Search Worlds Without End

A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America--from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.

In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom, love, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths, release us from the chokehold of our history, and give us new futures to believe in.

They also asked that the stories be badass.

The result is this extraordinary collection of twenty-five stories that blend the dark and the light, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship--whether it's the othered and the oppressed, or dragonriders and covert commandos--but these characters don't flee, they fight.

A People's Future of the United States is a call to arms for anyone who believes in our power to dream a just world. Thrilling, inspiring, and a sheer joy to read, this anthology reminds us of the life-giving power of storytelling.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Victor LaValle
• The Bookstore at the End of America -- Charlie Jane Anders
• Our Aim Is Not to Die -- A. Merc Rustad
• The Wall -- Lizz Huerta
• Read After Burning -- Maria Dahvana Headley
• Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted] -- Malka Older
• It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right -- Sam J. Miller
• Attachment Disorder -- Tananarive Due
• By His Bootstraps -- Ashok K. Banker
• Riverbed -- Omar El Akkad
• What Maya Found There -- Daniel José Older
• The Referendum -- Lesley Nneka Arimah
• Calendar Girls -- Justina Ireland
• The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves -- Violet Allen
• O.1 -- Gabby Rivera
• The Blindfold -- Tobias S. Buckell
• No Algorithms in the World -- Hugh Howey
• Esperanto -- Jamie Ford
• ROME -- G. Willow Wilson
• Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death -- N. K. Jemisin
• Good News Bad News -- Charles Yu
• What You Sow -- Kai Cheng Thom
• A History of Barbed Wire -- Daniel H. Wilson
• The Sun in Exile -- Catherynne M. Valente
• Harmony -- Seanan McGuire
• Now Wait for This Week -- Alice Sola Kim

Armor up for a metal-pounding explosion of action, adventure and amazing speculation by topnotch writers--including Nebula-award winner Jack McDevitt, Sean Williams, Dan Abnett, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell--on a future warrior that might very well be just around the corner. Science fiction readers and gamers have long been fascinated by the idea of going to battle in suits of powered combat armor or at the interior controls of giant mechs.

It's an armor-plated clip of hard-hitting tales featuring exoskeleton adventure with fascinating takes on possible future armors ranging from the style of personal power suits seen in Starship Troopers and Halo to the servo-controlled bipedal beast-mech style encountered in Mechwarrior and Battletech.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword (Armored) - essay by Orson Scott Card
• Introduction (Armored) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Johnson Maneuver - short story by William H. Keith, Jr.
• Hel's Half-Acre - short story by John G. Hemry
• Jungle Walkers - novelette by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell
• The Last Run of the Coppelia - novelette by Genevieve Valentine
• Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War - short story by Dan Abnett
• The Cat's Pajamas - novelette by Jack McDevitt
• Find Heaven and Hell in the Smallest Things - novelette by Simon R. Green
• Power Armor: A Love Story - short story by David Barr Kirtley
• The Last Days of the Kelly Gang - short story by David D. Levine
• Field Test - short story by Michael A. Stackpole
• Trauma Pod - short story by Alastair Reynolds
• Contained Vacuum - short story by David Sherman
• You Do What You Do - short story by Tanya Huff
• Nomad - novelette by Karin Lowachee
• Human Error - short story by John Jackson Miller
• Transfer of Ownership - short story by Christie Yant
• Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine - novelette by Ethan Skarstedt and Brandon Sanderson
• Don Quixote - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• The Poacher - short story by Wendy N. Wagner and Jak Wagner
• The Green - short story by Lauren Beukes
• Sticks and Stones - short story by Robert Buettner
• Helmet - short story by Daniel H. Wilson
• The N-Body Solution - novelette by Sean Williams

Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. One wrong move, one slip-up, and you may find yourself disappeared -- swallowed up by a monstrous bureaucracy, vanished into a shadowy labyrinth of interrogation chambers, show trials, and secret prisons from which no one ever escapes. Welcome to the world of the dystopia, a world of government and society gone horribly, nightmarishly wrong.

What happens when civilization invades and dictates every aspect of your life? From 1984 to The Handmaid's Tale, from Children of Men to Bioshock, the dystopian imagination has been a vital and gripping cautionary force. Brave New Worlds collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today's most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2010) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Lottery - (1948) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• Red Card - (2007) - short story by S. L. Gilbow
• Ten with a Flag - (2006) - short story by Joseph Paul Haines
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account - (2008) - short story by M. Rickert
• The Funeral - (1972) - novelette by Kate Wilhelm
• O Happy Day! - (1985) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• Pervert - (2004) - short story by Charles Coleman Finlay
• From Homogenous to Honey - (2006) - short story by Neil Gaiman and Bryan Talbot
• Billennium - (1961) - short story by J. G. Ballard
• Amaryllis - (2010) - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• Pop Squad - (2006) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Auspicious Eggs - (2000) - novelette by James Morrow
• Peter Skilling - (2004) - short story by Alexander C. Irvine
• The Pedestrian - (1951) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away - (2008) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• The Pearl Diver - (2006) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Dead Space for the Unexpected - (1994) - short story by Geoff Ryman
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Is This Your Day to Join the Revolution? - (2009) - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Independence Day - (2010) - short fiction by Sarah Langan
• The Lunatics - (1988) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Sacrament - short story by Matt Williamson
• The Minority Report - (1956) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• Just Do It - (2006) - short story by Heather Lindsley
• Harrison Bergeron - (1961) - short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Caught in the Organ Draft - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Geriatric Ward - (2008) - short story by Orson Scott Card
• Arties Aren't Stupid - (2008) - short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Jordan's Waterhammer - (1999) - short story by Joe Mastroianni
• Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs - (2003) - novelette by Adam-Troy Castro
• Resistance - (2008) - short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• Civilization - (2007) - short story by Vylar Kaftan
• For Further Reading - (2010) - essay by Ross E. Lockhart

Some edtions also include:

• Personal Jesus - (2010) - shortstory by Jennifer Pelland
• The Perfect Match - (2012) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• The Cull - (2010) - short story by Robert Reed
• Study Guide and Filmography - (2012) - essay by Gary K. Wolfe

From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity's darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger. And yet, there is an attraction, undeniable, to the vampire archetype, whether the pale European count, impeccably dressed and coldly masculine, yet strangely ambiguous, ready to sink his sharp teeth deep into his victims' necks, draining or converting them, or the vamp, the count's feminine counterpart, villain and victim in one, using her wiles and icy sexuality to corrupt man and woman alike...

Edited by John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead), By Blood We Live gathers together the best vampire literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Joe Hill, Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Ken Macleod, Harry Turtledove, Carrie Vaughn, and Tad Williams.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (By Blood We Live) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Snow, Glass, Apples - (1995) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• The Master of Rampling Gate - (1984) - novelette by Anne Rice
• Under St. Peter's - (2007) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• Child of an Ancient City - (1988) - novelette by Tad Williams
• Lifeblood - (2003) - novelette by Michael A. Burstein
• Endless Night - (2008) - shortstory by Barbara Roden
• Infestation - (2008) - novelette by Garth Nix
• Life Is the Teacher - (2008) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
• The Vechi Barbat - (2007) - shortstory by Nancy Kilpatrick
• The Beautiful, The Damned - (1995) - shortfiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Pinecones - (2006) - shortfiction by David Wellington
• Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu - (1994) - novelette by Norman Partridge
• Foxtrot at High Noon - shortfiction by Sergei Lukyanenko
• This Is Now - (2004) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• Blood Gothic - (1985) - shortstory by Nancy Holder
• Mama Gone - (1991) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Abraham's Boys - (2004) - shortstory by Joe Hill
• Nunc Dimittis - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Hunger - (2007) - shortfiction by Gabriela Lee
• Ode to Edvard Munch - (2006) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Finders Keepers - (2008) - shortfiction by L. A. Banks
• After the Stone Age - (2004) - shortfiction by Brian Stableford
• Much at Stake - (1991) - shortstory by Kevin J. Anderson
• House of the Rising Sun - (2005) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
• A Standup Dame - (2008) - shortstory by Lilith Saintcrow
• Twilight - (2007) - novelette by Kelley Armstrong
• In Darkness, Angels - (1983) - novelette by Eric Van Lustbader
• Sunrise on Running Water - (2007) - novelette by Barbara Hambly
• Hit - (2008) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• Undead Again - (2005) - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• Peking Man - (1996) - shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• Necros - (1986) - shortstory by Brian Lumley
• Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire by Anna S. Oppenhagen-Petrescu - (2005) - shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente
• Lucy, In Her Splendor - (2003) - shortstory by Charles Coleman Finlay
• The Wide, Carnivorous Sky - novella by John Langan
• One for the Road - (1977) - shortstory by Stephen King
• For Further Reading (By Blood We Live) - essay by Ross E. Lockhart

A collection of original, epic science fiction stories by some of today's best writers - for fans who want a little less science and a lot more action - and edited by two-time Hugo Award winner John Joseph Adams.

Inspired by movies like The Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars, this anthology features brand-new stories from some of science fiction's best authors including Dan Abnett, Jack Campbell, Linda Nagata, Seanan McGuire, Alan Dean Foster, Charlie Jane Anders, Kameron Hurley, and many others.

Table of Contents:

• A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime - Charlie Jane Anders
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance - Tobias S. Buckell
• The Deckhand, the Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts - Becky Chambers
• The Sighted Watchmaker - Vylar Kaftan
• Infinite Love Engine - Joseph Allen Hill
• Unfamiliar Gods - Adam-Troy Castro, with Judi B. Castro
• Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World - Caroline M. Yoachim
• Our Specialty is Xenogeology - Alan Dean Foster
• Golden Ring - Karl Schroeder
• Tomorrow When We See the Sun - A. Merc Rustad
• Bring the Kids and Revisit the Past at the Traveling Retro Funfair! - Seanan McGuire
• The Dragon that Flew Out of the Sun - Aliette De Bodard
• Diamond and the World Breaker - Linda Nagata
• The Chameleon's Gloves - Yoon Ha Lee
• The Universe, Sung in Stars - Kat Howard
• Wakening Ouroboros - Jack Campbell
• Warped Passages - Kameron Hurley
• The Frost Giant's Data - Dan Abnett

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD!>

From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town.

Here are twenty-three original tales—stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic—produced specifically for this volume by many of today's finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Card's first "Alvin Maker" story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, writer of Cowboys & Aliens.

Other contributors include: Tobias S. Buckell, David Farland, Alan Dean Foster, Jeffrey Ford, Laura Anne Gilman, Rajan Khanna, Mike Resnick, Beth Revis, Fred Van Lente, Walter Jon Williams, Ben H. Winters, Christie Yant and Charles Yu.

Table of Contents

• Introduction by John Joseph Adams
• The Red-Headed Dead by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Old Slow Man and His Gold Gun From Space by Ben H. Winters
• Hellfire on the High Frontier by David Farland
• The Hell-Bound Stagecoach by Mike Resnick
• Stingers and Strangers by Seanan McGuire
• Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger by Charles Yu
• Holy Jingle by Alan Dean Foster
• The Man With No Heart by Beth Revis
• Wrecking Party by Alastair Reynolds
• Hell from the East by Hugh Howey
• Second Hand—Rajan Khanna
• Alvin and the Apple Tree by Orson Scott Card
• Madam Damnable's Sewing Circle by Elizabeth Bear
• Strong Medicine by Tad Williams
• Red Dreams by Jonathan Maberry
• Bamboolzed by Kelley Armstrong
• Sundown by Tobias S. Buckell
• La Madre Del Oro by Jeffrey Ford
• What I Assume You Shall Assume by Ken Liu
• The Devil's Jack by Laura Anne Gilman
• The Golden Age by Walter Jon Williams
• Neversleeps by Fred Van Lente
• Dead Man's Hand by Christie Yant

From the creation myths and quest sagas of ancient times to the megapopular fantasy novels of today, this quintessential anthology of epic fantasy is adventurous storytelling at its best. With rich and vibrant world building, readers are transported to antiquated realms to witness noble sacrifices and astonishing wonders. Gathering a comprehensive survey of beloved stories from the genre, this compilation includes stories by such luminaries as George R. R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robin Hobb, and Tad Williams. Inspiring and larger-than-life, these tales offer timeless values of courage and friendship in the face of ultimate evil and express mankind's greatest hopes and fears.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword (Epic) - essay by Brent Weeks
• Introduction (Epic) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Homecoming - (2003) - novella by Robin Hobb
• The Word of Unbinding - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Burning Man - (1998) - novelette by Tad Williams
• As the Wheel Turns - (2010) - short story by Aliette de Bodard
• The Alchemist - (2010) - novella by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Sandmagic - (1979) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The Road to Levinshir - (2002) - short story by Patrick Rothfuss
• Rysn - shortstory by Brandon Sanderson
• While the Gods Laugh - (1961) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
• Mother of All Russiya - (2012) - short story by Melanie Rawn
• Riding the Shore of the River of Death - (2009) - short fiction by Kate Elliott
• Bound Man - (2006) - novelette by Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Narcomancer - (2007) - short fiction by N. K. Jemisin
• Strife Lingers in Memory - (2002) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
• The Mad Apprentice - (2010) - novelette by Trudi Canavan
• Otherling - (2000) - novelette by Juliet Marillier
• The Mystery Knight - short fiction by George R. R. Martin

Edited by John Joseph Adams, editor of Wastelands and The Living Dead. From Star Trek to Star Wars, from Dune to Foundation, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those living in or trying to manage such societies. The stories in Federations will continue that tradition, and herein you will find a mix of all-new, original fiction, alongside selected reprints from authors whose work exemplifies what interstellar SF is capable of, including Lois McMaster Bujold, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, George R.R. Martin, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Alastair Reynolds, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg and Harry Turtledove.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Federations) - (2009) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Mazer in Prison - (2005) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Carthago Delenda Est - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Life-Suspension - (2009) - short story by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• Terra-Exulta - (2009) - short story by S. L. Gilbow
• Aftermaths - (1986) - short story by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Someone Is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy - (2006) - short story by Harry Turtledove
• Prisons - (1992) - short story by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason
• Different Day - (2009) - short story by K. Tempest Bradford
• Twilight of the Gods - (2009) - novelette by John C. Wright
• Warship - (1979) - short story by George R. R. Martin and George Guthridge
• Swanwatch - (2009) - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• Spirey and the Queen - (1996) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Pardon Our Conquest - (2009) - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• Symbiont - (1985) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Ship Who Returned - (1999) - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• My She - (2009) - short story by Mary Rosenblum
• The Shoulders of Giants - (2000) - short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• The Culture Archivist - (2009) - short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• The Other Side of Jordan - (2009) - short story by Allen Steele
• Like They Always Been Free - (2009) - short story by Georgina Li
• Eskhara - (2009) - short story by Trent Hergenrader
• The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses - (2009) - short story by James Alan Gardner
• Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy - short story by Catherynne M. Valente

If you're a regular backer of Kickstarters, you've probably seen some unique crowdfunding projects in your time. But one thing all of those campaigns--boringly!--had in common was: They abided by the physical laws of the universe!

HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! is an anthology of science fiction/fantasy stories told in the form of fictional crowdfunding project pitches, using the components (and restrictions) of the format to tell the story. This includes but is not limited to: Project Goals, Rewards, User Comments, Project Updates, FAQs, and more. The idea is to replicate the feel of reading a crowdfunding pitch, so that even though the projects may be preposterous in the real world, they will feel like authentic crowdfunding projects as much as possible.

The anthology features original, never-before-published fiction by Bradley Beaulieu , Veronica Belmont, Brooke Bolander, Maurice Broaddus, Tobias S. Buckell, Harry Connolly, Monte Cook, Matt Forbeck, Jason Gurley, Kat Howard, Jonathan L. Howard, Vylar Kaftan, Jake Kerr, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mur Lafferty, David D. Levine, Heather Lindsley, Carmen Maria Machado, David Malki!, Seanan McGuire, Samuel Peralta, Tim Pratt, Andy Penn Romine, Scott Sigler, Michael J. Sullivan, Jeremiah Tolbert, Genevieve Valentine, Derek Van Gorder, Chuck Wendig, Matt Williamson, Daniel H. Wilson, and Sylvia Spruck Wrigley. Plus, a reprint of the eponymous story that inspired the anthology by Keffy R.M. Kehrli, for a total of 33 crowdfunding-style stories.

So if what you've always been looking for in a Kickstarter--and couldn't find--was a project that allowed you to protect yourself from spoilers, buy wishes, find lost objects, or support a wildlife preserve for supernatural creatures, then HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects may be just the thing you've been looking for.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Formatting Note - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Help Fund My Robot Army!!! - (2013) - shortstory by Keffy R. M. Kehrli
• For Entertainment Purposes Only - shortstory by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Zero G R&J - shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal
• A Memorial to the Patriots - shortstory by Jake Kerr
• I Want to Be a Lioness - shortstory by Chuck Wendig
• Liberty: Seeking Support for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for a Non-Human Being - shortstory by Samuel Peralta
• Help Summon the Most Holy Folded One! - shortfiction by Harry Connolly
• Fulfill My Destiny-And Save the World! - shortstory by Matt Forbeck
• LARPing the Apocalypse 2: The Nano-Plague - shortstory by Tim Pratt
• Fund Taphognosis Industries - shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell
• Catassassins! - shortstory by Veronica Belmont
• Finder of Lost Things - shortstory by Monte Cook
• Prima Nocta Detective Agency Needs You - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• So Juicy Transforming Strips - shortstory by Matt Williamson
• The Spirit of Mars: Fund a Sacred Journey to the Red Planet - shortstory by Andrew Penn Romine
• Flashed Forward - shortstory by Bradley P. Beaulieu
• Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead - shortstory by Carmen Maria Machado
• Be Careful What You Wish For - shortstory by Michael J. Sullivan
• A Practical Mechanism for Overcoming the Directionality of Temporal Flow - shortstory by David D. Levine
• Life-Sized Arena Tetris! - shortstory by David Malki !
• Zippers - shortstory by Derek Van Gorder
• I Used to Love H.E.R. - shortstory by Maurice Broaddus
• Locally Grown, Organic - shortstory by Kat Howard
• Let's Keep Burt Grimsby's Head Frozen! - shortstory by Heather Lindsley
• Jerome 3.0 - shortstory by Jason Gurley
• Help Me Destroy Cannes! - shortstory by Jonathan L. Howard
• Save the Photophobic Hemoglobivores with the Sanguine Reserve! - shortstory by Mur Lafferty
• Nosferatu, Brutus? - shortstory by Scott Sigler
• Updates - shortstory by Vylar Kaftan and Shannon Prickett
• You Only Live Once - shortstory by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
• Mechanical Animals - shortstory by Brooke Bolander
• Kismet™ - shortstory by Daniel H. Wilson
• Bring About the Halloween Eternal!!! - shortstory by Seanan McGuire
• Acknowledgments - essay by uncredited
• About the Editors - essay by uncredited

Lightspeed is the critically acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams.

Lightspeed: Year One collects all of the fiction published during Lightspeed's first journey around the sun: Nebula Award finalists like Vylar Kaftan's "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno," Hugo Award nominees like Carrie Vaughn's "Amaryllis," and great classic reprints by Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R. Martin, and more.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2011) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno - (2010) - shortstory by Vylar Kaftan
• The Cassandra Project - (2010) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
• Cats in Victory - (2010) - shortstory by David Barr Kirtley
• Amaryllis - (2010) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
• No Time Like the Present - (2010) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Manumission - (2008) - shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell
• The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball - (2010) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• "...For a Single Yesterday" - (1975) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• How to Become a Mars Overlord - (2010) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Patient Zero - (2000) - shortstory by Tananarive Due
• Arvies - (2010) - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
• More Than the Sum of His Parts - (1985) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain - (2010) - shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Long Chase - (2002) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Amid the Words of War - (2010) - shortstory by Cat Rambo
• Travelers - (1999) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Hindsight - (2010) - shortstory by Sarah Langan
• Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back - (1986) - shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Taste of Starlight - (2010) - shortstory by John R. Fultz
• Beachworld - (1984) - shortstory by Stephen King
• Standard Loneliness Package - (2010) - novelette by Charles Yu
• Faces in Revolving Souls - (2005) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters - (2010) - shortstory by Alice Sola Kim
• Ej-Es - (2003) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• In-Fall - (2010) - shortstory by Ted Kosmatka
• The Observer - (2008) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Jenny's Sick - (2010) - shortstory by David Tallerman
• The Silence of the Asonu - (1998) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow - (2011) - shortstory by Corey Mariani
• Cucumber Gravy - (2001) - novelette by Susan Palwick
• Black Fire - (2011) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• The Elephants of Poznan - (2000) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Long Enough and Just So Long - (2011) - shortstory by Cat Rambo
• The Passenger - (2000) - shortstory by Julie E. Czerneda
• Simulacrum - (2011) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• Breakaway, Backdown - (1996) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• Saying the Names - (2011) - shortstory by Maggie Clark
• Gossamer - (1995) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Spider the Artist - (2008) - shortstory by Nnedi Okorafor
• Woman Leaves Room - (2011) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• All That Touches the Air - (2011) - shortstory by An Owomoyela
• Maneki Neko - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son - (2011) - shortstory by Tom Crosshill
• Velvet Fields - (1973) - shortstory by Anne McCaffrey
• The Harrowers - (2011) - shortstory by Eric Gregory
• Bibi from Jupiter - (2007) - shortstory by Tessa Mellas
• Eliot Wrote - (2011) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Scales - (2009) - shortstory by Alastair Reynolds

Collected by the editor of the award-winning Lightspeed magazine, the first, definitive anthology of climate fiction - a cutting-edge genre made popular by Margaret Atwood.

Is it the end of the world as we know it? Climate Fiction, or Cli-Fi, is exploring the world we live in now - and in the very near future - as the effects of global warming become more evident. Join bestselling, award-winning writers like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, Seanan McGuire, and many others at the brink of tomorrow. Loosed Upon the World is so believable, it's frightening.

Table of Contents:

• Shooting the Apocalypse - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Myth of Rain - short story by Seanan McGuire
• Outer Rims - short story by Toiya Kristen Finley
• Kheldyu - novelette by Karl Schroeder
• The Snows of Yesteryear - short story by Jean-Louis Trudel
• A Hundred Hundred Daisies - short story by Nancy Kress
• The Rainy Season - short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• The Netherlands Lives With Water - novelette by Jim Shepard
• The Precedent - novelette by Sean McMullen
• Hot Sky - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• That Creeping Sensation - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• Truth or Consequences - novel excerpt by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Entanglement - novella by Vandana Singh
• Staying Afloat - short story by Angela Penrose
• Eighth Wonder - short story by Chris Bachelder
• Eagle - short story by Gregory Benford
• Outliers - short story by Nicole Feldringer
• Quiet Town - short story by Jason Gurley
• The Day It All Ended - short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• The Smog Society - short story by Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu & Carmen Yiling Yan)
• Racing the Tide - short story by Craig DeLancey
• Mutant Stag at Horn Creek - novelette by Sarah Castle
• Hot Rods - novelette by Cat Sparks
• The Tamarisk Hunter - short story by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Mitigation - novelette by Tobias Buckell & Karl Schroeder
• Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet - short story by Margaret Atwood
• AFTERWORD: Science Scarier Than Fiction - Ramez Naam

In the realms of fantasy, the battlefield is where heroism comes alive, magic is unleashed, and legends are made and unmade. From the War of the Ring, Tolkien's epic battle of good versus evil, to The Battle of the Blackwater, George R. R. Martin's grim portrait of the horror and futility of war, these fantastical conflicts reflect our highest hopes and darkest fears, bringing us mesmerizing visions of silver spears shining in the sun and vast hordes of savage beasts who threaten to destroy all that we hold dear.

Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams is sounding the battle cry and sixteen of today's top authors are reporting for duty, spinning never-before-published, spellbinding tales of military fantasy, including a Black Company story from Glen Cook, a Paksenarrion story from Elizabeth Moon, and a Shadow Ops story by Myke Cole. Within these pages you'll also find World War I trenches cloaked in poison gas and sorcery, modern day elite special forces battling hosts of the damned, and steampunk soldiers fighting for their lives in a world torn apart by powers that defy imagination.

Featuring both grizzled veterans and fresh young recruits alike, including Tanya Huff, Simon R. Green, Carrie Vaughn, Jonathan Maberry, and Seanan McGuire, Operation Arcana is a must for any military buff or fantasy fan. You'll never look at war the same way again.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - John Joseph Adams
• Rules of Enchantment - short story by David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell
• The Damned One Hundred - short story by Jonathan Maberry
• Blood, Ash, Braids - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Mercenary's Honor [Paksenarrion Universe] - short story by Elizabeth Moon
• The Guns of the Wastes - short story by Django Wexler
• The Graphology of Hemorrhage - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• American Golem - short story by Weston Ochse
• Weapons in the Earth [Shadow Ops] - novelette by Myke Cole
• Heavy Sulfur - short story by Ari Marmell
• Steel Ships - short story by Tanya Huff
• Sealskin - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• Pathfinder - short story by T.C. Mccarthy
• Bone Eaters [Tales of the Black Company] - novelette by Glen Cook
• Bomber's Moon - short story by Simon R. Green
• In Skeleton Leaves - short story by Seanan Mcguire
• The Way Home - short story by Linda Nagata

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?

We can all imagine such "other worlds"--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume--until now.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword (Other Worlds Than These) - essay by Lev Grossman
• Introduction (Other Worlds Than These) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Moon Six - (1997) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• A Brief Guide to Other Histories - (2008) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage - (2011) - shortstory by Seanan McGuire
• An Empty House With Many Doors - (2011) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Twenty-Two Centimeters - (2004) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Ana's Tag - (2008) - shortstory by William Alexander
• Nothing Personal - (2007) - novella by Pat Cadigan
• The Rose Wall - (1981) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria - (2010) - novelette by John R. Fultz
• Ruminations in an Alien Tongue - (2012) - shortstory by Vandana Singh
• Ten Sigmas - (2004) - shortstory by Paul Melko
• Magic for Beginners - (2005) - novella by Kelly Link
• [A Ghost Samba] - (2008) - shortstory by Ian McDonald
• The Cristóbal Effect - (2012) - shortstory by Simon McCaffery
• Beyond Porch and Portal - (2009) - novelette by E. Catherine Tobler
• Signal to Noise - (2006) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Porridge on Islac - (2003) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Mrs. Todd's Shortcut - (1984) - novelette by Stephen King
• The Ontological Factor - (2011) - shortstory by David Barr Kirtley
• Dear Annabehls - [Dear Annabehls Universe] - (2009) - shortstory by Mercurio D. Rivera
• The Goat Variations - (2009) - shortstory by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr - (1976) - shortstory by George R. R. Martin
• Of Swords and Horses - (2006) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
• Impossible Dreams - (2006) - shortstory by Tim Pratt
• Like Minds - (2003) - novelette by Robert Reed
• The City of Blind Delight - (2008) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain - (2010) - shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
• Angles - (2002) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories - (2010) - shortstory by Christie Yant
• Trips - (1974) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• For Further Reading (Other Worlds Than These) - essay by Ross E. Lockhart

FOREWORD BY GREGORY MAGUIRE, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WICKED.

When L. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, bestselling hit. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought together leading fantasy writers such as Orson Scott Card and Seanan McGuire to create the ultimate anthology for Oz fans - and, really, any reader with an appetite for richly imagined worlds. Stories include:

• Frank Baum's son has the real experiences that his father later fictionalized in Orson Scott Card's "Off to See the Emperor."
• Seanan McGuire's "Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust" finds Dorothy grown up, bitter, and still living in Oz. And she has a murder to solve - assuming Ozma will stop interfering with her life long enough to let her do her job.
• In "Blown Away," Jane Yolen asks: What if Toto was dead and stuffed, Ozma was a circus freak, and everything you thought you knew as Oz was
  really right here in Kansas?
• "The Cobbler of Oz" by Jonathan Maberry explores a Winged Monkey with wings too small to let her fly. Her only chance to change that rests with
  the Silver Slippers.
• In Tad Williams's futuristic "The Boy Detective of Oz," Orlando investigates the corrupt Oz simulation of the Otherland network.
• And more...

Some stories are dystopian... Some are dreamlike... All are undeniably Oz.

Includes stories by these authors: Dale Bailey, Orson Scott Card, Rae Carson, David Farland, C.C. Finlay, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Simon R. Green, Kat Howard, Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Maberry, Rachel Swirsky, Robin Wasserman, Tad Williams, Jane Yolen.

Table of Contents:

• Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond - (2013) - interior artwork by Galen Dara
• Foreword: Oz and Ourselves - essay by Gregory Maguire
• Introduction: There's No Place Like Oz - essay by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen
• The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz - shortfiction by C. C. Finlay and Rae Carson
• Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust - shortfiction by Seanan McGuire
• Lost Girls of Oz - shortfiction by Theodora Goss
• The Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland Story - shortfiction by Tad Williams
• Dorothy Dreams - shortfiction by Simon R. Green
• Dead Blue - shortfiction by David Farland
• One Flew Over the Rainbow - shortfiction by Robin Wasserman
• The Veiled Shanghai - shortfiction by Ken Liu
• Beyond the Naked Eye - shortfiction by Rachel Swirsky
• A Tornado of Dorothys - shortfiction by Kat Howard
• Blown Away - shortfiction by Jane Yolen
• City So Bright - shortfiction by Dale Bailey
• Off to See the Emperor - shortfiction by Orson Scott Card
• A Meeting in Oz - shortfiction by Jeffrey Ford
• The Cobbler of Oz - shortfiction by Jonathan Maberry

IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE!
TAKE THIS.

You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.

From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be - and what they can become - in smart and singular ways. With a foreword from Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One,Press Start to Play includes work from: Daniel H. Wilson, Charles Yu, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, S.R. Mastrantone, Charlie Jane Anders, Holly Black, Seanan McGuire, Django Wexler, Nicole Feldringer, Chris Avellone, David Barr Kirtley,T.C. Boyle, Marc Laidlaw, Robin Wasserman, Micky Neilson, Cory Doctorow, Jessica Barber, Chris Kluwe, Marguerite K. Bennett, Rhianna Pratchett, Austin Grossman, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente, Andy Weir, and Hugh Howey.

Your inventory includes keys, a cell phone, and a wallet. What would you like to do?

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Foreword - Ernest Cline
• Introduction - John Joseph Adams
• God Mode - short story by Daniel H. Wilson
• NPC - short story by Charles Yu
• Respawn - short story by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (translated by Nathan Collins)
• Desert Walk - short story by S.R. Mastrantone
• Rat Catcher's Yellows - short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• 1Up - short story by Holly Black
• Survival Horror - short story by Seanan McGuire
• REAL - short story by Django Wexler
• Outliers - short story by Nicole Feldringer
• - short story by Chris Avellone
• Save Me Plz - short story by David Barr Kirtley (reprint)
• The Relive Box - novelette by T.C. Boyle (reprint)
• Roguelike - short story by Marc Laidlaw
• All of the People in Your Party Have Died - novelette by Robin Wasserman
• RECOIL! - short story by Micky Neilson
• Anda's Game - novelette by Cory Doctorow (reprint)
• Coma Kings - short story by Jessica Barber (reprint)
• Stats - short story by Marguerite K. Bennett
• Please Continue - short story by Chris Kluwe
• Creation Screen - short story by Rhianna Pratchett
• The Fresh Prince of Gamma World - short story by Austin Grossman
• Gamer's End - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Clockwork Soldier - short story by Ken Liu (reprint)
• Killswitch - short story by Catherynne M. Valente (reprint)
• Twarrior - short story by Andy Weir
• Select Character - short story by Hugh Howey

Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by "the father of artificial intelligence," Dr. John McCarthy, Robot Uprisings meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Daniel H. Wilson
• Complex God by Scott Sigler
• Cycles by Charles Yu
• Lullaby by Anna North
• Eighty Miles an Hour All the Way to Paradise by Genevieve Valentine
• Executable by Hugh Howey
• The Omnibot Incident by Ernest Cline
• Epoch by Cory Doctorow
• Human Intelligence by Jeff Abbott
• The Golden Hour by Julianna Baggott
• Sleepover by Alastair Reynolds
• Seasoning by Alan Dean Foster
• Nanonauts! In Battle with Tiny Death-subs! by Ian McDonald
• Of Dying Heroes and Deathless Deeds by Robin Wasserman
• The Robot and the Baby by John McCarthy
• We are All Misfit Toys in the Aftermath of the Velveteen War by Seanan McGuire
• Spider the Artist by Nnedi Okorafor
• Small Things by Daniel H. Wilson

Imagine the moment when the present ends, and the future begins--when the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is thrust upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today's most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, peak oil, technological advancement, and political revolution. Many serve as a call to action: How will you change with the future?

These nine stories sow seeds of change across familiar and foreign territory, from our own backyards to the Niger Delta to worlds not yet discovered. Pepper, the mysterious mercenary from Tobias S. Buckell's Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, works as an agent for change--if the price is right--in "Resistance." Ken MacLeod envisions the end-game in the Middle East in "A Dance Called Armageddon." Blake Charlton imagines a revolutionary advance in cancer research in "Endosymbiont." Award-winning author Jay Lake tackles technological change and the forces that will stop at nothing to prevent it in "The Future by Degrees." Other stories by K.D. Wentworth, Jeremiah Tolbert, Mark Budz, Ted Kosmatka, and Nnedi Okorafor range from the darkly satirical to the exotic. All explore the notion that change will come. Will you be ready?

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Seeds of Change) - (2008) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• N-Words - (2008) - shortstory by Ted Kosmatka
• The Future by Degrees - (2008) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• Drinking Problem - (2008) - shortstory by K. D. Wentworth
• Endosymbiont - (2008) - novelette by Blake Charlton
• A Dance Called Armageddon - (2008) - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• Arties Aren't Stupid - (2008) - shortstory by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Faceless in Gethsemane - (2008) - shortstory by Mark Budz
• Spider the Artist - (2008) - shortstory by Nnedi Okorafor
• Resistance - (2008) - shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell

From Victor Frankenstein to Lex Luthor, from Dr. Moreau to Dr. Doom, readers have long been fascinated by insane plans for world domination and the madmen who devise them. Typically, we see these villains through the eyes of good guys. This anthology, however, explores the world of mad scientists and evil geniuses--from their own wonderfully twisted point of view.

An all-star roster of bestselling authors--including Diana Gabaldon, Daniel Wilson, Austin Grossman, Naomi Novik, and Seanan McGuire... twenty-two great storytellers all told--have produced a fabulous assortment of stories guaranteed to provide readers with hour after hour of high-octane entertainment born of the most megalomaniacal mayhem imaginable.

Everybody loves villains. They're bad; they always stir the pot; they're much more fun than the good guys, even if we want to see the good guys win. Their fiendish schemes, maniacal laughter, and limitless ambition are legendary, but what lies behind those crazy eyes and wicked grins? How--and why--do they commit these nefarious deeds? And why are they so set on taking over the world?

If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, you're in luck: It's finally time for the madmen's side of the story.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - essay by Chris Claremont
• Secret Identity Management Variables: Managing Your Love Life is No Easier for Geniuses - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Professor Incognito Apologizes: An Itemized List - short story by Austin Grossman
• Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: Spoiled Brides are No Match for Science - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Father of the Groom - short story by Harry Turtledove
• Observations in Psychological Cataclysms: Doctor, Heal Thyself - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Laughter at the Academy: A Field Study in the Genesis of Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder (SCGPD) - short story by Seanan McGuire
• Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Every Genius Needs a Good Publicist - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Letter to the Editor - short story by David D. Levine
• Experiments in Inorganic Intelligence: The Only Thing Worse Than Obsolescence is Knowing You're Obsolete - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Instead of a Loving Heart - (2004) - short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Experiments in Inorganic Intelligence: Families Can Drive You Crazy - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Executor - short story by Daniel H. Lewis
• Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Everybody Needs Help with Their Evil Monologue - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan - short story by Heather Lindsley
• Biochemical Deterministic Happenstances: You Might Not Like Drugs, But They Will Like You - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Homo Perfectus - short story by David Farland
• Promethean Origination and Impacts: Weird Science is No Substitute for Love - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Ancient Equations - short story by L. A. Banks
• Unmapped Variables in Multiple Intelligences: Touch Nothing in the Secret Lab - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Rural Singularity - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• Logistics and Support of Evil Programmatics: Never Trust a Job Posting on Craigslist - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Captain Justice Saves the Day - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Promethean Origination and Impacts: These Things Run in the Family - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Mad Scientist's Daughter - (2010) - novelette by Theodora Goss
• Alchemical Explorations: Mad Science is Stranger Than Magic - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Space Between - (2012) - novella by Diana Gabaldon
• Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: It's Not Easy Being Tentacled - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• Promethean Origination and Impacts: As You Sow, So Shall You Reap (or Even Geniuses Get What They Deserve) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Blood & Stardust - short story by Laird Barron
• Power Strategies and Fact Management: A Real Genius Can Fool All the People, All the Time - essay by John Joseph Adams
• A More Perfect Union - short story by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• Secret Identity Management Variables: It's Lonely at the Top - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Rocks Fall - short story by Naomi Novik
• Mathematical Destruction Scenarios: Always Double-Check the Calculations - essay by John Joseph Adams
• We Interrupt this Broadcast - short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: Pick Your Supervillain Name with Care - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Last Dignity of Man - novelette by Marjorie M. Liu
• Observations in Pathological Cataclysms: If it Sounds Too Good to Be True, It's Crazy - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Pittsburgh Technology - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Pick a Good Partner and an Even Better Nemesis - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Mofongo Knows - short story by Grady Hendrix
• Absolute World Domination Successes: When You Can Get Anything You Want, Be Careful What You Wish For - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Food Taster's Boy - short story by Ben H. Winters

Power. We all want it, they've got it--witches, warlocks, sorcerers, necromancers, those who peer beneath the veil of mundane reality and put their hands on the levers that move the universe. They see the future in a sheet of glass, summon fantastic beasts, and transform lead into gold... or you into a frog. From Gandalf to Harry Potter to the Last Airbender, wizardry has never been more exciting and popular.

Enter a world where anything is possible, where imagination becomes reality. Experience the thrill of power, the way of the wizard. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams brings you thirty-two of the most spellbinding tales ever written, by some of today's most magical talents.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by John Joseph Adams
• In the Lost Lands - (1982) - short story by George R. R. Martin
• Family Tree - short story by David Barr Kirtley
• John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner - (2006) - short story by Susanna Clarke
• Wizard's Apprentice - (2009) - short story by Delia Sherman
• The Sorcerer Minus - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Life So Dear Or Peace So Sweet - novelette by Charles Coleman Finlay
• Card Sharp - short story by Rajan Khanna
• So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• The Go-Slow - short story by Nnedi Okorafor
• Too Fatal a Poison - short story by Krista Hoeppner Leahy
• Jamaica - (2007) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice - (2004) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Secret of Calling Rabbits - short story by Wendy N. Wagner
• The Wizards of Perfil - (2006) - novella by Kelly Link
• How to Sell the Ponti Bridge - (1985) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories - short story by Christie Yant
• Winter Solstice - (1991) - short story by Mike Resnick
• The Trader and the Slave - short story by Cinda Williams Chima
• Cerile and the Journeyer - (1995) - short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• Counting the Shapes - (2001) - novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• Endgame - short story by Lev Grossman
• Street Wizard - short story by Simon R. Green
• Mommy Issues of the Dead - short story by Tim Pratt
• One Click Banishment - novelette by Jeremiah Tolbert
• The Ereshkigal Working - short story by Jonathan L. Howard
• Feeding the Feral Children - novelette by David Farland
• The Orange-Tree Sacrifice - short story by Vylar Kaftan
• Love is the Spell That Casts Out Fear - short story by Desirina Boskovich
• El Regalo - (2006) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• The Word of Unbinding - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria - novelette by John R. Fultz
• The Secret of the Blue Star - (1979) - novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Celebrate 100 years of John Carter of Mars with this all-new collection of original stories and art!

Readers of all ages have read and loved Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series since the first book, A Princess of Mars, was published in 1912. Now, in time for the 100th anniversary of that seminal work, comes an anthology of original stories featuring John Carter of Mars in brand-new adventures. Collected by veteran anthology editor John Joseph Adams, this anthology features stories from titans of literature such as Peter S. Beagle and Garth Nix and original art from Mark Zug, Charles Vess, and many more--plus an introduction by Tamora Pierce and a glossary of Mars by Richard A. Lupoff.

Table of Contents:

• Story Notes - essay by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley
• Foreword - essay by Tamora Pierce
• Introduction - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Metal Men of Mars - (2012) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• Three Deaths - shortfiction by David Barr Kirtley
• The Ape-Man of Mars - shortfiction by Peter S. Beagle
• A Tinker of Warhoon - shortfiction by Tobias S. Buckell
• Vengeance of Mars - shortfiction by Robin Wasserman
• Woola's Song - shortfiction by Theodora Goss
• The River Gods of Mars - shortfiction by Austin Grossman
• The Bronze Man of Mars - shortfiction by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• A Game of Mars - shortfiction by Genevieve Valentine
• A Sidekick of Mars - shortstory by Garth Nix
• The Ghost That Haunts the Superstition Mountains - shortfiction by Chris Claremont
• The Jasoom Project - shortfiction by S. M. Stirling
• Coming of Age on Barsoom - shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Death Song of Dwar Guntha - shortfiction by Jonathan Maberry
• Appendix: A Barsoomian Gazetteer, or, Who's Who and What's What on Mars - essay by Richard A. Lupoff

Fear of the unknown--it is the essence of the best horror stories, theneed to know what monstrous vision you're beholding and the underlyingterror that you just might find out. Now, twenty authors have gatheredto ask--and maybe answer--a question worthy of almost any horror tale: "What the #@&% is that?" Join these masters of suspense as they take you to where the shadows grow long, and that which lurks at the cornerof your vision is all too real.

Featuring stories by Laird Barron, Scott Sigler, Simon R. Green, Alan Dean Foster, Christopher Golden, Maria Dahvana Headley, John Langan, Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Maberry, Tim Pratt, An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky, and others!

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Douglas Cohen
• Mobility - short story by Laird Barron
• Fossil Heart - (2016) - short story by Amanda Downum
• Those Gaddam Cookies - short story by Scott Sigler
• The Sound of Her Laughter - short story by Simon R. Green
• Down in the Deep and the Dark - short story by Desirina Boskovich
• Only Unclench Your Hand - short story by Isabel Yap
• Little Widow - (2016) - short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• The Bad Hour - short story by Christopher Golden
• What Is Lost, What Is Given Away - short story by John Langan
• Now and Forever - short story by D. Thomas Minton
• #conollyhouse #weshouldntbehere - short story by Seanan McGuire
• The House That Love Built - short story by Grady Hendrix
• We All Make Sacrifices: A Sam Hunter Adventure - short story by Jonathan Maberry
• Ghost Pressure - short story by Gemma Files
• The Daughter Out of Darkness - short story by Nancy Holder
• Framing Mortensen - short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• The Catch - short story by Terence Taylor
• Hunters in the Wood - short story by Tim Pratt
• Whose Drowned Face Sleeps - (2016) - short story by An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky
• Castleweep - novelette by Alan Dean Foster

The game is afoot! Night Shade Books is proud to present the fantastic adventures of the world's greatest detective -- mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, no genre can escape the esteemed detective's needle-sharp intellect and intuition.

This reprint anthology showcases the best Holmes short fiction from the last 25 years, featuring stories by such visionaries as Stephen King, Neil Gaimen, Laura King, and many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• A Sherlockiana Primer - essay by Christopher Roden
• The Doctor's Case - (1987) - novelette by Stephen King
• The Horror of the Many Faces - (2003) - novelette by Tim Lebbon
• The Case of the Bloodless Sock - (2001) - shortfiction by Anne Perry
• The Adventure of the Other Detective - (2001) - novelette by Bradley H. Sinor
• A Scandal in Montreal - (2008) - shortfiction by Edward D. Hoch
• The Adventure of the Field Theorems - (1995) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• The Adventure of the Death-Fetch - (1994) - shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
• The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland - (2005) - shortfiction by Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Adventure of the Mummy's Curse - (2006) - shortfiction by H. Paul Jeffers
• The Things That Shall Come Upon Them - (2008) - shortfiction by Barbara Roden
• Murder to Music - (1989) - shortstory by Anthony Burgess
• The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor - (1997) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Mrs Hudson's Case - (1997) - shortfiction by Laurie R. King
• The Singular Habits of Wasps - (1994) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
• The Affair of the 46th Birthday - shortfiction by Amy Myers
• The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey - (2001) - shortfiction by Peter Tremayne
• The Vale of the White Horse - (2003) - shortfiction by Sharyn McCrumb
• The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger - (1995) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
• The Adventure of the Lost World - (2004) - shortfiction by Dominic Green
• The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece - (2003) - novelette by Barbara Hambly
• Dynamics of a Hanging - (2005) - shortfiction by Tony Pi
• Merridew of Abominable Memory - (2008) - shortfiction by Chris Roberson
• Commonplaces - shortfiction by Naomi Novik
• The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil's Cape - shortfiction by Rob Rogers
• The Adventure of the Green Skull - (2008) - shortfiction by Mark Valentine
• The Human Mystery - (1999) - shortfiction by Tanith Lee
• A Study in Emerald - (2003) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• You See But You Do Not Observe - (1995) - shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild.

The Apocalypse Triptych will tell their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, The Apocalypse Triptych is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. The End Is Nigh focuses on life before the apocalypse. The End Is Now turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And The End Has Come explores life after the apocalypse.

Volume one of The Apocalypse Triptych, The End Is Nigh, features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Sigler, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.

Post-apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that have already burned. Apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that are burning. The End Is Nigh is about the match.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The End is Nigh) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Balm and the Wound - short story by Robin Wasserman
• Heaven is a Place on Planet X - short story by Desirina Boskovich
• Break! Break! Break! - short story by Charlie Jane Anders (2014)
• The Gods Will Not Be Chained - short story by Ken Liu
• Wedding Day - short story by Jake Kerr
• Removal Order - short story by Tananarive Due
• System Reset - short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• This Unkempt World is Falling to Pieces - short story by Jamie Ford
• BRING HER TO ME - short story by Ben H. Winters
• In the Air - short story by Hugh Howey
• Goodnight Moon - short story by Annie Bellet
• Dancing with Death in the Land of Nod - novelette by Will McIntosh
• Houses Without Air - short story by Megan Arkenberg
• The Fifth Day of Deer Camp - novelette by Scott Sigler
• Enjoy the Moment - short story by Jack McDevitt
• Pretty Soon the Four Horsemen are Going to Come Riding Through - short story by Nancy Kress
• Spores - novelette by Seanan McGuire [as by Mira Grant]
• She's Got a Ticket to Ride - short story by Jonathan Maberry
• Agent Unknown - short story by David Wellington
• Enlightenment - short story by Matthew Mather
• Shooting the Apocalypse - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Love Perverts - short story by Sarah Langan

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild.

The Apocalypse Triptych will tell their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, The Apocalypse Triptych is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. The End Is Nigh focuses on life before the apocalypse. The End Is Now turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And The End Has Come explores life after the apocalypse.

The End Is Nigh is about the match. The End Has Come is about what will rise from the ashes. The End Is Now is about the conflagration.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - John Joseph Adams
• Herd Immunity - short story by Tananarive Due
• The Sixth Day Of Deer Camp - short story by Scott Sigler
• Goodnight Stars - short story by Annie Bellet
• Rock Manning Can't Hear You - short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• Fruiting Bodies - short story by Seanan Mcguire
• Black Monday - short story by Sarah Langan
• Angels Of The Apocalypse - short story by Nancy Kress
• Agent Isolated - short story by David Wellington
• The Gods Will Not Be Slain - short story by Ken Liu
• You've Never Seen Everything - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Bring Them Down - short story by Ben H. Winters
• Twilight Of The Music Machines - short story by Megan Arkenberg
• Sunset Hollow - short story by Jonathan Maberry
• Penance - short story by Jake Kerr
• Avtomat - short story by Daniel H. Wilson
• Dancing With Batgirl In The Land Of Nod - novelette by Will Mcintosh
• The Hair Of The Moon - short story by Jamie Ford
• To Wrestle Not Against Flesh And Blood - short story by Desirina Boskovich
• In The Mountain - short story by Hugh Howey
• Dear John - novelette by Robin Wasserman

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild.

The Apocalypse Triptych will tell their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, The Apocalypse Triptych is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. The End Is Nigh focuses on life before the apocalypse. The End Is Now turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And The End Has Come explores life after the apocalypse.

Volume one of The Apocalypse Triptych, The End Is Nigh, features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Sigler, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.

The End Is Nigh is about the match.

The End Is Now is about the conflagration.

The End Has Come is about what will rise from the ashes.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - John Joseph Adams
• Bannerless - novelette by Carrie Vaughn
• Like All Beautiful Places - short story by Megan Arkenberg
• Dancing With a Stranger in the Land of Nod - short story by Will McIntosh
• The Seventh Day of Deer Camp - short story by Scott Sigler
• Prototype - short story by Sarah Langan
• Acts of Creation - short story by Chris Avellone
• Resistance - novelette by Seanan McGuire
• Wandering Star - short story by Leife Shallcross
• Heaven Come Down - short story by Ben H. Winters
• Agent Neutralized - novelette by David Wellington
• Goodnight Earth - short story by Annie Bellet
• Carriers - short story by Tananarive Due
• In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land - novelette by Robin Wasserman
• The Uncertainty Machine - short story by Jamie Ford
• Margin of Survival - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Jingo and the Hammerman - short story by Jonathan Maberry
• The Last Movie Ever Made - short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• The Gray Sunrise - short story by Jake Kerr
• The Gods Have Not Died In Vain - novelette by Ken Liu
• The Happiest Place... - short story by Mira Grant
• In the Woods - short story by Hugh Howey
• Blessings - short story by Nancy Kress

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 award-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing traditional fiction with speculative elements, these stories uphold a longstanding tradition in both genres - looking at the world and asking, What if...?

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction - by Joe Hill

Science Fiction

• The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever - short story by Daniel H. Wilson - from Carbide Tipped Pens - Eric Choi & Ben Bova, editors
• Each to Each - novelette by Seanan McGuire - from Lightspeed, Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue - Christie Yant, editor
• How to Get Back to the Forest - short story by Sofia Samatar - from Lightspeed
• Sleeper - short story by Jo Walton - from Tor.com
• The Empties - novelette by Jess Row - from The New Yorker
• The Relive Box - novelette by T.C. Boyle - from The New Yorker
• Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable - short story by Cat Rambo - from Clarkesworld
• We Are the Cloud - novelette by Sam J. Miller - from Lightspeed
• Windows - short story by Susan Palwick - from Asimov's
• How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps - short story by A. Merc Rustad - from Scigentasy

Fantasy

• A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i - novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson - from F&SF
• Cimmeria, from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology - short story by Theodora Goss - from Lightspeed
• Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead - short story by Carmen Maria Machado - from HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects - John Joseph Adams, editor
• How the Marquis Got His Coat Back - novelette by Neil Gaiman - from Rogues - George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, editors
• I Can See Right Through You - novelette by Kelly Link - from McSweeney's
• Ogres of East Africa - short story by Sofia Samatar - from Long Hidden - Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, editors
• Skullpocket - novelette by Nathan Ballingrud - from Nightmare Carnival - Ellen Datlow, editor
• The Bad Graft - novelette by Karen Russell - from The New Yorker
• The One They Took Before - short story by Kelly Sandoval - from Shimmer
• The Thing About Shapes To Come - short story by Adam-Troy Castro - from Lightspeed

From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears -- of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people -- and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.

Table of Contents
(works which are available to read online for free are linked)

Editorial

• Foreword by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler

Fantasy

• Meet Me in Iram by Sofia Samatar from Meet Me in Iram/Those Are the Pearls
• Interesting Facts by Adam Johnson from Harper's Magazine
• The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary by Kij Johnson from Clarkesworld Magazine
• The Mushroom Queen by Liz Ziemska from Tin House
• Tea Time short story by Rachel Swirsky from Lightspeed Magazine
• The Duniazát by Salman Rushdie from The New Yorker
• The Thirteen Mercies by Maria Dahvana Headley from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Things You Can Buy for a Penny short story by Will Kaufman from Lightspeed Magazine
• The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History by Sam J. Miller from Uncanny Magazine
• Ambiguity Machines: An Examination by Vandana Singh from Tor.com

Science Fiction

• The Game of Smash and Recovery by Kelly Link from Strange Horizons
• Planet Lion by Catherynne M. Valente from Uncanny Magazine
• By Degrees and Dilatory Time by S.L. Huang from Strange Horizons
• The Daydreamer by Proxy by Dexter Palmer from The Bestiary
• Headshot by Julian Mortimer Smith from Terraform
• No Placeholder for You, My Love by Nick Wolven from Asimov's Science Fiction
• Lightning Jack's Last Ride by Dale Bailey from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Rat Catcher's Yellows short story by Charlie Jane Anders from Press Start to Play
• Three Bodies at Mitanni (podcast) by Seth Dickinson from Analog Science Fiction & Fact
• The Great Silence by Allora & Calzadilla & Ted Chiang from e-flux journal

Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres--they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Charles Yu, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 continues to explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Yu bringing his unique view--literary, meta, and adventurous--to the series' third edition.

Table of Contents:

Editorial

• Foreword by John Joseph Adams
  
• Introduction by Charles Yu

Fantasy

• Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail by Leigh Bardugo
  • from Summer Days and Summer Nights
• I've Come to Marry the Princess by Helena Bell
  • from Lightspeed
• The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight by E. Lily Yu
  • from Uncanny
• Vulcanization by Nisi Shawl
  • from Nightmare
• Not by Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass by Jeremiah Tolbert
  • from Lightspeed
• This is Not a Wardrobe Door by A. Merc Rustad
  • from Fireside
• The Story of Kao Yu by Peter S. Beagle
  • from Tor.com
• The City Born Great by N.K. Jemisin
  • from Tor.com
• Successor, Usurper, Replacement by Alice Sola Kim
  • from BuzzFeed READER
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf by Dale Bailey
  • from Nightmare

Science Fiction

• Teenagers from Outer Space by Dale Bailey
  • from Clarkesworld
• Everyone From Themis Sends Letters Home by Genevieve Valentine
  • from Clarkesworld
• When They Came to Us by Debbie Urbanski
  • from The Sun
• Openness by Alexander Weinstein
  • from Beloit Fiction Journal
• The Future is Blue by Catherynne M. Valente
  • from Drowned Worlds
• On the Fringes of the Fractal by Greg van Eekhout
  • from 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush
• Smear by Brian Evenson
  • from Conjunctions: Other Aliens
• Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 by Caroline M. Yoachim
  • from Lightspeed
• Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? by Nick Wolven
  • from F&SF
• The Venus Effect by Joseph Allen Hill
  • from Lightspeed

Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever--to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Jemisin bringing her lyrical, endlessly curious point of view to the series' latest edition.

Table of Contents:

FANTASY

• Loneliness is in Your Blood by Cadwell Turnbull
  from Nightmare Magazine
• The Resident by Carmen Maria Machado
  from Her Body and Other Parties
• Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim
  from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Rivers Run Free by Charles Payseur
  from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  
• Tasting Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast by Gwendolyn Clare
  from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• The Last Cheng Beng Gift by Jaymee Goh
  from Lightspeed Magazine
• You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych by Kathleen Kayembe
  from Nightmare Magazine
• Black Powder by Maria Dahvana Headley
  from The Djinn Falls in Love (ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin)
• The Orange Tree by Maria Dahvana Headley
  from The Weight of Words (ed. Dave McKean and William Schafer)
• Church of Birds by Micah Dean Hicks
  from Kenyon Review

SCIENCE FICTION

• Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn by A. Merc Rustad
  from Humans Wanted (ed. Vivian Caethe)
• Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue by Charlie Jane Anders
  from Boston Review: Global Dystopias
• The Wretched and the Beautiful by E. Lily Yu
  from Terraform
• Destroy the City with Me Tonight by Kate Alice Marshall
  from Behind the Mask (ed. Tricia Reeks and Kyle Richardson)
• Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities by Lettie Prell
  from Clarkesworld Magazine
• Cannibal Acts by Maureen F. McHugh
  from Boston Review: Global Dystopias
• ZeroS by Peter Watts
  from Infinity Wars (ed. Jonathan Strahan)
• The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant by Rachael K. Jones
  from Lightspeed Magazine
• The Hermit of Houston by Samuel R. Delany
  from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance by Tobias S. Buckell
  from Cosmic Powers (ed. John Joseph Adams)

This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in 2018. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking animals, and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotion from tenderness to fear, each of these stories challenge the way we see our place in the cosmos. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 represents a wide range of the most accomplished voices working in science fiction and fantasy, in fiction, today -- each story dazzles with ambition, striking prose, and the promise of the other and the unencountered.

Table of Contents:

• Pitcher Plant - short story by Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare Magazine)
• What Everyone Knows - short story by Seanan McGuire (Kaiju Rising II)
• The Storyteller's Replacement - short story by N. K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
• Poor Unfortunate Fools - short story by Silvia Park (The Margins Transpacific Literary Project, November 1, 2018)
• Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women - short story by Theodore McCombs (Nightmare Magazine)
• Hard Mary - novelette by Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Variations on a Theme from Turandot - short story by Ada Hoffmann (Strange Horizons)
• Through the Flash - novelette by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Friday Black)
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good - novelette by LaShawn M. Wanak (FIYAH)
• The Kite Maker - short story by Brenda Peynado (Tor.com)
• The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington - short story by P. Djèlí Clark (Fireside Magazine)
• When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis - short story by Annalee Newitz (Future Tense Fiction)
• Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung - novelette by Usman T. Malik (Nightmare Magazine)
• STET - short story by Sarah Gailey (Fireside Magazine)
• What Gentle Women Dare - short story by Kelly Robson (Uncanny Magazine)
• Nine Last Days on Planet Earth - novelette by Daryl Gregory (Tor.com)
• Dead Air - novelette by Nino Cipri (Nightmare Magazine)
• Skinned - short story by Lesley Nneka Arimah (McSweeney’s #53, August 21, 2018)
• Godmeat - short story by Martin Cahill (Lightspeed Magazine)
• On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog - short story by Adam R. Shannon (Apex Magazine)
• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories from 2018

Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever – to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen" by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.

Table of Contents:

FANTASY

• "Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters" by Kelly Barnhill from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• "Erase, Erase, Erase" by Elizabeth Bear from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• "Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan" by Christopher Caldwell from Uncanny Magazine
• "The Freedom of the Shifting Sea" by Jaymee Goh from New Suns
• "The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary)" by Gwendolyn Kiste from Nightmare Magazine
• "Up from Slavery" by Victor LaValle from Weird Tales
• "Shape-ups at Delilah's" by Rion Amilcar Scott from The New Yorker
• "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" by Nibedita Sen from Nightmare Magazine
• "Another Avatar" by S.P. Somtow from Amazing Stories
• "The Time Invariance of Snow" by E. Lily Yu from Tor.com

SCIENCE FICTION

• "The Bookstore at the End of America" by Charlie Jane Anders from A People's Future of the United States
• "Life Sentence" by Matthew Baker from Lightspeed Magazine
• "Bullet Point" by Elizabeth Bear from Wastelands: The New Apocalypse
• "The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" by Tobias S. Buckell from New Suns
• "Sacrid's Pod" by Adam-Troy Castro from Lightspeed Magazine
• "Thoughts and Prayers" by Ken Liu from Future Tense Fiction
• "The Robots of Eden" by Anil Menon from New Suns
• "Between the Dark and the Dark" by Deji Bryce Olukotun from Lightspeed Magazine
• "A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy" by Rebecca Roanhorse from The Mythic Dream
• "The Archronology of Love" by Caroline M. Yoachim from Lightspeed Magazine

This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and exchanges the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love, loss, and the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the after. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, as it claims its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity's never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.

Table of Contents:

FANTASY

• "Glass Bottle Dancer" by Celeste Rita Baker from Lightspeed Magazine Issue #119, April 2020
• "The Long Walk" by Kate Elliott from The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• "The Cleaners" by Ken Liu from Amazon Original Stories (Faraway Collection)
• "Tiger's Feast" by KT Bryski from Nightmare Magazine Issue #98, November 2020
• "Crawfather" by Mel Kassel from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2020
• "Two Truths and a Lie" by Sarah Pinsker from Tor.com, June 17, 2020
• "Let's Play Dead" by Senaa Ahmad from The Paris Review Issue #232, Spring 2020
• "And This is How to Stay Alive" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda from Fantasy Magazine Issue #61, November 2020
• "Our Language" by Yohanca Delgado from A Public Space Issue #29, Winter 2021
• "The Rat" by Yohanca Delgado from One Story Issue #270, October 2020

SCIENCE FICTION

• "One Time, a Reluctant Traveler" by A. T. Greenblatt from Clarkesworld Issue #166, July 2020
• "Skipping Stones in the Dark" by Amman Sabet from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2020
• "Brother Rifle" by Daryl Gregory from Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• "Schrodinger's Catastrophe" by Gene Doucette from Lightspeed Magazine Issues #126-127, November/December 2020
• "The Plague Doctors" by Karen Lord from Take Us to a Better Place: Stories, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• "Survival Guide" by Karin Lowachee from Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych, Vol. 2, edited by Christie Yant, John Joseph Adams, and Hugh Howey
• "The Pill" by Meg Elison from the collection Big Girl
• "The Beast Adjoins" by Ted Kosmatka from Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2020
• "How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary" by Tochi Onyebuchi from Slate's Future Tense, August 29, 2020
• "Beyond the Dragon's Gate" by Yoon Ha Lee from Tor.com, May 20 2020

Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever--to illuminate what it means to be human.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by Rebecca Roanhorse
• 10 Steps to a Whole New You - (2021) - short story by Tonya Liburd
• The Pizza Boy - (2021) - short story by Meg Elison
• If the Martians Have Magic - (2021) - short story by P. Djèlí Clark?
• Delete Your First Memory for Free - (2021) - short story by Kel Coleman
• The Red Mother - (2021) - short fiction by Elizabeth Bear
• The Cold Calculations - (2021) - short fiction by Aimee Ogden
• The Captain and the Quartermaster - (2021) - short story by C. L. Clark
• Broad Dutty Water - (2021) - novelette by Nalo Hopkinson
• I Was a Teenage Space Jockey - (2021) - short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• Let All the Children Boogie - (2021) - short story by Sam J. Miller
• Skinder's Veil - (2021) - novelette by Kelly Link
• The Algorithm Will See You Now - (2021) - short fiction by Justin C. Key
• The Cloud Lake Unicorn - (2021) - short fiction by Karen Russell
• Proof by Induction - (2021) - short story by José Pablo Iriarte
• Colors of the Immortal Palette - (2021) - novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
• The Future Library - (2021) - novelette by Peng Shepherd
• L'esprit De L'escalier - (2021) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• Tripping Through Time - (2021) - short fiction by Rich Larson
• The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han - (2021) - short fiction by Maria Dong
• Root Rot - (2021) - short story by Fargo Tbakhi
• Contributors' Notes (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022) - essay by uncredited
• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2021 - essay by John Joseph Adams

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing.

Twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of science fiction and fantasy today.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today's most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ramifications of those ideas in IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

THE DYSTOPIA TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of dystopian fiction. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH--before the dystopia--focuses on society during its descent into absurdity and madness. BURN THE ASHES--during the dystopia--turns its attention to life during the strangest, most dire times. OR ELSE THE LIGHT--after the dystopia--concludes the saga with each author sharing their own vision of how we as a society might crawl back from the precipice of despair.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Sigler, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Caroline M. Yoachim, Adam-Troy Castro, An Owomoyela, Tobias S. Buckell, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Alex Irvine, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, plus a reprint by Dominica Phetteplace.

We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes.

In Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451, that's the motto of the Firemen who hunted down and burned books wherever they found them. Bradbury warned of a world where our literary history is taken from us. In BURN THE ASHES, some of the best science fiction authors working today continue to explore the dystopic worlds they introduced in IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Edited by John Joseph Adams, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey, THE DYSTOPIA TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of dystopian fiction. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH--before the dystopia--focuses on society during its descent into absurdity and madness. BURN THE ASHES--during the dystopia--turns its attention to life during the strangest, most dire times. OR ELSE THE LIGHT--after the dystopia--concludes the saga with each author sharing their own vision of how we as a society might crawl back from the precipice of despair.

BURN THE ASHES features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Sigler, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Caroline M. Yoachim, Adam-Troy Castro, An Owomoyela, Tobias S. Buckell, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Alex Irvine, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dominica Phetteplace.

Into the darkness within; or else the light...

When Margaret Atwood wrote these words, she left open the possibility that even our darkest tales may harbor a glimmer of hope. In OR ELSE THE LIGHT, the third and final entry of THE DYSTOPIA TRIPTYCH, over a dozen of the best minds in science fiction conclude their stories with a descent into darkness, or perhaps a ray of light.

Edited by John Joseph Adams, Christie Yant, and Hugh Howey, THE DYSTOPIA TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of dystopian fiction. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH--before the dystopia--focuses on society during its descent into absurdity and madness. BURN THE ASHES--during the dystopia--turns its attention to life during the strangest, most dire times. OR ELSE THE LIGHT--after the dystopia--concludes the saga with each author sharing their own vision of how we as a society might crawl back from the precipice of despair.

OR ELSE THE LIGHT features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Sigler, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Caroline M. Yoachim, Adam-Troy Castro, An Owomoyela, Tobias S. Buckell, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Alex Irvine, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dominica Phetteplace.

An anthology of zombie short fiction from some of the biggest names in horror and speculative fiction - including Stephen King, George R. R. Martin and Neil Gaiman

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!

From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the modern west.

Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale, The Living Dead covers the broad spectrum of zombie short fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Living Dead) - (2008) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• This Year's Class Picture - (1992) - shortstory by Dan Simmons
• Some Zombie Contingency Plans - (2005) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Death and Suffrage - (2002) - novelette by Dale Bailey
• Ghost Dance - (2003) - shortstory by Sherman Alexie
• Blossom - (1989) - shortstory by David J. Schow
• The Third Dead Body - (1993) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Dead - (1996) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Dead Kid - (2002) - shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
• Malthusian's Zombie - (2000) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Beautiful Stuff - (2004) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
• Sex, Death and Starshine - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Stockholm Syndrome - (2007) - shortstory by David Tallerman
• Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead - (2005) - shortstory by Joe Hill
• Those Who Seek Forgiveness - (2006) - shortstory by Laurell K. Hamilton
• In Beauty, Like the Night - (1992) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
• Prairie - (1997) - shortstory by Brian Evenson
• Everything Is Better with Zombies - (2006) - shortstory by Hannah Wolf Bowen
• Home Delivery - (1989) - novelette by Stephen King
• Less Than Zombie - (1989) - shortstory by Douglas E. Winter
• Sparks Fly Upward - (2005) - shortstory by Lisa Morton
• Meathouse Man - (1976) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Deadman's Road - (2007) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Skull-Faced Boy - (2002) - shortstory by David Barr Kirtley
• The Age of Sorrow - (2007) - shortstory by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Bitter Grounds - (2003) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave - (2008) - shortstory by Catherine Cheek
• Dead Like Me - (2000) - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
• Zora and the Zombie - (2004) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Calcutta, Lord of Nerves - (1992) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
• Followed - (2006) - shortstory by Will McIntosh
• The Song the Zombie Sang - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• Passion Play - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Holder
• Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man - (2007) - novelette by Scott Edelman
• How the Day Runs Down - novelette by John Langan

The Living Dead 2 has more of what zombie fans hunger for -- more scares, more action, more... brains! Experience the indispensable series that defines the very best in zombie literature with original stories by Kelley Armstrong, Karina Sumner-Smith, Carrie Ryan, Jamie Lackey, Genevieve Valentine, Brian Keene, Simon R. Green, David Wellington, David Barr Kirtley, Matt London, Joe McKinney, Walter Greatshell, Bob Fingerman, S. G. Browne, Jonathan Maberry, Mira Grant, Marc Paoletti, cherie priest, Robert Kirkman, Max Brooks, David Moody, Sarah Langan, Steven Gould, and John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow. In addition to these original stories, The Living Dead 2 features 18 additional reprint zombie stories. All this adds up to a Landmark volume that helps define what zombie godfather John Skipp calls "The New Zombie Literature."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Living Dead 2) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Alone, Together - novelette by Robert Kirkman
• Danger Word - (2004) - novelette by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due
• Zombieville - (2010) - shortstory by Paula R. Stiles
• The Anteroom - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
• When the Zombies Win - shortstory by Karina Sumner-Smith
• Mouja - shortstory by Matt London
• Category Five - shortstory by Marc Paoletti
• Living with the Dead - (2008) - shortstory by Molly Brown
• Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco - (2000) - shortstory by Seth Lindberg
• The Mexican Bus - shortstory by Walter Greatshell
• The Other Side - shortstory by Jamie Lackey
• Where the Heart Was - (1993) - shortstory by David J. Schow
• Good People - shortstory by David Wellington
• Lost Canyon of the Dead - shortstory by Brian Keene
• Pirates vs. Zombies - shortstory by Amelia Beamer
• The Crocodiles - (2010) - novelette by Steven Popkes
• The Skull-Faced City - shortstory by David Barr Kirtley
• Obedience - (2009) - shortstory by Brenna Yovanoff
• Steve and Fred - shortstory by Max Brooks
• The Rapeworm - shortstory by Charles Coleman Finlay
• Everglades - shortstory by Mira Grant
• We Now Pause For Station Identification - shortstory by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Reluctance - shortstory by Cherie Priest
• Arlene Schabowski of the Undead - (2007) - shortstory by Mark McLaughlin and Kyra M. Schon
• Zombie Gigolo - shortstory by S. G. Browne
• Rural Dead - shortstory by Bret Hammond
• The Summer Place - shortstory by Bob Fingerman
• The Wrong Grave - (2007) - novelette by Kelly Link
• The Human Race - (2009) - shortstory by Scott Edelman
• Who We Used to Be - shortstory by David Moody
• Therapeutic Intervention - shortstory by Rory Harper
• He Said, Laughing - shortstory by Simon R. Green
• Last Stand - shortstory by Kelley Armstrong
• The Thought War - (2008) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• Dating in Dead World - novelette by Joe McKinney
• Flotsam & Jetsam - [Forest of Hands and Teeth] - shortstory by Carrie Ryan
• Thin Them Out - novelette by Kim Paffenroth and R. J. Sevin and Julia Sevin
• Zombie Season - (2008) - shortstory by Catherine MacLeod
• Tameshigiri - shortstory by Steven Gould
• The Days of Flaming Motorcycles - (2010) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Zero Tolerance - shortstory by Jonathan Maberry
• And the Next, and the Next - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• The Price of a Slice - novelette by John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow
• Are You Trying To Tell Me This Is Heaven? - shortstory by Sarah Langan

An anthology of post-apocalyptic short fiction from some of the biggest names in science fiction and speculative fiction - including Stephen King, George R. R. Martin and Orson Scott Card

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity.

Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon.3

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse) - (2008) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The End of the Whole Mess - (1986) - novelette by Stephen King
• Salvage - (1986) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The People of Sand and Slag - (2004) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Bread and Bombs - (2003) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• How We Got In Town and Out Again - (1996) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels - (1973) - shortstory by George R. R. Martin
• Waiting for the Zephyr - (2002) - shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell
• Never Despair - (1997) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
• When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth - (2006) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• The Last of the O-Forms - (2002) - shortstory by James Van Pelt
• Still Life with Apocalypse - (2002) - shortstory by Richard Kadrey
• Artie's Angels - (2001) - shortstory by Catherine Wells
• Judgment Passed - (2008) - novelette by Jerry Oltion
• Mute - (2002) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Inertia - (1990) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• And the Deep Blue Sea - (2005) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• Speech Sounds - (1983) - shortstory by Octavia E. Butler
• Killers - (2006) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus - (1988) - novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• The End of the World as We Know It - (2004) - shortstory by Dale Bailey
• A Song Before Sunset - (1976) - shortstory by David Grigg
• Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers - (2007) - novelette by John Langan
• For Further Reading - (2008) - essay by John Joseph Adams

Wastelands 2 - More Stories of the Apocalypse is a new anthology of post-apocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned science fiction and fantasy authors in the field today including George R. R. Martin, Hugh Howey, Junot Diaz, David Brin and many more. It is an eclectic mix of tales that explores famine, death, war, pestilence, and harbingers of the biblical apocalypse.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - John Joseph Adams
• The Tamarisk Hunter - short story by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Deep Blood Kettle - short story by Hugh Howey
• "...for a single yesterday" - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Animal Husbandry - short story by Seanan McGuire
• Chiswick Messiah - short story by Lauren Beukes
• Colliding Branes - short story by Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling
• Ellie - short story by Jack McDevitt
• Foundation - short story by Ann Aguirre
• Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• A Beginner's Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse - short story by Christopher Barzak
• Wondrous Days - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Dreams in Dust - short story by D. Thomas Minton
• By Fools Like Me - short story by Nancy Kress
• Jimmy's Roadside Cafe - short story by Ramsey Shehadeh
• The Elephants of Poznan - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The Postman - novella by David Brin
• When We Went To See the End of the World - short story by Robert Silverberg
• The Revelation of Morgan Stern - short story by Christie Yant
• Final Exam - short story by Megan Arkenberg
• A Flock of Birds - novelette by James Van Pelt
• Patient Zero - short story by Tananarive Due
• Soulless in His Sight - short story by Milo James Fowler
• Outer Rims - short story by Toiya Kristen Finley
• Advertising at the End of the World - short story by Keffy R. M. Kehrli
• How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth - short story by Rachel Swirsky
• Tight Little Stiches in a Dead Man's Back - short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• After the Apocalypse - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Traditional - short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• Monstro - novelette by Junot Diaz
• Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince - short story by Jake Kerr

In WASTELANDS: THE NEW APOCALYPSE, veteran anthology editor John Joseph Adams is once again our guide through the wastelands using his genre and editorial expertise to curate his finest collection of post-apocalyptic short fiction yet. Whether the end comes via nuclear war, pandemic, climate change, or cosmological disaster, these stories explore the extraordinary trials and tribulations of those who survive.

Featuring never-before-published tales by: Veronica Roth, Hugh Howey, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Richard Kadrey, Scott Sigler, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias S. Buckell, Meg Elison, Greg van Eekhout, Wendy N. Wagner, Jeremiah Tolbert, and Violet Allen--plus, recent reprints by: Carmen Maria Machado, Carrie Vaughn, Ken Liu, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kami Garcia, Charlie Jane Anders, Catherynne M. Valente, Jack Skillingstead, Sofia Samatar, Maureen F. McHugh, Nisi Shawl, Adam-Troy Castro, Dale Bailey, Susan Jane Bigelow, Corinne Duyvis, Shaenon K. Garrity, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Darcie Little Badger, Timothy Mudie, and Emma Osborne.