As the end of the year approaches we begin to see the traditional "best of..." lists. One of the first ones to be announced has been the table of contents of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, the seventh volumen of the anthology yearly edited by Jonathan Strahan and published by Night Shade Books. The stories included (in alphabetical order, since the order in the book is still undecided) are the following (with links to free online versions of the stories when available):
- “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times”, Eleanor Arnason
- “Great Grandmother in the Cellar”, Peter S. Beagle
- “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard
- “Troll Blood”, Peter Dickinson
- “Close Encounters”, Andy Duncan
- “Blood Drive”, Jeffrey Ford
- “Adventure Story”, Neil Gaiman
- “The Grinnell Method”, Molly Gloss
- “Beautiful Boys”, Theodora Goss
- “The Easthound”, Nalo Hopkinson
- “Mantis Wives”, Kij Johnson
- “Bricks, Sticks, Straw”, Gwyneth Jones
- “Goggles c 1910”, Caitlin R. Kiernan
- “The Education of a Witch”, Ellen Klages
- “The Color Least Used by Nature”, Ted Kosmatka
- “Significant Dust”, Margo Lanagan
- “Two Houses”, Kelly Link
- “Mono No Aware”, Ken Liu
- “Macy Minnot’s Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler’s Green, the Potter’s Garden”, Paul McAuley
- “Swift, Brutal Retaliation”, Megan McCarron
- “About Fairies”, Pat Murphy
- “Nahiku West”, Linda Nagata
- “Let Maps to Others”, K.J. Parker
- “Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls”, Rachel Pollack
- “Katabasis”, Robert Reed
- “What Did Tessimond Tell You?”, Adam Roberts
- “The Contrary Gardener”, Christopher Rowe
- “Joke in Four Panels”, Robert Shearman
- “Domestic Magic”, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
- “Reindeer Mountain”, Karin Tidbeck
- “Fade to White”, Catherynne M. Valente
- “A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones”, Genevieve Valentine
I must confess that this year I'm way behind with my short story reading and I haven't read any of these ones yet (something I hope will change soon). However, I'm very glad to see some favorites of this blog such as Aliette de Bodard or Ken Liu and I'm also happy that a story by Karin Tidbeck was included, since my friend Pedro Román wrote a wonderful review (in Spanish) of Jagannath and even interviewed the author (in Spanish) (you can read the English version of the interview on this blog, courtesy of Pedro).
(You can also read this article in Spanish/También puedes leer este artículo en español)
(You can also read this article in Spanish/También puedes leer este artículo en español)
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