Dewey Decimal813.087620806
Table Of ContentIntroduction, Jonathan Strahan Mother Tongues , S. Qiouyi Lu Olivia's Table , Alyssa Wong The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington , P. Djèlí Clark Yard Dog , Tade Thompson The Woman Who Destroyed Us , S. L. Huang The Blue Fairy's Manifesto , Annalee Newitz The Starship and the Temple Cat , Yoon Ha Lee A Brief and Fearful Star , Carmen Maria Machado Field Biology of the Wee Fairies , Naomi Kritzer Intervention , Kelly Robson The Bookcase Expedition , Jeffrey Ford A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies , Alix E. Harrow The Staff in the Stone , Garth Nix Okay, Glory , Elizabeth Bear Widdam , Vandana Singh Dreadful Young Ladies , Kelly Barnhill The Only Harmless Great Thing , Brooke Bolander The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society , T. Kingfisher When We Were Starless , Simone Heller If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again , Zen Cho Blessings , Naomi Novik Meat and Salt and Sparks , Rich Larson Nine Last Days on Planet Earth , Daryl Gregory Golgotha , Dave Hutchinson Flint and Mirror , John Crowley An Agent of Utopia , Andy Duncan You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I'll Pretend Like I Never Met You , Maria Dahvana Headley Quality Time , Ken Liu The Storyteller's Replacement , N. K. Jemisin Firelight , Ursula K. Le Guin
SynopsisThe finest short science fiction and fantasy, from the master anthologist 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 pored 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. Past volumes have included such writers as Yoon Ha Lee, Max Gladstone, Neil Gaiman, N. J. Jemisin, Indrapramit Das, Scott Lynch, Alastair Reynolds, Charlie Jane Anders and Samuel R. Delany ., The finest short science fiction and fantasy, from the master anthologist 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... Featuring stories from Kelly Barnhill // Elizabeth Bear // Brooke Bolander // Zen Cho // P. Djèlí Clark // John Crowley // Andy Duncan // Jeffrey Ford // Daryl Gregory // Alix E. Harrow // Maria Dahvana Headley // Simone Heller // S. L. Huang // Dave Hutchinson // N. K. Jemisin // T. Kingfisher // Naomi Kritzer // Rich Larson // Ursula K. Le Guin // Yoon Ha Lee // Ken Liu // Carmen Maria Machado // Annalee Newitz // Garth Nix // Naomi Novik // S. Qiouyi Lu // Kelly Robson // Vandana Singh // Tade Thompson // Alyssa Wong, The finest short science fiction and fantasy, from the master anthologist 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.
LC Classification NumberPS648.S3