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The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas 2015 inaugurates a new annual series of anthologies featuring some of the year's best novella-length science fiction and fantasy. Novellas, longer than short stories but shorter than novels, are a rich and rewarding literary form that can fully explore tomorrow's technology, the far reaches of the future, thought-provoking imaginings, fantastic worlds, and entertaining concepts with the impact of a short story and the detailed breadth of a novel. Gathering a wide variety of excellent SF and fantasy, this anthology of "short novels" showcases the talents of both established masters and new writers.

Table of Contents

• In Her Eyes by Seth Chambers (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2014)
• The Churn: An Expanse Novella by James S. A. Corey (Orbit)
• Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, translated by Liisa Rantalaiho (Tor.com)
• Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)
• Claudius Rex by John P. Murphy (Alembical 3, edited by Lawrence M. Schoen and Arthur Dorrance, Paper Golem)
• The Things We Do For Love by K. J. Parker (Subterranean Press)
• The Mothers of Voorhisville by Mary Rickert (Tor.com)
• The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues, edited by George R. R. Martin, Bantam/Titan)
• Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine (Wyrm Publishing)

The second volume of Prime Books' annual anthology series collecting of some of the year's best novella-length science fiction and fantasy. Novellas, longer than short stories but shorter than novels, are a rich rewarding literary form that can fully explore tomorrow's technology, the far reaches of the future, thought-provoking imaginings, fantastic worlds, and entertaining concepts with all the impact of a short story as well as the detailed depth of a novel. Gathering a wide variety of excellent SF and fantasy, this anthology of "short novels" showcases the talents of both established masters and new writers.

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• The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2015)
• The Bone Swans of Amandale by C.S.E. Cooney (Bone Swans, Mythic Delirium Books)
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
• The Last Witness by K. J. Parker (Tor.com)
• Johnny Rev by Rachel Pollack (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2015)
• Inhuman Garbage by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's, March 2015)
• Gypsy by Carter Scholz (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)
• The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik (Tor.com)
• What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Bao Shu, translated by Ken Liu (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)