Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2009 Edition

ROBERT REED

Jeffrey Ford

Elizabeth Bear

Richard Bowes

Peter Watts

Wildside Press

Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft is an anthology of new short work from some of the greatest science fiction writers in the field. These visionary stories explore prediction science, quantum computing, real-time translation, machine learning, and much more. The authors used inside access to leading-edge work from Microsoft Research as inspiration, crafting pieces that predict the near-future of technology%mdash;and examine its complex relationship to our core humanity.\nFuture Visions features contributions from:\nElizabeth Bear 
Greg Bear 
David Brin 
Nancy Kress 
Ann Leckie 
Jack McDevitt 
Seanan McGuire 
Robert J. Sawyer 
…along with a short graphic novel by Blue Delliquanti and Michele Rosenthal, plus original illustrations by Joey Camacho.\nThese are some of today’s most visionary creators—and they’ve joined together to give us a preview of tomorrow.

Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

DAVID BRIN

Seanan McGuire

Greg, Bear

Nancy Kress

Jack McDevitt

Ann Leckie

Robert J. Saywer

Microsoft

Dust

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

RECORDED BOOKS^

Unabridged CD Audiobook 12 CDs / 12.5 hours long... Narrated by Celeste Chulla

Range of Ghosts

Fantasy

Ancestral Night

Gollancz

The Long List Anthology: More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List

Literature & Fiction

David Steffen

Various, Authors

Max Gladstone

Short Stories & Anthologies

Skyboat Media and Blackstone Audio

The Long List Anthology is designed to recognize the short works that were nominated for the 2015 Hugo Awards but did not make it into the top five shortlist for the final ballot. Thus, voted into the Hugo Award's long list of works -- the top fifteen works nominated for each category -- were these nine short stories and three novelettes, now made available to a wider audience by award-winning narrators. The short stories included in this collection are: <ul>
<li>''Toad Words'' by T. Kingfisher</li> <li>''When It Ends, He Catches Her'' by Eugie Foster</li> <li>''The Truth about Owls'' by Amal El-Mohtar</li> <li>''Covenant'' by Elizabeth Bear</li> <li>''This Chance Planet'' by Elizabeth Bear</li> <li>''Makeisha in Time'' by Rachael K. Jones</li> <li>''The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family'' by Usman T. Malik</li> <li>''The Breath of War'' by Aliette de Bodard</li> <li>''A Kiss with Teeth'' by Max Gladstone</li> </ul>
 The three novellas in this collection are: <ul>
<li>
We Are the Cloud by Sam J. Miller</li> <li>
The Magician and LaPlace's Demon by Tom Crosshill</li> <li>
Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu</li> </ul>

A strange man comes to an even stranger encampment... A bouncer becomes the linchpin of an unexpected urban movement... A courier on the run has to decide who to trust in a dangerous city... A slacker in a zero-footprint town get a most unusual new job...and a weapons investigator uses his skills to discover a metropolis hidden right in front of his eyes.Welcome to the future of cities. Welcome to METAtropolis.More than an anthology, METAtropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder and project editor John Scalzi who combined their talents to build a new urban future, and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision, and a reading experience unlike any you've had before. You're at the city limits now. See what's waiting on the other side.

Metatropolis

John-Scalzi

Karl Schroeder

Jay Lake

Tobias Buckell

Subterranean

Subterranean Press is proud to announce Book of Iron, the standalone prequel to Elizabeth Bear's acclaimed novella, Bone and Jewel Creatures. Bijou the Artificer is a Wizard of Messaline, the City of Jackals. She and her partner--and rival--Kaulas the Necromancer, along with the martial Prince Salih, comprise the Bey's elite band of trouble-solving adventurers. But Messaline is built on the ruins of a still more ancient City of Jackals. So when two foreign Wizards and a bard from the mysterious western isles cross the desert in pursuit of a sorcerer intent on plundering the deadly artifacts of lost Erem, Bijou and her companions must join their hunt. The quest will take them through strange passages, beneath the killing light of alien suns, with the price of failure the destruction of every land.

Book of Iron

Lynne M. Thomas &amp; Michael Damian Thomas have co-edited and co-published Uncanny Magazine since its launch in 2014. They brought readers stunning cover art, passionate science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, and provocative nonfiction by writers from every conceivable background, including some of science fiction and fantasy's most fabulous award-winning and bestselling authors. In its first four years, Uncanny Magazine won the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award three times (2016, 2017, 2018), Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas won the 2018 Best Editor—Short Form Hugo Award for their work on the magazine, and numerous stories from Uncanny Magazine have been finalists or winners of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards—including the novelette “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) which won the 2016 Best Novelette Hugo Award and the novelette “You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong which won the 2017 Best Novelette Locus Award. This Best of Uncanny anthology collects those two novelettes and many of the other best stories and poems from the first 22 issues of Uncanny Magazine. Naomi Novik plunges you into a delicious fractured fairy tale retelling in “Blessings.” Delilah S. Dawson explores superpowers, harassment, and revenge in “Catcall.” Neil Gaiman takes you along to keep pace with his gorgeous and powerful poem “The Long Run.” Charlie Jane Anders shakes up a haunting cocktail of comedy clubs and love with “Ghost Champagne.” Mary Robinette Kowal weaves a heartbreaking tale of marriage, duty, and magical curses in “Midnight Hour.” N.K. Jemisin ruminates on dangerous fans, awards, and legacy in “Henosis.” Maria Dahvana Headleys links into a Classic Hollywood of animal actors and sleazy secrets with “If You Were a Tiger, I'd Have to Wear White.” Catherynne M. Valente travels to a colony world infested with strange psychic cats in “Planet Lion.” Carmen Maria Machado wrestles with predators, identity, and death in “My Body, Herself.” And Seanan McGuire sings a tragic song of misunderstandings and unfortunate consequences with “Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands.” Those pieces are only the beginning. The Best of Uncanny features some of the uncanniest stories and poetry in SF/F today, by its current leading voices. Sit down and immerse yourself in 44 original science fiction and fantasy stories and poems that can make you feel.

The Best of Uncanny Magazine

Catherynne M. Valente

Ursula Vernon

Aliette De Bodard

Charlie Jane Anders

Naomi Novik

Alyssa Wong

Neil, Gaiman

N.K. Jemisin

Mary Robinette Kowal

Maria Dahvana Headley

Delilah S. Dawson

Kat Howard

Hao, Jingfang

United States

Subterranean Pr

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