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Book Riot's Must-Read Fantasy and Sci-Fi Short Story Collections

"This was not an easy list to create. There are hundreds of incredible SFF short story collections out there, and even with a list of 20, I couldn't include all of the must-reads. But here's my best shot: a list of the best fantastic, ambiguous, twisting, mysterious, and world-bending short story collections out there right now."
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How Long Till Black Future Month: Stories (N. K. Jemisin)
How Long Till Black Future Month: Stories
1
N. K. Jemisin
Friday Black (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)
Friday Black
2
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Wandering Earth (Cixin Liu)
The Wandering Earth
3
Cixin Liu
Her Body and Other Parties (Carmen Maria Machado)
Her Body and Other Parties
4
Carmen Maria Machado
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
5
Angela Carter
Magic for Beginners (Kelly Link)
Magic for Beginners
6
Kelly Link
The Refrigerator Monologues (Catherynne M. Valente)
The Refrigerator Monologues
7
Catherynne M. Valente
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft (Tess Sharpe & Jessica Spotswood)
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft
8
Tess Sharpe & Jessica Spotswood
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin)
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories
9
Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
Paper Menagerie
10
Ken Liu
This Strange Way of Dying (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
This Strange Way of Dying
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
Stories of Your Life and Others
12
Ted Chiang
Falling in Love With Hominids (Nalo Hopkinson)
Falling in Love With Hominids
13
Nalo Hopkinson
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories
14
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tender (Sofia Samatar)
Tender
15
Sofia Samatar
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Sarah Pinsker)
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
16
Sarah Pinsker
Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Karen Russell)
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
17
Karen Russell
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Various)
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
18
Various
Smoke and Mirrors (Neil Gaiman)
Smoke and Mirrors
19
Neil Gaiman
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