The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

About this book

“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can’t lie or fall in love. Fathers feed their children ghost preserves. Souls chase one another through animal incarnations. Yet these stories are grounded deeply in our reality. Out of these stories’ weirdness emerges the cruelty of border enforcement, the horror of legislation restricting reproductive freedom, the frightening pace of AI. The result is a stunning, immersive, intensely felt experience, showing us less of what the world is, and more of what it could be.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 includes Nathan Ballingrud • KT Bryski • Isabel Cañas • Maria Dong • Kim Fu • Theodora Goss • Alix E. Harrow • S. L. Huang • Stephen Graham Jones • Shingai Njeri Kagunda • Isabel J. Kim • Samantha Mills • MKRNYILGLD • Malka Older • Susan Palwick • Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez • Sofia Samatar • Kristina Ten • Catherynne M. Valente • Chris Willrich

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. Readings in the Slantwise Sciences
  5. Air to Shape Lungs
  6. Beginnings
  7. Sparrows
  8. The Six Deaths of the Saint
  9. Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist
  10. Men, Women, and Chainsaws
  11. Rabbit Test
  12. There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista
  13. Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness
  14. White Water, Blue Ocean
  15. The CRISPR Cookbook: A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Abortion in a Post-Roe World
  16. Three Mothers Mountain
  17. The Odyssey Problem
  18. Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology
  19. Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867
  20. In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird
  21. The Difference Between Love and Time
  22. Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead
  23. Cumulative Ethical Guidelines for Mid-Range Interstellar Storytellers
  24. Contributors’ Notes
  25. Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2022
  26. Notes
  27. About the Editors
  28. Guest Editors of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
  29. About Mariner Books
  30. Copyright
  31. About the Publisher