Twenty-two stories, selected by editor Donna Scott from disparate places, that represent some of the best science fiction published anywhere in 2019: stories of heroism, stories of loss, stories of wonder.
In this volume you will encounter tales in which creatures are cut off from their loved ones; someone is trapped with an abuser; a bird sings; weeds grow where we hope for a garden; we consider what our alternative selves might be doing; we can't sleep; we wish we could keep things just the way they were; we drink too much… and we look to rockets blasting off into the sky and think that there lies the future; that's hope.
Contents

2019: An Introduction - Donna Scott

The Anxiety Gene - Rhiannon Grist

The Land of Grunts and Squeaks - Chris Beckett

For Your Own Good - Ian Whates

Neom - Lavie Tidhar

Once You Start - Mike Morgan

For the Wicked, Only Weeds Will Grow - G. V. Anderson

Fat Man in the Bardo - Ken MacLeod

Cyberstar - Val Nolan

The Little People - Una McCormack

The Loimaa Protocol - Robert Bagnall

The Adaptation Point - Kate Macdonald

The Final Ascent - Ian Creasey

A Lady of Ganymede, a Sparrow of Io - Dafydd McKimm

Snapshots - Leo X. Robertson

Witch of the Weave - Henry Szabranski

Parasite Art - David Tallerman

Galena - Liam Hogan

Ab Initio - Susan Boulton

Ghosts - Emma Levin

Concerning the Deprivation of Sleep - Tim Major

Every Little Star - Fiona Moore

The Minus-Four Sequence - Andrew Wallace

About the Authors