Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020
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Legacy Lost
Short-form fantasy with a romantic core like the anthology's pieces, but focused on one mer-royalty arranged match instead of varied voices.
Ally
Keeps the speculative-world romance appeal, trading anthology variety for a sustained political slow burn between two young rulers.
The Last Field Party
Shares the collection's episodic, multi-character structure, but grounded small-town contemporary romance instead of magic or spaceships.
Dowlands' mill
For readers who liked the anthology's eerier, uncanny entries; this one is darker gothic suspense with a slow romance and real corpses.
Buttercup fields
Character-driven storytelling with emotional twists, though fully historical village drama rather than fantastical, and messier with betrayal.
Stardust
Delivers the same literary fantasy-with-wonder flavor found in the best anthology stories, but as one whimsical, lighter fairy-tale quest romance.