The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen
Synopsis
A librarian helps a desperate student find the door into a book; Sir Thomas Moore's head is stolen and a messy rescue ensues; a mother sells a piece of her memory so her daughter can afford an education.
Science fiction is the story of what if and what comes next. It's more playful, more inclusive and more entertaining than it has ever been before and as the world falls apart around us, it offers us a chance to understand how things could be better, or just how a great story can get us through another night.
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen brings together the very best clashes between zombies and unicorns, robots and fairies, spaceships and more in a definitive volume that takes us everywhere from the distant future and the moons of our own solar system, to one last visit to Earthsea...
Table of Contents:
- "Dreadful Young Ladies", Kelly Barnhill (Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories)
- "Okay, Glory", Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)
- The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
- "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again", Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, 11/31/18)
- "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington", P Djeli Clark (Fireside Magazine)
- "Flint and Mirror", John Crowley (The Book of Magic)
- "An Agent of Utopia", Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
- "The Bookcase Expedition", Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs. Fairies)
- "Nine Last Days on Planet Earth", Daryl Gregory (Tor.com)
- "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies", Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine)
- "You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I'll Pretend Like I Never Met You", Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed,)
- "When We Were Starless", Simone Heller (Clarkesworld)
- "The Woman Who Destroyed Us", SL Huang (Twelve Tomorrows)
- "Golgotha ", Dave Hutchinson (2001: An Odyssey in Words)
- "The Storyteller's Replacement", N K Jemisin (How Long Till Black Future Month?)
- "The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society", T. Kingfisher (Uncanny)
- "Field Biology of the Wee Fairies", Naomi Kritzer (Apex, 9/4/18)
- "Meat and Salt and Sparks", Rich Larson (Tor.com)
- "Firelight", Ursula K Le Guin (The Paris Review 225)
- "The Starship and the Temple Cat", Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- "Quality Time", Ken Liu (Robots vs. Fairies)
- "A Brief and Fearful Star", Carmen Maria Machado (Slate)
- "The Blue Fairy's Manifesto", Annalee Newitz (Robots vs. Fairies)
- "The Staff in the Stone", Garth Nix (The Book of Magic)
- "Blessings", Naomi Novik (Uncanny)
- "Mother Tongues", S. Qiouyi Lu (Asimov's Science Fiction)
- "Intervention", Kelly Robson (Infinity's End)
- "Widdam", Vandana Singh (F&SF)
- "Yard Dog", Tade Thompson (Fiyah #7)
- "Olivia's Table", Alyssa Wong (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
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