"A remote village is determined to keep their robot teacher from being fired... a poetry-loving AI controls the wastewater treatment facility, but a series of malfunctions are beginning to cause concern... the biggest pop idol of the twenty-second century is trapped on Enceladus, and deeply alone... Latchko can talk to the banned AIs and now that his secret is out things are about to get complicated... a former child soldier is raised by a plant-like species but struggles to understand them... ice fishing on Europa just keeps turning up rocks and things just got worse... something is changing the world, making it better, but better for whom? For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Seven, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and thirty-one of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2021." - Book Summary.

A collection of short stories by different authors. Features stories by: Aliette de Bodard, Meg Elison, Rich Larson, Ken Liu, Ray Nayler, Suzanne Palmer, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Karl Schroeder, Vandana Singh, and Tade Thompson.