On the time of writing (April 2022) I haven’t seen a print model for Horton’s 2020 Version which is lengthy overdue, and Amazon is presently solely exhibiting an August 2022 publication date for Kindle model of the 2021 Version with no point out of a publication date for the paperback model. [UPDATE: scroll down to comments section]

Horton has helpfully posted a near-complete ToC for the 2021 version (he notes ones last deal to be finalised) on his Blogspot and I’ve taken the freedom of copying and pasting it right here on the premise I could properly fill in my evaluations of any tales I learn (as I’m simply shopping for the SF solely volumes presently and never SF&F).

Right here goes (Horton has supplied the main points in alphabetical order by writer surname, which, as librarian, I approve of wholeheartedly.

Nadia Afifi, “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar”, (F&SF, 11-12/20)

Additionally included by Strahan in his tackle the perfect of the 12 months the place I learn and loved it. click on right here for that overview

Rebecca Campbell, “An Necessary Failure”, (Clarkesworld, 8/20)

Included by each Strahan and Clarke of their tackle the 12 months’s finest, and I assumed it ‘a corker and no mistake’ in my overview.

Leah Cypess, “Stepsister”, (F&SF, 5-6/20)

Andy Dudak, “Songs of Activation”, (Clarkesworld, 12/20)

Dudak additionally appeared in each Clarke and Strahan’s tackle the 12 months’s finest, so he appeared in all three volumes this 12 months, however with completely different tales! A very good 12 months for him 🙂

Bishop Garrison, “Silver Door Diner”, (FIYAH, Autumn/20)

A. T. Greenblatt, “Burn or the Episodic Lifetime of Sam Wells as a Tremendous”, (Uncanny, 5-6/20)

Additionally included by Strahan in his tackle the perfect of the 12 months the place I learn and loved it. click on right here for that overview

Amanda Hollander, “A Feast of Butterflies”, (F&SF, 3-3/20)

T. L. Huchu, “Egoli”, (Africanfuturism)

John Kessel, “Spirit Degree”, (F&SF, 7-8/20)

Naomi Kritzer, “Little Free Library”, (Tor.com, 4/8/20)

Sarah Langan, “You Have the Prettiest Masks”, (LCRW, 8/20)

P. H. Lee, “The Backyard The place No One Ever Goes”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 12/3/20)

Yoon Ha Lee, “Past the Dragon’s Gate” (Tor.com, 5/20/20)

Marissa Lingen, “The Previous, Like a River in Flood”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 8/27/20)

Ken Liu, “50 Issues Each AI Working With People Ought to Know”, (Uncanny, 11-12/20)

Additionally included by Strahan in his tackle the perfect of the 12 months the place I felt it was a means off what I hoped to get from Liu. click on right here for that overview

Rati Mehrotra, “Magnificent Maurice or the Flowers of Immortality”, (Lightspeed, 11/20)

Mehotra had one other story in Clarke’s tackle the 12 months’s finest.

Annalee Newitz, “The Monogamy Hormone”, (Entanglements)

Alec Nevala-Lee, “Retention”, (Analog, 7-8/20)

Sarah Pinsker, “Two Truths and a Lie”, (Tor.com, 6-17/20)

Vina Jie-Min Prasad, “A Information for Working Breeds”, (Made to Order)

Additionally included by Strahan in his tackle the perfect of the 12 months the place I learn and loved it. click on right here for that overview (and a hyperlink to the web model of the story)

Mercurio D. Rivera, “Past the Tattered Veil of Stars”, (Asimov’s, 7-8/20)

Additionally choen by Neil Clarke in his tackle the 12 months’s finest SF, and I assumed it ‘a really robust, intelligent story’ – overview right here.

Benjamin Rosenbaum, “Bereft, I Come to a Anonymous World”, (Asimov’s, 3-4/20)

Sofia Samatar, “The Moon Fairy”, (Conjunctions #74)

Ken Schneyer, “Legal guidelines of Impermanence”, (Uncanny, 9-10/20)

Alexandra Seidel, “Lovers on a Bridge, (Previous Tense)

Michael Swanwick, “The Dragon Slayer”, (The Ebook of Dragons)

Tade Thompson, “Thirty-Three”, (Avatars, Inc.)

Ian Tregillis, “When God Sits in Your Lap”. (Asimov’s, 9-10/20)

Eugenia Triantafyllou, “These We Serve”, (Interzone, 5-6/20)

Tlotlo Tsamaase, “Behind Our Irises”, (Africanfuturism)

James Van Pelt, “Minerva Ladies”, (Analog, 9-10/20)

Aliya Whiteley, “Fog and Pearls on the King’s Cross Junction”, (London Centric)

Jessica P. Wick, “An Unkindness”, (The Sinister Quartet)

John Wiswell, “Open Home on Haunted Hill”, (Diabolical Plots, 6/20)

FWIW there are 5 tales which Horton selected which additionally appeared in Jonathan Strahan’s tackle the 12 months’s finest SF, though FWIW none of these 4 tales had been within the half dozen I picked as my favourites from Strahan’s anthology. And thres tories which Clarke selected in his tackle the 12 months’s finest SF. Props to And Dudak for have every of the three Yr’s Greatest editors select considered one of his tales, however every selected a unique one!