Contenidos de The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, de Rich Horton

Además de los de la antología Neil Clarke, también se han anunciado los contenidos de The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, de Rich Horton. Son los siguientes (con enlaces a versiones gratuitas online cuando están disponibles):

• “The Daughters of John Demetrius” by Joe Pitkin (Analog)
• “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Analog)
• “Twelve and Tag” by Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov’s)
• “Mutability” by Ray Nayler (Asimov’s)
• “Acres of Perhaps” by Will Ludwigsen (Asimov’s)
• “Unearthly Landscape by a Lady” by Rebecca Campbell (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• “The King in the Cathedral” by Rich Larson (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• “Little Sisters” by Vonda N. McIntyre (Book View Cafe)
• “The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild” by Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld)
• “Asymptotic” by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld)
• “Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld)
• “Today I Am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld)
• “The Deepwater Bride” by Tamysn Muir (F&SF)
• “The Two Paupers” by C.S.E. Cooney (Fairchild Books)
• “Hello Hello” by Seanan McGuire (Future Visions)
• “The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red, Red Coal” by Chaz Brenchley (Lightspeed)
• “Time Bomb Time” by C.C. Finlay (Lightspeed)
• “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed)
• “The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club” by Nike Sulway (Lightspeed)
• “My Last Bringback” by John Barnes (Meeting Infinity)
• “Drones” by Simon Ings (Meeting Infinity)
• “The Heart’s Filthy Lesson” by Elizabeth Bear (Old Venus)
• “Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Idea Countness Rathagan” by Ian McDonald (Old Venus)
• “The Graphology of Hemorrhage” by Yoon Ha Lee (Operation Arcana)
• “Capitalism in the 22nd Century” by Geoff Ryman (Stories for Chip)
• “The Game of Smash and Recovery” by Kelly Link (Strange Horizons)
• “This Evening’s Performance” by Genevieve Valentine (The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk)
• “Please Undo This Hurt” by Seth Dickinson (Tor.com)
• “Consolation” by John Kessel (Twelve Tomorrows)
• “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang (Uncanny)

El libro se podrá comprar en junio del año que viene y me hace especial ilusión ver las historias de Naomi Kritzer y Alvaro Zinos-Amaro entre los contenidos, puesto que son dos de mis favoritas de 2015. 

Novedad: The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, antología de Rich Horton

Ya está a la venta The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, una antología seleccionada por Rich Horton. 

Estos son los relatos incluidos (con enlaces a versiones gratuitas online cuando existen):

• “Sadness”, Timons Esaias 
• “Schools of Clay”, Derek Künsken
• “Someday”, James Patrick Kelly 
• “The Instructive Tale of the Archaeologist and his Wife”, Alexander Jablokov 
• “Heaven Thunders the Truth”, K. J. Parker 
• “The Manor of Lost Time”, Richard Parks 
• “Every Hill Ends With Sky”, Robert Reed 
• “Wine”, Yoon Ha Lee 
• “Pernicious Romance”, Robert Reed 
• “The Magician and Laplace’s Demon”, Tom Crosshill 
• “The Long Haul”, Ken Liu 
• “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i”, Alaya Dawn Johnson 
• “Aberration”, Genevieve Valentine 
• “Ghost Story”, John Grant 
• “Skull and Hyssop”, Kathleen Jennings 
• “The Endless Sink”, Damien Ober 
• “Drones Don’t Kill People”, Annalee Newitz 
• “How to Get Back to the Forest”, Sofia Samatar 
• “Selfie”, Sandra MacDonald 
• “Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology”, Theodora Goss 
• “I Can See Right Through You”, Kelly Link 
• “The Wild and Hungry Times”, Patricia Russo 
• “Invisible Planets”, Hannu Rajaniemi 
• “Trademark Bugs: A Legal History”, Adam Roberts 
• “A Better Way to Die”, Paul Cornell 
• “Fift and Shria”, Benjamin Rosenbaum 
• “Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale”, C. S. E. Cooney 
• “Grand Jeté(the Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky 
• “The Scrivener”, Eleanor Arnason 
• “The Hand is Quicker”, Elizabeth Bear 
• “Break! Break! Break!”, Charlie Jane Anders 
• “Sleeper”, Jo Walton 
• “Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts”, Cory Doctorow 
• “Collateral”, Peter Watts

Contenidos de The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, de Rich Horton

Se han anunciado los contenidos de la antología The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, de Rich Horton. Los relatos incluidos, con enlaces a versiones gratuitas cuando están disponibles, son los siguientes:

• “Sadness”, Timons Esaias 
• “Schools of Clay”, Derek Künsken
• “Someday”, James Patrick Kelly 
• “The Instructive Tale of the Archaeologist and his Wife”, Alexander Jablokov 
• “Heaven Thunders the Truth”, K. J. Parker 
• “The Manor of Lost Time”, Richard Parks 
• “Every Hill Ends With Sky”, Robert Reed 
• “Wine”, Yoon Ha Lee 
• “Pernicious Romance”, Robert Reed 
• “The Magician and Laplace’s Demon”, Tom Crosshill 
• “The Long Haul”, Ken Liu 
• “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i”, Alaya Dawn Johnson 
• “Aberration”, Genevieve Valentine 
• “Ghost Story”, John Grant 
• “Skull and Hyssop”, Kathleen Jennings 
• “The Endless Sink”, Damien Ober 
• “Drones Don’t Kill People”, Annalee Newitz 
• “How to Get Back to the Forest”, Sofia Samatar 
• “Selfie”, Sandra MacDonald 
• “Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology”, Theodora Goss 
• “I Can See Right Through You”, Kelly Link 
• “The Wild and Hungry Times”, Patricia Russo 
• “Invisible Planets”, Hannu Rajaniemi 
• “Trademark Bugs: A Legal History”, Adam Roberts 
• “A Better Way to Die”, Paul Cornell 
• “Fift and Shria”, Benjamin Rosenbaum 
• “Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale”, C. S. E. Cooney 
• “Grand Jeté(the Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky 
• “The Scrivener”, Eleanor Arnason 
• “The Hand is Quicker”, Elizabeth Bear 
• “Break! Break! Break!”, Charlie Jane Anders 
• “Sleeper”, Jo Walton 
• “Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts”, Cory Doctorow 
• “Collateral”, Peter Watts

Ebook en oferta: The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014, editado por Rich Horton

La oferta de esta semana en Weightless Books es la antología The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014, editada por Rich Horton, que se puede adquirir durante 24 horas en formato digital sin DRM por 1,99$. Los relatos que incluye (con enlace a versiones online gratuitas cuando existen) son los siguientes:

1. “Social Services”, Madeline Ash (An Aura of Familiarity)
2. “Out in the Dark”, Linda Nagata (Analog)
3. “The End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine”, Harry Turtledove (Analog)
4. “The Oracle”, Lavie Tidhar (Analog)
5. “Call Girl”, Tang Fei (Apex)
6. “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly”, E. Lily Yu (Apex)
7. “They Shall Salt the Earth With Seeds of Glass”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s)
8. “The Wildfires of Antarctica”, Alan De Niro (Asimov’s)
9. “The Discovered Country”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s)
10. “A Stranger from a Foreign Ship”, Tom Purdom (Asimov’s)
11. “On the Origin of Song”, Naim Kabir (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
12. “Effigy Nights”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
13. “Soulcatcher”, James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld)
14. “Found”, Alex Dally MacFarlane (Clarkesworld)
15. “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
16. “Loss, With Chalk Diagrams”, E. Lily Yu (Eclipse Online)
17. “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel”, Ken Liu (F&SF)
18. “Kormak the Lucky”, Eleanor Arnason (F&SF)
19. “Grizzled Veterans of Many and Much”, Robert Reed (F&SF)
20. “Rosary and Goldenstar”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
21. “The Dragonslayer of Merebarton”, K.J. Parker (Fearsome Journeys)
22. “Martyr’s Gem”, C. S. E. Cooney (Giganotosaurus)
23. “Such & Such Said to So & So”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Glitter & Mayhem)
24. “Killing Curses, a Caught-Heart Quest”, Krista Hoeppner Leahy (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet)
25. “A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain”, Karin Tidbeck (Lightspeed)
26. “Paranormal Romance”, Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed)
27. “The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls”, Howard Waldrop (Old Mars)
28. “Blanchefleur”, Theodora Goss (Once Upon a Time)
29. “The Memory Book”, Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells)
30. “Live Arcade”, Erik Amundsen (Strange Horizons)
31. “Town’s End”, Yukimi Ogawa (Strange Horizons)
32. “A Window or a Small Box”, Jedediah Berry (Tor.com)
33. “Trafalgar and Josefina”, Angelica Gorodischer (Trafalgar)
34. “Firebrand”, Peter Watts (Twelve Tomorrows)
35. “Game of Chance”, Carrie Vaughn (Unfettered)

Novedad: The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 Edition, de Rich Horton

Esta semana se ha puesto a la venta The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 Edition, antología editada por Rich Horton. Los relatos incluidos, con enlace a versiones online gratuitas cuando existen, son los siguientes:

1. “Social Services”, Madeline Ash (An Aura of Familiarity)
2. “Out in the Dark”, Linda Nagata (Analog)
3. “The End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine”, Harry Turtledove (Analog)
4. “The Oracle”, Lavie Tidhar (Analog)
5. “Call Girl”, Tang Fei (Apex)
6. “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly”, E. Lily Yu (Apex)
7. “They Shall Salt the Earth With Seeds of Glass”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s)
8. “The Wildfires of Antarctica”, Alan De Niro (Asimov’s)
9. “The Discovered Country”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s)
10. “A Stranger from a Foreign Ship”, Tom Purdom (Asimov’s)
11. “On the Origin of Song”, Naim Kabir (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
12. “Effigy Nights”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
13. “Soulcatcher”, James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld)
14. “Found”, Alex Dally MacFarlane (Clarkesworld)
15. “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
16. “Loss, With Chalk Diagrams”, E. Lily Yu (Eclipse Online)
17. “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel”, Ken Liu (F&SF)
18. “Kormak the Lucky”, Eleanor Arnason (F&SF)
19. “Grizzled Veterans of Many and Much”, Robert Reed (F&SF)
20. “Rosary and Goldenstar”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
21. “The Dragonslayer of Merebarton”, K.J. Parker (Fearsome Journeys)
22. “Martyr’s Gem”, C. S. E. Cooney (Giganotosaurus)
23. “Such & Such Said to So & So”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Glitter & Mayhem)
24. “Killing Curses, a Caught-Heart Quest”, Krista Hoeppner Leahy (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet)
25. “A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain”, Karin Tidbeck (Lightspeed)
26. “Paranormal Romance”, Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed)
27. “The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls”, Howard Waldrop (Old Mars)
28. “Blanchefleur”, Theodora Goss (Once Upon a Time)
29. “The Memory Book”, Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells)
30. “Live Arcade”, Erik Amundsen (Strange Horizons)
31. “Town’s End”, Yukimi Ogawa (Strange Horizons)
32. “A Window or a Small Box”, Jedediah Berry (Tor.com)
33. “Trafalgar and Josefina”, Angelica Gorodischer (Trafalgar)
34. “Firebrand”, Peter Watts (Twelve Tomorrows)
35. “Game of Chance”, Carrie Vaughn (Unfettered)

Novedad: Space Opera, editada por Rich Horton

Ya está a la venta la antología Space Opera, editada por Rich Horton. Los relatos seleccionados son los siguientes:

1. “The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars”, Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed)
2. “The Wreck of the Godspeed”, James Patrick Kelly (Between Worlds)
3. “Saving Tiamaat”, Gwyneth Jones (The New Space Opera)
4. “Six Lights Off Green Scar”, Gareth L. Powell (Aphelion)
5. “Glory”, Greg Egan (The New Space Opera)
6. “The Mote Dancer and the Firelife”, Chris Willrich (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
7. “On Rickety Thistlewaite”, Michael F. Flynn (Analog)
8. “War Without End”, Una McCormack (Conflicts)
9. “Finisterra”, David Moles (F&SF)
10. “Seven Years from Home”, Naomi Novik (Warriors)
11. “Plotters and Shooters”, Kage Baker (Fast Forward 1)
12. “The Muse of Empires Lost”, Paul Berger (Twenty Epics)
13. “Boojum”, Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette (Fast Ships and Black Sails)
14. “Lehr Rex”, Jay Lake (Forbidden Planets)
15. “Cracklegrackle”, Justina Robson (The New Space Opera 2)
16. “Hideaway”, Alastair Reynolds (Interzone)
17. “Isabel of the Fall”, Ian R. MacLeod (Interzone)
18. “Precious Mental”, Robert Reed (Asimov’s)
19. “Two Sisters in Exile”, Aliette de Bodard (Solaris Rising 1.5)
20. “Lode Stars”, Lavie Tidhar (The Immersion Book of SF)
21. “Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clarkesworld)
22. “The Tear”, Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)

Contenidos de la antología Space Opera, de Rich Horton

Se han anunciado los contenidos de la antología Space Opera, editada por Rich Horton, que será publicada por Prime Books en abril de este año. 

Los relatos seleccionados son los siguientes:

1. “The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars”, Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed)
2. “The Wreck of the Godspeed”, James Patrick Kelly (Between Worlds)
3. “Saving Tiamaat”, Gwyneth Jones (The New Space Opera)
4. “Six Lights Off Green Scar”, Gareth L. Powell (Aphelion)
5. “Glory”, Greg Egan (The New Space Opera)
6. “The Mote Dancer and the Firelife”, Chris Willrich (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
7. “On Rickety Thistlewaite”, Michael F. Flynn (Analog)
8. “War Without End”, Una McCormack (Conflicts)
9. “Finisterra”, David Moles (F&SF)
10. “Seven Years from Home”, Naomi Novik (Warriors)
11. “Plotters and Shooters”, Kage Baker (Fast Forward 1)
12. “The Muse of Empires Lost”, Paul Berger (Twenty Epics)
13. “Boojum”, Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette (Fast Ships and Black Sails)
14. “Lehr Rex”, Jay Lake (Forbidden Planets)
15. “Cracklegrackle”, Justina Robson (The New Space Opera 2)
16. “Hideaway”, Alastair Reynolds (Interzone)
17. “Isabel of the Fall”, Ian R. MacLeod (Interzone)
18. “Precious Mental”, Robert Reed (Asimov’s)
19. “Two Sisters in Exile”, Aliette de Bodard (Solaris Rising 1.5)
20. “Lode Stars”, Lavie Tidhar (The Immersion Book of SF)
21. “Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clarkesworld)
22. “The Tear”, Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)

Contenidos de The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 Edition, de Rich Horton

Se acaba de desvelar la tabla de contenidos de The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 Edition, antología editada por Rich Horton. Los relatos seleccionados, con enlace a versiones online gratuitas cuando existen, son los siguientes:

1. “Social Services”, Madeline Ash (An Aura of Familiarity)
2. “Out in the Dark”, Linda Nagata (Analog)
3. “The End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine”, Harry Turtledove (Analog)
4. “The Oracle”, Lavie Tidhar (Analog)
5. “Call Girl”, Tang Fei (Apex)
6. “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly”, E. Lily Yu (Apex)
7. “They Shall Salt the Earth With Seeds of Glass”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s)
8. “The Wildfires of Antarctica”, Alan De Niro (Asimov’s)
9. “The Discovered Country”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s)
10. “A Stranger from a Foreign Ship”, Tom Purdom (Asimov’s)
11. “On the Origin of Song”, Naim Kabir (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
12. “Effigy Nights”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
13. “Soulcatcher”, James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld)
14. “Found”, Alex Dally MacFarlane (Clarkesworld)
15. “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
16. “Loss, With Chalk Diagrams”, E. Lily Yu (Eclipse Online)
17. “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel”, Ken Liu (F&SF)
18. “Kormak the Lucky”, Eleanor Arnason (F&SF)
19. “Grizzled Veterans of Many and Much”, Robert Reed (F&SF)
20. “Rosary and Goldenstar”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
21. “The Dragonslayer of Merebarton”, K.J. Parker (Fearsome Journeys)
22. “Martyr’s Gem”, C. S. E. Cooney (Giganotosaurus)
23. “Such & Such Said to So & So”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Glitter & Mayhem)
24. “Killing Curses, a Caught-Heart Quest”, Krista Hoeppner Leahy (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet)
25. “A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain”, Karin Tidbeck (Lightspeed)
26. “Paranormal Romance”, Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed)
27. “The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls”, Howard Waldrop (Old Mars)
28. “Blanchefleur”, Theodora Goss (Once Upon a Time)
29. “The Memory Book”, Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells)
30. “Live Arcade”, Erik Amundsen (Strange Horizons)
31. “Town’s End”, Yukimi Ogawa (Strange Horizons)
32. “A Window or a Small Box”, Jedediah Berry (Tor.com)
33. “Trafalgar and Josefina”, Angelica Gorodischer (Trafalgar)
34. “Firebrand”, Peter Watts (Twelve Tomorrows)
35. “Game of Chance”, Carrie Vaughn (Unfettered)

Contenidos de The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition de Rich Horton

La antología de "Lo mejor de..." editada por Rich Horton forma con las de Jonathan Strahan y Gardner Dozois (esta última sólo de ciencia ficción) el triunvirato de las recopilaciones anuales de los relatos más destacados en estos géneros. Sus contenidos se han anunciado recientemente y son los siguientes (he añadido enlaces a aquellas historias que se encuentran disponibles online de forma gratuita)

1. “Nahiku West” by Linda Nagata (Analog)
2. “A Murmuration of Starlings” by Joe Pitkin (Analog)
3. “The Black Feminist’s Guide to Science Fiction Film Editing” by Sandra McDonald (Asimov’s)
4. “The Bernoulli War” by Gord Sellar (Asimov’s)
5. “In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s)
6. “The Castle That Jack Built” by Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
7. “The Governess and the Lobster” by Margaret Ronald (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
8. “Sunshine” by Nina Allan (Black Static)
9. “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld)
10. “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia (Clarkesworld)
11. “Prayer” by Robert Reed (Clarkesworld)
12. “Honey Bear” by Sofia Samatar (Clarkesworld)
13. “The Contrary Gardener” by Christopher Rowe (Eclipse Online)
14. “Heaven Under Earth” by Aliette de Bodard (Electric Velocipede)
15. “Scrap Dragon” by Naomi Kritzer (F&SF)
16. “Twenty-Two and you” by Michael Blumlein (F&SF)
17. “One Breath, One Stroke” by Catherynne M. Valente (The Future is Japanese)
18. “The Philosophy of Ships” by Caroline Yoachim (Interzone)
19. “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream” by Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed)
20. “The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring” by Genevieve Valentine (Lightspeed)
21. “Arbeitskraft” by Nick Mamatas (The Mammoth Book of Steampunk)
22. “Fireborn” by Robert Charles Wilson (Rip-Off)
23. “Under the Eaves” by Lavie Tidhar (Robots: The New A.I.)
24. “Four Kinds of Cargo” by Leonard Richardson (Strange Horizons)
25. “The Keats Variation” by K. M. Ferebee Strange Horizons)
26. “Things Greater Than Love” by Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons)
27. “The Weight of History, The Lightness of the Future” by Jay Lake (Subterranean)
28. “Elementals” by Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House)
29. “Two Houses” by Kelly Link (Tin House)
30. “Swift, Brutal Retaliation” by Meghan McCarron (Tor.com)
31. “Uncle Flower’s Homecoming Waltz” by Marissa K. Lingen (Tor.com)
32. “The Magician’s Apprentice” by Tamsyn Muir (Weird Tales)
33. “One Day in Time City” by David Ira Cleary (Interzone)

Reconozco que la gran mayoría de los relatos no los he leído aún (este año voy muy, muy retrasado con mis lecturas de ficción corta), pero puedo recomendar totalmente "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" de Aliette de Bodard, una historia con un tono muy cercano a la obra de Ursula K. Le Guin y leí y reseñé como parte del número de Enero de Clarkesworld.