Ebook: The year's best science fiction and fantasy

Flower, mercy, needle, chain / Yoon Ha Lee -- Amor vincit omnia / K.J. Parker -- The green book / Amal El-Mohtar -- The other graces / Alice Sola Kim -- The sultan of the clouds / Geoffrey A. Landis -- The magician and the maid and other stories / Christie Yant -- A letter from the emperor / Steve Rasnic Tem -- Holdfast / Matthew Johnson -- Standard loneliness package / Charles Yu -- The lady who plucked red flowers beneath the queen's window / Rachel Swirsky -- Arvies / Adam-Troy Castro -- Merrythoughts / Bill Kte'pi -- The red bridge / Samantha Henderson -- Ghosts doing the orange dance / Paul Park -- Bloodsport / Gene Wolfe -- No time like the present / Carol Emshwiller -- Braiding the ghosts / C.S.E. Cooney -- The thing about Cassandra / Neil Gaiman -- The interior of Bumblethorn's coat / Willow Fagan -- The things / Peter Watts -- Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the days of her glory / Paul M. Berger -- Amor fugit / Alexandra Duncan -- Dead man's run / Robert Reed -- The fermi paradox is our business model / Charlie Jane Anders -- The word of Azrael / Matthew David Surridge -- Under the moons of Venus / Damien Broderick -- Abandonware / An Omowoyela -- The maiden flight of McCauley's bellerophon / Elizabeth Hand