The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7

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A village fights to keep their robot teacher employed. A poetry-loving AI manages a wastewater plant as mysterious malfunctions multiply. A generation ship's passengers debate whether their destination still exists. This annual anthology collects the year's strongest science fiction from across the globe, with particular strength in stories from Chinese, Korean, and Japanese writers working at the genre's cutting edge. The volume showcases speculative fiction that is as interested in emotional and philosophical questions as technological ones — stories where the science fiction premise is a lens, not the point. A snapshot of where the genre is right now — global, humane, and asking better questions than it used to.