The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
John Joseph Adams, Karen Joy Fowler, S.L. Huang, Liz Ziemska, Rachel Swirsky, Julian Mortimer Smith, Nick Wolven, Salman Rushdie, Maria Dahvana Headley, Dale Bailey, Will Kaufman, Sam J. Miller, Ted Chiang, Seth Dickinson, Vandana Singh, Adam Johnson, Dexter Palmer, Kelly Link, Charlie Jane Anders, Sofia Samatar, Catherynne M. Valente, Kij Johnson
3.50 · 10 ratings · Published: 04 Oct 2016
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 includes Rachel Swirsky, Sofia Samatar, Charlie Jane Anders, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer and others
KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards.
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including Brave New Worlds and Wastelands. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new science fiction/fantasy novel imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Table of Contents:
"Meet Me in Iram" by Sofia Samatar
"The Game of Smash and Recovery" by Kelly Link
"Interesting Facts" by Adam Johnson
"Planet Lion" by Catherynne M. Valente
"The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary" by Kij Johnson
"By Degrees and Dilatory Time" by S.L. Huang
"The Mushroom Queen" by Liz Ziemska
"The Daydreamer by Proxy" by Dexter Palmer
"Tea Time" by Rachel Swirsky
"Headshot" by Julian Mortimer Smith
"The Duniazát" by Salman Rushdie
"No Placeholder for You, My Love" by Nick Wolven
"The Thirteen Mercies" by Maria Dahvana Headley
"Lightning Jack’s Last Ride" by Dale Bailey
"Things You Can Buy for a Penny" by Will Kaufman
"Rat Catcher’s Yellows" by Charlie Jane Anders
"The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History" by Sam J. Miller
"Three Bodies at Mitanni" by Seth Dickinson
"Ambiguity Machines: an Examination" by Vandana Singh
"The Great Silence" by Ted Chiang
- fantasy 4
- contemporary 2
- horror 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- anthology 3
- adult fiction 1