The best American science fiction and fantasy, 2019

Adam-Troy Castro / Pitcher Plant

Seanan McGuire / What Everyone Knows

N. K. Jemisin / The Storyteller's Replacement

Silvia Park / Poor Unfortunate Fools

Theodore McCombs / Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women

Sofia Samatar / Hard Mary

Ada Hoffmann / Variations on a Theme from Turandot

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah / Through the Flash

LaShawn M. Wanak / Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good

Brenda Peynado / The Kite Maker

P. Djèlí Clark / The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

Annalee Newitz / When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis

Usman Malik / Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung

Sarah Gailey / STET

Kelly Robson / What gentle women dare

Daryl Gregory / Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

Nino Cipri / Dead Air

Lesley Nneka Arimah / Skinned

Martin Cahill / Godmeat

Adam R. Shannon / On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog.