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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 Author:R. F. Kuang (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Editor) The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. An anthology collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang and series editor John Joseph Adams. Kuang, New York Times... more » bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel, selects twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of science fiction and fantasy today.
Contents:
FANTASY
Readings in the Slantwise Sciences by Sofia Samatar (from Conjunctions)
Beginnings by Kristina Ten (from Fantasy)
The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow (from Into Shadow)
Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Stephen Graham Jones (from Tor.com)
There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista by Isabel Canas (from Nightmare)
White Water, Blue Ocean by Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez (from Reclaim the Stars)
Three Mothers Mountain by Nathan Ballingrud (from Screams from the Dark)
Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology by Theodora Goss (from Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms)
In The Beginning of Me I Was A Bird by Maria Dong (from Lightspeed)
Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead by KT Bryski (from Strange Horizons)
SCIENCE FICTION
Air to Shape Lungs by Shingai Njeri Kagunda (from Africa Risen)
Sparrows by Susan Palwick (from Asimov’s)
Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist by Isabel J. Kim (from Clarkesworld)
Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills (from Uncanny)
Murder by Pixel by S.L. Huang (from Clarkesworld)
The CRISPR Cookbook: A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Abortion in a Post-Roe World by MKRNYILGLD (from Lightspeed)
The Odyssey Problem by Chris Willrich (from Clarkesworld)
Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867 by Kim Fu (from Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)
The Difference Between Love and Time by Catherynne M. Valente (from Someone in Time)