A review by qa9
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection by Sandra McDonald, Brendan DuBois, Geoff Ryman, Sunny Moraine, Martin L. Shoemaker, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Nancy Kress, Karl Bunker, Jake Kerr, James Patrick Kelly, Sean McMullen, Ken Liu, Alastair Reynolds, Alexander Jablokov, Michael Swanwick, Carrie Vaughn, Robert Reed, Damien Broderick, Greg Egan, Melissa Scott, Stephen Baxter, Lavie Tidhar, Paul McAuley, Neal Asher, Ian R. MacLeod, Jay Lake, Val Nolan, Gardner Dozois, Allen M. Steele

4.0

The only thing stopping me from giving this book six stars (besides the fact that there are only five available) was the editing. Carrie Vaughn is an artist and this book was written beautifully. Unfortunately, sometimes characters would be introduced randomly and some facts (like at one point Jill, the main character, gets cut in a sword fight) are ignored and not mentioned again. (We never hear of this wound again.) Overall though this book was very good and I didn't want to put it down. I slightly envied Jill to be honest.