FROM QUIET, ELEGIAC, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for *The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016* demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and fears--of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people--and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality. *The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016* includes **RACHEL SWIRSKY | SOFIA SAMATAR | CHARLIE JANE ANDERS | TED CHIANG | KELLY LINK | MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY | KIJ JOHNSON | CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE | DEXTER PALMER** *and others* This description comes from the publisher.