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The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fantasy 2013 Author:Rich Horton (Editor) Your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow: distant worlds, time travel, epic adventure, unseen wonders and much more! The world of science fiction and fantasy has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworl... more »d, F&SF, Strange Horizons, and other top venues, this fifth volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow, featuring stories by some of the genre's greatest authors boldly exploring the mythic past, the paranormal present, and the promises and perils of myriad alternate worlds and futures.
Contents:
The Year in Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013 • essay by Rich Horton
Cover illustration by Dmytro Tolokonov
Nahiku West [Zeke Choy] (2012) / novelette by Linda Nagata
The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring (2012) / shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
Under the Eaves [Central Station] (2012) / shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
Honey Bear (2012) / shortstory by Sofia Samatar
One Day in Time City (2012) / novelette by David Ira Cleary
The Black Feminist's Guide to Science Fiction Film Editing (2012) / shortstory by Sandra McDonald
The Governess and the Lobster (2012) / novelette by Margaret Ronald
Swift, Brutal Retaliation (2012) / novelette by Meghan McCarron
Scattered Along the River of Heaven [Universe of Xuya] (2012) / shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
Four Kinds of Cargo (2012) / shortstory by Leonard Richardson
Elementals (2013) / shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
Prayer (2012) / shortstory by Robert Reed
Scrap Dragon (2012) / shortstory by Naomi Kritzer
The Contrary Gardener (2012) / shortstory by Christopher Rowe
The Castle That Jack Built (2012) / novelette by Emily Gilman
In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns (2012) / novella by Elizabeth Bear
The Philosophy of Ships (2012) / shortfiction by Caroline M. Yoachim
The Keats Variation (2012) / novelette by K. M. Ferebee
Fireborn (2012) / shortstory by Robert Charles Wilson
One Breath, One Stroke (2012) / shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
The Bernoulli War (2012) / novelette by Gord Sellar
Things Greater Than Love (2012) / shortstory by Kate Bachus
A Murmuration of Starlings (2012) / shortstory by Joe Pitkin
Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream (2012) / shortstory by Maria Dahvana Headley
Arbeitskraft (2012) / novelette by Nick Mamatas
A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight (2012) / shortstory by Xia Jia
Heaven Under Earth (2012) / novelette by Aliette de Bodard
Sunshine (2012) / shortfiction by Nina Allan
Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz (2012) / shortstory by Marissa Lingen
The Magician's Apprentice (2012) / shortstory by Tamsyn Muir
Twenty-Two and You (2012) / novelette by Michael Blumlein
Two Houses (2012) / novelette by Kelly Link
The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future (2012) / novella by Jay Lake
Biographies (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 Edition) • essay by editor
Recommended Reading (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 Edition) • essay by editor
Publication History (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 Edition) • essay by editor