The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine
Synopsis
The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.
DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past twelve months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan. This highly popular series now reaches volume nine and will include stories from both the biggest names in the field and the most exciting new talents. Previous volumes have included stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Adam Robets, Ellen Klages, and many many more.
Table of Contents:
(stories which can be read online for free are linked)
- "Tough Times All Over" - Joe Abercrombie
- "The Scrivener" - Eleanor Arnason - read
- "Moriabe's Children" - Paolo Bacigalupi
- "Covenant" - Elizabeth Bear
- "Slipping" - Lauren Beukes
- "Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (The Successful Kind)" - Holly Black - read
- "Shadow Flock" - Greg Egan
- "The Truth About Owls" - Amal El-Mohtar - read
- "Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" - Theodora Goss - read
- "Cold Wind" - Nicola Griffith - read
- "Someday" - James Patrick Kelly
- "Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No.8)" - Caitlin R Kiernan
- "Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They are Terrifying" - Alice Sola Kim
- "Amicae Aeternum" - Ellen Klages - read
- "Calligo Lane" - Ellen Klages - read
- "The Lady and the Fox" - Kelly Link
- "The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION" - The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" - Ken Liu - read
- "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" - Usman T Malik - read
- "Four Days of Christmas" - Tim Maughan - read
- "The Fifth Dragon" - Ian McDonald - read
- "Shay Corsham Worsted" - Garth Nix
- "I Met a Man Who Wasn't There" - K. J. Parker - read
- "Kheldyu" - Karl Schroeder
- "Tawny Petticoats" - Michael Swanwick
- "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" - Rachel Swirsky - read
- "The Insects of Love" - Genevieve Valentine - read
- "Collateral" - Peter Watts
- "The Devil in America" - Kai Ashante Wilson - read
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