From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears - of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people - and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 includes Rachel Swirsky, Sofia Samatar, Charlie Jane Anders, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer and others KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards. JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including Brave New Worlds and Wastelands. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new science fiction fantasy novel imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Table of Contents: and "Meet Me in Iram and " by Sofia Samatar and "The Game of Smash and Recovery and " by Kelly Link and "Interesting Facts and " by Adam Johnson and "Planet Lion and " by Catherynne M. Valente and "The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary and " by Kij Johnson and "By Degrees and Dilatory Time and " by S.L. Huang and "The Mushroom Queen and " by Liz Ziemska and "The Daydreamer by Proxy and " by Dexter Palmer and "Tea Time and " by Rachel Swirsky and "Headshot and " by Julian Mortimer Smith and "The Duniazat and " by Salman Rushdie and "No Placeholder for You, My Love and " by Nick Wolven and "The Thirteen Mercies and " by Maria Dahvana Headley and "Lightning Jack's Last Ride and " by Dale Bailey and "Things You Can Buy for a Penny and " by Will Kaufman and "Rat Catcher's Yellows and " by Charlie Jane Anders and "The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History and " by Sam J. Miller and "Three Bodies at Mitanni and " by Seth Dickinson and "Ambiguity Machines: an Examination and " by Vandana Singh and "The Great Silence and " by Ted Chiang