The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021 selected by series editor John Joseph
Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy
stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent
series Veronica Roth showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize
readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde.
Folktales and lore come alive the dead rise the depths of space are traversed and magic
threads itself through singular moments of love and loss illuminating the circulatory nature
of life death the in-between and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and
Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature claiming its place in the
series with compelling prose lyrical composition and curiosity's never-ending pursuit of
discovering the unknown.
