The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016
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"A Mariner Original."
Includes contributor's otes and notable science fiction and fantasy stories of 2015.
Meet me in Iram / Sofia Samatar (from Meet me in Iram/Those are pearls) -- The game of smash and recovery / Kelly Link (from Strange horizons) -- Interesting facts / Adam Johnson (from Harper's magazine) -- Planet Lion / Catherynne M. Valente (from Uncanny magazine) -- The apartment dweller's bestiary / Kij Johnson (from Clarkesworld magazine) -- By degrees and dilatory time / S. L. Huang (from Strange horizons) -- The mushroom queen / Liz Ziemska (from Tin house) -- The daydreamer by proxy / Dexter Palmer (from The bestiary) -- Tea time / Rachel Swirsky (from Lightspeed magazine) -- Headshot / Julian Mortimer Smith (from Terraform) -- The Duniazát / Salman Rushdie (from The New Yorker) -- No placeholder for you, my love / Nick Wolven (from Asimov's science fiction) -- The thirteen mercies / Maria Dahvana Headley (from The magazine of fantasy & science fiction) -- Lightning Jack's last ride / Dale Bailey (from The magazine of fantasy & science fiction) -- Things you can buy for a penny / Will Kaufman (from Lightspeed magazine) -- Rat catcher's yellows / Charlie Jane Anders (from Press start to play) -- The heat of us: notes toward an oral history / Sam J. Miller (from Uncanny magazine) -- Three bodies at Mitanni / Seth Dickinson (from Analog science fiction and fact) -- Ambiguity machines: an examination / Vandana Singh (from Tor.com) -- The great silence / Ted Chiang (from e-flux journal).
Presents a collection of the best science fiction and fantasy short stories written during 2015.
Contents: Meet me in Iram. -- Game of smash and recovery. -- Interesting facts. -- Planet Lion. -- Apartment dweller's bestiary. -- By degrees and dilatory time. -- Mushroom queen. -- Daydreamer by proxy. -- Tea time. -- Headshot. -- Duniazát. -- No placeholder for you, my love. -- Thirteen mercies. -- Lightning Jack's last ride. -- Things you can buy for a penny. -- Rat catcher's yellows. -- Heat of us: notes toward an oral history. -- Three bodies at Mitanni. -- Ambiguity machines: an examination. -- Great silence.
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Best American series.
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: xxiii, 293 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0544555201
9780544555204
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Fowler, Karen Joy,
Adams, John Joseph, 1976-
Samatar, Sofia.
Link, Kelly.
Johnson, Adam, 1967-
Valente, Catherynne M., 1979-
Johnson, Kij.
Huang, S. L.
Ziemska, Liz.
Palmer, Dexter Clarence, 1974-
Swirsky, Rachel.
Smith, Julian Mortimer.
Rushdie, Salman.
Wolven, Nick, 1977-
Headley, Maria Dahvana, 1977-
Bailey, Dale.
Kaufman, Will (Fiction writer).
Anders, Charlie Jane.
Miller, Sam J.
Dickinson, Seth.
Singh, Vandana.
Chiang, Ted.
SUBJECTS
Science fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Short stories, American.
Fantasy fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.