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A prestigious new anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor. This inaugural volume showcases the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (2007) - essay by Matthew Cheney
• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• A Hard Truth About Waste Management - (2006) - shortstory by Sumanth Prabhaker
• The Stolen Father - (2006) - shortstory by Eric Roe
• The Saffron Gatherers - (2006) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• The Whipping - (2006) - shortstory by Julia Elliott
• A Better Angel - (2006) - shortstory by Chris Adrian
• Draco Campestris - (2006) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• Geese - (2006) - shortfiction by Daniel Coudriet
• The Chinese Boy - (2006) - novelette by Ann Stapleton
• The Flying Woman - (2006) - shortstory by Meghan McCarron
• First Kisses from Beyond the Grave - (2006) - novelette by Nik Houser
• Song of the Selkie - (2006) - shortstory by Gina Ochsner
• A Troop [sic] of Baboons - (2006) - shortstory by Tyler Smith
• Pieces of Scheherazade - (2006) - shortstory by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• Origin Story - (2006) - novelette by Kelly Link
• An Experiment in Governance - (2006) - shortfiction by E. M. Schorb
• The Next Corpse Collector - (2006) - novelette by Ramola D
• Village of Ardakmoktan - (2006) - shortstory by Nicole Derr
• The Man Who Married a Tree - (2006) - shortstory by Tony D'Souza
• A Fable with Slips of White Paper... - (2006) - shortstory by Kevin Brockmeier
• Pregnant - (2006) - shortstory by Catherine Zeidler
• The Warehouse of Saints - (2006) - shortstory by Robin Hemley
• The Ledge - (2006) - novelette by Austin Bunn
• Lazy Taekos - (2006) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• For the Love of Paul Bunyan - (2006) - shortstory by Fritz Swanson
• An Accounting - (2006) - shortstory by Brian Evenson
• Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot - (2006) - shortstory by Daniel Alarcón
• Bit Forgive - (2006) - shortstory by Maile Chapman
• The End of Narrative (1-29; Or 29-1) - (2006) - novelette by Peter LaSalle
• Kiss - (2006) - shortfiction by Melora Wolff
• Contributor Notes - (2007) - essay by uncredited
• Recommended Reading - (2007) - essay by uncredited
• Publications Received - (2007) - essay by uncredited

A prestigious anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor, showcasing the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Matthew Cheney
• Introduction - essay by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
• Bufo Rex - (2007) - shortstory by Erik Amundsen
• The Seven Deadly Hotels - shortfiction by Bruce Holland Rogers
• The Revisionist - (2007) - shortfiction by Miranda Mellis
• The Ruby Incomparable - (2007) - shortstory by Kage Baker
• Interval - (2007) - shortfiction by Aimee Bender
• Memoir of a Deer Woman - (2007) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• In the Middle of the Woods - (2007) - shortfiction by Christian Moody
• Story with Advice II: Back from the Dead - (2007) - shortfiction by Rick Moody
• Logorrhea - (2007) - shortstory by Michelle Richmond
• Ave Maria - (2007) - shortfiction by Micaela Morrissette
• Chainsaw on Hand - (2007) - shortstory by Deborah Coates
• The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French - (2008) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• Minus, His Heart - (2007) - shortfiction by Jedediah Berry
• Abroad - (2007) - shortstory by Judy Budnitz
• Mario's Three Lives - (2007) - shortstory by Matt Bell
• The Naming of the Islands - (2007) - shortfiction by David Hollander
• The Drowned Life - (2007) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Light - (2007) - novelette by Kelly Link
• How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth - (2007) - shortstory by Rachel Swirsky