An unabridged collection, in paperback, spotlighting the best space adventures, alternate histories, and time travel stories published in 2023 by current and emerging masters of the science fiction genre, edited by Allan Kaster.
 
“Ceres 7” by Lorraine Alden—the all-female crew of a colony ship is hard-pressed to complete their mission.
“The Mausoleum’s Children by Aliette de Bodard—a woman returns to a military, starship junkyard to rescue two of her childhood friends from a life of servitude.
“Waystation City” by A. T. Greenblatt—a journalist helps twins, lost in time, get back to the 1970s.
“Forever the Forest” by Simone Heller—a space craft crash lands in a sapient forest on an alien world.
“Embot’s Lament” by James Patrick Kelly—a bot from another timeline takes an interest in a woman running away from her husband.
“Heavy Lies” by Rich Larson—a pregnant alien becomes anxious about birthing its successor.
“Counting Casualties” by Yoon Ha Lee—a fleet of spaceships is called upon to intercept an invading deadfleet.
“Blade and Bone” by Paul McAuley—a company of mercenaries track down a raiding party on a Mars blighted by artificial organisms.
“Symbiosis” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires—a pregnancy in a colony city of an asteroid belt does not go as planned.
“The House on Infinity Street” by Allen M. Steele—two science fiction writers are obsessed with finding someone from the future.
“Blowout” by Wole Talabi—a woman tries to rescue her brother from a subsurface drilling blowout on Mars using a remote-controlled robot.
“The Blaumlich” by Lavie Tidhar—a young man, bored with his life on Mars, imagines another one for himself.
“To the Mean” by Rick Wilber—a woman travels back in time to claim her Caledonian title from a Roman emperor.
“Bird-Girl Builds a Machine” by Hannah Yang—a woman is devoted to a machine she can’t tell her daughter about.