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Other Worlds Than These

Stephen Baxter, Vandana Singh, Paul Melko, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Simon McCaffery, E. Catherine Tobler, Alastair Reynolds, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, David Barr Kirtley, Mercurio D. Rivera, Jeff VanderMeer, George R.R. Martin, Carrie Vaughn, Tim Pratt, Robert Reed, Catherynne M. Valente, Yo · 400 pages

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

Theodora Goss, Neil Gaiman, Susan Palwick, Adam-Troy Castro, Sam J. Miller, Daniel H. Wilson, Nathan Ballingrud, Kelly Link, Jess Row, Kelly Sandoval, T.C. Boyle, A. Merc Rustad, Sofia Samatar, Carmen Maria Machado, Cat Rambo, Karen Russell, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Seanan McGuire, Jo Walton · 345 pages

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In *The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015* award-winning editors John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill deliver a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep bac

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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius

Austin Grossman, Alan Dean Foster, Genevieve Valentine, Theodora Goss, Diana Gabaldon, Carrie Vaughn, Laird Barron, Naomi Novik, Mary Robinette Kowal, Marjorie M. Liu, Harry Turtledove, Jeffrey Ford, Grady Hendrix, Ben H. Winters, Seanan McGuire, David D. Levine, Jeremiah Tolbert, Daniel H. Wilson,

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three

Jonathan Strahan, Ted Chiang, Elizabeth Bear · 496 pages

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

R. F. Kuang, John Joseph Adams · 253 pages

“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldl

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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Adrienne Maree Brown, Walidah Imarisha · 285 pages

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for soc

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Other Worlds

Shaun Tan, Ray Bradbury, Eric Nylund, Neal Shusterman, Tom Angleberger, Rebecca Stead, Shannon Hale, D.J. MacHale, Eric S. Nylund, Kenneth Oppel · 331 pages

An anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories.

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So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy

Nalo Hopkinson, Uppinder Mehan · 270 pages

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy" is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color. Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre "speaks so much about the experience of being

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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

W.E.B. Du Bois, Kalamu ya Salaam, Samuel R. Delany, Nalo Hopkinson, Akua Lezli Hope, Charles W. Chesnutt, Octavia E. Butler, Linda Addison, Charles R. Saunders, Nisi Shawl, Steven Barnes, Jewelle L. Gomez, Henry Dumas, Tony Medina, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Robert Fleming, Derrick A. Bell, Darryl A. Smith · 427 pages

Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the "New York Times," which named it a Notable Book of the Year.

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Tomorrow's Children: 18 Tales Of Fantasy And Science Fiction

Mark Clifton, Lewis Padgett, Robert Sheckley, Margaret St. Clair, Clifford D. Simak, William Lee, James H. Schmitz, Zenna Henderson, Philip K. Dick, Gertrude Friedberg, Ray Bradbury, Jerome Bixby, Stephen Vincent Benet, Damon Knight, Fritz Leiber, Robert A. Heinlein, Will F. Jenkins · 431 pages

Fantastic anthology of eighteen fantasy and science-fiction short stories, novelettes and novellas that feature adolescent protagonists or are at aimed at adolescent audiences, or both. Contains some true classics as well as as several fun but relatively unknown gems. No Life of Their Own - novella by Clifford D. Simak The Accountant - short story by Robert Sheckley Novice - novelette by Jam

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Sisters of The Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology

Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer · 352 pages

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The New Weird

Alistair Rennie · 367 pages

This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection includes contributions from visionaries Michael Moorcock and China Mieville, modern icon Clive Barker, an

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The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories

Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg · 108 pages

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Dangerous Women Part I

George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois · 290 pages

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The Best of Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber · 301 pages

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Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear

Ellen Guon, Anne McCaffrey, George Alec Effinger, Laura Anne Gilman, Christopher Stasheff, Terri Beckett, Chris Power, Josepha Sherman, Elizabeth Moon, Mike Resnick, Michael Scott, Diane Duane, Robert Lynn Asprin, Morgan Llywelyn, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, William R. Forstchen, Esther M. Friesner, · 313 pages

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Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher · 649 pages

Presents a collection of original tales that explores crossover themes of romance, fantasy, and science fiction, with contributions by such genre authors as Tanith Lee, Jo Beverly, Jim Butcher, and Neil Gaiman.

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Dangerous Visions

Harlan Ellison · 544 pages

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Sybil's Garage No. 7

Hal Duncan, M.K. Hobson, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Sonya Taaffe, Anil Menon, Amy Sisson, Richard Larson, Kelly Barnhill, E.C. Myers, Kathryn E. Baker, Cheryl Barkauskas, Tom Crosshill, Lindsey Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Lyn C. A. Gardner, Juliet Gillies, Swapna Kishore, Avi Kotzer, Terence Kuch, Megan Kur · 206 pages

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Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West

Joe R. Lansdale, Hugh Howey, Rajan Khanna, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Bear, Ben H. Winters, David Farland, Mike Resnick, Seanan McGuire, Charles Yu, Alan Dean Foster, Beth Revis, Alastair Reynolds, Tad Williams, Jonathan Maberry, Kelley Armstrong, Tobias S. Buckell, Jeffrey Ford, Ken Liu, Laura Ann · 436 pages

The weird, wild west--an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time travelers, and steampunk! Twenty-three of science fiction and fantasy's hottest and most popular authors create all-new tales, written exclusively for this anthology. Aliens and monsters, magic and science are introduced to the old west, with explosive results.

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Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel · 320 pages

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Glitter and Mayhem

John Klima, Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas · 346 pages

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