Clearly I overprepared for Sunday's Capclave panel titled Best Fiction of 2020, as there were (gasp) other people on the panel, with even taller stacks. And I was silly to think we'd have time to talk non-fiction, too.
Here's the list of speculative-fiction titles I brought to the panel, only a few of which I got the chance to talk about. I will add to this list later, as I have a lot more reading to do. For example, I have barely begun to read the print magazines, a stack of which will comfort me in December, once the semester's over.
Short Stories (SFWA defines these as shorter than 7,500 words)
Ashley Blooms, “Little and Less,” F&SF, September/OctoberJ.R. Dawson, “She’d Never Had a Name Before,” Lightspeed, January
Yohanca Delgado, “Evanescent Dolores,” MQR Mixtape, June
Yohanca Delgado and Claire Wrenwood, “The Blue Room,” Nightmare, May
Tegan Moore, “John Simnel’s First Goshawk,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February
Gabriela Santiago, “Martian Cinema,” Strange Horizons, May
Cooper Shrivastava, “Mandorla,” Clarkesworld, February
Kate Osana Simonian, “The Problematic Douchebag Collective,” North American Review, August (Summer/Fall issue)
Dan Stintzi, “The Faces Inside of Everyday Objects,” Heavy Feather Review, June
Dan Stintzi, “Invasion,” Hobart, January
Eugenia Triantafyllou, “My Country Is a Ghost,” Uncanny, January
Marie Vibbert, “Blue Eyes,” Nature, May
Jude Wetherell, “Dead Horse Club,” Reckoning, January
Claire Wrenwood, “Dead Girls Have No Names,” Nightmare, August
Claire Wrenwood, “Flight,” Tor.com, August
Novelettes (SFWA defines these as 7,500 words to 17,499 words)
Rebecca Campbell, “An Important Failure,” Clarkesworld, August
Justin C. Key, “The Perfection of Theresa Watkins,” Tor.com, September
Tegan Moore, “Strange Comfort,” Clarkesworld, July
Em North, “Real Animals,” Lightspeed, June (a first fiction publication!)
Sarah Pinsker, “Two Truths and a Lie,” Tor.com, June
Novellas (SFWA defines these as 17,500 words to 39,999 words)
Julian K. Jarboe, “Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel,” Lethe Press, March (title story of their collection)
Novels (SFWA defines these as 40,000 words and longer)
Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer, Sourcebooks Landmark, August (a first novel!)
Christopher Brown, Failed State, Harper Voyager, August
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi, Bloomsbury, September
Maria Dahvana Headley, Beowulf: A New Translation, FSG Originals, August
N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, March
Single-Author Collections
Octavia Cade, The Mythology of Salt and OtherStories, Lethe Press, July
Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel, Lethe Press, March
Tenea D. Johnson, Blueprints for Better Worlds, counterpoise records, May
Michael Martone, The Complete Writings of ArtSmith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone, BOA Editions, October
Anthologies
Bill Campbell, editor, Sunspot Jungle, Volume Two:The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Rosarium Publishing, September
Theodora Goss, editor, Medusa’s Daughters: Magicand Monstrosity from Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle, Lanternfish Press, March
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors, The Big Book ofModern Fantasy, Vintage, July
Comics
Alyssa Wong, Marika Cresta and Ray-Anthony Height, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (Marvel)
Alyssa Wong and Greg Pak, Aero (Marvel)
