| "A Guide for Working Breeds" | Vina Jie-Min Prasad | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |  | 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |  | 
                    
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                            | "50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know" | Ken Liu | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |  | 2021 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster |  | 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Pill" | Meg Elison | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" | A. T. Greenblatt | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |  | 
                    
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                            | "An Important Failure" | Rebecca Campbell | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |  | 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |  | 
                    
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                            | "AirBody" | Sameem Siddiqui | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Bahrain Underground Bazaar" | Nadia Afifi | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |  | 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |  | 
                    
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                            | "Go. Now. Fix." | Timons Esaias | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Asimov's Readers' Poll - Winner |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |  | 
                    
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                            | "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar" | Rich Larson | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster |  | 2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |  | 
                    
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                            | "A Mastery of German" | Marian Denise Moore | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Mermaid Astronaut" | Yoon Ha Lee | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Yellow and the Perception of Reality" | Maureen F. McHugh | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |  | 
                    
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                            | "Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love" | Usman T. Malik | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |  | 
                    
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                            | "Father" | Ray Nayler | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |  | 
                    
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                            | "How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary" | Tochi Onyebuchi | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams |  | 
                    
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                            | "If You Take My Meaning" | Charlie Jane Anders | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Schrödinger's Catastrophe" | Gene Doucette | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Sparklybits" | Nick Wolven | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |  | 
                    
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                            | "Don't Mind Me" | Suzanne Palmer | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Drones to Ploughshares" | Sarah Gailey | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie" | Pat Cadigan | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "It Came From Cruden Farm" | Max Berry | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Midstrathe Exploding" | Andy Dudak | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Polished Performance" | Alastair Reynolds | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Search for [Flight X]" | Neon Yang | 2021 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Suicide of Our Troubles" | Karl Schroeder | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Transition of Osoosi" | Ozzie M. Gartrell | 2020 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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