2016. aasta parimad ingliskeelsed ulmelood

Sissejuhatav jutt ja antoloogiate valiku põhjendus on toodud ära 2015. aasta postituses, ja seega ei hakka ennast kordama. Korrektsuse huvides toon siiski ära antoloogiate ja nende koostajate nimetused:

Charles Yu, John Joseph Adams „The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017“
Neil Clarke „The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2“
Gardner Dozois „The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection“
Paula Guran „The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017“
Rich Horton „The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017“
Jonathan Strahan „The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven“

Neist antoloogiatest on mul endal reaalselt olemas Yu-Adams, Clarke, Horton ja Strahan; kahtlane, kas edaspidi Clarke’i valikut ostan, ainult SF-keskne antoloogiatellis on minu jaoks üsna piinadega loetav. Mul pole õrna aimugi, mis põhjusel Hortoni raamat ilmus alles 2018. aasta algul, ja kas sama kirjastuse Gurani antoloogia sel aastal üldse jätku saab – igatahes pole senini näinud selle arvatavat sisukorda (kuigi näiteks Hortoni 2018. aasta valik on ta enda blogis avaldatud). Näib, et Dozois antoloogia enam Mammoth-seerias ei ilmu.

Kui nüüd 2016. aastale pilguke heita, siis märkimisväärne on muidugi suhteliselt värske autori Rich Larsoni 7 taastrükki (ehk kokku 5 lugu) 4 antoloogias; ligilähedane on Sam J. Milleri populaarsus. Mitte et ma kuidagi mõistaks kummagi autori märkimisväärsust, minu meelest on tegemist üsna harju keskmiste tekstidega.

Enim valitud autorid:

7

Rich Larson

5

Sam J. Miller, Lavie Tidhar

4

Ian R. MacLeod, Aliette de Bodard

3

Nina Allan, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Alastair Reynolds, Genevieve Valentine, N. K. Jemisin, Catherynne M. Valente, E. Lily Yu

2

Charlie Jane Anders, Paolo Bacigalupi, Dale Bailey, Steven Barnes, Helena Bell, Karl Bunker, Maggie Clark, Craig DeLancey, Seth Dickinson, Amal El-Mohtar, Alex Irvine, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Alice Sola Kim, Karin Lowachee, Naomi Novik, An Owomoyela, Suzanne Palmer, Geoff Ryman, Gord Sellar, Carrie Vaughn, Alexander Weinstein, Nick Wolven, Alyssa Wong

McLeodi jutt on päris tore, Milleri habemelugu paneb õlgu kehitama. Ise soovitaks vast lugeda Gilman, Bacigalupi, Bell, Novik, Weinstein ja Yu, ehk ka Valentine’i sinist prügiookeani.

Enim taastrükitud lood:

4

Ian R. MacLeod „The Visitor from Taured“, Sam J. Miller „Things with Beards“

3

Carolyn Ives Gilman „Touring with the Alien“, Lavie Tidhar „Terminal“, Catherynne M. Valente „The Future Is Blue“, Genevieve Valentine „Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home“

2

Nina Allan „The Art of Space Travel“, Paolo Bacigalupi „Mika Model“, Steven Barnes „Fifty Shades of Grays“, Helena Bell „I've Come to Marry the Princess“, Karl Bunker „They Have All One Breath“, Aliette de Bodard „A Salvaging of Ghosts“, Craig DeLancey „Redking“, Seth Dickinson „Laws of Night and Silk“, Amal El-Mohtar „Seasons of Glass and Iron“, Alex Irvine „Number Nine Moon“, N. K. Jemisin „Red Dirt Witch“, Alice Sola Kim „Successor, Usurper, Replacement“, Rich Larson „You Make Pattaya“, „Innumerable Glimmering Lights“, Ken Liu „Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts“, Paul McAuley „Elves of Antarctica“, Naomi Novik „Spinning Silver“, Alastair Reynolds „The Iron Tactician“, Geoff Ryman „Those Shadows Laugh“, Gord Sellar „Prodigal“, Lavie Tidhar „The Vanishing Kind“, Carrie Vaughn „That Game We Played During the War“, Alexander Weinstein „Openness“, E. Lily Yu „The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight“

Järgnevalt siis autorite ja lugude täisnimekiri, lugude järel olevad tähed tähistavad seda, millises antoloogias ilmunud (Adams – A, Clarke – C, Dozois – D, Guran – G, Horton – H ja Strahan – S).

Joe Abercrombie „Two's Company“ S

Nina Allan „The Art of Space Travel“ S, D; „Ten Days“ C

Charlie Jane Anders „Rager in Space“ H, „Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy“ D

Eleanor Arnason „Checkerboard Planet“ D

Madeline Ashby „Panic City“ C

Charlotte Ashley „A Fine Balance“ H

Paolo Bacigalupi „Mika Model“ S, D

Dale Bailey „Teenagers from Outer Space“ A; „I Was a Teenage Werewolf“ A

Leigh Bardugo „Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail“ A

Steven Barnes „Fifty Shades of Grays“ H, D

Stephen Baxter „Mars Abides“ D

Peter S. Beagle „The Story of Kao Yu“ A

Helena Bell „I've Come to Marry the Princess“ A, H

Gregory Benford „Vortex“ D

Brooke Bolander „Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies“ G

Gregory Norman Bossert „HigherWorks“ C

Chaz Brenchley „In Skander, for a Boy“ H

Tobias S. Buckell „The Mighty Slinger“ C

Nadia Bulkin „Wish You Were Here“ G

Karl Bunker „They Have All One Breath“ D, C

Rachel Caine „A Dying of the Light“ G

Maggie Clark „Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan“ H; „A Tower for the Coming World“ D

Matthew Claxton „Patience Lake“ D

Aliette de Bodard „A Salvaging of Ghosts“ S, D; „Pearl“ C; „Lullaby for a Lost World“ G

Craig DeLancey „Redking“ H, D

Seth Dickinson „Laws of Night and Silk“ S, H

Paul Doherty „Cold Comfort“ D

Amal El-Mohtar „Seasons of Glass and Iron“ S, G

Brian Evenson „Smear“ A

Gregory Feeley „The Bridge of Dreams“ H

Gemma Files „Grave Goods“ G

Jeffrey Ford „The Blameless“ G

Cate Gardner „As Cymbals Clash“ G

David Gerrold „The Further Adventures of Mr. Costello“ D

Carolyn Ives Gilman „Touring with the Alien“ S, D, C

Max Gladstone „The Iron Man“ G

Theodora Goss „Red as Blood and White as Bone“ S

A. T. Greenblatt „A Non-Hero's Guide to the Road of Monsters“ H

Daryl Gregory „Even the Crumbs Were Delicious“ S

Lisa L. Hannett „Surfacing“ G

Samantha Henderson „My Generations Shall Praise“ D

Carlos Hernandez „The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory“ H

Joseph Allen Hill „The Venus Effect“ A

Brian Hodge „Mommy's Little Man“ G

Kat Howard „The Sound of Salt and Sea“ G

Kameron Hurley „The Plague Givers“ H

Alex Irvine „Number Nine Moon“ S, C

N. K. Jemisin „Red Dirt Witch“ S, G; „The City Born Great“ A

Xia Jia „Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse“ C

Bill Johnson „When the Stone Eagle Flies“ D

Stephen Graham Jones „Birdfather“ G

Rahul Kanakia „Empty Planets“ H

James Patrick Kelly „One Sister, Two Sisters, Three“ D

Cassandra Khaw „The Games We Play“ G

Caitlín R. Kiernan „Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)“ S; „The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10)“ G

Alice Sola Kim „Successor, Usurper, Replacement“ S, A

Kathe Koja „KIT: Some Assembly Required“ D

Ted Kosmatka „The One Who Isn't“ D

Derek Künsken „Flight from the Ages“ D

Carrie Laben „Postcards from Natalie“ G

Marc Laidlaw „The Finest, Fullest Flowering“ G

Rich Larson „You Make Pattaya“ S, C; „All That Robot Shit“ H; „Innumerable Glimmering Lights“ H, D; „Jonas and the Fox“ D; „Extraction Request“ C

Victor LaValle „The Ballad of Black Tom“ G

Yoon Ha Lee „Foxfire, Foxfire“ S

Shariann Lewitt „Fieldwork“ D

Alison Littlewood „Meet Me at the Frost Fair“ G

Ken Liu „Seven Birthdays“ S; „Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts“ D, C

Livia Llewellyn „Bright Crown of Joy“ G

Karen Lord „The Mighty Slinger“ C

Karin Lowachee „Ozymandias“ H; „A Good Home“ C

Carmen Maria Machado „My Body, Herself“ G

Ian R. MacLeod „The Visitor from Taured“ S, H, D, C

Paul McAuley „Elves of Antarctica“ S, D; Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was“ H

Ian McDonald „Women's Christmas“ D

Seanan McGuire „The Jaws That Bite, the Claws That Catch“ G

Ian McHugh „The Baby Eaters“ D

Sam J. Miller „Things with Beards“ S, H, D, C; „Last Gods“ C

Pat Murphy „Cold Comfort“ D

T. R. Napper „A Strange Loop“ C

Naomi Novik „Spinning Silver“ S, G

An Owomoyela „The Charge and the Storm“ C; „Whose Drowned Face Sleeps“ G

Suzanne Palmer „Lazy Dog Out“ H; „Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man“ C

Dominica Phetteplace „Project Empathy“ H

Sarah Pinsker „Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea“ C

Lettie Prell „The Three Lives of Sonata James“ C

Cat Rambo „Red in Tooth and Cog“ H

Robert Reed „Parables of Infinity“ C

Alastair Reynolds „Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee“ D; „The Iron Tactician“ D, C

Mercurio D. Rivera „Those Brighter Stars“ D

Adam Roberts „Between Nine and Eleven“ H

Margaret Ronald „And Then, One Day, the Air Was Full of Voices“ C

A. Merc Rustad „This Is Not a Wardrobe Door“ A

Geoff Ryman „Those Shadows Laugh“ S, D

Jason Sanford „Blood Grains Speak Through Memories“ H

Carter Scholz „KIT: Some Assembly Required“ D

Melissa Scott „Firstborn, Lastborn“ D

Gord Sellar „Prodigal“ D, C

Priya Sharma „Grave Goods“ G

Nisi Shawl „Vulcanization“ A

Delia Sherman „The Great Detective“ S

John Shirley „The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner“ G

Angela Slatter „The Red Forest“ G

Alena Sullivan „Gorse Daughter, Sparrow Son“ H

Rachel Swirsky „Whose Drowned Face Sleeps“ G

Adrian Tchaikovsky „Dress Rehearsal“ H

Steve Rasnic Tem „Photograph“ G

Lavie Tidhar „Terminal“ S, D, C; „The Vanishing Kind“ H, D

Jeremiah Tolbert „Not by Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass“ A

Debbie Urbanski „When They Came to Us“ A

Catherynne M. Valente „The Future Is Blue“ S, A, G

Genevieve Valentine „Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home“ S, A, H

Greg van Eekhout „On the Fringes of the Fractal“ A

Carrie Vaughn „That Game We Played During the War“ H, D

Michael Wehunt „October Film Haunt: Under the House“ G

Alexander Weinstein „Openness“ A, H

Fran Wilde „Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left“ G

A. C. Wise „When the Stitches Come Undone“ G

Nick Wolven „Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do?“ A; „The Metal Demimonde“ C

Alyssa Wong „You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay“ S; „A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers“ G

Isabel Yap „An Ocean the Color of Bruises“ G

Caroline M. Yoachim „Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0“ A

Charles Yu „Fable“ S

E. Lily Yu „The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight“ S, A; „Braid of Days and Wake of Nights“ G

Melissa Yuan-Innes „Fairy Tales Are for White People“ G