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The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 3

(2025)
(The third book in the Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth series)
An anthology of stories edited by

 
 
This is a collection of the best science fiction stories set on planet Earth published in 2024 by leading authors of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.
  • ‘Spill’ by Cory Doctorow—Hackers, indigenous people, and environmentalists battle an oil pipeline company.

    ‘Vouch for Me’ by Greg Egan—A latent virus causes extensive retrograde amnesia in people who survive a flare-up.

    ‘Phosphorescence’ by Ben Barman Ghan—A botanist and a machinist plot to spoil the plans of the elites for the future of life.

    W''pato’ by Molly Gloss—A widow manages time’s malleability one step at a time.

    ‘The Alice Run’ by Nancy Kress—An experimental procedure is used to force a comatose patient back to consciousness.

    ‘Breathing Constellations’ by Rich Larson—Humans in Argentinian Patagonia seek the permission of orcas to harvest plankton in their waters.

    ‘A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts’ by Pat Murphy—A woman treks across a climate-changed US visiting sites with ghosts created by game engineers.

    ‘Eternity is Moments’ by R. P. Sand—A woman competes with her cousin for her grandfather’s affection as the Earth dies.

    ‘I Am Not the One Who Gets Left Behind’ by Eric Smith—A father and son are the last to flee an alien-infiltrated Philadelphia.

    ‘This Good Lesson Keep’ by James Van Pelt—A high school English teacher competes with her students’ tech for their attention while studying Hamlet.


    Genre: Science Fiction

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