Similar to the selection process in the other The Best American Series titles, the series editor chooses about 80 candidates from which a guest editor picks about 20 for publication.
The guest editor selects ten from each genre for inclusion, after reading the works without knowledge of the author or original place of publication.
[1] In an interview with The Christian Science Monitor in 2016, the series editor John Joseph Adams discussed what topics have been dealt with in science fiction at various periods and what motivates people to read dystopian fiction.
"[3] In a starred review of the third volume of the series, Publishers Weekly called the collection "superb" and summarized it as a "mostly dystopic, sometimes darkly humorous collection of 20 hard-hitting stories feels timely, confronting contemporary cultural crises…"[4]
This article about a collection of science fiction short stories published in the 2010s is a stub.