This fifth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-three stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Strange Horizons, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Nahiku West / Linda Nagata -- Gravedigger of Konstan Spring / Genevieve Valentine -- Under the eaves / Lavie Tidhar -- Honey bear / Sofia Samatar -- One day in time city / David Ira Cleary -- Black feminist's guide to science fiction film editing / Sandra McDonald -- Governess and the lobster / Margaret Ronald -- Swift, brutal retaliation / Meghan McCarron -- Scattered along the river of Heaven / Aliette de Bodard -- Four kinds of cargo / Leonard Richardson -- Elementals / Ursula K. LeGuin -- Prayer / Robert Reed -- Scrap dragon / Naomi Kritzer -- Contrary gardener / Christopher Rowe -- Castle that Jack built / Emily Gilman -- In the house of Aryaman, a lonely signal burns / Elizabeth Bear -- Philosophy of ships / Caroline M. Yoachim -- Keats variation / K.M. Ferebee -- Fireborn / Robert Charles Wilson -- One breath, one stroke / Catherynne M. Valente -- Bernoulli war / Gord Sellar -- Things greater than love / Kate Bachus -- Murmuration of starlings / Joe Pitkin -- Give her honey when you hear her scream / Maria Dahvana Headley -- Arbeitskraft / Nick Mamatas -- Hundred ghosts parade tonight / Xia Jia -- Heaven under Earth / Aliette de Bodard -- Sunshine / Nina Allan -- Uncle Flower's homecoming waltz / Marissa K. Lingen -- Magician's apprentice / Tamsyn Muir -- Twenty-two and you / Michael Blumlein -- Two houses / Kelly Link -- Weight of history, the lightness of the future / Jay Lake.