Search Worlds Without End

The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked by the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, and James Morrow.

We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time on Man. The world is warming and seas are rising. We may deny it, but we can't hide when the water comes. Already the streets of Miami flood regularly and Mick Jones looks more and more prescient when he sang that "London is drowning and I, I live by the river!" all those years ago.

And yet water is life. It brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises in its place. There has always been romance and adventure in the streets of a drowned London or on gorgeous sailing cities spanning a submerged world, sleek ships exploring as land gets ever rarer.

Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise, good or bad. Here you'll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard's The Drowned World, Sterling's Islands in the Net, and Ryman's The Child Garden. Stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all.

Table of Contents:

• Elves of Antarctica, Paul McAuley
• Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts, Ken Liu
• Venice Drowned, Kim Stanley Robinson
• Brownsville Station, Christopher Rowe
• Who Do You Love?, Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy, Charlie Jane Anders
• The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known, Nina Allan
• What is, Jeffrey Ford
• Destroyed by the Waters, Rachel Swirsky
• The New Venusians, Sean Williams
• Inselberg, Nalo Hopkinson
• Only Ten More Shopping Days Left Till Ragnarök, James Morrow
• Last Gods, Sam J. Miller
• Drowned, Lavie Tidhar
• The Future is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente

Sentient. Intelligent. Extraordinary.

An SFBC Original Event.

In science fiction, nothing says sensawunda like a Big Dumb Object--a colossal, extremely powerful machine of unknown purpose and origin. It's that feeling that editor Jonathan Strahan was after when he asked six of today's finest authors to write for Godlike Machines. And they succeed brilliantly!

Alastair Reynolds unlocks the secrets inside an alien spaceship--secrets that could change the world... if only a repressive regime would believe its last surviving explorer.

Stephen Baxter sends wormwhole builders to Titan, but what they discover there may fuel their wildest dreams... or destroy them.

Cory Doctorow turns the idea of godlike machines on its head with replicating machines that turn cities back into wilderness.

Sean Williams leads a spacer agent through a subterranean Structure... and into space-time itself.

Robert Reed--in a story about the ancient, Jupiter-sized Great Ship--looks at a strange passenger who has been on board far longer than seems possible.

Greg Egan gives us an alien technology only he could imagine--a wandering world that's inexplicably warm enough to support life.

Made from the pure stuff of SF, these unique, all-new adventures are nothing less than awesome!

Mars! The Red Planet! For generations, people have wondered what it would be like to travel to and live there. That curiosity has inspired some of the most durable science fiction, including Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and the work of Isaac Asimov. Now the award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan has brought together thirteen original stories to explore the possibilities. After reading Life on Mars, readers will never look at the fourth planet from the sun the same way again.

Table of Contents:

• "Attlee and the Long Walk", Kage Baker
• "The Old Man and the Martian Sea", Alastair Reynolds
• "Wahala", Nnedi Okorafor
• "On Chryse Plain", Stephen Baxter
• "First Principle", Nancy Kress
• "Martian Chronicles", Cory Doctorow (novella)
• "Goodnight Moons", Ellen Klages
• "The Taste of Promises", Rachel Swirsky
• "Digging", Ian McDonald
• "LARP on Mars", Chris Roberson
• "Martian Heart", John Barnes
• "Discovering Life", Kim Stanley Robinson

100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, "robots" are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.

They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.

Table of Contents:

• Making the Other We Need (Made to Order: Robots and Revolution) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• A Guide for Working Breeds - short fiction by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• Test 4 Echo - short fiction by Peter Watts
• The Endless - short fiction by Saad Z. Hossain
• Brother Rifle - short fiction by Daryl Gregory
• The Hurt Pattern - short fiction by Tochi Onyebuchi
• Idols - short fiction by Ken Liu
• Bigger Fish - short fiction by Sarah Pinsker
• Sonnie's Union - [Confederation Universe Stories] - short fiction by Peter F. Hamilton
• Dancing with Death - short fiction by John Chu
• Polished Performance - short fiction by Alastair Reynolds
• An Elephant Never Forgets - short fiction by Rich Larson
• The Translator - short fiction by Annalee Newitz
• Sin Eater - short fiction by Ian R. MacLeod
• Fairy Tales for Robots - short fiction by Sofia Samatar
• Chiaroscuro in Red - short fiction by Suzanne Palmer
• A Glossary of Radicalization - short fiction by Brooke Bolander

Houston, we have a problem...

Life is fragile. The difference between success and failure can come down to nothing - the thread of a screw, the flick of a switch - and when it goes wrong, you fix it. Or someone dies.

Mission Critical takes us from our world, across the Solar System, and out into deep space to tell the stories of people who had to do the impossible.

And do it fast.

Table of Contents:

• "When Things Go Wrong" - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• "This is Not the Way Home" - novelette by Greg Egan
• "Rescue Party" [Xuya Universe] - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• "Devil in the Dust" - short story by Linda Nagata
• "Hanging Gardens" - short story by Gregory Feeley
• "The One Who Was There" - short story by John Barnes
• "By the Warmth of Their Calculus" - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell
• "Mutata Superesse" - short story by Jason Fischer and Sean Williams
• "The Empty Gun" - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• "Genesong" - novelette by Peter F. Hamilton
• "Something in the Air" - novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• "Lost in Splendour" - short story by John Meaney
• "The Agreement" - short story by Dominica Phetteplace
• "The Fires of Prometheus" - short story by Allen M. Steele
• "Ice Breakers" - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Cyclopterus" - short story by Peter Watts

A truly breathtaking new anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders, Swords & Dark Magic offers stunning new tales of sword and sorcery action, romance, and dark adventure written by some of the most respected, bestselling fantasy writers working today--from Joe Abercrombie to Gene Wolfe. An all-new Elric novella from the legendary Michael Moorcock and a new visit to Majipoor courtesy of the inimitable Robert Silverberg are just two of the treasures offered in Swords & Dark Magic-- a fantasy lover's dream.

Table of Contents:

• Check Your Dark Lord at the Door - essay by Lou Anders and Jonathan Strahan
• Goats of Glory - short fiction by Steven Erikson
• Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company - short fiction by Glen Cook
• Bloodsport - short fiction by Gene Wolfe
• The Singing Spear - short fiction by James Enge
• A Wizard of Wiscezan - short fiction by C. J. Cherryh
• A Rich Full Week - novelette by K. J. Parker
• A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet - short fiction by Garth Nix
• Red Pearls: An Elric Story - short fiction by Michael Moorcock
• The Deification of Dal Bamore: A Tale from Echo City - short fiction by Tim Lebbon
• Dark Times at the Midnight Market - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Undefiled - short fiction by Greg Keyes
• Hew the Tintmaster - short fiction by Michael Shea
• In the Stacks - novelette by Scott Lynch
• Two Lions, A Witch, and the War-Robe - short fiction by Tanith Lee
• The Sea Troll's Daughter - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Thieves of Daring - short fiction by Bill Willingham
• The Fool Jobs - novelette by Joe Abercrombie

Here there be dragons...

From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations.

Contents:

• Introduction (The Book of Dragons) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• What Heroism Tells Us - poem by Jane Yolen
• Matriculation - short fiction by Elle Katharine White
• Hikaya Sri Bujang, or The Tale of the Naga Sage - short fiction by Zen Cho
• Yuli - short fiction by Daniel Abraham
• A Whisper of Blue - novelette by Ken Liu
• Nidhog - poem by Jo Walton
• Where the River Turns to Concrete - novelette by Brooke Bolander
• Habitat - short fiction by Tom Holt [as by K. J. Parker]
• Pox - short fiction by Ellen Klages
• The Nine Curves River - short fiction by R. F. Kuang
• Lucky's Dragon - novelette by Kelly Barnhill
• I Make Myself a Dragon - poem by Beth Cato
• The Exile - short fiction by JY Yang
• Except on Saturdays - short fiction by Peter S. Beagle
• La Vitesse - short fiction by Kelly Robson
• A Final Knight to her Love and Foe - poem by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Long Walk - short fiction by Kate Elliott
• Cut Me Another Quill, Mister Fitz - short fiction by Garth Nix
• Hoard - short fiction by Seanan McGuire
• The Worm of Lirr - poem by C. S. E. Cooney
• The Last Hunt - short fiction by Aliette de Bodard
• We Continue - short fiction by Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky
• Small Bird's Plea - short fiction by Todd McCaffrey
• The Dragons - poem by Theodora Goss
• Dragon Slayer - short fiction by Michael Swanwick
• Camouflage - short fiction by Patricia A. McKillip
• We Don't Talk About the Dragon - short fiction by Sarah Gailey
• Maybe Just Go Up There and Talk to It - short fiction by Scott Lynch
• A Nice Cuppa - poem by Jane Yolen

Truly successful science fiction does two things: it gives credible glimpses into the future while entertaining the reader. With this in mind, noted anthologist Jonathan Strahan (who is also the reviews editor of Locus magazine) asked sixteen of today's most inventive, compelling writers to look past the horizon of the present day. Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys), Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners), Garth Nix (the Abhorsen Trilogy), Scott Westerfeld (Uglies; Pretties; Specials) and their colleagues have crafted a dazzling range of stories. Whether on spaceships, in suburbia, or in simulated gaming worlds, whether about cloning, battle tactics, or corporate politics, the stories of The Starry Rift will give every reader something to consider. This original anthology is crucial reading for those who want to see where the future (and the future of science fiction) is headed.

Table of Contents:

• "Ass-Hat Magic Spider" by by Scott Westerfeld
• "Cheats" by Ann Halam
• "Orange" by Neil Gaiman
• "The Surfer" by Kelly Link
• "Repair Kit" by Stephen Baxter
• "The Dismantled Invention of Fate" by Jeffrey Ford
• "Anda's Game" By Corey Doctorow
• "Sundiver Day" by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• "The Dust Assassin" by Ian McDonald
• "The Star Surgeon's Apprentice" by Alastair Reynolds
• "An Honest Day's Work" By Margo Lanigan
• "Lost Continent" by Greg Egan
• "Incomers" by Paul McAuley
• "Post--Ironic Stress Syndrome" by Tricia Sullivan
• "Infestation" by Garth Nix
• "Pinocchio" by Walter Jon Williams

Broomsticks.
Black Cats.
Pointy Hats.

They can mean only one thing - somewhere nearby, there must be a witch. From fairy tales to fims to fiction, witches cast their spells and capture our imaginations.

Now the biggest names in fantasy and young adult literature have come together to make a little magic of their own. Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Diana Peterfreund, Margo Lanagan, Peter S. Beagle, and Garth Nix are just a few of the authors who have toiled over their cauldrons and conjured up bewitching new creations inspired by and celebrating the might and mystery of the witch. Assembled by one of the most well-regarded anthologists in the science fiction/fantasy world, this rich, intelligent collection will enchant readers of all ages.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Looking Under the Hat - (2012) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Stray Magic - (2012) - novelette by Diana Peterfreund
• Payment Due - (2012) - short story by Frances Hardinge
• A Handful of Ashes - (2012) - novelette by Garth Nix
• Little Gods - (2012) - novelette by Holly Black
• Barrio Girls - (2012) - short story by Charles de Lint
• Felidis - (2012) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Witch Work - (2012) - poem by Neil Gaiman
• The Education of a Witch - (2012) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• The Threefold World - (2012) - short fiction by Ellen Kushner
• The Witch in the Wood - (2012) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• Which Witch - (2012) - short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• The Carved Forest - (2012) - short story by Tim Pratt
• Burning Castles - (2012) - short story by M. Rickert
• The Stone Witch - (2012) - novelette by Isobelle Carmody
• Andersen's Witch - (2012) - short story by Jane Yolen
• B Is for Bigfoot - (2012) - novelette by Jim Butcher
• Great-Grandmother in the Cellar - (2012) - short story by Peter S. Beagle
• Crow and Caper, Caper and Crow - (2012) - short story by Margo Lanagan

Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war...

Edited by Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Eclipse) and Marianne S. Jablon, Wings of Fire collects the best short stories about dragons. From writhing wyrms to snakelike devourers of heroes; from East to West and everywhere in between, Wings of Fire is sure to please dragon lovers everywhere.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (2010) - essay by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon
• Stable of Dragons (1960) - poem by Peter S. Beagle
• The Rule of Names [Earthsea] (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Ice Dragon (1980) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Sobek (2010) - short fiction by Holly Black
• King Dragon (2003) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• The Laily Worm (2004) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath (1982) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
• The Bully and the Beast (1979) - novella by Orson Scott Card
• Concerto Accademico (1992) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Dragon's Boy [Merlin's Booke] (1985) - novelette by Jane Yolen
• The Miracle Aquilina (2010) - short fiction by Margo Lanagan
• Orm the Beautiful (2007) - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Weyr Search [Pern] (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• Paper Dragons [Land of Dreams] (1985) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
• Dragon's Gate (2003) - novelette by Pat Murphy
• In Autumn, a White Dragon Looks Over the Wide River [Temeraire] (2009) - short story by Naomi Novik
• St. Dragon and the George [The Dragon Knight] (1957) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• The Silver Dragon (2004) - novelette by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• The Dragons of Summer Gulch (2004) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Berlin [Chronicles of the Borderlands] (1989) - novella by Charles de Lint
• Draco, Draco (1984) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• The Dragon on the Bookshelf (1995) - short story by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• Gwydion and the Draogn (1991) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• The George Business (1980) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• Dragon's Fin Soup (1995) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
• The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule [Griaule] (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Empress of Mars - (2003) - novella by Kage Baker
• The Green Leopard Plague - (2003) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
• In Springdale Town - (2003) - novella by Robert Freeman Wexler
• The Swastika Bomb - (2003) - novella by John Meaney
• Jailwise - (2003) - novella by Lucius Shepard
• Just Like the Ones We Used to Know - (2003) - novella by Connie Willis
• Greetings - (2003) - novella by Terry Bisson
• Awake in the Night - (2003) - novella by John C. Wright
• Off on a Starship - (2003) - novella by William Barton

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Men Are Trouble - (2004) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Mayflower II - (2004) - novella by Stephen Baxter
• Sergeant Chip - (2004) - novella by Bradley Denton
• The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance - (2004) - novella by Eleanor Arnason
• Under the Flag of Night - (2004) - novella by Ian McDowell
• Shadow Twin - (2004) - novella by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham
• The Concrete Jungle - (2004) - novella by Charles Stross
• The Gorgon in the Cupboard - (2004) - novella by Patricia A. McKillip
• The Fear Gun - (2004) - novelette by Judith Berman
• Arabian Wine - (2004) - novella by Gregory Feeley

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Little Goddess - (2005) - novella by Ian McDonald
• The Gist Hunter - (2005) - novelette by Matthew Hughes
• Human Readable - (2005) - novella by Cory Doctorow
• Audubon in Atlantis - (2005) - novella by Harry Turtledove
• Magic for Beginners - (2005) - novella by Kelly Link
• Fishin' with Grandma Matchie - (2005) - novella by Steven Erikson
• The Policeman's Daughter - (2005) - novella by Wil McCarthy
• Inside Job - (2005) - novella by Connie Willis
• The Cosmology of the Wider World - (2005) - novella by Jeffrey Ford

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Where the Golden Apples Grow - (2006) - novella by Kage Baker
• A Billion Eves - (2006) - novella by Robert Reed
• The Voyage of Night Shining White - (2006) - novella by Chris Roberson
• Julian: A Christmas Story - (2006) - novella by Robert Charles Wilson
• The Lineaments of Gratified Desire - (2006) - novella by Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Lord Weary's Empire - (2006) - novella by Michael Swanwick
• After the Siege - (2007) - novella by Cory Doctorow
• Botch Town - (2006) - novella by Jeffrey Ford

An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan.

Set to become a major event on the science fiction and fantasy calendar,Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy gathers together new science fiction and fantasy stories by the best writers working today. You can see that in Eclipse 1, which features extraordinary tales by Peter S. Beagle, Jack Dann & Paul Brandon, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Eileen Gunn, Gwyneth Jones, Ellen Klages, Maureen F. McHugh, Garth Nix, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling and Ysabeau S. Wilce.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse - (2007) - shortstory by Andy Duncan
• Bad Luck, Trouble, Death, and Vampire Sex - (2007) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• The Last and Only or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French - (2007) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large - (2007) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Drowned Life - (2007) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Toother - (2007) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• Up the Fire Road - (2007) - novelette by Eileen Gunn
• In the Forest of the Queen - (2007) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• Quartermaster Returns - (2007) - shortstory by Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Electric Rains - (2007) - shortstory by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• She-Creatures - (2007) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• The Transformation of Targ - (2007) - shortstory by Jack Dann and Paul Brandon
• Mrs. Zeno's Paradox - (2007) - shortstory by Ellen Klages
• The Lustration - (2007) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Larissa Miusov - (2007) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the second volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan.

Set to become a major event on the science fiction and fantasy calendar, Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy gathers together new science fiction and fantasy stories by the best writers working today. You can see that in Eclipse Two, which features more extraordinary tales of the fantastic and astounding.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Hero - novelette by Karl Schroeder
• Turing's Apples - short story by Stephen Baxter
• Invisible Empire of Ascending Light - short story by Ken Scholes
• Michael Laurits Is: DROWNING - short story by Paul Cornell
• Night of the Firstlings - short story by Margo Lanagan
• Elevator - short story by Nancy Kress
• The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Exhalation - short story by Ted Chiang
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - novelette by David Moles
• The Rabbi's Hobby - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• The Seventh Expression of the Robot General - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Skin Deep - novelette by Richard Parks
• Ex Cathedra - novelette by Tony Daniel
• Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose - short story by Terry Dowling
• Fury - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true... In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stories where strange and wonderful things happen - where reality is eclipsed by something magical and new.

Contents:

• The Pelican Bar, Karen Joy Fowler
• A Practical Girl, Ellen Klages
• Don't Mention Madagascar, Pat Cadigan
• On the Road, Nnedi Okorafor
• Swell, Elizabeth Bear
• Useless Things, Maureen F. McHugh
• The Coral Heart, Jeffrey Ford
• It Takes Two, Nicola Griffith
• Sleight of Hand, Peter S. Beagle
• The Pretender's Tourney, Daniel Abraham
• Yes We Have No Bananas, Paul Di Filippo
• Mesopotamian Fire, Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple
• The Visited Man, Molly Gloss
• Galapagos, Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Dolce Domum, Ellen Kushner

World Fantasy Award-winner Jonathan Strahan delivers the fourth volume of this series, once again demonstrating his keen editorial eye. The multi-award winning Eclipse series (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis) is the only on-going anthology for original non-themed science fiction and fantasy, and its contents have been regularly recognized as some of the most compelling stories of the year, both on awards ballots and on best-of-the-year lists. Eclipse 4 delivers new fiction by some of the genre's most celebrated authors, including Peter Beagle, Emma Bull, Andy Duncan, Elizabeth Hand, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Swanwick and Many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Slow as a Bullet - shortstory by Andy Duncan
• Tidal Forces - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Beancounter's Cat - novelette by Damien Broderick
• Story Kit - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• The Man in Grey - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Old Habits - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• The Vicar of Mars - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• Fields of Gold - novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• Thought Experiment - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
• The Double of My Double Is Not My Double - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• Nine Oracles - shortstory by Emma Bull
• Dying Young - novelette by Peter M. Ball
• The Panda Coin - shortstory by Jo Walton
• Tourists - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan and Karen Haber
• Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire - (2004) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• The Word that Sings the Scythe - (2004) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• The Little Stranger - (2004) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• The Faery Handbag - (2004) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Quarry - (2004) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• The Enchanted Trousseau - (2004) - shortstory by Deborah Roggie
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice - (2004) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Annals of the Eelin-Ok - (2004) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• Pat Moore - (2004) - novelette by Tim Powers
• The Angel's Daughter - (2004) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• The Silver Dragon - (2004) - novelette by Elizabeth A. Lynn

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Two Hearts - (2005) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Snowball's Chance - (2005) - shortstory by Charles Stross
• Sunbird - (2005) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• A Knot of Toads - (2005) - novelette by Jane Yolen
• Boatman's Holiday - (2005) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Language of Moths - (2005) - novelette by Christopher Barzak
• Anyway - (2005) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• The Emperor of Gondwanaland - (2005) - shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
• The Pirate's True Love - (2005) - shortstory by Seana Graham
• Intelligent Design - (2005) - shortstory by Ellen Klages
• Pip and the Fairies - (2005) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• Leviathan - (2005) - shortstory by Simon Brown
• The Denial - (2005) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• The Farmer's Cat - (2005) - shortstory by Jeff VanderMeer
• There's a Hole in the City - (2005) - shortstory by Richard Bowes
• Monster - (2005) - novelette by Kelly Link

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity.

Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light and, with it, the enormity of the universe, realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies.

The exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross and Greg Bear

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Malak, Peter Watts
• Watching the Music Dance, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Laika's Ghost, Karl Schroeder
• The Invasion of Venus, Stephen Baxter
• The Server and the Dragon, Hannu Rajaniemi
• Bit Rot, Charles Stross
• Creatures with Wings, Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone, Damien Broderick & Barbara Lamar
• Mantis, Robert Reed
• Judgement Eve, John C. Wright
• A Soldier of the City, David Moles
• Mercies, Gregory Benford
• The Ki-anna, Gwyneth Jones
• The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees, John Barnes

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND

Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound.

Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan's "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey's "The Road to NPS," and from the grandiose vision of Alastair Reynolds' "Vainglory" to the workaday familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Safety Tests," the thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human condition in their race to colonise Earth's nearest neighbours.

Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S. A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling, Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• The Deeps of the Sky - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Drive - novelette by James S. A. Corey
• The Road to NPS - novelette by Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey
• Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh - short story by John Barnes
• Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden - short story by Paul J. McAuley
• Safety Tests - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Bricks, Sticks, Straw - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Tyche and the Ants - short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
• Obelisk - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Vainglory - short story by Alastair Reynolds
• Water Rights - short story by An Owomoyela
• The Peak of Eternal Light - novelette by Bruce Sterling

An original collection of new short science fiction from the biggest and most exciting names in the genre. The latest in the Infinities collections edited and comissioned by multiple award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan.

What happens when humanity reaches out into the vastness of space? The brightest names in SF contribute new orginal fiction to this amazing anothology from master editor Jonathan Strahan. Including new work by Alastair Reynolds,Greg Egan,Ian McDonald, Ken Macleod, Pat Cadigan, Karl Schroeder, Hannu Rajaniemi, Karen Lord, Adam Roberts, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Aliette de Bodard Peter Watts, and others!

Table of Contents

• "Report Concerning The Presence of Seahorses On Mars", Pat Cadigan
• "The Dust Queen", Aliette de Bodard
• "Break My Fall", Greg Egan
• "Wilder Still, the Stars", Kathleen Ann Goonan
• "Amicae Aeternum", Ellen Klages
• "Hiraeth: a tragedy in four acts", Karen Lord
• "The Entire Immense Superstructure': An Installation", Ken Macleod
• "The Fifth Dragon", Ian McDonald
• "Attitude", Linda Nagata
• "Invisible Planets", Hannu Rajaniemi
• "In Babelsberg", Alastair Reynolds
• "Trademark Bugs: A Legal History", Adam Roberts
• "Kheldyu", Karl Schroeder
• "Hotshot", Peter Watts

Continuing the award-nominated SF anthology series from multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.

The world we are living in is changing every day. We surf future shock every morning when we get out of bed. And with every passing day we are increasingly asked: how do we have to change to live in the future we are faced with?

Whether it's climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into some cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to change and change a lot. Meeting Infinity will be one hundred thousand words of SF filled with action and adventure that attempts to answer the question: how much do we need to change to meet tomorrow and live in the future? The incredible authors contributing tho this collection are: Gregory Benford, James S.A. Corey, Aliette de Bodard, Kameron Hurley, Simon Ings, Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, Gwyneth Jones, Nancy Kress, Yoon Ha Lee, Ian McDonald, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Bruce Sterling and Sean Williams

The books of the "Infinity Project" trace an arc: from the present day into the far future, and now from the broad canvas of interstellar space to the most intimate space of all - ourselves.

Table of Contents:

• "Memento Mori" by Madeline Ashby
• "My Last Bringback" by John Barnes
• "Aspects: A Galactic Centre Story" by Gregory Benford
• "Rates of Change" by James S.A. Corey
• "In Blue Lily's Wake" by Aliette de Bodard
• "Body Politic" by Kameron Hurley
• "Drones" by Simon Ings
• "Emergence" by Gwyneth Jones
• "Cocoons" by Nancy Kress
• "The Cold Inequalities" by Yoon Ha Lee
• "The Falls: A Luna Story" by Ian McDonald
• "Exile from Extinction" by Ramez Naam
• "Outsider" by An Owomoyela
• "Desert Lexicon" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• "Pictures from the Resurrection" by Bruce Sterling
• "All the Wrong Places" by Sean Williams

Sense of wonder is the lifeblood of science fiction. When we encounter something on a truly staggering scale -- metal spheres wrapped around stars, planets rebuilt and repurposed, landscapes re-engineered, starships bigger than worlds -- the only response we have is reverence, admiration, and possibly fear at something that is grand, sublime, and extremely powerful.

Bridging Infinity puts humanity at the heart of that experience, as builder, as engineer, as adventurer, reimagining and rebuilding the world, the solar system, the galaxy and possibly the entire universe in some of the best science fiction stories you will experience.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction essay by Jonathan Strahan
• "Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee" short story by Alastair Reynolds
• "Six Degrees of Separation Freedom" novelette by Pat Cadigan
• "The Venus Generations" novelette by Stephen Baxter
• "Rager in Space" novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• "The Mighty Slinger" novelette by Karen Lord and Tobias S. Buckell
• "Ozymandias" novelette by Karin Lowachee
• "The City's Edge" novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Mice Among Elephants" novelette by Larry Niven and Gregory Benford
• "Parables of Infinity" short story by Robert Reed
• "Monuments" short story by Pamela Sargent
• "Apache Charley and the Pentagons of Hex" novelette by Allen Steele
• "Cold Comfort" novelette by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
• "Travelling into Nothing" novelette by An Owomoyela
• "Induction" novelette by Thoraiya Dyer
• "Seven Birthdays" short story by Ken Liu
• About the Authors essay by Jonathan Strahan

CONFLICT IS ETERNAL

We have always fought. War is the furnace that forges new technologies and pushes humanity ever onward. We are the children of a battle that began with fists and sticks, and ended on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Beyond here lies another war, infinite in scope and scale.

But who will fight the wars of tomorrow? Join Elizabeth Bear, Indrapramit Das, Aliette de Bodard, Garth Nix and many, many more in an exploration of the furthest extremes of military science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
• Evening of the Span of Their Days, Carrie Vaughn
• The Last Broadcasts, An Owomoyela
• Faceless Soldiers, Patchwork Ship, Caroline M Yoachim
• Dear Sarah, Nancy Kress
• The Moon is Not a Battlefield, Indrapramit Das
• Perfect Gun, Elizabeth Bear
• Oracle, Dominica Phettaplace
• In Everlasting Wisdom, Aliette deBodard
• Command and Control, David D. Levine
• Conversations with an Armory, Garth Nix
• Overburden, Genevieve Valentine
• Heavies, Rich Larson
• Weather Girl, E.J. Swift
• Mines, Eleanor Arnason
• ZeroS, Peter Watts

The multi-award winning Infinity Project undertakes its seventh and final voyage in the imagination of the finest science fiction authors alive...

INFINITY'S END

Humanity has made the universe home. On the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the asteroid fields, deep in space, under the surface of planets, in the ruins of fallen civilisations, in the flush of new creation: life finds a way.

From intelligent velociraptors to digital ghosts; from a crèche on an asteroid to an artist using a star system as a canvas, this is a future where Earth's children have adapted to every nook and cranny of existence.

This is life on the edge of the possible.

Table of Contents:

• Last Small Step - Stephen Baxter
• Prophet of the Roads - Naomi Kritzer
• Nothing Ever Happens on Oberon - Paul McAuley
• Swear Not by the Moon - Seanan McGuire
• Longing For Earth - Linda Nagata
• A Portrait of Salai - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Death's Door - Alastair Reynolds
• Foxy and Tiggs - Justina Robson
• Intervention - Kelly Robson
• Once on the Blue Moon - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Talking to Ghosts at the Edge of the World - Lavie Tidhar
• Kindred - Peter Watts
• The Synchronist - Fran Wilde

A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2003, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of science fiction's most respected editors. Continuing ibooks' series of popularly-priced "Best of the Year" books edited and designed to appeal to science fiction fans whose budgets may be taxed by more expensive "Best of the Year" collections.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Karen Haber
• The Fluted Girl - (2003) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• A Study in Emerald - (2003) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Flowers from Alice - (2003) - novelette by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow
• The Tale of the Golden Eagle - (2003) - shortstory by David D. Levine
• Bernardo's House - (2003) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Confusions of Uñi - (2003) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Jon - (2003) - novelette by George Saunders
• The Cookie Monster - (2003) - novella by Vernor Vinge
• Legions in Time - (2003) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• The Chop Line - (2003) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Calling Your Name - (2003) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• The Empire of Ice Cream - (2003) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Bump Ship - (2003) - shortstory by Susan Mosser
• Only Partly Here - (2003) - novelette by Lucius Shepard

A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2004, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of SF's most respected editors.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
• The Best Christmas Ever - (2004) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• The Voluntary State - (2004) - novelette by Christopher Rowe
• The Lost Pilgrim - (2004) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Memento Mori - (2004) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• PeriAndry's Quest - (2004) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Three Days in a Border Town - (2004) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• Elector - (2004) - novella by Charles Stross
• Opal Ball - (2004) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• My Mother Dancing - (2004) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• The People of Sand and Slag - (2004) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Tourists - (2004) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• All of Us Can Almost... - (2004) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid - (2004) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams

A herd of dinosaurs wander the fields of rural Vermont; a young girl discovers what happens when you're no longer a goddess in near-future India; Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are put to the test as a family is split apart and then redefined; the last man in the universe, stranded on Mars, searches for meaning with a pop song; and an artificially intelligent turtle questions Intelligent Design and evolution. These are just some of the fourteen award-nominated stories that acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan has assembled in his third annual survey of the best new science fiction stories of the year. Jonathan Strahan has edited eleven anthologies, including The Locus Awards and assorted year's best annuals, and is currently working on several new anthology projects. He has won the Ditmar, William J Atheling Jr, and Peter McNamara Awards for his editing, and is the Reviews Editor for Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy fields. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and two daughters.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Triceratops Summer - (2005) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Little Faces - (2005) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• The Second Coming of Charles Darwin - (2005) - shortfiction by James Morrow
• Is There Life After Rehab? - (2005) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Understanding Space and Time - (2005) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• The Fulcrum - (2005) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• The Blemmye's Stratagem - (2005) - shortfiction by Bruce Sterling
• They Will Raise You in a Box - (2005) - shortstory by Wil McCarthy
• Finished - (2005) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• The King of Where-I-Go - (2005) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• The Calorie Man - (2005) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Fate of Mice - (2005) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
• I, Robot - (2005) - shortfiction by Cory Doctorow
• The Little Goddess - (2005) - novella by Ian McDonald

For the first time ever, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has assembled the best science fiction and the best fantasy stories of the year in one volume. More than just two books for the price of one, this book brings together over 200,000 words of the best genre fiction anywhere. Strahan's critical eye and keen editorial instincts have served him well for earlier best of the year round-ups in the Best Short Novels, Science Fiction: Best of and Fantasy: Best of series, and this is his most impressive effort yet.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties - (2006) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• El Regalo - (2006) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• I, Row-Boat - (2006) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• In the House of the Seven Librarians - (2006) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• Another Word for Map is Faith - (2006) - shortstory by Christopher Rowe
• Under Hell, Over Heaven - (2006) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• Incarnation Day - (2006) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
• The Night Whiskey - (2006) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• A Siege of Cranes - (2006) - novelette by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Halfway House - (2006) - shortstory by Frances Hardinge
• The Bible Repairman - (2006) - shortstory by Tim Powers
• Yellow Card Man - (2006) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) - (2006) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The American Dead - (2006) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• The Cartesian Theater - (2006) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• Journey into the Kingdom - (2006) - novelette by M. Rickert
• Eight Episodes - (2006) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• The Wizards of Perfil - (2006) - novella by Kelly Link
• The Saffron Gatherers - (2006) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• D. A. - (2006) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Femaville 29 - (2006) - shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
• Sob in the Silence - (2006) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The House Beyond Your Sky - (2006) - shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• The Djinn's Wife - (2006) - novelette by Ian McDonald

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2008) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - (2007) - novelette by Ted Chiang
• The Last and Only, or Mr. Moskowitz Becomes French - (2007) - shortfiction by Peter S. Beagle
• Trunk and Disorderly - (2007) - novelette by Charles Stross
• Glory - (2007) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Dead Horse Point - (2007) - shortstory by Daryl Gregory
• The Dreaming Wind - (2007) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Coat of Stars - (2007) - shortstory by Holly Black
• The Prophet of Flores - (2007) - novelette by Ted Kosmatka
• Wizard's Six - (2007) - novelette by Alexander C. Irvine
• The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics - (2007) - novelette by Daniel Abraham
• By Fools Like Me - (2007) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Kiosk - (2007) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Singing of Mount Abora - (2007) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• The Witch's Headstone - (2007) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Last Contact - (2007) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Jesus Christ, Reanimator - (2007) - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• Sorrel's Heart - (2007) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
• Urdumheim - (2007) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Holiday - (2007) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• The Valley of the Gardens - (2007) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• Winter's Wife - (2007) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small - (2007) - novelette by Chris Roberson
• Orm the Beautiful - (2007) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
• The Constable of Abal - (2007) - shortstory by Kelly Link

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer. Jonathan Strahan has edited more than twenty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards, The New Space Opera, The Jack Vance Treasury, and a number of year's best annuals. He has won the Ditmar, William J. Atheling Jr., and Peter McNamara Awards for his work as an anthologist, and is the reviews editor for Locus.

Contents:

• Introduction - Jonathan Strahan
• Exhalation - Ted Chiang
• Shoggoths in Bloom - Elizabeth Bear
• Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel - Peter S. Beagle
• Fixing Hanover - Jeff VanderMeer
• The Gambler - Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Dust Assassin - Ian McDonald
• Virgin - Holly Black
• Pride and Prometheus - John Kessel
• The Thought War - Paul McAuley
• Beyond the Sea Gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarskoe - Garth Nix
• The Small Door - Holly Phillips
• Turing's Apples - Stephen Baxter
• The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates - Stephen King
• Five Thrillers - Robert Reed
• The Magician's House - Megan McCarron
• Goblin Music - Joan Aiken
• Machine Maid - Margo Lanagan
• The Art of Alchemy - Ted Kosmatka
• 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss - Kij Johnson
• Marry the Sun - Rachel Swirsky
• Crystal Nights - Greg Egan
• His Master's Voice - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Special Economics - Maureen McHugh
• Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment - M Rickert
• From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled... - Michael Swanwick
• If Angels Fight - Rick Bowes
• The Doom of Love in Small Spaces - Ken Scholes
• Pretty Monsters - Kelly Link

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• It Takes Two - (2009) - novelette by Nicola Griffith
• Three Twilight Tales - (2009) - shortstory by Jo Walton
• The Night Cache - (2009) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
• Ferryman - (2009) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• "A Wild and a Wicked Youth" - (2009) - novelette by Ellen Kushner
• The Pelican Bar - (2009) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Spar - (2009) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Going Deep - (2009) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - (2009) - novelette by Holly Black
• Zeppelin City - (2009) - novelette by Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick
• Dragon's Teeth - (2009) - novelette by Alexander C. Irvine
• This Wind Blowing, and This Tide - (2009) - novelette by Damien Broderick
• By Moonlight - (2009) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Black Swan - (2009) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• As Women Fight - (2009) - shortstory by Sara Genge
• The Cinderella Game - (2009) - shortstory by Kelly Link
• Formidable Caress: A Tale of Old Earth - (2009) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Blocked - (2009) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• Truth and Bone - (2009) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Eros, Philia, Agape - (2009) - novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• The Motorman's Coat - (2009) - shortstory by John Kessel
• Mongoose - (2009) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Echoes of Aurora - (2009) - shortstory by Ellen Klages
• Before My Last Breath - (2009) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• JoBoy - (2009) - shortstory by Diana Wynne Jones
• Utriusque Cosmi - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• A Delicate Architecture - (2009) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles - (2009) - novelette by Kij Johnson
• Recommended Reading - essay by Jonathan Strahan

The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2010) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Elegy for a Young Elk - (2010) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains - (2010) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots - (2010) - shortstory by Sandra McDonald
• The Spy Who Never Grew Up - (2010) - novelette by Sarah Rees Brennan
• The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue - (2010) - shortstory by Holly Black
• Under the Moons of Venus - (2010) - shortstory by Damien Broderick
• The Fool Jobs - (2010) - shortfiction by Joe Abercrombie
• Alone - (2010) - novella by Robert Reed
• Names for Water - (2010) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Fair Ladies - (2010) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• Plus or Minus - (2010) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• The Man with the Knives - (2010) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
• The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening - (2010) - shortfiction by Cory Doctorow
• The Maiden Flight of Mccauley's Bellerophon - (2010) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
• The Miracle Aquilina - (2010) - shortfiction by Margo Lanagan
• The Taste of Night - (2010) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• The Exterminator's Want-Ad - (2010) - shortfiction by Bruce Sterling
• Map of Seventeen - (2010) - novelette by Christopher Barzak
• The Naturalist - (2010) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• Sins of the Father - (2010) - shortstory by Sara Genge
• The Sultan of the Clouds - (2010) - novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Iteration - (2010) - shortstory by John Kessel
• The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn - (2010) - novelette by Diana Peterfreund
• The Night Train - (2010) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) - (2010) - shortfiction by Ian Tregillis
• Amor Vincit Omnia - (2010) - novelette by K. J. Parker
• The Things - (2010) - shortstory by Peter Watts
• The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball - (2010) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window - (2010) - novella by Rachel Swirsky

An ancient society of cartographer wasps create delicately inscribed maps; a bodyjacking parasite is faced with imminent extinction; an AI makes a desperate gambit to protect its child from a ravenous dragon; a professor of music struggles with the knowledge that murder is not too high a price for fame; living origami carries a mother's last words to her child; a steam girl conquers the realm of imagination; aliens attack Venus, ignoring an incredulous earth; a child is born on Mars...

The science fiction and fantasy fiction fields continue to evolve, setting new marks with each passing year. For the sixth year in a row, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan has collected stories that captivate, entertain, and showcase the very best the genre has to offer. Critically acclaimed, and with a reputation for including award-winning speculative fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is the only major "best of" anthology to collect both fantasy and science fiction under one cover.

Jonathan Strahan has edited more than twenty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards (with Charles N. Brown), The New Space Opera (with Gardner Dozois), and The Starry Rift. He has won the Ditmar, William J. Atheling Jr., and Peter McNamara awards for his work as an anthologist and reviewer, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for his editorial work. Strahan is currently the reviews editor for Locus.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Case of Death and Honey - (2011) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees - (2011) - shortstory by E. Lily Yu
• Tidal Forces - (2011) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Younger Women - (2011) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• White Lines on a Green Field - (2011) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• All That Touches the Air - (2011) - shortstory by An Owomoyela
• What We Found - (2011) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The Server and the Dragon - (2010) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• The Choice - (2011) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
• Malak - (2010) - shortstory by Peter Watts
• Old Habits - (2011) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong - (2011) - novella by K. J. Parker
• Valley of the Girls - (2011) - shortstory by Kelly Link
• The Brave Little Toaster - (2011) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• The Dala Horse - (2011) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece - (2011) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• The Paper Menagerie - (2011) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• Steam Girl - (2011) - novelette by Dylan Horrocks
• After the Apocalypse - (2011) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• Underbridge - (2011) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Relic - (2011) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• The Invasion of Venus - (2010) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Woman Leaves Room - (2011) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Restoration - (2011) - shortfiction by Robert Shearman
• The Onset of a Paranormal Romance - (2011) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Catastrophic Disruption of the Head - (2011) - novelette by Margo Lanagan
• The Last Ride of the Glory Girls - (2011) - novelette by Libba Bray
• The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) - (2011) - novelette by Nnedi Okorafor
• Digging - (2011) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• The Man Who Bridged the Mist - (2011) - novella by Kij Johnson
• Goodnight Moons - (2011) - shortstory by Ellen Klages

In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted writers are boldly exploring the mythic past, the paranormal present, and the promises and perils of myriad alternate worlds and futures. There are almost too many new and intriguing stories published every year for any reader to be able to experience them all. So how to make sure you haven't missed any future classics?

Award-winning editor and anthologist Jonathan Strahan has surveyed the expanding universes of modern sf and fantasy to find the brightest stars in today's dazzling literary firmament. From the latest masterworks by the acknowledged titans of the field to fresh visions from exciting new talents, this outstanding collection is a comprehensive showcase for the current state of the art in both science fiction and fantasy. Anyone who wants to know where the future of imaginative short fiction is going, and treat themselves to dozens of unforgettable stories, will find this year's edition of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy to be just what they're looking for!

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Contrary Gardener - (2012) - shortstory by Christopher Rowe
• The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times - (2012) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• Close Encounters - (2012) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Great-Grandmother in the Cellar - (2012) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• The Easthound - (2012) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• Goggles (c.1910) - (2012) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Bricks, Sticks, Straw - (2012) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones - (2012) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• The Grinnell Method - (2012) - novelette by Molly Gloss
• Beautiful Boys - (2012) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• The Education of a Witch - (2012) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden - (2012) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• What Did Tessimond Tell You? - (2012) - shortstory by Adam Roberts
• Adventure Story - (2012) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Katabasis - (2012) - novella by Robert Reed
• Troll Blood - (2012) - novelette by Peter Dickinson
• The Color Least Used by Nature - (2012) - novelette by Ted Kosmatka
• Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls - (2012) - novelette by Rachel Pollack
• Two Houses - (2012) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Blood Drive - (2012) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• Mantis Wives - (2012) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Immersion - (2012) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
• About Fairies - (2012) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• Let Maps to Others - (2012) - novella by K. J. Parker
• Joke in Four Panels - (2012) - shortstory by Robert Shearman
• Reindeer Mountain - (2012) - shortstory by Karin Tidbeck
• Domestic Magic - (2012) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
• Swift, Brutal Retaliation - (2012) - novelette by Meghan McCarron
• Nahiku West - (2012) - novelette by Linda Nagata
• Fade to White - (2012) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• Significant Dust - (2012) - novelette by Margo Lanagan
• Mono no Aware - (2012) - shortstory by Ken Liu

The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. The series moves to its new publishing home, Solaris, with this eighth annual volume of the celebrated and popular series.

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 eight 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.

With this volume the series comes to a new home at Solaris, publishers of Jonathan Strahan's award-winning original Infinities SF anthologies and the and Fearsome fantasy anthologies.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
• "Some Desperado", Joe Abercrombie (Dangerous Women)
• "Zero for Conduct", Greg Egan (Twelve Tomorrows)
• "Effigy Nights", Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
• "Rosary and Goldenstar", Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
• "The Sleeper and the Spindle", Neil Gaiman (Rags and Bones)
• "Cave and Julia", M. John Harrison (Kindle Singles)
• "The Herons of Mer de l'Ouest", M Bennardo (Lightspeed)
• "Water", Ramez Naam (An Aura of Familiarity)
• "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling", Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
• "The Ink Readers of Doi Saket", Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor.com)
• "Cherry Blossoms on the River of Souls", Richard Parks (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• "Rag and Bone", Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
• "The Book Seller", Lavie Tidhar (Interzone)
• "The Sun and I", K J Parker (Subterranean)
• "The Promise of Space", James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld)
• "The Master Conjurer", Charlie Jane Anders (Lightspeed)
• "The Pilgrim and the Angel", E. Lily Yu (McSweeney's 45)
• "Entangled", Ian R Macleod (Asimov's)
• "Fade to Gold", Benjanun Sriduangkaew (End of the Road)
• "Selkies Stories are for Losers", Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons)
• "In Metal, In Bone", An Owomoyela (Eclipse Online)
• "Kormack the Lucky", Eleanor Arnason (F&SF)
• "Sing", Karin Tidbeck (Tor.com)
• "Social Services", Madeline Ashby (An Aura of Familiarity)
• "The Road of Needles", Caitlín R Kiernan (Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales)
• "Mystic Falls", Robert Reed (Clarkesworld)
• "The Queen of Night's Aria", Ian McDonald (Old Mars)
• "The Irish Astronaut", Val Nolan (Electric Velocipede)

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

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:

• "City of Ash", Paolo Bacigalupi
• "The Heart's Filthy Lesson", Elizabeth Bear
• "The Machine Starts", Greg Bear
• "The Winter Wraith", Jeffrey Ford
• "Black Dog", Neil Gaiman
• "Jamaica Ginger", Nalo Hopkinson & Nisi Shawl
• "Drones", Simon Ings
• "Emergence", Gwyneth Jones
• "Dancy vs. the Pterosaur", Caitlin R. Kiernan
• "Another Word for World", Anne Leckie
• "The Game of Smash and Recovery", Kelly Link
• "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn", Usman T. Mailk
• "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan", Ian McDonald
• "Little Sisters", Vonda McIntyre
• "Calved", Sam J. Miller
• "Ghosts of Home", Sam J. Miller
• "The Deepwater Bride", Tamsyn Muir
• "The Empress in Her Glory", Robert Reed
• "A Murmuration", Alastair Reynolds
• "Oral Argument", Kim Stanley Robinson
• "Water of Versailles", Kelly Robson
• "Capitalism in the 22nd Century", Geoff Ryman
• "The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club", Nike Sulway
• "The Lily and the Horn", Catherynne Valente
• "Blood, Ash, Braids", Genevieve Valentine
• "Kaiju maximus®: 'So Various, So Beautiful, So New'", Kai Ashante Wilson
• "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers", Alyssa Wong

The internationally-acclaimed Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year series moves into its second decade with the very best science fiction and fantasy from around the world. Hard science fiction, space opera, epic fantasy, dystopia, alternate history, swords and sorcery - you can find it all in the more than two dozen stories carefully chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan to give readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

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:

• "Two's Company", Joe Abercrombie (Sharp Ends)
• "The Art of Space Travel", Nina Allan (Tor.com)
• "Seasons of Glass and Iron", Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit wood)
• "Mika Model", Paolo Bacigalupi (Slate)
• "A Salvaging of Ghosts", Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 01/03/16)
• "Laws of Night and Silk", Seth Dickinson (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 26 May 2016)
• "Touring with the Alien", Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 115, 4/16)
• "Red as Blood and White as Bone", Theodora Goss (Tor.com)
• "Even the Crumbs Were Delicious", Daryl Gregory (The Starlit Wood)
• "Number Nine Moon", Alex Irvine (F&SF, 1/16)
• "Red Dirt Witch", N.K. Jemisin (Fantasy/PoC Destroy Fantasy)
• "Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)", Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest 125, 7/16)
• "Successor, Usurper, Replacement", Alice Sola Kim (Buzzfeed, 10/26/16)
• "You Make Pattaya", Rich Larson (Interzone 247)
• "Foxfire Foxfire", Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016)
• "Seven Birthdays", Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)
• "The Visitor from Taured", Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's, 9/16)
• "Elves of Antarctica", Paul McAuley (Drowned Worlds)
• "Things with Beards", Sam J Miller (Clarkesworld 117, 6/16)
• "Spinning Silver", Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)
• "Those Shadows Laugh", Geoff Ryman (F&SF, 9-10/16)
• "The Great Detective", Delia Sherman (Tor.com)
• "Terminal", Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com, 04/16)
• "The Future is Blue", Catherynne M Valente (Drowned Worlds)
• "Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home", Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld)
• "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay", Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 10, 5-6/16)
• "Fable", Charles Yu (The New Yorker, 5/30/16)
• "The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight", E Lily Yu (Uncanny 12)

Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.

Table of Contents:

• "The Mocking Tower", Daniel Abraham (The Book of Swords)
• "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue", Charlie Jane Anders (Boston Review)
• "Probably Still the Chosen One", Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed)
• "My English Name", R. S. Benedict (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance", Tobias Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
• "Though She Be But Little", C.S.E. Cooney (Uncanny)
• "The Moon is Not a Battlefield", Indrapramit Das (Infinity Wars)
• "The Hermit of Houston", Samuel R. Delany (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine", Greg Egan (Asimov's Science Fiction)
• "Crispin's Model", Max Gladstone (Tor.com)
• "Come See the Living Dryad", Theodora Goss (Tor.com)
• "Bring Your Own Spoon", Saad Z. Hossain (The Djinn Falls in Love)
• "Babylon", Dave Hutchison, 2084
• "The Faerie Tree", Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed)
• "Fairy Tale of Wood Street", Caitlin R Kiernan (Sirenia Digest)
• "The Worshipful Society of Glovers", Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny)
• "An Evening with Severyn Grimes", Rich Larson (Asimov's Science Fiction)
• "The Chameleon's Gloves", Yoon Ha Lee (Cosmic Powers)
• "The Smoke of Gold is Glory", Scott Lynch (The Book of Swords)
• "Sidewalks", Maureen McHugh (Omni)
• "Concessions", Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Strange Horizons)
• "The Martian Obelisk", Linda Nagata (Tor.com)
• "The Secret Life of Bots", Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld)
• "A Series of Steaks", Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld)
• "Belladonna Nights", Alastair Reynolds (The Weight of Words)
• "Eminence", Karl Schroeder (Chasing Shadows)
• "The Lamentation of their Women", Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)
• "Confessions of a Con Girl", Nick Wolven (Asimov's Science Fiction)
• "Carnival Nine", Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

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)

An amazing array of the most popular and exciting names in Fantasy are set to appear in the first in a brand new series of Fantasy anthologies featuring original fiction, from the master editor Jonathan Strahan. The authors appearing in the launch volume include Trudi Canavan, Elizabeth Bear, Daniel Abraham, Kate Elliott, Saladin Ahmed, Glen Cook, Scott Lynch, Ellen Klages, Ellen Kushner & Ysabeau Wilce, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Redick and KJ Parker.

Table of Contents:

• The Effigy Engine: A Tale of the Red Hats - shortfiction by Scott Lynch
• Amethyst, Shadow, and Light - shortfiction by Saladin Ahmed
• Camp Follower - shortfiction by Trudi Canavan
• The Dragonslayer of Merebarton - shortfiction by K. J. Parker
• Leaf and Branch and Grass and Vine - shortfiction by Kate Elliott
• Spirits of Salt: A Tale of the Coral Sword - shortfiction by Jeffrey Ford
• Forever People - shortfiction by Robert V. S. Redick
• Sponda the Suet Girl and the Secret of the French Pearl - shortfiction by Ellen Klages
• Shaggy Dog Bridge: A Black Company Story - shortfiction by Glen Cook
• The Ghost Makers - [The Eternal Sky] - shortfiction by Elizabeth Bear
• One Last, Great Adventure - shortfiction by Ysabeau S. Wilce and Ellen Kushner
• The High King Dreaming - shortfiction by Daniel Abraham

A cabinet of magic! A cavalcade of wonder! A collection of stories both strange and wondrous, of tales filled with wild adventure and strange imaginings. Fearsome Magics, the second New Solaris Book of Fantasy, is all these things and more. It is, we think, one of the best books you will read all year.

Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has invited some of the best and most exciting writers working in fantasy today to let their imaginations run wild and to deliver stories that will thrill and awe, delight and amuse. And above all, stories that are filled with fearsome magic! Authors include Garth Nix, K.J. Parker, Justina Robson, Ellen Klages, Christopher Rowe, Isobelle Carmody, Tony Ballantyne, James Bradley, Karin Tidbeck, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Frances Hardinger, Kaaron Warren, Genevieve Valentine and Robert Shearman.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
• The Dun Letter, Christopher Rowe
• Home is the Haunter, Garth Nix
• Grigori's Solution, Isobelle Carmody
• Dream London Hospital, Tony Ballantyne
• Safe House, K J Parker
• Hey Presto!, Ellen Klages
• The Changeling, James Bradley
• Migration, Karin Tidbeck
• On Skybolt Mountain, Justina Robson
• Where Our Edges Lie, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Devil's Bridge, Frances Hardinge
• The Nursery Corner, Kaaron Warren
• Aberration, Genevieve Valentine
• Ice in the Bedroom, Robert Shearman

What sets space opera apart from other fiction is its sheer scale: it is an exuberant celebration of the very large and the very small, of the very old and the very new, of the vast, panoramic instant we live in; the instant in which everything that went before melds with everything yet to be. It is Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica.

The only book of its kind, The New Space Opera brings together for the first time the generation of writers who spawned and embody the “new space opera, ” as well as other talents destined to join their ranks. Going beyond everything that has come before, this fresh, visionary anthology is essential reading for every science fiction fan.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
• Saving Tiamaat - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• Verthandi's Ring - (2007) - shortstory by Ian McDonald
• Hatch - (2007) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Winning Peace - (2007) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Glory - novelette by Greg Egan
• Maelstrom - (2007) - novelette by Kage Baker
• Blessed by an Angel - (2007) - shortstory by Peter F. Hamilton
• Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• The Valley of the Gardens - (2007) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• Dividing the Sustain - (2007) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Minla's Flowers - (2007) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
• Splinters of Glass - (2007) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Remembrance - (2007) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• The Emperor and the Maula - (2007) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Worm Turns - (2007) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Send Them Flowers - (2007) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• Art of War - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Muse of Fire - (2007) - novella by Dan Simmons

Following the success of their Locus Award-winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan now up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, new stories from some of the biggest names in science fiction’s biggest genre.

Table of Contents:

• Utriusque Cosmi - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
• Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance - (2009) - novelette by John Kessel
• To Go Boldly - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• The Lost Princess Man - (2009) - novelette by John Barnes
• Defect - (2009) - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves - (2009) - novelette by Jay Lake
• Shell Game - (2009) - novelette by Neal Asher
• Punctuality - (2009) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• Inevitable - (2009) - novelette by Sean Williams
• Join The Navy and See the Worlds - (2009) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings - (2009) - novelette by Bill Willingham
• From the Heart - (2009) - novelette by John Meaney
• Chameleons - (2009) - novella by Elizabeth Moon
• The Tenth Muse - (2009) - novelette by Tad Williams
• Cracklegrackle - novelette by Justina Robson
• The Tale of the Wicked - (2009) - novelette by John Scalzi
• Catastrophe Baker and a Canticle for Leibowitz - (2009) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• The Far End of History - (2009) - novelette by John C. Wright

The definitive guide and a must-have collection of the best short science fiction and speculative fiction of 2019, showcasing brilliant talent and examining the cultural moment we live in, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.

With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this collection displays the top talent and the cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories. The list of authors is truly star-studded, including New York Times bestseller Ted Chiang (author of the short story that inspired the movie Arrival), N. K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, and many more incredible talents.

Contents:

• The Bookstore at the End of America by Charlie Jane Anders - short story
• The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex by Tobias S. Buckell - short story
• Kali_Na by Indrapramit Das - novelette
• Song of the Birds by Saleem Haddad - short story
• The Painter of Trees by Suzanne Palmer - short story
• The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir by Karin Tidbeck - short story
• Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders by Malka Older - short story
• It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning by Ted Chiang - short story
• Contagion's Eve at the House Noctambulous by Rich Larson - novelette
• Submarines by Han Song - short story
• As the Last I May Know by S. L. Huang - short story
• A Catalog of Storms by Fran Wilde - short story
• The Robots of Eden by Alice Sola Kim - short story
• Cyclopterus by Peter Watts - short story
• Dune Song by Suyi Davies Okungbowa - short story
• The Work of Wolves by Tegan Moore - novella
• Soft Edges by Elizabeth Bear - short story
• Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin - novelette
• Thoughts and Prayers by Ken Liu - short story
• At the Fall by Alec Nevala-Lee - novelette
• Reunion by Vandana Singh - short story
• Green Glass: A Love Story by E. Lily Yu - short story
• Secret Stories of Doors by Sofia Rhei - short story
• This Is Not the Way Home by Greg Egan - novelette
• What the Dead Man Said by Chinelo Onwualu - short story
• I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we're getting married by Fonda Lee - short story
• The Archronology of Love by Caroline Yoachim - novelette

The most celebrated science fiction short story editor of our time, multi-award-winning editor and Locus Magazine critic Jonathan Strahan presents the definitive collection of best short science fiction of 2020.

With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this science fiction collection displays the top talent and cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories. These brilliant authors examine the way we live now, our hopes, and struggles, all through the lens of the future.

An assemblage of future classics, this star-studded anthology is a must-read for anyone who enjoys the vast and exciting world of science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• "The Bahrain Underground Bazaar" by Nadia Afifi from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November-December 2020
• "If You Take My Meaning" by Charlie Jane Anders from Tor.com, February 12, 2020
• "It Came From Cruden Farm" by Max Barry from Slate Future Tense, February 29, 2020
• "The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie" by Pat Cadigan from Avatars Inc., edited by Ann VanderMeer
• "An Important Failure" by Rebecca Campbell from Clarkesworld Magazine Issue #167, August 2020
• "Schrödinger's Catastrophe" by Gene Doucette from Lightspeed Magazine Issues #126-127, November/December 2020
• "Midstrathe Exploding" by Andy Dudak from Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March-April 2020
• "The Pill" by Meg Elison, from the collection Big Girl
• "GO. NOW. FIX. " by Timons Esaias from Asimov's Science Fiction, January-February 2020
• "Drones to Ploughshares" by Sarah Gailey from Vice Motherboard, April 2, 2020
• "The Transition of OSOOSI" by Ozzie M. Gartrell from FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction Issue #13, Winter 2020
• "Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" by A.T. Greenblatt from Uncanny Magazine Issue #34, May-June 2020
• "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar" by Rich Larson from Tor.com, January 15, 2020
• "The Mermaid Astronaut" by Yoon Ha Lee from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #298, February 27, 2020
• "50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know" by Ken Liu from Uncanny Magazine Issue #37, November-December 2020
• "Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love" by Usman T. Malik from WIRED Magazine, December 11, 2020
• "Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh from Tor.com, July 22, 2020
• "A Mastery of German" by Marian Denise Moore from Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald and Zelda Knight
• "Father" by Ray Nayler from Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2020
• "How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary" by Tochi Onyebuchi from Slate Future Tense, August 29, 2020
• "Don't Mind Me" by Suzanne Palmer from Entanglements: Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends, edited by Sheila Williams
• "A Guide for Working Breeds" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad from Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• "Polished Performance" by Alastair Reynolds from Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• "The Suicide of Our Troubles" by Karl Schroeder from Slate Future Tense, November 28, 2020
• "Airbody" by Sameem Siddiqui from Clarkesworld Magazine Issue #163, April 2020
• "Sparklybits" by Nick Wolven from Entanglements: Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends, edited by Sheila Williams
• "The Search for [Flight X]" by Neon Yang from Avatars Inc., edited by Ann VanderMeer