain any information not already in “Expanded Collated Contents of the Year’s Bests (2017 Stories, Links)” but, because that list might look dauntingly large and a little busy, here’s a list of the twenty-six stories which appear in two or more of the nine “Year’s Bests.” (Twenty of these stories are available online.) For clarity, they’re just alphabetized by title with no distinction beyond an asterisk which indicates I’ve noted them to one degree or another on this blog.
- “Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- “Death on Mars“, Madeline Ashby (Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities)*
- “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders (Boston Review)
- “An Evening with Severyn Grimes”, Rich Larson (Asimov’s Science Fiction)*
- “Extracurricular Activities”, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com)
- “The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF)
- “The Lamentation of their Women”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)
- “The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon“, Finbarr O’Reilly (Clarkesworld)
- “The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata (Tor.com)*
- “The Moon is Not a Battlefield”, Indrapramit Das (Infinity Wars)
- “My English Name”, R. S. Benedict (F&SF)
- “Red Bark and Ambergris“, Kate Marshall (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- “The Secret Life of Bots”, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld)
- “A Series of Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld)*
- “Sidewalks”, Maureen McHugh (Omni)
- “Skins Smooth as Plantain, Hearts Soft as Mango“, Ian Muneshwar (The Dark)
- “Starlight Express”, Michael Swanwick (F&SF)*
- “The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse”, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Extrasolar)
- “Though She Be But Little”, C.S.E. Cooney (Uncanny)*
- “Uncanny Valley“, Greg Egan (Tor.com)*
- “We Who Live in the Heart“, Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld)
- “Winter Timeshare”, Ray Nayler (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
- “The Worldless“, Indrapramit Das (Lightspeed)
- “You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych“, Kathleen Kayembe (Nightmare)*
- “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias Buckell (Cosmic Powers)*
- “ZeroS”, Peter Watts (Infinity Wars)*
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