Anthologies

Prime Codex highlights the new directions in fiction that the Codex Writers Group has collectively begun to forge. A vibrant community of "neo-pro" writers of speculative fiction: writers on the hungry edge of their careers, Codex Writers include Writers of the Future winners, veterans of prestigious writing workshops, and authors of critically acclaimed publications at all levels of the literary marketplace, from novels to flash fiction. Gathering stories from a cross-section of the group's production, the anthology reveals just how diverse and influential the next generation of speculative fiction will be.

The 2008 Edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction contains: INTRODUCTION, Rich Horton (Editor) DARK INTEGERS, Greg Egan A PLAIN TALE FROM OUR HILLS, Bruce Sterling AN EYE FOR AN EYE, Charles Coleman Finlay ALWAYS, Karen Joy Fowler AN OCEAN IS A SNOWFLAKE, FOUR BILLION MILES AWAY, John Barnes VIRUS CHANGES SKIN, Ekaterina Sedia WIKIWORLD, Paul Di Filippo ARTIFICE AND INTELLIGENCE, Tim Pratt JESUS CHRIST, REANIMATOR, Ken MacLeod NIGHT CALLS, Robert Reed EVERYONE BLEEDS THROUGH, Jack Skillingstead ART OF WAR, Nancy Kress THREE DAYS OF RAIN, Holly Phillips BRAIN RAID, Alexander Jablokov FOR SOLO CELLO, OP. 12, Mary Robinette Kowal PERFECT VIOLET, Will McIntosh VECTORING, Geoffrey Landis THE SKYSAILOR'S TALE, Michael Swanwick

As in every year since 1988, the editors tirelessly scoured story collections, magazines, and anthologies worldwide to compile a delightful, diverse feast of short stories and poems. On this anniversary, the editors have increased the size of  the collection to 300,000 words of fiction and poetry, including works by Billy Collins, Ted Chiang, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Hand, Glen Hirshberg, Joyce Carol Oates, and new World Fantasy Award winner M. Rickert. With impeccably researched summations of the field by the editors, Honorable Mentions, and articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint and Jeff VanderMeer on media, music and graphic novels, this is a heady brew topped off by an unparalleled list of sources of fabulous works both light and dark.

Each year, members of the World Science Fiction Convention vote for the science fiction and fantasy works they love the most: the Hugo Awards. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, you can find these treasured gems within a single volume. The Hugo Award Showcase collects the stories—by rising stars like Kij Johnson, beloved taleslingers like Michael Swanwick, and literary legends like Nancy Kress—that have captured the hearts and imaginations of some of the genre’s most dedicated readers.

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every other month. This issue is dedicated to the short fiction of Mary Robinette Kowal. Table of Contents: Short Fiction "The Bride Replete" by Mary Robinette Kowal "Beyond the Garden Close" by Mary Robinette Kowal "Scenting the Dark" by Mary Robinette Kowal" "Horizontal Rain" by Mary Robinette Kowal Poetry: "Intersteller" by Freeman Ng "Exobiology" by FJ Bergmann This issue of Apex Magazine was edited by Jason Sizemore

Selected from the Hugo award-nominated Clarkesworld Magazine , Realms collects the work of twenty-five visionary writers of short fiction, including such World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo, and Campbell Award winners and finalists as Jeffrey Ford, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, Tim Pratt, Robert Reed, Mike Resnick, and Catherynne M. Valente ― and amazing stories from up-and-comers like Karen Heuler, Paul Jessup, Yoon Ha Lee, Margaret Ronald, and many more!

Geoffrey A. Landis - The Sultan of the Clouds Nancy Fulda - Backlash Benjamin Crowell - Wheat Rust Eugene Mirabelli - The Palace in the Clouds Mary Robinette Kowal - For Want of a Nail Roger Dutcher & Robert Frazier - The Now We Almost Inhabit Ruth Berman - Egg Production

The Best of Talebones collects 42 of the best and most beloved stories from Talebones magazine. Taken from 39 issues published over 14 years, this anthology includes such writers as Jack Cady, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Marie Brennan, Barb Hendee, Carrie Vaughn, Kay Kenyon, Ken Scholes, James Van Pelt, James Sallis, Paul Melko, Louise Marley, Mary Robinette Kowal, Anne Harris, James C. Glass, Alan DeNiro . . . and many, many more!

Sometimes storytellers use the far future as the setting to make fantastic extrapolations and to explore compelling ideas. In this volume, however, the writers look forward a mere decade and present stunning scenarios, explore exciting possibilities and warn against the harrowing pitfalls that may lie just a few steps ahead of us. What will life be like ten years from now? Sixteen extraordinary writers offer their own mind-bending answers to that question, their singular 2020 Visions…

Contains the following dark SF stories published in Apex Magazine from July 1, 2009 through June 30th, 2010: "She Called Me Sweetie"-Glenn Lewis Gillette "...That Has Such People in It"-Jennifer Pelland "Pimp My Airshiip"-Maurice Broaddus "Kenny 149″-Brad Becraft "Advertising at the End of the World"-Keffy R.M. Kehrli "Fungal Gardens"-Ekaterina Sedia "Ghost Technology from the Sun"-Paul Jessup "A Poor Man's Roses"-Alethea Kontis "To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer's Lament"-Peter M. Ball "Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys"-Nir Yaniv "After the Fire"-Aliette de Bodard "Overclocking"-James L. Sutter "59 Beads"-Rochita Loenen-Ruiz "Wondrous Days"-Genevieve Valentine "White Christmas"-James F. Reilly "The Lady or the Tiger"-J.M. McDermott "p.a. chic"-Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf "Beyond the Garden Close"-Mary Robinette Kowal "The Bride Replete"-Mary Robinette Kowal "Dying with Her Cheer Pants On"-Seanan McGuire "Seafoam"-Mark Henry "The Last Stand of the Ant Maker"-Paul Jessup "City of Refuge"-Jerry L. Gordon "Sol Asleep"-Naomi Labicki "Laika's Dream"-Holly Hight "Artifact"-Peter Atwood "Schrodinger's Pussy"-Terra Lemay

Even before Karel Capek coined the term robot, the idea of mechanical people fascinated us: they wanted to play one, to use their ingenuity to create in their own image. While the actual robotics achievements have been stunning, the literary robots are even more amazing in the diversity of both function and metaphor. From Capek’s biotech machines of R.U.R. to Kuttner’s Proud Robot to the fictional assortment of mechanical sex toys, rebels, grandmothers, servants and masters, these machines have represented our dreams as well as our anxieties. In this anthology are the stories that represent all the many faces of robots: beautiful, hideous, and everything in between.

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every other month. SHORT FICTION "Weaving Dreams" by Mary Robinette Kowal "Always the Same. Till it is Not." by Cecil Castellucci "Simon's Replica" by Dean Francis Alfar POETRY "Thirteen" by Rachel Swirsky "The Crows and the Witches and the Window" by Rachel Swirsky "Cassanova Clay" by Liz Argall NONFICTION "Editorial: Blood on Vellum" by Lynne M. Thomas "Apex Magazine Goes to the Hugos" by Lynne M. Thomas "An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal" by Maggie Slater Cover art by Carrie Ann Baade.

Short novels are movie length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This unabridged collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2011 by current and emerging masters of this form. In "The Ice Owl," by Carolyn Ives Gilman, an adolescent, female, Waster in the iron city of Glory to God finds an enigmatic tutor who provides her with much more than academic instruction while a fundamentalist revolt is underway. In the HUGO AWARD winner, "The Man Who Bridged the Mist," by Kij Johnson, an architect from the capital builds a bridge over a dangerous mist that will change more than just the Empire. In "Kiss Me Twice," by Mary Robinette Kowal, a detective, with the assistance of the police department's AI that takes on Mae West's persona, solves a murder with all the flair of an Asimov robot story. "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," by Ken Liu, is a moving chronicle of attempts to witness the history of Japanese atrocities against the Chinese in a World War II prison camp by traveling back in time using Bohm-Kirino particles. In "The Ants of Flanders," by Robert Reed, a teenage boy, incapable of fear, takes center stage in an alien invasion of Earth that pits alien foes against each other in a war that has no regard for mankind's existence. Finally, in "Angel of Europa," by Allen M. Steele, an arbiter aboard a space ship, exploring the moons of Jupiter, is resuscitated from a hibernation tank to investigate the deaths of two scientists that took place in a bathyscaphe underneath the global ocean of Europa.

An anthology of original horror tales featuring "evil genius" archetype characters intent on ruling the world features contributions by such best-selling authors as Diana Gabaldon, Daniel Wilson and Austin Grossman. By the editor of the best-selling Wastelands. 20,000 first printing.

Thirty-three science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories grab readers by their emotional cores to star deep into the source of our humanity and inhumanity. Well-known authors like Ken Liu, Genevieve Valentine, Catherynne M. Valente, Lavie Tidhar, and Alethea Kontis, along with newer voices, sketch surreal pasts, presents, and futures full of characters with familiar and outsized desires and fears. The Book of Apex Volume 4 collects the original fiction from Hugo-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas's first fifteen issues at the helm of Apex Magazine , which included two Hugo Award nominations for the magazine. Table of Contents: "The Bread We Eat in Dreams" by Catherynne M. Valente "The Leavings of the Wolf" by Elizabeth Bear "The 24 Hour Brother" by Christopher Barzak "Faithful City" by Michael Pevzner "So Glad We Had This Time Together" by Cat Rambo "Sweetheart Showdown" by Sarah Dalton "Bear in Contradicting Landscape" by David J. Schwartz "My Body Her Canvas" by A.C. Wise "A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell" by Richard Bowes "Copper, Iron, Blood and Love" by Mari Ness "The Second Card of the Major Arcana" by Thoraiya Dyer "Love is a Parasite Meme" by Lavie Tidhar "Decomposition" by Rachel Swirsky "Tomorrow's Dictator" by Rahul Kanakia "Winter Scheming" by Brit Mandelo "In the Dark" by Ian Nichols "The Silk Merchant" by Ken Liu "Ironheart" by Alec Austin "Coyote Gets His Own Back" by Sarah Monette "Waiting for Beauty" by Marie Brennan "Murdered Sleep" by Kat Howard "Armless Maidens of the American West" by Genevieve Valentine "Sexagesimal" by Katharine E.K. Duckett "During the Pause" by Adam-Troy Castro "Weaving Dreams" by Mary Robinette Kowal "Always the Same. Till it is Not" by Cecil Castellucci "Sprig" by Alex Bledsoe "Splinter" by Shira Lipkin "Erzulie Dantor" by Tim Susman "Labyrinth" by Mari Ness "Blood from Stone" by Alethea Kontis "Trixie and the Pandas of Dread" by Eugie Foster "The Performance Artist" by Lettie Prell Cover art provided by Julie Dillon.

Original stories from six of today’s best science fiction writers about the near future of technologies such as drones, wearable computing, implants, 3-D printing, and more.

From the Hugo Award-winning hosts of the Writing Excuses writing advice show comes a collection of all-new stories of the fantastic, with beautiful illustrations and a behind-the-scenes look at each story’s creation. Brandon Sanderson’s “Sixth of the Dusk,” set in his Cosmere universe shared by the Mistborn books and the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, showcases a society on the brink of technological change. On the deadly island of Patji, where predators can sense the thoughts of their prey, a lone trapper discovers that the island is not the only thing out to kill him. Mary Robinette Kowal’s “A Fire in the Heavens” is a powerful tale of a refugee seeking to the near-mythical homeland her oppressed people left centuries ago. When Katin discovers the role the “eternal moon” occupies in the Center Kingdom, and the nature of the society under its constant light, she may find enemies and friends in unexpected places. Dan Wells’s “I.E.Demon” features an Afghanistan field test of a piece of technology that is supposed to handle improvised explosive devices. Or so the engineers have told the EOD team that will be testing it; exactly what it does and how it does it are need-to-know, and the grunts don’t need to know. Until suddenly the need arises. Howard Tayler’s “An Honest Death” stars the security team for the CEO of a biotech firm about to release the cure for old age. When an intruder appears and then vanishes from the CEO’s office, the bodyguards must discover why he is lying to them about his reason for pressing the panic button. For years the hosts of Writing Excuses have been offering tips on brainstorming, drafting, workshopping, and revision, and now they offer an exhaustive look at the entire process. Not only does Shadows Beneath have four beautifully illustrated fantastic works of fiction, but it also includes transcripts of brainstorming and workshopping sessions, early drafts of the stories, essays about the stories’ creation, and details of all the edits made between the first and final drafts. Come for the stories by award-winning authors; stay for the peek behind the creative curtain.

Who you are depends on who's telling your story, and in this charity anthology, 22 authors get the chance to tell us who Anthony Cardno is. Some of these stories are horror, some are science fiction, some are westerns ... and some even have happy endings. On the watery alien planet of Jay Lake’s “Cold Statues,” an orphaned boy on the good ship Anthony Cardno finally gets closure by visiting the site where his parents died. In the far future of Mary Robinette Kowal’s “The White Phoenix Feather,” famous actor Anthony Cardno tries his hand at Extreme Dining. There are ninjas involved. Alien ninjas. In modern day New York, Joseph Pittman’s clever con man Todd Gleason takes on “The Antics of Anton Ardno.” In Steve Berman’s ghostly “Three on a Match,” college boys looking for a hook-up share cigarettes and personal ghosts of boys they’ve loved. And in Kaaron Warren’s brutal “The Optimist,” is reincarnation into a harsh war-zone life appropriate punishment for an evil man? The authors of these 20 stories and two songs have donated their words to help Anthony R. Cardno raise money for cancer research and support. All proceeds from the sales will go directly to the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life, to enhance their mission of providing aid and comfort to those fighting all forms or this torturous disease.

The idea of time travel has been with us since ancient times; now, the concept of time travel seems almost... plausible. Today, tales of chrononauts are more imaginative and thought-provoking than ever before: new views, cutting-edge concepts, radical notions of paradox and possibility ― state-of-the-art speculative stories collected from those written in the twenty-first century. Forward to the past, back to the future ― get ready for a fascinating trip!

Here are short stories representing the best from Cosmos magazine over the past years. Collected and introduced by Damien Broderick, the diverse stories here are, in his words, "heartwarming, some heartbreaking, a few are very funny, a few quite disturbing. All have at least a tincture, or even a heavy dollop, of science in the telling—if only metaphorically."

Like Unfettered before it, the contributing writers of Unbound were allowed to submit the tales they wished fans of genre to read—without the constraints of a shackling theme. The result is magical. Twenty-three all-original stories are sure to captivate you—some will move you to tears while others will keep you turning the pages long into the night. The power of Unbound lies in its variety of tales and the voices behind them. If you are a fan of discovering new writers or reading the works of beloved authors, Unbound is for you. Return to Landover with Terry Brooks. Go to trial with Harry Dresden and Jim Butcher. Enter the Citadel and become remade with Rachel Caine. Survive a plague with John Marco and his robot companion Echo. Be painted among the stars by Mary Robinette Kowal. These tales and the others that comprise the anthology are only bound by how enchanting and enthralling they are. Unbound is filled with spectacularly wonderful stories, each one as diverse as its creator. You will be changed upon finishing it. And that is the point.

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, author, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our thirteenth issue features a novella by Mary Robinette Kowal ("Kiss Me Twice"), a novelette by Vandana Singh ("With Fates Conspire"), and a novelette by Peter Watts ("Collateral").

If women in fantasy are capable and intelligent enough to lead in battle, wouldn't they also be intelligent enough to protect their abdomens, tier their hair back, and cover their faces in battle? Edited by Ed Greenwood and Gabrielle Harbowy, this anthology of short stories showcases an already empowered female warrior who knows how to handle herself in battle. Take charge of your fantasy reading with Women In Practical Armor.

This issue of Shimmer contains stories that tell us evil may be overcome even if we’re small and unsure. Love can be a weapon and a shield. Keep fighting in whatever way you can. We’re excited to share with you Malon Edwards’ sequel to “The Half Dark Promise.” We also welcome Mary Robinette Kowal to the pages of Shimmer for the first time since she was Shimmer‘s art director. Two new-to-Shimmer authors also join the party, with stories of exploration, revelation, and ultimately, love. Hic Sunt Leones, by L.M. Davenport It’s true that the house walks. It’s also true that you can only find it if you don’t know about it. Once, a boy in my high-school art class drew a picture of it, but didn’t know what he’d drawn; the thing in the center of his sketchpad had ungainly, menacing chicken legs caught mid-stride and a crazed thatch roof that hung askew over brooding windows. I knew it was the house right away because his eyes had that sleepy, traumatized look that people get once they’ve seen the house. I was used to seeing this look, mostly on my mother’s face. Shadow Man, Sack Man, Half Dark, Half Light, by Malon Edwards You keep running, even though you know you can’t escape the fifty-foot-tall Pogo. But you were built for this. You are taller than all of the girls and most of the boys in your Covey Four class. Your legs are longer. Your steam-clock heart is stronger. Your determination is unmatched. Even against the rocks they throw. Even against the insults they hurl. Even when they entimide you and chase you home after school every day, all because your mother could not save their friends. Trees Struck by Lightning Burning From the Inside Out, by Emily Lundgren It is sweet and fitting to die with one’s pack under the full moon, but the sky is clouded by the city lights: orange and yellow and red like fire. Roque is running. Like a cracked whip, without sense. Under a sliver of jagged sound, under the leering fray of glossy towers, he smells a dog without a leash, the sharp of silvered bolts. He sees a woman with a cardboard sign reading something-something about the world, who catches his eye, whose own eyes widen, whose mouth opens and makes a howling noise: something-something about wolves! wolves! The road towards dawn outstretches before him, choking on cars and steam and fur and bone. Roque is running, running. His paws thump in tandem with the code of his heart, and he transforms. Your Mama’s Adventures in Parenting, by Mary Robinette Kowal Your mama adjusted her face mask and checked the chronometer on her eyepiece. Darn it. The filter would only be good for another fifteen minutes. She was nowhere near finished with the job. And this particular theft would fetch a good price on the energy market, what with the price of methane. She slid the siphon tube across to the capture valve and turned on the suction pump. If your mama could get most of the gas into the polysteel tank on her back…

Stories entertain, but they can also shape the course and direction of human progress. Futurescapes: Cities of Empowerment does both. It is more than just a collection of engaging tales. It is also as a roadmap to steer communities away from negative futures and towards positive ones. By featuring powerful solutions (as well as their potential unintended consequences) embedded in poignant, humorous, and exciting stories, our authors explore the many ways cities might empower all residents — regardless of their circumstances — to become super citizens, deeply engaged in the governance of the cities they call home.

This is the third annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readers The Long List Anthology Volume 3 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From intelligent appliances gone feral to Lovecraftian detective noir, from tech-enhanced wilderness races to Egyptian science fantasy steampunk, from hard science fiction to fairy tale to humor and more. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are: "Red in Tooth and Cog" by Cat Rambo "A Salvaging of Ghosts" by Aliette de Bodard "Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0" by Caroline M. Yoachim "Razorback" by Ursula Vernon "We Have a Cultural Difference, Can I Taste You?" by Rebecca Ann Jordan "Lullaby for a Lost World" by Aliette de Bodard "Terminal" by Lavie Tidhar "Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands" by Seanan McGuire "Things With Beards" by Sam J. Miller "The Venus Effect" by Violet Allen "The Visitor From Taured" by Ian R. MacLeod "Blood Grains Speak Through Memories" by Jason Sanford "Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" by Sarah Pinsker "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" by P. Djèlí Clark "Red as Blood and White as Bone" by Theodora Goss "Foxfire, Foxfire" by Yoon Ha Lee "Forest of Memory" by Mary Robinette Kowal "Chimera" by Gu Shi, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu and Ken Liu "Hammers on Bone" by Cassandra Khaw "Runtime" by S.B. Divya

Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots A unique anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands an answer to the age-old question: Who is more awesome—robots or fairies? Rampaging robots! Tricksy fairies! Facing off for the first time in an epic genre death match! People love pitting two awesome things against each other. Robots vs. Fairies is an anthology that pitches genre against genre, science fiction against fantasy, through an epic battle of two icons. On one side, robots continue to be the classic sci-fi phenomenon in literature and media, from Asimov to WALL-E , from Philip K. Dick to Terminator . On the other, fairies are the beloved icons and unquestionable rulers of fantastic fiction, from Tinkerbell to Tam Lin, from True Blood to Once Upon a Time . Both have proven to be infinitely fun, flexible, and challenging. But when you pit them against each other, which side will triumph as the greatest genre symbol of all time? There can only be one…or can there? Featuring an incredible line-up of authors including John Scalzi, Catherynne M. Valente, Ken Liu, Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Jonathan Maberry, and many more, Robots vs. Fairies will take you on a glitterbombed journey of a techno-fantasy mash-up across genres.

NOVELLAS Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling – L.X. Beckett NOVELETS Visible Cities – Rachel Pollack Broken Wings – William Ledbetter SHORT STORIES The Phobos Experience – Mary Robinette Kowal The Prevaricator – Matthew Hughes The Queen of the Peri Takes Her Time – Corey Flintoff The Adjunct – Cassandra Rose Clarke Bedtime Story – James Sallis Morbier – R.S. Benedict Hainted – Ashley Blooms POEMS Red Rising – Mary Soon Lee DEPARTMENTS Books to Look For – Charles de Lint Musing on Books – Michelle West Science: Why Do Kites Fly? – Jerry Oltion Films: In the Queue – David J. Skal Coming Attractions – Curiosities – Paul Di Filippo CARTOONS Nick Downes, Bill Long, Danny Shanahan, . COVER "Big Mars" By Bob Eggleton

Winner of the World Fantasy Award Worlds Seen in Passing is an anthology of award-winning, eye-opening, genre-defining science fiction, fantasy, and horror from Tor.com's first ten years, edited by Irene Gallo. "A fresh new story going up at Tor.com is always an Event."―Charlie Jane Anders Since it began in 2008, Tor.com has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. Its hundreds of remarkable stories span from science fiction to fantasy to horror, and everything in between. Now Tor.com is making some of those worlds available for the first time in print. This volume collects some of the best short stories Tor.com has to offer, with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short stories and novelettes chosen from all ten years of the program. TABLE OF CONTENTS: “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders “Damage” by David D. Levine “The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn “The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin “A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel” by Yoon Ha Lee “Waiting on a Bright Moon” by JY Yang “Elephants and Corpses” by Kameron Hurley “About Fairies” by Pat Murphy “The Hanging Game” by Helen Marshall “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu “A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys “Brimstone and Marmalade” by Aaron Corwin “Reborn” by Ken Liu “Please Undo This Hurt” by Seth Dickinson “The Language of Knives” by Haralambi Markov “The Shape of My Name” by Nino Cipri “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal “Last Son of Tomorrow” by Greg van Eekhout “Ponies” by Kij Johnson “La beauté sans vertu” by Genevieve Valentine “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong “A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections” by Tina Connolly “The End of the End of Everything” by Dale Bailey “Breaking Water” by Indrapramit Das “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” by Laurie Penny “The Tallest Doll in New York City” by Maria Dahvana Headley “The Cage” by A.M. Dellamonica “In the Sight of Akresa” by Ray Wood “Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar “The Witch of Duva” by Leigh Bardugo “Daughter of Necessity” by Marie Brennan “Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes “These Deathless Bones” by Cassandra Khaw “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch” by Kelly Barnhill “This World Is Full of Monsters” by Jeff VanderMeer “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson “A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star” by Kathleen Ann Goonan

This is the fourth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThis is the fourth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 4 collects 15 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 300 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From utopian science fiction to dystopian horror, from a society based entirely on personal upvotes/downvotes to one where one's status is defined by enchanted gloves, from a kickass blockade-running spaceship pilot to an artist who can twist the world with his perspective. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are:"Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" by Tobias S. Buckell"Waiting Out the End of the World at Patty's Place Cafe" by Naomi Kritzer"Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" by Charlie Jane Anders"Confessions of a Con Girl" by Nick Wolven"Utopia, LOL?" by Jamie Wahls"The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom" by Max Gladstone"Paradox" by Naomi Kritzer"Angel of the Blockade" by Alex Acks"The Fisher of Bones" by Sarah Gailey"Crispin's Model" by Max Gladstone"The Dark Birds" by Ursula Vernon"Waiting On a Bright Moon" by JY Yang"Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics" by Jess Barber and Sara Saab"A Human Stain" by Kelly Robson"The Worshipful Society of Glovers" by Mary Robinette Kowal

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas have co-edited and co-published Uncanny Magazine since its launch in 2014. They brought readers stunning cover art, passionate science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, and provocative nonfiction by writers from every conceivable background, including some of science fiction and fantasy's most fabulous award-winning and bestselling authors. In its first four years, Uncanny Magazine won the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award three times (2016, 2017, 2018), Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas won the 2018 Best Editor—Short Form Hugo Award for their work on the magazine, and numerous stories from Uncanny Magazine have been finalists or winners of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards—including the novelette “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) which won the 2016 Best Novelette Hugo Award and the novelette “You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong which won the 2017 Best Novelette Locus Award. This Best of Uncanny anthology collects those two novelettes and many of the other best stories and poems from the first 22 issues of Uncanny Magazine . Naomi Novik plunges you into a delicious fractured fairy tale retelling in “Blessings.” Delilah S. Dawson explores superpowers, harassment, and revenge in “Catcall.” Neil Gaiman takes you along to keep pace with his gorgeous and powerful poem “The Long Run.” Charlie Jane Anders shakes up a haunting cocktail of comedy clubs and love with “Ghost Champagne.” Mary Robinette Kowal weaves a heartbreaking tale of marriage, duty, and magical curses in “Midnight Hour.” N.K. Jemisin ruminates on dangerous fans, awards, and legacy in “Henosis.” Maria Dahvana Headleys links into a Classic Hollywood of animal actors and sleazy secrets with “If You Were a Tiger, I'd Have to Wear White.” Catherynne M. Valente travels to a colony world infested with strange psychic cats in “Planet Lion.” Carmen Maria Machado wrestles with predators, identity, and death in “My Body, Herself.” And Seanan McGuire sings a tragic song of misunderstandings and unfortunate consequences with “Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands.” Those pieces are only the beginning. The Best of Uncanny features some of the uncanniest stories and poetry in SF/F today, by its current leading voices. Sit down and immerse yourself in 44 original science fiction and fantasy stories and poems that can make you feel .

This volume collects 43 beautiful stories from Shimmer's 13 year run.

The fifteenth anniversary of the Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast Escape Pod , featuring new and exclusive stories from today’s bestselling writers. Finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod has been bringing the finest short fiction to millions of ears all over the world, at the forefront of a new fiction revolution. This anthology gathers together fifteen stories, including new and exclusive work from writers such as from Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, Mary Robinette Kowal, T. Kingfisher and more. From editors Mur Laffterty and S.B. Divya comes the science fiction collection of the year, bringing together bestselling authors in celebration of the publishing phenomenon that is, Escape Pod .

This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readers The Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From deepfake girlfriends to death-defying magicians, alternate history space programs to dead mothers haunting their surviving children, from vast alien libraries to modern spins on ancient mythology. There are a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are: "Give the Family My Love" by A.T. Greenblatt "Beyond the El" by John Chu "Articulated Restraint" by Mary Robinette Kowal "I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we're getting married" by Fonda Lee "A Bird, a Song, a Revolution" by Brooke Bolander "The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power" by Karen Osborne "Fisher-Bird" by T. Kingfisher "How the Trick is Done" by A.C. Wise "Lest We Forget" by Elizabeth Bear "Shucked" by Sam J. Miller "Circus Girl, the Hunter, and Mirror Boy" by JY Neon Yang "Deriving Life" by Elizabeth Bear "His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" by M. Evan MacGriogair "Dave's Head" by Suzanne Palmer "Nice Things" by Ellen Klages "A Strange Uncertain Light" by G.V. Anderson "Blood, Bone, Seed, Spark" by Aimee Ogden "Erase, Erase, Erase" by Elizabeth Bear "Glass Cannon" by Yoon Ha Lee

Futures and Pasts, Fearless and Frightening. This is a must-read collection for all fans of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. A celebration of legacy and endurance. • Bizarre remains of a lost civilisation emerge from the ice. • The ghosts of a drowned town wait to be awakened. • A witch with a dragon problem. • What Elvis will do to protect his fellow artists from annihilation. • An ancient spaceship carries the last, fragmented memories of Earth. • Broken souls of the dead are passed on to the new-born. • …These and many more tales showcase the hopes, remnants, and fears of humanity. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Aiki Flinthart reached out for works from as many of her favourite authors as would answer the call. And many did. Between these pages you’ll find stories by some of the world’s best science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers. Find new favourite authors and re-join old friends. Their fabulous works are threads woven with a sure hand into a tapestry of the weird, the worrying, and the wonderful that make up mankind. Grab a copy of Relics, Wrecks, and Ruins today. You’ll also help fund a mentorship for emerging authors. Reviews: "Relics, Wrecks, and Ruins is the articulation of the generous contributions of our contemporary masters, in support of the Flinthart Residency and the next wave of emerging writers. True to their mission, these stories push back against boundaries as they take us light years away, plunge toward the sea floor, and turn time and space elastic. Let yourself be drawn in by these celebrated voices. Listen closely for what resonates within." L.E. Daniels, author of Serpent’s Wake: A Tale for the Bitten and Winning Short Story Competitions: Essential Tools for the Serious Writer "Rich, varied, and bittersweet, this anthology is a fitting and triumphant salute to Aiki Flinthart’s dauntless spirit and irrepressible moxie" - Geneve Flynn, co-editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women Full Author list: Neil Gaiman, Ken Liu, Juliet Marillier, Angela Slatter, Jan-Andrew (JA) Henderson, Garth Nix, Pamela Jeffs, Marianne de Pierres, Jasper Fforde, Mary Robinette Kowal, James (SA) Corey, Lee Murray, Sebastien de Castell, Ian Irvine, Robert Silverberg, Mark Lawrence, Kate Forsyth, Kylie Chan, Cat Sparks, David Farland, Jack Dann, Dirk Flinthart, Aiki Flinthart

This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers. The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers around the world. From magical couches to impossible radio broadcasts, from robotic uprisings to rogue artist AIs, from gigantic alien telepaths to elaborate death trials held on a deadly stage. There is something here for everyone. The following stories are in the anthology: "For Lack of a Bed" by John Wiswell "The Cold Calculations" by Aimee Ogden "Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo "The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries" by Meg Elison "If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark "Let All the Children Boogie" by Sam J. Miller "Crazy Beautiful" by Cat Rambo "Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship" by Marie Vibbert "Before, After, and the Space Between" by Kel Coleman "Orumai's Choice" by Gautam Bhatia "Questions Asked in the Belly of the World" by A.T. Greenblatt "Mulberry and Owl" by Aliette de Bodard "The General's Turn" by Premee Mohamed "The Music of the Siphorophenes" by C.L. Polk "Just Enough Rain" by P H Lee "Ina's Spark" by Mary Robinette Kowal "The Red Mother" by Elizabeth Bear "Small Monsters" by E. Lily Yu "Tombs of the Universe" by Han Song, translated by Xueting C. Ni "(emet)" by Lauren Ring "Submergence" by Arula Ratnakar

How would first contact—on earth, in space, on another planet—transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth? What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable scale in the depths of space? Life— beyond us. Dive in as the European Astrobiology Institute presents fifty-four original SF Stories and Science Essays on life, from microbial to macro, from automatic to sagacious. Each speculative story is followed by a professional essay illuminating the scientific underpinnings of the story and providing a new window into the cutting-edge knowledge about exploration for life in the universe. SF STORIES BY: Eugen Bacon, Gregory Benford, Renan Bernardo, Jana Bianchi, Tobias S. Buckell, Eric Choi, Julie E. Czerneda, Tessa Fisher, Simone Heller, Valentin D. Ivanov, Mary Robinette Kowal, Lisa Jenny Krieg (translated by Simone Heller), Geoffrey A. Landis, Rich Larson, Liu Yang (translated by Ladon Gao), Lucie Lukačovičová, Premee Mohamed, G. David Nordley, Malka Older, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Tomáš Petrásek, Brian Rappatta, Arula Ratnakar, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Bogi Takács, Peter Watts, and B. Zelkovich. SCIENCE ESSAYS BY: Jacques Arnould, William Bains, José A. Caballero, Dimitra Demertzi, Martina Dimoska, Tessa Fisher, Dennis Höning, Valentin D. Ivanov, Fabian Klenner, Nina Kopacz, Geoffrey A. Landis, Natuschka Lee, Ania Losiak, Stephen Francis Mann, Connor Martini, Tony Milligan, Philippe Nauny, Julie Nováková, Erik Persson, Tomáš Petrásek, Joanna Piotrowska, Giovanni Poggiali, Amedeo Romagnolo, Stefano Sandrelli, Floris van der Tak, Jan Toman, Sheri Wells-Jensen, and Raymond M. Wheeler. Introduction by Stephen Baxter Foreword by Julie Nováková Afterwords by Wolf D. Geppert; Lucas K. Law & Susan Forest Previous anthologies by Laksa Media ( Strangers Among Us, The Sum of Us, Where the Stars Rise, Shades Within Us, Seasons Between Us ) have been recommended by Publishers Weekly , Booklist (American Library Association), Kirkus Reviews , Library Journal , School Library Journal , Locus , Foreword Reviews , and Quill & Quire .

The January/February 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine . eaturing new fiction by Mary Robinette Kowal, Jordan Taylor, Jana Bianchi, Natalia Theodoridou, Ana Hurtado, Cheri Kamei, and Angela Liu. Essays by John Scalzi, Alex Jennings, Cecilia Tan, and Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne, poetry by Ali Trota, Ai Jiang, C.S.E. Cooney, and Sodïq Oyèkànmí, interviews with Jordan Taylor and Natalia Theodoridou by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Galen Dara, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

The January/February 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine . Featuring new fiction by Scott Lynch, J.R. Dawson, Tia Tashiro, Tade Thompson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rati Mehrotra, and AnaMaria Curtis. Essays by Nicholas Whyte, Ai Jiang, A.T. Greenblatt, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Kaliee Pedersen, Mari Ness, Shankar Narayan, and E. N. Díaz, interviews with Scott Lynch and Rati Mehotra by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Maxine Vee, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Betsy Aoki, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.