Search Worlds Without End

This short story originally appeared in Apex Magazine, May 2013. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, edited by Rich Horton.

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The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from award-winning writer E. Lily Yu.

In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher, and fall. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage.

At turns bittersweet and boundary-breaking, poignant and profound, these twenty-two stories sing, as the oldest fables do, of what it means to be alive in this strange, terrible, beautiful world.

This short story originally appeared on Eclipse Online, March 10, 2013. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, edited by Rich Horton.

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Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia.

As the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they're found.

When they arrive in Australia, what seemed like a stable shore gives way to treacherous currents. Neighbors, classmates, and the government seek their own ends, indifferent to the family's fate. For Firuzeh, her fantasy worlds provide some relief, but as her family and home splinter, she must surface from these imaginings and find a new way.

All it's life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger and more powerful creatures who feast on the small monster's limbs each time one regrows. This is the story of how the small monster meets an industrious artist and reforms into someone new - someone who can't be eaten.

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Short story first published in Clarkesworld Magazine (April 2011). Reprinted in Clarkesworld: Year Five (2013), edited by Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, vol 6, edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012, edited by Rich Horton, and The New Voices of Fantasy (2017), edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman

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This short story originally appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Winter 2013, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, Issue 104, January 2019. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight (2014), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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When the waters rose, the people who stayed on the River learned they weathered the storms best together, but what happens when one of their own becomes curious about the Land?

This story was originally published on Tor.com on March 29, 2023. Read it for free at Tor.com.

The Devil made a mirror. A physicist broke it and shards fall through reality and changed everything forever.

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Sturgeon Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, #81 June 2013. It can also be found in the anthology Clarkesworld: Year Seven (2015), edited by Sean Wallace and Neil Clarke.

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After a bird fatally collides with her car, a troubled young woman's life changes irrevocably.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 12, September-October 2016. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11 (2017), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu.

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This short story originally appeared on Terraform, February 6th 2017. It can also be found in the anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, edited by N.K. Jemisin and John Joseph Adams.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue Five, July-August 2015.

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