Let's get to the stories, though, shall we? In order (courtesy this time of Barnes & Noble-since a surprising number of online references to this book did not sort the list!): Adams' summary of the year in SF is well worth reading in detail-it's very similar to the late Gardner Dozois' yearly Summations, which I always enjoyed, and Adams is visibly happy to report that no major genre periodicals ceased publication in 2020, despite the pandemic. although 2020 was a very fraught year for forward-looking fiction in general, and if I had to pick a single word to describe the overall impact of this anthology, it would be "somber." This process, though involved, results in some pretty strong contenders for sf which might actually be among the "best" of the year. Adams then chose the ones he most admired, and passed his long list on to this year's editor Veronica Roth, who then selected the final cut without knowing author or publication. The Foreword and Introduction describe the full selection criteria, which are quite complex, but they boil down to this: series editor John Joseph Adams tried to read every short speculative fiction published for the year (in English, in North America, anyway), and honestly did a fairly thorough job. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 collects short F&SF stories published in 2020.
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