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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

Karen Joy Fowler
3.5/5 ( ratings)
From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears—of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people—and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 includes Rachel Swirsky, Sofia Samatar, Charlie Jane Anders, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer and others
 
KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards.
 
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including Brave New Worlds and Wastelands. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new science fiction/fantasy novel imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Table of Contents:
"Meet Me in Iram" by Sofia Samatar
"The Game of Smash and Recovery" by Kelly Link
"Interesting Facts" by Adam Johnson
"Planet Lion" by Catherynne M. Valente
"The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary" by Kij Johnson
"By Degrees and Dilatory Time" by S.L. Huang
"The Mushroom Queen" by Liz Ziemska
"The Daydreamer by Proxy" by Dexter Palmer
"Tea Time" by Rachel Swirsky
"Headshot" by Julian Mortimer Smith
"The Duniazát" by Salman Rushdie
"No Placeholder for You, My Love" by Nick Wolven
"The Thirteen Mercies" by Maria Dahvana Headley
"Lightning Jack’s Last Ride" by Dale Bailey
"Things You Can Buy for a Penny" by Will Kaufman
"Rat Catcher’s Yellows" by Charlie Jane Anders
"The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History" by Sam J. Miller
"Three Bodies at Mitanni" by Seth Dickinson
"Ambiguity Machines: an Examination" by Vandana Singh
"The Great Silence" by Ted Chiang
Language
English
Pages
293
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Mariner Books
Release
October 04, 2016
ISBN
0544555201
ISBN 13
9780544555204

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

Karen Joy Fowler
3.5/5 ( ratings)
From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears—of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people—and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 includes Rachel Swirsky, Sofia Samatar, Charlie Jane Anders, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer and others
 
KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards.
 
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including Brave New Worlds and Wastelands. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new science fiction/fantasy novel imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Table of Contents:
"Meet Me in Iram" by Sofia Samatar
"The Game of Smash and Recovery" by Kelly Link
"Interesting Facts" by Adam Johnson
"Planet Lion" by Catherynne M. Valente
"The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary" by Kij Johnson
"By Degrees and Dilatory Time" by S.L. Huang
"The Mushroom Queen" by Liz Ziemska
"The Daydreamer by Proxy" by Dexter Palmer
"Tea Time" by Rachel Swirsky
"Headshot" by Julian Mortimer Smith
"The Duniazát" by Salman Rushdie
"No Placeholder for You, My Love" by Nick Wolven
"The Thirteen Mercies" by Maria Dahvana Headley
"Lightning Jack’s Last Ride" by Dale Bailey
"Things You Can Buy for a Penny" by Will Kaufman
"Rat Catcher’s Yellows" by Charlie Jane Anders
"The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History" by Sam J. Miller
"Three Bodies at Mitanni" by Seth Dickinson
"Ambiguity Machines: an Examination" by Vandana Singh
"The Great Silence" by Ted Chiang
Language
English
Pages
293
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Mariner Books
Release
October 04, 2016
ISBN
0544555201
ISBN 13
9780544555204

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