Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022
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The Fault in Our Stars
Keeps the emotionally raw, literary tone of the anthology's best stories, but trades speculative settings for a contemporary illness romance.
A Damsel in Distress
Another polished, wry read, though the mode shifts entirely to lighthearted Edwardian comedy with a guaranteed happy ending.
Legacy (The Sharing Knife #2)
Delivers the anthology's fantasy invention in novel form, with a central forbidden marriage and more heat than short fiction offers.
A Civil Campaign
Science fiction with sharp prose and social texture, but focused on one slow-burn courtship comedy rather than varied standalone tales.
The pretenders
For the romance thread in your reading, minus speculative elements: a warm fake-engagement historical with a tidy ending.
The Abandoned Bride
Trades genre-bending strangeness for Regency scandal and redemption, darker in premise but comfortingly resolved.