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• 11 • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve) • (2018) • essay by Jonathan Strahan
• 17 • Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance • (2017) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• 35 • Probably Still the Chosen One • (2017) • short story by Kelly Barnhill
• 55 • The Martian Obelisk • (2017) • short story by Linda Nagata
• 73 • A Series of Steaks • (2017) • novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• 95 • Carnival Nine • (2017) • short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• 113 • Eminence • (2017) • short story by Karl Schroeder
• 131 • The Chameleon's Gloves • [The Machineries of Empire] • (2017) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• 153 • The Faerie Tree • (2017) • short story by Kathleen Kayembe
• 169 • The Mocking Tower • (2017) • novelette by Daniel Abraham
• 193 • Sidewalks • (2017) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh [as by Maureen McHugh]
• 209 • My English Name • (2017) • novelette by R. S. Benedict
• 237 • Crispin's Model • (2017) • novelette by Max Gladstone
• 259 • The Secret Life of Bots • (2017) • novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• 285 • Concessions • (2017) • novelette by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
• 309 • Confessions of a Con Girl • (2017) • short story by Nick Wolven
• 329 • The Smoke of Gold Is Glory • (2017) • novelette by Scott Lynch
• 373 • The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine • (2017) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 407 • The Lamentation of Their Women • (2017) • novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson
• 433 • An Evening with Severyn Grimes • (2017) • short story by Rich Larson
• 455 • Though She Be But Little • (2017) • short story by C. S. E. Cooney
• 471 • The Moon Is Not a Battlefield • (2017) • novelette by Indrapramit Das
• 491 • The Worshipful Society of Glovers • (2017) • novelette by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 519 • Come See the Living Dryad • (2017) • novelette by Theodora Goss
• 543 • Fairy Tale of Wood Street • (2017) • short story by
  Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
• 561 • Babylon • (2017) • short story by Dave Hutchinson
• 577 • Bring Your Own Spoon • (2017) • short story by Saad Z. Hossain
• 591 • The Hermit of Houston • (2017) • novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• 621 • Belladonna Nights • [House of Suns] • (2017) • short story by Alastair Reynolds
• 639 • Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue • (2017) • novelette by Charlie Jane Anders